When the day of Pentecost arrived, the Jewish celebration marking the first annual wheat harvest, all the followers of Christ were gathered together in one place, just as Jesus had commanded before His ascension to Heaven. After spending time sitting, waiting, and...
“You saved others, but you can’t save yourself?!” The crowd gathered, violently shaking their fists at the cross, shouting, “If you’re really the Messiah of God, the Chosen One, the King of the Jews, then prove it!” Blood trickling down...
Running from his past, Jacob found himself in the faraway land of Haran, working for his uncle Laban. In exchange for Rachel, Laban’s youngest daughter, Jacob committed to seven years of labor. Jacob, who had previously deceived his older brother Esau out of his...
Simon and Andrew toiled all night and caught nothing. As they cleaned their dirty, empty nets on the shore with the rising sun, embarrassment hit them. Not one fish was there to bring home for breakfast! “What was all that work for anyway?” they must have thought. It...
About 3000 years ago, there lived a man named Samson, an Israelite whom God blessed as the strongest man who ever lived. Israel, which had been doing what was evil in the sight of the Lord, had fallen out of divine protection into the hands of the Philistines, who...
This Good Friday morning, I read from the Gospels all the events that took place the day before the arrest and crucifixion of our Savior, Jesus Christ. Although I have read these portions of Scripture numerous times (Matt. 23-26, Mark 13-14, Luke 22-23, John 13-17),...
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