Very Good Friday
Replacing Judas as a Model for Ministry: Three Things You Can Do
Right about now I tend to run a parallel calendar in my mind with the events of Easter. It usually starts during the Passion Week with its daily, play-by-play account of events. It’s then easy to keep that calendar momentum rolling through, and even beyond, the Easter season since events are so well keyed into timeframes in the … [Read more...]
Identifying with the Disciples’ Post-Easter Stress
Easter Sunday is typically the highest attended Sunday in a church’s year. Any guess for the lowest attended Sunday? Yep, the Sunday following Easter. That’s probably NOT the effect that the Resurrection is to have on us. In fact, it’s to have quite the opposite. And in Jesus’ post-resurrection appearances we get a sense of how … [Read more...]
A Heartburn Moment with Jesus
An event happened shortly after Jesus’ resurrection that has profound implications on how we are to personally engage Scripture and on the type of atmosphere we are to create around our teaching and discipleship efforts. It is a lesser known Resurrection Sunday event, but you may be familiar with a famous painting … [Read more...]
TEEN DEVO: A Heartburn Moment with Jesus
You’ve undoubtedly heard the story. Maybe you’ve even seen the famous painting. Two disciples were walking to Emmaus on the third day after Jesus was crucified—talking a mile a minute about the strange events of recent days. Jesus, unrecognizable to them, sidled up and inquired about their conversation, at which point they … [Read more...]