Tag: Disciples

  • Follow the Money; John 2:13-22

    Follow the Money; John 2:13-22

    Jesus was not opposed to violence. He was opposed to injustice. It is unjust for any church or clergyman to interest themselves in making money because they will end up using people instead of ministering to them. Like the pyramids were built on the backs of slaves, so Saint Peter’s Basilica was built on the…

  • Jesus, The Supplier of our Faith; Devo, John 2:1-12

    Jesus, The Supplier of our Faith; Devo, John 2:1-12

    The turning of water to wine at Cana is a popular story. Many people take many details from the text to expound on them, but I think it is important to keep ourselves from saying what the text does not say. After all, we want to speak God’s explicit words and not our own. There…

  • Jesus Sees Us; Devo, John 1:43-51

    Jesus Sees Us; Devo, John 1:43-51

    Philip and Nathaniel follow Jesus. I don’t know why Nathaniel was under the fig tree, but Jesus’s divine knowledge of the occasion was enough to persuade Nathaniel that He was indeed the Son of God. Jesus promised Nathaniel he would see much greater things, including angels ascending and descending upon the Son of Man—Jesus’s favorite…

  • Gethsemane

    Gethsemane

    After having the Passover meal and clarifying the true meaning of the cup, Jesus goes with His disciples to Gethsemane. Then Jesus came with them to a place called Gethsemane, and said to His disciples, “Sit here while I go over there and pray.” And He took with Him Peter and the two sons of…

  • Your Influence

    Over the course of our last few meetings together, we have been talking about how to fight the war we are on Earth to fight. We’ve been talking about how our lives need to be completely Christ-centered, how we only have one King (God), the fact that willingly serving God means that we actively take…

  • The Triumphant Entry

    On this day around two-thousand years ago, my Savior led a parade of people into the city of Jerusalem. Whereas the Roman tradition called for dominant soldiers to follow their emperor into each city on glorious horseback, Jesus Christ entered on the back of a dirty mule. Less than spectacular in sight and notion, but…