Peter isn’t happy about what’s going to happen to Jesus. Neither are we. Suffer? Killed? Terrible! Let’s be followers without the suffering. In seminary, no one quite knew what…
Paul gives an overview of the life to which Christ calls us here and hereafter. Jesus speaks of himself as the way to the hereafter. Paul calls us to…
I put him there. I know why and for what. You put him there. You know why, and for what. We don’t get to Easter, we don’t get to get…
Where did Peter get a sword? How long had he been carrying that around? He has it with him, that night, there in the garden. He had a bad feeling:…
For quite some time, Christians didn’t need to think very much about their faith and beliefs. Yes, sure, society and culture were fallen, but in impersonal ways that didn’t touch…
Christ came to proclaim, to call. He came to assure whom he called. We aren’t living for ourselves, anymore. We’re living for Jesus: we live for him by seeing ourselves…
My last year at seminary, one of the theology professors taught a course called something like “Theories of the Atonement.” Over centuries, theologians have presented different explanations regarding the atonement,…
John the Baptist, or Elijah, or one of the prophets—that’s pretty good company. Have you ever asked someone who he or she thinks Jesus is? That could lead to some…