When was the last time you were told not to do what everyone else is doing? Be different? What? What will my friends think or say if I don’t go along with them? Besides, I like being the most looked up to, others kowtow to me… I like that! The Passover meal was completed, the […]
Two men… one is a servant, the other an owner of a house with a large upper room, furnished for 13 men to have a Passover meal together. You and I are probably unknown and unnamed servants and perhaps owners of a home where Jesus could become known to others. Jesus made private arrangements in […]
Passover is a Jewish holy day. It happens about the time of the celebration of Easter or Resurrection Sunday for Christians. Where did this come from, what does it really mean?When Moses was about to lead the Hebrew slaves out of Egypt… the LORD God told Moses to institute a special meal… it had to […]
Do you feel that your life has been turned topsy-turvy? Do you believe that your circumstances are stacked against you? From the viewpoint of people in the last days of Jesus, He was “going down”, everything was “stacked against” Him. Satan entered Judas Iscariot who betrayed Jesus to the chief priests and officers of the […]
You are an important person… you matter to the Lord. The people in the time of Jesus were also important people to Him. They mattered to Him. And many responded to His teachings and love. Jesus was in the last week of His life on earth. He knew that, His disciples did not. He would […]
We have been living with a pandemic for weeks and months.Followers of Christ, we have a testimony of God’s faithfulness to us… no matter the outcome of the pandemic in our lives. Jesus warned His disciples of this kind of world-wide plague.Jesus was talking to His disciples about what they could expect in the coming […]
What do you give to the Lord as an offering?There are two kinds of people according to an observation the Lord Jesus made in the temple before His arrest and crucifixion. He saw rich men putting gifts into the treasury of the temple…He also saw a poor widow put in two small copper coins… and […]
The living God yearns for His people – He will have mercy on His people.Even though the Lord God disciplines His people, He has not forgotten His people. He remembers them. Jesus yearns… for you – to have mercy on you. Jesus was on His way to Jerusalem.NASB Luke 19:41 “When He approached Jerusalem, He […]
How hard is it for you to let go of something you are hanging onto tightly?Do you grasp it with both hands and jealously guard it so no one will take it from you?What if… the Lord Jesus asks you to let go so He can use it? That is what the Lord asked of […]
Jesus told a parable which warned His disciples, and those within hearing distance, of judging those who did not use their abilities for the glory of God. Luke 19:12-26Jesus also warned His enemies of His judgment against them. Luke 19:27 “After He said these things… He was going on ahead, going up to Jerusalem.” Luke […]