Tag: Christ

  • Endurance Toward the Cross

    …let us run with endurance the race that is set before us, looking to Jesus, the founder and perfecter of our faith,  who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising the shame… Hebrews 12:1b-2a Jesus had walked… for three years (by comparison to eternity, a blink of an eye). Having been handed the…

    silhouette of Jesus seated on a donkey overlooking Jerusalem
  • Remember the Widows

    1 Timothy 5:5  She who is truly a widow, left all alone, has set her hope on God and continues in supplications and prayers night and day… In only a century since the millennia of the Bible, relationships of the family have been overturned. All older than sixteen require automobiles and all older than sixty-six need to be put…

  • Distracted from Relationship

    What is the one thing that makes Christianity different from every other religion? In a word: Relationship. We have a relationship with the Living God through Christ Jesus our Lord. What is the one thing making Christians look like everyone else in this world? In a convicting word: LACK of Relationship. Any look at Jesus’…

    The Last Supper scene staged by Rembrandt. Actually the Twelve Apostles in customary 1st century Jewish custom were 'reclined at table.'