Tag: Christian

  • 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
  • Three Widows & a Widower

    Fifteen years ago I became a widower. (We had been married more than two decades.) I know personally the loss of the widow (& widower). Jesus spoke of three widows: one, in a parable on the persistence of prayer to God one, of an unnamed widow who sacrificed only two mites to God at the Temple (leptons…

  • 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.'