On this rock I will build my church, and the gates of Hades will not overpower it! (Matthew 16:18) In the Apostles’ Creed, the early C...

In your relationships with one another, have the same mindset as Christ Jesus: Who, being in very nature God, did not consider equality ...

Then a voice came from heaven, “I have glorified it, and will glorify it again.” The crowd that was there and heard it said it had thundered...

The hour has come for the Son of Man to be glorified. Very truly I tell you, unless a kernel of wheat falls to the ground and dies, it r...

Rejoice greatly, Daughter Zion! Shout, Daughter Jerusalem! See, your king comes to you, righteous and victorious, lowly and riding on a ...

On reaching Jerusalem, Jesus entered the temple courts and began driving out those who were buying and selling there. He overturned the ...

Our Father in heaven, hallowed be your name. (Matthew 6:9) Israel had profaned the name of the LORD by breaking covenant with him, turning f...

Then the devil left him, and angels came and attended him. (Matthew 4:11) After three failed attempts to ensnare Jesus, the devil left, havi...

Again, the devil took him to a very high mountain and showed him all the kingdoms of the world and their splendor. “All this I will gi...

Then the devil took him to the holy city and had him stand on the highest point of the temple. “If you are the Son of God,” he said, “...

Remember how the LORD your God led you all the way in the wilderness these forty years, to humble and test you in order to know what was...

Then Jesus was led by the Spirit into the wilderness to be tempted by the devil. After fasting forty days and forty nights, he was hungr...

Matthew and Luke tell us that Jesus was “led” by the Spirit out into the wilderness. Mark says that the Spirit “sent” or “drove” Jesus ...

At once the Spirit sent him out into the wilderness, and he was in the wilderness forty days, being tempted by Satan. He was with the wild a...

Some thoughts in the season of Lent, culled from my random file. About baptism, repentance, discipleship … and the impossible Christian...

These are the lyrics to a song I wrote many years ago, but it is appropriate to the season of Lent and the series I have been doing on Isai...

Then your light will break forth like the dawn, and your healing will quickly appear; then your righteousness will go before you, and the gl...

Is not this the kind of fasting I have chosen: to loose the chains of injustice and untie the cords of the yoke, to set the oppressed fr...

Is this the kind of fast I have chosen, only a day for people to humble themselves? Is it only for bowing one’s head like a reed and for...

After six days Jesus took Peter, James and John with him and led them up a high mountain, where they were all alone. There he was transfigur...