In Their Steps

  • Peaceful Tribulation

    One could make a strong case that peace and tribulation are mutually exclusive, and yet Jesus tells his friends to expect both, not alternatively, but simultaneously.

  • Findable

    …it is like Jesus was dropping bread crumbs to make sure Judas would know where to look on the one night it mattered most.

  • Restless

    The disciples may have been restless, but not overly so. For the disciples it was just another night. For Jesus, it was THE night.

  • When the Enemy Gets In Your Garden

    We can imagine how it must have stung for a friend to use a sign of affection as a weapon for your undoing.

  • Misguided Allegiance

    What the disciples had not yet fully grasped is that the Kingdom would not be ushered by the use of superior force, but rather by sacrificial humility.

  • Too Close to the Fire

    In that moment the fire caught Peter, and Peter did what we all tend to do when unexpectedly burned. He jerked back.

  • A Reason to Cry

    Even if we have read the text many times and watched theatrical renditions of Jesus’ trial, it is still difficult to truly appreciate the atrocities being experienced that day.

  • Outliers

    Sometimes being an outlier means stepping up when everyone else is stepping aside.

  • Silence

    The God we come to know through scripture often does not work on our time line.

  • Incredible

    The women went to the tomb expecting the challenge of moving a large stone. What they encountered was a heavenly messenger, an open tomb, and a missing corpse.

  • Great Expectations

    Bear in mind, they are telling Jesus his own story without realizing it. It is remarkable that Jesus could keep his poker face while listening…

  • Burden

    We might think that the testimony of his friends would be enough evidence. Not for Thomas. Not this time. He would need more than impassioned testimony. He would need rock-solid, visible, touchable proof.

  • Gone Fishin’

    Peter’s own scripture told him that people perish without vision. Peter didn’t want them to perish, but the best he could do at the moment was take them fishing.

  • Second Chances

    Three times Peter did what he swore he would never do by denying his relationship with Jesus. No way would Peter have wanted to live with that memory. To this point, though, he was stuck with it.

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