To Know Him and Make Him Known
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It’s always been hard for people to believe that death can be defeated, that someone could rise from the dead. It was hard for Jesus’s own disciples to believe when it happened, it’s going to be hard for people today. Those of us who are convinced it happened must have patience with and sympathy for…
: The best way to know a person’s thoughts is to hear their words. What do Jesus’ famous last words reveal about His heart?
As we head into this Easter season, let’s shift our focus from what Jesus has done for us to how we might be able to give him a costly and purposeful gift that touches his heart and makes sure that He knows how much He means to us.
A crisis often serves to reveal our hidden fears that Jesus doesn’t really care about what happens to us. But what if Jesus allows crises to expose those fears, so that we will learn to cry out to Him, to trust His heart, and to take Him more seriously?
The people who talked to Jesus got to see His heart on display and learn things about Him that otherwise they wouldn’t have known. A conversation Jesus had with a woman at a well in Samaria illustrates this point and shows us what we can expect to learn about Jesus when we engage Him in…
In times of trouble, we must anchor our souls to the truths that God is God, that God is present, that God will help us, and that God has a plan. This will lead us to respond to God by being still before Him, reflecting upon His works, affirming what we know is true, and…
The religion that Jesus found so toxic was hypocritical and oppressive. It tried to impress people with an external piety that completely missed the point of straight-forward faithfulness to God. It focused on trivial rule-keeping at the expense of character and relationship, all the while disguising the sickness within.