I have tried to strike a balance between these two extremes by approaching each Lenten season open to where I am in my journey and how God’s Spirit is leading me wherever I am on Life’s road. After all, today’s chapter states that it was the Spirit who led Jesus into the wilderne...
empty tomb I imagine the disciples spent their day in a flurry of activity. Mary said she had seen Him but the others had not. As excited as they were there may have still been a measure of fear that those who hated Jesus might still seek them out and arrest them too. By evening 10...
Paul appears – to the casual reader – to have finally had enough. After years of house arrest, rather than allowing his can to get kicked down the road again, he decides to quit dinking around and requests his case be taken to the highest court possible. Announcing his innocence yet ag...
This coming of the "prince of this world" culminates in Jesus' arrest in the Garden of Gethsemane, when Jesus tells his captors, "This is your hour -- when darkness reigns" (Luke 22:53). But this reign of darkness is short-lived! Hallelujah!
Here, it sounds like someone may have grabbed him -- at least got a hand on him, but couldn't hold on.[162]Jesus was able to "escape," to walk away.[163]This is only one of several times in John's Gospel where Jesus' enemies try to arrest or stone Jesus, but are not able ...
“Am I some dangerous revolutionary,” he asked, “that you come with swords and clubs to arrest me? 53 Why didn’t you arrest me in the Temple? I was there every day. But this is your moment, the time when the power of darkness reigns.” Peter Denies Jesus 54 So they arrested ...
And Jesus said to them, “Look, you can take me, but let these others go their way. Let them go free. Don’t arrest them.” What was Jesus talking about? Jesus was trying to give himself up to them? I was going to have none of this!
Despite His initial human reluctance to follow through, Jesus’ journey across Kidron ultimately resulted in the greatest victory in all human history. If the story had ended in His death, it would have been more than tragic. But once He resurrected, the sting of death and victory of the gr...
19 But when they arrest you, do not worry about what to say or how to say it. At that time you will be given what to say, 20 for it will not be you speaking, but the Spirit of your Father speaking through you. 21 “Brother will betray brother to death, and a father his child...
I’ve been where you are, walked the same journey. I know the Evangelical faith, system, and way of life. Twenty-two years as a pastor within it. Lived it. Breathed it. Gave my life to it. Until I was honest, about the person I had become. Selfish, judgemental, manipulative, and...