Peter was a fisherman by trade, along with his brotherAndrew(also a disciple of Jesus), but he grew into a gifted preacher and bold leader. In the gospels, he’s portrayed as impetuous, always speaking his mind and acting on impulse. In the Book of Acts, Peter’s decisiveness transforme...
The apostle John had a disciple Polycarp who had a disciple named Iraneus who himself disciples Hippolytus who all understood that the God of the Old Testament used Titus the Roman prince to destroy Jerusalem, the temple, and the Jewish people in 70 AD. In the 1830's John Nelson Darby fab...
An important man, a crucial man, – a strategic man, a disciple, and yet there is something uncertain about him; we talked about the things of the spirit, but only secretly. So on through the night – and then somewhere in the night we would hear him take the name of Judas – Fathe...
An important man, a crucial man, – a strategic man, a disciple, and yet there is something uncertain about him; we talked about the things of the spirit, but only secretly. So on through the night – and then somewhere in the night we would hear him take the name of Judas – Fathe...
Matthias the Apostle was one of the twelve main disciples of Jesus Christ. He’s the only disciple who wasn’t personally called by Jesus. Instead, the other disciples chose him to replace Judas Iscariot, who betrayed Jesus and died shortly after Jesus w
The author of this epistle was John, the son of Zebedee, the disciple whom Jesus loved: he was the youngest of the apostles, and survived them all. He does not indeed put his name to this epistle, as the Apostles Paul, Peter, James, and Jude do to theirs; and it is easy to obser...
For we cannot stop speaking about what we have seen and heard.”2 Peter 1:16For we did not follow cleverly devised fables when we made known to you the power and coming of our Lord Jesus Christ, but we were eyewitnesses of His majesty.Genesis 1:1-3In the beginning God created the ...
Andrew is not the most well-known Apostle. However, he was the first disciple of Jesus Christ. It is fitting, then, that the Feast of St. Andrew also be the Eve of Advent, in anticipation of the first idiomatically Christian season of the AUR calendar, Christmas!
Of complicated ancestry (admirably traced by Peter L. Thorslev, Jr.), he descends, with inherited traits, from Prometheus, Milton's Satan, the sentimental heroes found in Jean-Jacques Rousseau and Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, hero-villains in Gothic novels by Horace Walpole and Ann Radcliffe,...
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 transfigured before them.New Living TranslationSix days later Jesus took Peter, James, and John, and led them up a high mountain to be alone. As the men...