While Judas’ departure would first appear a tragic loss to the band of disciples, the lessons that followed revealed it to be a blessed subtraction.

 From a communion gone bad, Judas reveals a treachery lurking within us all.

As the Master Teacher, Jesus not only transmits material to be learned, but he models the life that is to be pursued.

We all have blind spots that need to be cleared up, if we are to properly follow Christ. We must train our eyes to see what he sees.

 In what is, arguably, Jesus’ most failed sermon, the crowds disappear and defective discipleship is exposed.

 Just as empty calories leave you nutritionally deprived and continually hungry, a diet of empty religion leaves you wanting spiritually and starves the soul.

 While you would never expect anyone in the church to express a preference for a secular world, the things we say and pursue state otherwise.

 The hour of suffering makes a visitation upon every life. When that season comes, you will want a particular kind of people around your table.

Some eleven times in the gospels Jesus tells his disciples to beware; most often in regard to the religious hierarchy of the day.