Finally the day comes and the much anticipated King arrives on the scene, forever changing the landscape of human history.

As Mark begins to pen his historical theology of Jesus, he is primarily concerned with this main idea: He wants people to know Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God, who served, suffered and died, and rose again as a suffering servant of the Lord, just as he was depicted by the Prophet Isaiah.

As we celebrate the five short years of our church, we're reminding ourselves of where the church came from, what are her roots, who is the church supposed to be, and what did the early church do? Having settled that, we let that revelation drive who we are supposed to be.

When we say "vision" we don’t mean coming up with some amazing new ideas for the coming years for the Church. When a pastor talks about vision, he’s talking about discerning what the Lord is doing, and asking ourselves, "How can we align ourselves with whatever that is?"

In Ephesians Paul tells us that God’s church is His glorious plan for reaching the nations; for revealing his wisdom; and for forming his people. In Ephesian 2:18-22, Paul uses three different metaphors to teach us what the church is and why it matters.

Nowhere in all the Old Testament does the gospel of Jesus Christ shine more clearly than in Isaiah 53. Seven hundred years before Jesus came into the world, God opened the eyes of his prophet to see into the very heart of Christ's saving work. And the heart of that saving work is what we celebrate on Easter.

One of the more hurtful things to experience in life is betrayal, especially by someone you call a friend. There's similarly, no more ugly, repulsive a word than "traitor" and that is the word personified by a disciple named Judas.

The Garden of Gethsemane is one of the most sacred and solemn scenes in all of Scripture. In this passage, we catch a glimpse of the agony that Christ experienced at the anticipation of the cup that He would have to consume for our ransom.

The "Last Supper" was the last divinely sanctioned and authorized Passover ever held. As an observance, the Passover is the remnant of a former covenant. Here, Jesus celebrates the meal as a way to bring it to its end. As he does, he institutes the feast of something new. We call it, "The Lord’s Supper."

The traditional form of the Lord's Prayer includes the line, "For yours is the kingdom and the power and the glory, forever. Amen." The footnote is that Jesus didn't teach this. So...how did this phrase came about? Why do we even say it even today? And what it means for the reliability of the Bible and our prayer?