Jesus must be ‘first.’ The cost of following: He will not accept second place to anyone or anything. Even a good thing, such as honoring one’s parents, cannot usurp the place of the best thing, which is to love Jesus with all one’s heart, strength...

Whoever loses their life for the sake of Jesus will find it. This isn’t some appeal to separate from family, pleasure, friendship and things we enjoy in life, it is an appeal to love them fully and properly the way they were intended, in submission to...

Jesus made outrageous claims that force extreme action - He cannot be just 'liked'...

Why don’t we experience the power of Jesus all the time? If we don't waiver in our belief that Jesus is God, why do we fail to have a consistent experience of His power? Why do we doubt Jesus even after we’ve been walking with Him for a long...

Jesus is testing the disciples to see if they are buying into what others are saying about Him, or if they are trusting Him. Their replies were all flattering, for people were identifying Jesus with John the Baptist … Elijah … Jeremiah, or one of the...

The unexpected intrusion of a paralyzed person being lowered through a roof that had been dug up is a perfect image for the great lengths God goes to, to get outsiders into our churches. Jesus challenged these institutions at the points where they...

There is a call for us to live out and tell the whole story of God. So often we reduce and shrink God's redemption story to personal salvation... but it's so much bigger: it is the restoration of everything. We must read, live, tell and know...

The complex events surrounding Bathsheba and Uriah show David that he is not above sinning. When his sin catches up with him, he is willing to repent and Psalm 51 is the most vulnerable prayer of repentance found in scripture. Are we ready, even in...