Jesus's twelve companions were instrumental in spreading his teachings and the Christian religion after his death. Nobody knows for sure just how long Jesus' ministry, teaching and travelling ...
Photo by Daan Stevens on Unsplash. In today’s Gospel, Jesus offers a prayer just before he is arrested. While the Synoptic Gospels record the agony in the garden, when Jesus’ followers fall asleep as ...
Luke 14:26 (RSV) If any one comes to me and does not hate his own father and mother and wife and children and brothers and sisters, yes, and even his own life, he cannot be my disciple. The same ...
It is now the 3rd Sunday of Easter and today’s gospel reading comes from John 21: 1-19 about his appearance to his disciples in Lake Galilee. 1 Afterward Jesus appeared again to his disciples, by the ...
Peace be with you! As the Father has sent me, I am sending you." And with that he breathed on them and said: "Receive the Holy Spirit. If you forgive anyone his sins, they are forgiven; if you do not ...
According to the Gospels, Jesus foresaw his own death. In the Gospel of Matthew, for example, he shares with his disciples that “he must go to Jerusalem and suffer… and be killed and on the third day ...
When God sent Moses to the children of Israel in the book of Exodus, He gave him miraculous signs to perform so that the people would believe that God truly sent him. In the same way, when Elijah the ...
We’ve heard the Great Commission many times. We may even be able to recite these words of Jesus. But do we believe them? By that, I mean, “Do we seek to obey Christ’s command in the Great Commission?
On Friday, we walked to Calvary with Hans Küng as our guide on the passion and death of Jesus, his reflections in On Being a Christian pointing us to the critical, yet often scuttled, fact: Jesus died ...
During the Last Supper, on the eve of his crucifixion, the Bible says Jesus Christ told his disciples, “One of you will betray me.” Attendees of a special Maundy Thursday service on April 2 at ...