At the Ascension Day worship service that I attended this year when the reader came to part in the ascension story from Acts, chapter one, “And a cloud took him out of their sight,” he stopped. He stopped so that one of the assisting ministers could step forward and extinguish the Christ candle, the candle…
We have come to the time of the church year when especially focus on living as Christians in this world. Christians face many challenges in this world. Sometimes those who are close to us, maybe even members of our own families, think we are out of our minds to follow Jesus. Jesus had the same…
In this study of the sixteenth chapter of the Gospel of John, we have more of Jesus’ final conversation with his disciples before he went to the cross to die for our sins. “For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have…
John 12:16 “The disciples did not understand these things at first, but when Jesus was glorified, then they remembered that these things had been written about him and had been done to him.” How many times did this happen to the disciples? Jesus does or says something and then we are told that the disciples…
If Jesus washed his disciples’ feet why don’t we do so today? Find out in this study of the thirteenth chapter of the Gospel of John. “For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life. [17] For God did not…
Jesus’ resurrection from the dead is the very foundation of the Christian faith. As Paul puts it in I Corinthians 15: “And if Christ has not been raised, your faith is futile and you are still in your sins. Then those also who have fallen asleep in Christ have perished. If in Christ we have…
Jesus’ resurrection from the dead is the very foundation of the Christian faith. As Paul puts it in I Corinthians 15: “And if Christ has not been raised, your faith is futile and you are still in your sins. Then those also who have fallen asleep in Christ have perished. If in Christ we have…
Jesus’ resurrection from the dead is the very foundation of the Christian faith. As Paul puts it in I Corinthians 15: “And if Christ has not been raised, your faith is futile and you are still in your sins. Then those also who have fallen asleep in Christ have perished. If in Christ we have…
Mirror Neurons 