I read an article this past week that touched my heart. I want to share a portion with you… Ayda Zugay isn’t someone who normally likes to save things. The walls of her Boston home are bare. She keeps a small bag packed with essential items in case she ever needs to leave quickly. But…
If you didn’t hear, Easter was last week. The core truth of Christianity is the resurrection of Jesus who is God in the flesh. Some people don’t believe that, and that’s ok. However, if you are a Christian, that is non-negotiable. I’ll be honest with you, its not really possible to call yourself a Christian…
This is Pastor Ben’s Easter message. Sometimes we need reminders that we are not alone and that someone is willing to walk with us through the dark times of our lives.
Jesus arrives in Jerusalem and there is a huge celebration praising Jesus for what they think Jesus is about. The crowd is wrong. They seek a political solution for a spiritual problem.
In 1959, Thomas Hoving, of New York’s Metropolitan Museum, purchased an ornate ivory cross from a Yugoslavian art collector for the museum. However, the cross wasn’t from Yugoslavia, it was from England and it was old. The cross is dated to c. 1150 AD. This altar cross contains ninety-two figures and ninety-eight inscriptions. The detailed…
We make our last stop on “The Journey” to Jerusalem. As Jesus was leaving Jericho, we see Jesus’ commitment to drawing people close to him and a man’s faith who was stronger than all the people following Jesus in that moment.
Columnist Deborah Mathis wrote about the time when she was at Union Station in Washington D.C. on a particularly busy day. The first thing she remembers about that experience was the noisy hubbub of sounds. The public address announcer calling out arrivals and departures. Scores of pagers, walkie-talkies, and cell phones cried out for someone’s…
We continue “The Journey” to Jerusalem. Today Jesus is across the Jordan River talking to a man who want to know how to get to heaven. There is something in this story for us too!
We are looking at lesser known characters surrounding the death and resurrection of Jesus. In this podcast I talk about the high priest Caiaphas. In two weeks, I will chat about Judas.
We begin a new series on “The Journey” to Jerusalem. Every week until Easter, the gospel of Mark tells us exactly where Jesus is on the journey to the cross. This week we are in Capernaum as Jesus talks about perils of getting into arguments and engaging in conflict.
