The psalmist maintains a steady communion with God, receiving counsel and allowing his heart to instruct him. How does a heart attuned to God’s counsel manifest in our lives and that...

Peter quotes part of this psalm in his sermon in Acts 2:25-28 to support the resurrection of Jesus. So, we as Christians come to the psalm affirming its voice in the...

Knowledge of Christ’s identity brings with it an awareness of his living presence. Just as Jesus had not been abandoned to death and Hades but was by God’s grace raised from...

Peter had put all his hope in his beloved friend, Jesus, only to see him cruelly crucified. Jesus had healed the sick, fed the hungry, comforted the desperate, and preached good...

Mary supposes Jesus to be the gardener. A few days earlier, in another garden, Jesus’ trusted friends could not stay awake and pray, and another betrayed him. Jesus begged, “Let this...

Make it as secure as you can,” Pilate says and assigns a guard of soldiers to work with the chief priests and the Pharisees. Matthew is the only Gospel writer to...

If you don’t know the name of Rollen Stewart, I bet you know who he is. In the 1970s and ‘80s, Stewart appeared at major sporting events wearing a rainbow wig...

One evening in December of 2015, Zaevion Dobson was walking home with friends after playing basketball at a neighborhood recreation center. The four stopped on the front porch of an apartment...

This is the third of four “servant songs” in chapters 40–55 of Isaiah. Who is this servant? We can only speculate. Some claim it is Isaiah himself; others say it is...

Imagine the first-century followers of the Way. In the two decades following Jesus’ death, the fledgling church has struggled, knowing that a confession of Jesus Christ as Lord was politically subversive...