“After three days they found him in the temple courts, sitting among the teachers, listening to them and asking them questions.” (Luke 2:46 NIV)
Every person is “found” somewhere—among friends, among distractions, among pressures, among ambitions. Jesus, at age twelve, gives us a powerful picture of spiritual hunger, intentional growth, and kingdom identity. While others…
“He is like a tree planted by streams of water, which yields its fruit in season and whose leaf does not wither. Whatever he does prospers.” (Psalm 1:3 NIV)
Atree does not survive the dry season because the weather is kind, but because its roots are deep. In many African villages, a tree planted near…
I am not ashamed of the gospel, because it is the power of God for the salvation of everyone who believes: first for the Jew, then for the Gentile. For in the gospel a righteousness from God is revealed, a righteousness that is by faith from first to last, just as it is written: “The…
While they were worshiping the Lord and fasting, the Holy Spirit said, “Set apart for me Barnabas and Saul for the work to which I have called them.” So after they had fasted and prayed, they placed their hands on them and sent them off. (Acts 13:2-3 NIV)
In Acts 13, the church at Antioch…
“And he asked them, “Whose portrait is this? And whose inscription?” “Caesar’s,” they replied. Then he said to them, “Give to Caesar what is Caesar’s, and to God what is God’s.” (Matthew 22:20-21 NIV)
In a tense encounter during His final week, Jesus is asked a question meant to trap Him between political loyalty and…
“While they were still talking about this, Jesus himself stood among them and said to them, ‘Peace be with you.’ Look at my hands and my feet. It is I myself! Touch me and see: a ghost does not have flesh and bones, as you see I have.” (Luke 24:36 & 39 NIV)
Beloved people…