Jesus promises rewards beyond imagination, yet gently turns our hearts from calculation to love and trust.
Jesus promises rewards beyond imagination, yet gently turns our hearts from calculation to love and trust.
When faith adds requirements to Jesus, it loses the Gospel. Paul reminds us: Christ alone is enough.
Peter gladly confesses Jesus as the Christ, but recoils when that confession leads to the cross—unaware that this hard road is the very path of our salvation.
Jesus calls Matthew, the outcast tax collector, then eats with sinners—showing He comes for the lost, not the self-righteous.
Following Jesus costs us everything—but He gave up all for us first. With Him, even loss becomes gain.
It’s easy enough to put our faith in God when things seem to be going our way. But what about when God seems to have fled the scene?
Why do good deeds? Because we are God’s children, called to be imitators of Christ, and that’s what Jesus did! We do good deeds because we want to be like Him!
We can see ourselves in the story at the Pool of Bethesda. When we look for help in “things”, we are lost; but when we look to Jesus, we are saved!
Jesus tells a man He healed to NOT follow Him … but to go out and tell his story—and we’re sent too.
Jesus is about to be launched into His three-year ministry before going to the cross. And God calls down from Heaven and calls Him, “Beloved”!