As the infant church continued to flourish, the crowds met regularly within the temple compound. In the Court of Gentiles, a large open...

Prior to Pentecost, the followers of Christ numbered one-hundred-twenty (Acts 1:15). Now, their membership had exploded with an...

Ten days after Jesus’ ascension into Heaven, the disciples were together to celebrate the Jewish Festival of Weeks. Because the festival...

After Jesus’ death, burial, and resurrection, the Lord appeared many times to His disciples. For forty days, Jesus performed miracles and...

Peter carried a heavy weight of guilt. Three times, He’d denied Jesus. Three times, he allowed fear to rule his heart. Three times He’d...

“He’s dead! What now?”   For three years, they had followed Him as He crisscrossed Israel, teaching, healing, exciting the crowds. They...

Jesus had once looked with compassion on a crowd of people, saying, “they are like sheep without a shepherd” (Matthew 9:36). That...

On the night that Jesus was arrested, the Lord predicted Peter’s faults and failures: “This very night, before the rooster crows twice,...

The light from their “lanterns” and “torches” (John 18:3) cast unnatural shadows as the “large mob with swords and clubs” (Matthew...

A few years ago I stood enraptured on the holy ground of the Olive Grove, the Garden of Gethsemane. It was so still. Quiet. Peaceful. In...