“His relationship with Christ was such that his happiness was out of the reach of his enemies.” –eyewitness of Pastor Jonathan Edwards being fired from his church Jonathan Edwards was a household name in New England in the mid-1700s. He was the leader of a movement history now calls “The First Great Awakening.” It was […]

When Jesus came to the region of Caesarea Philippi, he asked his disciples, “Who do people say the Son of Man is?”  They replied, “Some say John the Baptist; others say Elijah; and still others, Jeremiah or one of the prophets.”  “But what about you?” he asked. “Who do you say I am?”  Simon Peter […]

Immediately Jesus made the disciples get into the boat and go on ahead of him to the other side, while he dismissed the crowd. After he had dismissed them, he went up on a mountainside by himself to pray. Later that night, he was there alone, and the boat was already a considerable distance from […]

“You find peace not by rearranging the circumstances of your life, but by realizing who you are at the deepest level.”–Eckhart Tolle, self-help author When your MacBook malfunctions, where do you take it to be fixed? Other things being equal, I’d skip the seedy repair shop for the Apple Genius Bar. I’d prefer to have […]

Now that same day two of them were going to a village called Emmaus, about seven miles from Jerusalem. They were talking with each other about everything that had happened. As they talked and discussed these things with each other, Jesus himself came up and walked along with them; but they were kept from recognizing him. He asked them, “What […]