What basis did Jesus have for trusting Peter?  What basis did Peter have for being 'hurt'?

Luke takes pains to include Jesus "ascension" into heaven, yet also takes pains to record the constraints against over-focus on the "hereafter."  Read the text carefully to take note of…

As you read the text, what word would you have inserted between ‘baptized’ and ‘obedience’ in the sermon title? Play around with possibilities and see how the meaning might shift?…

Had the disciples been able to "see" immediately, much would have been left out. How might this have affected the Gospel?

Pastor Tim Schrag asks us to consider the "stuckness" of the chief priests and elders,with curiosity about how we respond to reports of God's dramatic involvement in the systems we…

To live in hope does not mean one sees clearly the way ahead.  But in hope, we consider that the 'world' in which we live is not the old reality…