Rejoice when you are persecuted!

How can Jesus and Peter says such a ridiculous thing? How can you rejoice when you are insulted or mocked? When your own children are threatened or abducted? When you are imprisoned and not able to be with or to provide for your family? But rejoice that you...

Jesus the snake

To what would you compare Jesus? What comparison could possibly do him justice? Jesus chose a snake! (John 3:14). And the more you think about snakes in the Old Testament, the more extraordinary it seems! more crafty than any of the wild animals the LORD God had made...

The Ideal Husband

The ideal husband. Could such a man exist? Strong but sensitive … servant hearted … ready to give up everything for his bride? The bridegroom at the wedding Jesus went to certainly wasn’t (John 2:1-12). He failed embarrassingly on his own wedding day. Thankfully...

John’s humble pie

‘A man can receive only what is given him from heaven.’ John the Testifier (John 3:27) What things have you received because you have worked for them? Your education, your family, your work, your success? Then you should be rightly proud! On the other hand, what have...