Today we celebrate the 75th anniversary of D-Day, the Allied attack on Normandy that was the beginning of the end of Nazi power over Europe. In their attempt to replace Christianity with the worship of human power, the Nazis had laid waste to an entire continent and killed millions of…

It’s so easy for us to condemn Judas. He calls Jesus his rabbi, his teacher. He gives him a kiss in greeting. And by these outwardly reverent, loving actions, he points Jesus out to the mob waiting to arrest Him. The hypocrisy is as breathtaking as the application is obvious:…

What did it cost Jesus to be our Savior? We know the story of the crucifixion – the beatings, the crown of thorns, the nails, the spear. We know that after suffering such physical anguish, He died and His body was laid in a tomb. We know He went through…

How faithful are we to Jesus? Everyone who has ever joined a Christian church has said the same sort of thing that Peter says in this passage, although perhaps not in as dramatic a fashion. We have all claimed Jesus as our Savior and bowed the knee to Him as…

It’s easy to love those who respect us and who listen to us. It’s easy to serve those who are loyal to us and who stick with us through thick and thin. But Jesus loves in a completely different way. In verse 2, John makes it clear that when they…

Yes, Jesus is our Passover Lamb. Because of His sacrifice on the cross, God will pass over His people, protecting them from the punishment due to our sins. Yes, Jesus sheds the blood of the covenant for us. Even though we have broken God’s perfect law of love time and…

At the Last Supper, Jesus said that He would shed the blood of the covenant for His disciples. So, what is this covenant He was talking about? At least in part, He was referring to today’s passage, which describes the new covenant that God would make with His people. As…

These few verses remind us that Jesus knew exactly what He was doing. How else could He have known exactly where a certain water-bearer would be at exactly the time His disciples would enter Jerusalem? Moreover, here we also see Jesus’ complete control of the situation – for how else…

What do you want from Jesus? Comfort? Peace? Prosperity? Political freedom? All those things were on the minds of the people who watched Him ride into Jerusalem on the first Palm Sunday. They did the ancient equivalent of rolling out the red carpet for Jesus because they thought He, as…

What does it mean that Jesus is the Passover Lamb? When God’s Old Testament people celebrated the Passover, they were looking back to the time of the Exodus. During the last of His plagues on the Egyptians, God killed the firstborn of every family that had not sacrificed a lamb….