April 2020

Have you ever asked the question, “Why did the resurrected Jesus reveal himself in different forms at different times to people?” The first person that Jesus revealed himself to after the resurrection was Mary Magdalene in the garden and yet she did not recognize him until she heard Him speak her name. On the Emmaus […]

1 Corinthians 15:3-10 NASB For I delivered to you as of first importance what I also received, that Christ died for our sins according to the Scriptures, [4] and that He was buried, and that He was raised on the third day according to the Scriptures, [5] and that He appeared to Cephas, then to

The resurrected Christ did some normal human things like eat fish (Luke 24:42 – 43), cook breakfast (John 21:12), and show real wounds caused by the nails (John 20:27), but the risen Lord also did things that no human being could do, like pass-through shut doors. In John 20 on the evening of resurrection day

John 20:1 NASB Now on the first day of the week Mary Magdalene came early to the tomb, while it was still dark, and saw the stone already taken away from the tomb.   When Mary Magdalene first went to the tomb that early Easter morning she found that the stone had been moved and

Revelation 5:1-10 NASB I saw in the right hand of Him who sat on the throne a book written inside and on the back, sealed up with seven seals. [2] And I saw a strong angel proclaiming with a loud voice, “Who is worthy to open the book and to break its seals?” [3] And

I am so grateful for all the extraordinary encounters I’ve had with Jesus, some of them while I was alone with the Lord, but many as I positioned myself before proven men and women of God who spoke into my life, or laid hands on me and prayed for me. The gift of spiritual hunger

Besides Mary the mother of Jesus, I believe that the apostle John and Mary Magdalene had the most unique relationship with Jesus of all the other followers. Mary Magdalene was the first person that Jesus revealed himself to in his resurrection, but John was the first person to believe, and John believed without having to

On the day of the resurrection, two of the followers of Christ were leaving Jerusalem and were walking along a road to a village called Emmaus, and they were talking among themselves about all the events that had taken place the last few days. While they were discussing these things with each other the risen

Acts 1:1-3 NASB The first account I composed, Theophilus, about all that Jesus began to do and teach, [2] until the day when He was taken up to heaven, after He had by the Holy Spirit given orders to the apostles whom He had chosen. [3] To these He also presented Himself alive after His

We have referred to the Law of Sin that lives in our members as a demonic spiritual virus, whose chief characteristic is radical self-centeredness. The result of this law of sin, which entered into fallen man at the Garden, and is passed on to every human being since then, is self-destruction. My wife has been