Deepen Your Faith Devotions

What a glorious day!

Prophesied throughout the Old Testament the miraculous birth, life, trial, and death on the cross of Jesus Christ culminates in His resurrection on Easter Sunday. Jesus’ life is no longer an event in the future. The Gospels of the New Testament record His life. His preaching, teaching, miracles and temptations are laid out for us.

Very little is written about what happened right after Jesus died on the cross. We are told that a man named Joseph of Arimathea was allowed to take Jesus’ body and place it in a nearby, new tomb

500 years before the birth of Jesus, the priest and prophet Zechariah describes the event that will come to be known as “Palm Sunday, Jesus triumphal entry into Jerusalem”.

We all know what happened on Good Friday. Jesus was tried, convicted, and crucified. Undoubtably one of the most important days for Christians, and the whole world from that day forward.

This lowly act of servitude by Jesus on the night of The Last Supper seemed odd to His Disciples.

“The end is near!” is something I have heard countless times already in my short time—relatively speaking—on this earth. As you know it has started again with vigor since the current conflict in the Middle East has begun.

While teaching in the Temple the week of Passover, Jesus is confronted with questions by the religious leaders of the day on many occasions. Sometimes the questions are to purposely try to trip Him up or catch Him in heresy—an excuse to arrest and crucify Him. Sometimes they are more innocuously meant to flesh out the basis of Jesus’ religious teaching.

This seems like a drastic response to a barren fig tree don’t you think? Was Jesus showing signs of human stress and frustration?

Or was it something else completely?

Are You an Underdog?

The story of David & Goliath “David said to the Philistine, “You come against me with sword and spear and javelin, but I come against you in the name of the Lord Almighty…. All those gathered here will know that it is not by the sword or the spear that the Lord saves” 1 Samuel 17:45-47