An overview of the historical background and theology of Mark to help you develop your sermon series and apply it to your hearers. It is widely agreed that Peter probably passed on the content of this ...

In the preview for this column in the April print magazine, the question was posed: “What does it mean to testify?” But in light of the ongoing conversations, initiatives and movements to advance the ...

“Accompanying Jesus were the Twelve and some women” (Luke 8:2). 1 Tim 6:2c-12; Luke 8:1-3 Luke describes the entourage surrounding Jesus as the Twelve and “some women.” Considering the role that women ...

“I will follow you wherever you go” (Luke 9:55). The readings for this Sunday display an intensity and urgency associated with vocation that few of us could claim. Elisha is recruited by the prophet ...

In his book “Unbelievable” Justin Brierley asks: Were the disciples just hallucinating that they saw the resurrected Jesus? Hallucinations do sometimes occur when people lose loved ones. The people ...

Nobody knows for sure just how long Jesus' ministry, teaching and travelling throughout the Holy Land, lasted. Some say three years, others as little as one. That Christianity grew, after such a brief ...