Seven Degrees of Me

  Jesus said to her, “I am the resurrection and the life. He who believes in Me, though he may die, he shall live. And whoever lives and bel...

  When the hour had come, He sat down, and the twelve apostles with Him. Then He said to them, “With fervent desire I have desired to eat th...

  I never caught this before and found it interesting that God used Caiaphas to prophesy about the substitutionary sacrifice of Jesus. The u...

  I thought I was finished with the donkey-related posts, but this came to me this morning in between hitting the snooze button: Jesus rode ...

  John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible (1746-1763): "The ancient allegorical sense of the ass and colt is not to be despised:...

  The donkey is a symbol of royalty. Riding a donkey into the city is something that a King would do after winning a battle, symbolizing a r...

  Until I was introduced to commentaries, I didn't really understand the bible to be one cohesive book. I honestly thought that each wri...

This is what’s on my mind, and I am to the point where I have to plead my case to friends, family, and brothers and sisters in Christ. It...

     We've been talking and praying about those with a terminal illness this week; how difficult it is knowing that death is near for ...

This was too cute not to share. Apparently, I'm not the only one who's confused about how the Easter Bunny reconciles with th...

Mark 16:1-7 (NIV) Jesus Has Risen When the Sabbath was over, Mary Magdalene, Mary the mother of James, and Salome bought spices so tha...

Luke 23:44-47 (NIV) It was now about noon, and darkness came over the whole land until three in the afternoon,  for the sun stopped shi...

Luke 23:39-43 (NIV) One of the criminals who hung there hurled insults at him: “Aren’t You the Messiah? Save Yourself and us!” But the ot...

Luke 23:32-34 (NIV) Two other men, both criminals, were also led out with Him to be executed.  When they came to the place called the...

Luke 22:66-71 (NIV)  At daybreak the council of the elders of the people, both the chief priests and the teachers of the law, met together,...

Maundy Thursday is the Thursday before Easter and commemorates The Last Supper when Jesus celebrated Passover with His disciples. Before the...

Luke 22:47-48, 52-54 (NIV) Jesus Arrested 47-48 While He was still speaking a crowd came up,  and the man who was called Judas,  one ...

John 12:27-33 (NIV) “Now My soul is troubled, and what shall I say?  ‘Father, save Me from this hour’?  No, it was for this very reas...

John 12:23-26 (NIV) Jesus replied, “The hour has come for the  Son of Man to be glorified.  Very truly I tell you,  unless a kernel...

Matthew 21:1-5 (NIV)   As they approached Jerusalem and  came to Bethphage on the Mount of Olives,  Jesus sent two disciples,  sayi...