Jesus spoke a lot about money. The encounter with the rich young ruler forces us to confront a difficult question: are we following God wholeheartedly, or holding too tightly to what we own?
The well-known name “Jesus” is the same as the Hebrew name “Joshua.” You may not have realised that Jesus is in the Old Testament, but he is!
The Bible likens our lives to a race – because it requires preparation and discipline, it takes effort, and there is a prize at the end.
The disciples needed to see with their hearts, and then they would have seen the infinite riches of God poured out for them.
As humans we are limited in our perspective of God’s love, this devotional will dive into how we can seek His Love and draw nearer to Him.
In the miracles of Jesus, we are given a picture of the transformation that takes place in the life of every person who comes to Him.
When you discover Jesus, you discover life – not life in the past, not life in the future, but life right now, writes Eliezer Gonzalez.
We all owe debts, and the greatest debt we owe is to our king, God himself. It is a debt that we can never repay…
Jesus wanted to expose the rule-keepers false assumptions, to show him that commandment-keeping was not the way to inherit eternal life.
No wonder they weren’t prepared to listen to what Jesus said about the Cross. Because it was the way of humble self-denial…