The “greater works” spoken of in John 14:12 refer to the miracles and blessings the disciples experienced, as recorded in the ...

It always amazes me how the Gospel lessons that are assigned as they are for this particular Sunday every year, even though they are there the Sunday after Easter every year, they fit in so well with ...

Whenever I read this Gospel, I like to ask people, "Don't you think Martha got kind of a bad rap from Jesus?" Mary was just sitting around and Martha was doing all the work, but it's much deeper than ...

In Matthew chapter 14, we find the disciples in the grip of a fierce storm. They’re in that storm because they have been commanded by the Lord to cross the Sea of Galilee, (vs. 22). They are in the ...

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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 ...

As Jesus went along, he saw a man who had been blind from birth. His disciples asked him, “Rabbi, who sinned, this man or his parents, for him to have been born blind. “Neither he nor his parents ...