"God, the Father"
At the heart of our Christian understanding of God is a profound mystery. Emphatically, God is one (Mark 12:29) and yet within that unity...
"I believe in God"
Believing in the existence of God is just the starting point of faith, or it should be. What – or who – is God, and what relevance does...
"I believe..."
Faith is essential to being a Christian: “Without faith it is impossible to please God, because anyone who comes to him must believe that...
"Joy and amazement”
Read Luke 24:36-53 . Luke doesn’t include the resurrection appearances of Jesus in Galilee (Mt.28:16-17; Jn.21:1-14), just some of those...
“Their eyes were opened”
Read Luke 24:13-35 . These disciples may have been a married couple (18; Jn.19:25). They had left Jerusalem on Easter Day before the full...
"He is risen"
Read Luke 24:1-12 . The resurrection is the essential conclusion to the story of Jesus (1 Cor.15:14) and so in all four gospels it’s the...
“Jesus’s body”
Read Luke 23:47-56 . Many people watched the death of Jesus and were deeply disturbed by what they saw (48). Among the crowd were many...
“They crucified him”
Read Luke 22:66 – 23:46 . Throughout that long and sleepless night, Jesus had been cruelly examined by various Jewish leaders at the home...
“The Passover lamb”
Read Luke 22:1-65 . The events of these next four days were the fulfilment of the whole ministry of Jesus (1 Cor.15:3-4). On the Thursday...
“The coming of the Son of Man”
Read Luke 21:5-38 . In all three Synoptic Gospels the final teaching of Jesus before his Passion begins is about his future return...