“…He was lifted up and a cloud took Him out of their sight…”                                          (Acts 1:9)     The fortieth day after the Resurrection of Jesus is known to us as the day of Ascension.  Jesus bodily departed from the disciples presence, and they saw Him no more. It is actually...

It’s clear by the scriptures that God knows us.  He knows everything about us!  The Bible says elsewhere that He even knows the number of hairs on our head!  Why He would want to know that is beyond me, but I believe it’s said just to make the point that...

These are the very last words of the Gospel for this coming Sunday. They carry a great deal of weight for you and for me. At this point in the Gospel, He only says that His friends are witnesses to all that has taken place in the last few days....

God is not passive, ever! Often when we pray for help and do not get it—we think that God is not very active in our lives, when in all actuality, it may be in God’s silent response that we need to know that we already have the resources to handle...

In what scholars tell us, this is the end of the Gospel of Mark-these words of fear-at least as we are suspected to believe. You’ll notice in your Bible that there are two alternate endings that the early Church added so that the risen Christ would actually be seen after...

Mark’s Gospel is a very interesting one. It has no Christmas narrative (it begins with the mission and ministry of John the Baptist instead of Jesus’ birth), and, in its earliest versions has the resurrection story end rather abruptly (look it up and see how the story ends with Mark...

It’s hard to believe that Holy Week is upon us! I suppose, for me, being gone that one week with the students from ETSU makes it seem so quick, but still, the time of remembrances of Christ’s passion is here! I am a traditionalist. That’s an understatement to be sure!...