They teach me that spiritual progress tends to be characterized by a returning—to the places we call home, but doing so in light of Jesus’ love, power, and grace. And spiritual progress means ...

“Get behind me, Satan.” These are the strongest, sharpest and, perhaps, most shocking and offensive words to usher from the mouth of Jesus—at least that we are privy to. While for some such ...

The subject of the lesson is “Come, Follow Me,” which anyone steeped in basic Christianity knows is the instruction Jesus gave to people who bothered to stop what they were doing long enough ...

Jesus said you can’t know Him or follow Him without a cross. The road of fellowship with Christ leads over Calvary. You will never experience the pleasures of Christ if you reject the pain of ...

Ward Brehm doesn't call himself a Christian. "I just call myself a follower of Jesus," says Brehm, a Minneapolis businessman and former chairman of the U.S.-Africa Development Foundation. "It's a ...

As Jesus was walking by the Sea of Galilee, he saw Peter and Andrew and said to them, "Follow me, and I will make you fishers of men." They left their nets. A little farther down the way, he saw ...

We follow Christ as participants, not spectators. If we want to see Jesus, then we must learn to die. To the degree we avoid and deny death, we refuse to see Jesus.” Jesus promised Peter and Andrew ...

"The Broad and the Narrow Way", English version of the German pietist image "Der schmale und der breite Weg", Print by Anonymous artist, published by Gawin Kirkham, printed by Headly Brothers, 1883, ...

You follow me.” (Jn 21:21-22) This chapter in John’s Gospel is the last one, but it also reads like a secondary ending. At the end of the Doubting Thomas resurrection appearance recounted in ...