One of the interesting times where Jesus reveals His protection is in the interaction between Mary and Martha. Many are familiar with this event. Jesus comes and spends some time with Mary and Martha. Mary is fascinated with Jesus and quite frankly neglects some chores because she is completely absorbed with Jesus. Martha, understandably, gets upset! “Lord, […]
Let’s continue our theme to deeply internalize Jesus’ protection. Consider the time where Jesus eats dinner at Simon the Leper’s house with Lazarus, Mary and Martha. Jesus raised Lazarus from the dead sometime before this visit. (This visit is different from the one where Mary is sitting at Jesus’ feet while Martha is working.) In […]
This week let’s continue in our theme of Jesus’ protection. Think through the 4 Gospels and search for events in Jesus’ life where He protects someone. Cultivating this desire to come to the Word to search for Him causes our faith to burn brightly with joy and understanding. This habit of “looking for Jesus’ goodness” may […]
I would like to start the next mini-series on a character element of Jesus that I missed for the first 20 years of my Christian life. As you live life, pray and read your Bibles over the next couple months look for Jesus’ protection. Fascinatingly it starts showing up everywhere. And I find that it really […]
Let’s consider another event where the disciples fail and Jesus corrects them but does not reject them. Right before Jesus dies He spends the last evening with His disciples eating, talking about the Kingdom and revealing that He will die in Jerusalem. The disciples are shattered. They don’t know what to make of it. Later […]
The previous 2 emails and posts on the Blog that I wrote in October 2012 were about Jesus correcting His disciples when they failed or sinned. However we found out that He never rejects them. Let me finish this mini-theme in 2 or 3 emails and then we will move onto another aspect of Jesus’ Character.
Let’s stick with the theme of seeing Jesus’ correction or discipline for His follower’s failures or sins that is devoid of any rejection. Often we are afraid of correction or discipline. However, most of this stems from a fear of being rejected either personally or positionally. As we review Jesus’ correction, we find the Gardner […]
We are in a series to find out what Peter’s failures show us about Jesus’ character. Mostly of the time we find that Peter’s failures and sin reveals Jesus’ patience and instruction. This reveals God’s patience and instruction when we fail or sin. In this post and the next we will see that sometimes Jesus […]
The next post I will send out, after this one, will be a Roll Up or summary of the previous 8 posts. All of these will be looking at Jesus patience and instruction for Peter’s failures, screw ups or outright sin. Today let’s look at the disciples struggling with the outright sin of Selfish Ambition.
Let’s keep with the theme of discovering God’s character and how that is different than our parent’s or an authority figure’s character. Let’s continue to disconnect Jesus’ words from the wrong image of God and connect His words to the right and wholesome image of God.