Easter Sunday: HE LIVES!!

This is the final post of an eight-day devotional designed to help you praise Christ each day of Easter week. Thanks for joining in! Friday had been a day filled with grief. Saturday, a day of despair and… Read More

Saturday: A Not-So-Silent Sabbath

This is the seventh post of an eight-day devotional designed to lead you to praise Christ each day of the week preceding Easter. Thanks for joining in! Saturday of Holy Week has been called by some “Silent Saturday,”… Read More

Good Friday: The Power of His Love

This is the sixth post of an eight-day devotional designed to lead you to praise Christ each day of the week preceding Easter. Thanks for joining in! The trials were over. The crowds who had shouted praises on… Read More

Thursday: Man of Sorrows

This is the fifth post of an eight-day devotional designed to lead you to praise Christ each day of the week preceding Easter. Thanks for joining in! A man carrying a water jar? An unusual sight, for carrying… Read More

Wednesday: The Shadow of the Cross

This is the fourth post of an eight-day devotional designed to help you praise Christ each day of Easter week. Thanks for joining in! Not long ago, I read a blog post by a woman who had undergone… Read More

Tuesday: Language Enough to Say Thanks

This is the third post of an eight-day devotional designed to help you praise Christ each day of Easter week. Thanks for joining in! “What language shall I borrow to thank Thee, dearest Friend?” So begins the third… Read More

Monday: Holy Love

This is the second post of an eight-day devotional designed to help you praise Christ each day of Easter week. Thanks for joining in! The special week leading up to Easter Sunday is often called “Holy Week.” I… Read More

#94: Giving Thanks for Chapter Sixteen

Welcome to Knowing Jesus as we wrap up the final chapter of Mark’s gospel. This post was delayed a week because last Tuesday evening—when I usually post to my blog—we were dealing with frozen/burst water pipes at our… Read More

#93: No Doubt About It

“I just can’t believe it!” Maybe you’ve said those words at some point, when you heard news that seemed beyond comprehension. In today’s study, we’ll see this reaction from Jesus’ disciples when the women brought word of His… Read More

#92: From Sad to Happy

One of my early childhood memories of being in church centers around a hymn I called the “Sad/Happy Song.” It began with a slow, somber verse: Low in the grave He lay, Jesus my Savior, Waiting the coming… Read More