Join Jonathan Williams, the teacher for Word of God, Speak, and storyteller for the epic program, Stories of the Master, as he unpacks the meaning of Scripture and applies it to life today.
Jesus did not just face His death, but He faced the death of every person. Jesus did not just face the death of His body, but He faced the ultimate, eternal death that awaited all.
Many people have faced suffering and death with great courage, but when we see Jesus, we see him recoiling in great anguish and sorrow. Why this difference?
Why do some say Mary Magdalene was the wife of Jesus? Why do some say she was the apostle to the apostles? Why have some believed that a power play in the church by despotic men robbed her of her spe…
Mary Magdalene – along with many other women who had also been healed or freed from evil spirits – accompanied Jesus in his journeys throughout Galilee. They also accompanied him to Jerusalem and obs…
Mystery and intrigue have surrounded the maiden from Magdala. Many have believed her to be . . .
Jesus’s wife . . . and . . . or . . .
The chief of the apostles . . . and . . . or . . .
An unfortunat…
We must go beneath the promises of God to the doctrines that support them. A promise is only as good as the one making the promise.
Have you experienced great anguish over an injustice – maybe an injustice done to you or to a loved one? What you have experienced may be the voice of anger.
God wants us to be real about life and to be open with Him and with others about the true condition of our heart. And it is only when we are this way with God that we will find His grace in our time…
When your heart and your mouth are full of praise for God and all he has done, that’s when you look your best.
God isn’t interested in a religious show, and God isn’t interested in pious praying. God is interested in us finding our true heart and our true voice and being real with Him.
Sin is not a friend. Sin is a ravenous beast, always devouring, never satisfied, and its desire is to master us.
If you are in Christ you have died to sin and you are alive to God. Just as the shadow of the cross no longer exists between the Father and the Son, no shadow of our guilt remains between you and Go…
If you have a new identity before God as a justified man because you died to sin’s penalty, then don’t let sin have its way with you because that is inconsistent with what God has done for you.
Christ’s love compels us, because we are convinced that one died for all, and therefore all died. And he died for all, that those who live should no longer live for themselves but for him.
Let’s be real here. The Bible may say that I am dead to sin but sin sure doesn’t seem dead inside me!
We are under grace, and as we learn to live under grace, we will come to see that his grace is about a whole lot more than forgiveness.
God comes into our lives like a personal trainer and says, “Let me work with you. Let me reshape my image in you. You have Olympic-sized capabilities because I made you. I’ll take you to places you …
God’s grace is not a free ticket to a life of sinful indulgence but the means by which we escape the clutches of sin and find a new life.
God did not pour out his grace that we might continue in sin. God poured out His grace that it might free us from sin so that righteousness could reign in our lives and change us.
“I am a follower of Jesus. I want to please Him and advance in my faith, but I have these problems that cause me to stumble. I want to believe I died to sin, but I find myself still living in it. …