Tag Archive for: following jesus

It’s Those Who Truly Seek That Find

By: Sheridan Voysey

In 2010, an 80-year-old antiques dealer named Forrest Fenn walked into the Rocky Mountains, dug a hole, and buried an ornate box full of his finest treasures. Read more

Called, Communed, Commissioned: The Life-Pattern of Every Follower of Jesus

By: Dr Eliezer Gonzalez

There were three distinct phases in Jesus’ dealings with his disciples. First he called them, then he communed with them, and then he commissioned them. Read more

3 Reasons Why Being Friends with Jesus Is the Adventure of a Lifetime

By: Dr Eliezer Gonzalez

People crave adventure. Most of them look for “fake” adventure through various forms of entertainment, whether it be sport, movies, or gaming. Unfortunately, however, when the screen gets turned off, people end up right back in their typically very unadventurous lives! Read more

I’m Not Surprised Muhammad Rejected Jesus’ Story: Following Him is Humiliating

By: Tania Harris

Two weeks in Turkey recently left me wondering how a land so steeped in Christian history became 98% Muslim. In the first century, this was the area of Asia Minor, famous for Paul’s extraordinary missionary journeys and landmark churches such as Ephesus and Philadelphia. Today Turkish cities are populated with mosques rather than cathedrals and minarets rather than steeples punctuate the skylines. Read more

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Get Out of God’s Way

By: Dr Eliezer Gonzalez

One of the characters that I love in the New Testament is the Apostle Peter, probably because I’m so much like him in so many ways. But I think there’s enough of Peter in all of us to be able to recognize ourselves in him. Read more