Approximate Reading Time: 3 minutes This is an excerpt from my book “40 Moments From Christ’s Final Days.” Click here to get it from Amazon using my affiliate link. Find this moment in: Mt. 27:45, Mk. 15:33, Lk. 23:44 We can say much about the six hours Jesus spent on the cross. Many unique and interesting moments surrounded the most […]

Approximate Reading Time: 4 minutes This is an excerpt from my book “40 Moments From Christ’s Final Days.” Click here to get it from Amazon using my affiliate link. Find this moment in: Mt. 27:32, Mk. 15:21, Lk 23:36 Sometimes, clarifying something in the Bible has deep and meaningful consequences that forever change our understanding of God. Sometimes, that clarity

Approximate Reading Time: 3 minutes This is an excerpt from my book “40 Moments From Christ’s Final Days.” Click here to get it from Amazon using my affiliate link. Find this moment in: Mt. 27:15–21, Mk. 15:6–15, Lk. 23:18-25, Jn. 18:40 Not much is known about the man who lived so Jesus Christ could die. He had a name, a

Approximate Reading Time: 3 minutes This is an excerpt from my book “40 Moments From Christ’s Final Days.” Click here to get it from Amazon using my affiliate link. Find this moment in: Mt. 27:3-5 Between the trials of the Jewish and Roman courts, Judas has a moment of clarity. Whatever justification he used to betray Jesus melted away, leaving

Approximate Reading Time: 6 minutes Christian Gnosticism (100 – 400 AD) As dualism became a default assumption in and outside Judaism and the early church, it evolved into a strange religion called “Gnosticism” that Christians quickly adopted. Gnosticism painted the world in “good vs. evil” more starkly than perhaps any religion before it. We can simplify the primary theology behind

Approximate Reading Time: 5 minutes This is an excerpt from my book “40 Moments From Christ’s Final Days.” Click here to get it from Amazon using my affiliate link. Find this moment in: Mt. 26:47-27:32, Mk. 14:43-15:20, Lk. 22:47-23:25, Jn. 18:2-19:15 On their own, Christ’s arrest and trials are fairly straightforward. Judas carries out his betrayal, injustice is done, and

Approximate Reading Time: 4 minutes This is an excerpt from my book “40 Moments From Christ’s Final Days.” Click here to get it from Amazon using my affiliate link. Find this moment in: Mt. 26:69–75, Mk. 14:66–72 The disciples had seen Jesus do the miraculous and impossible. They heard the Father’s voice confirm Him at the Mount of Transfiguration in

Approximate Reading Time: 4 minutes This is an excerpt from my book “40 Moments From Christ’s Final Days.” Click here to get it from Amazon using my affiliate link. Find this moment in: Lk. 22:43-44 Much of what I’ve written so far has shown a deeper, more meaningful understanding of what the gospel writers recorded about the last seven days

Approximate Reading Time: 3 minutes This is an excerpt from my book “40 Moments From Christ’s Final Days.” Click here to get it from Amazon using my affiliate link. Find this moment in: Mt. 26:42, Mk 14:35-36, Lk. 22:41-42 After supper, Jesus returns to a grove of trees called Gethsemane in the Mount of Olives. This is a difficult scene