discipleship on Believing in Jesus

Jesus never asks us to do something he wouldn’t do himself. He calls us to a life of faith, not a life of comfort.

A friend of mine, lecturing in a theological college in Kenya, introduced his students to “The Quest for the Historical Jesus.” This, he said, was a movement of thought and scholarship that in its ear...

Sometimes to follow in the footsteps of Jesus is to walk away from others or to let them walk away from us.

The disciples want to take Jesus aboard, and “immediately” they are already at their destination. Jesus’ spiritual destination, this chapter will teach us again and again, is believing disciples; futu...