Peter, true to his character, pushes past John, who is peering in, and plunges right in. He notices that Jesus' burial cloths are neatly folded. Peter's mind is racing.

The word has become so common that we all recognize it, and so taboo that we don’t talk about it. When we come to church, the word is missing. We rarely, if ever, refer to it.

Jesus said that he must go up to Jerusalem where he’d be rejected by the authorities, be killed, and three days after his death he would live again. The disciples ...

Peter at that point was ready to go down fighting, the minister said, and he later wept bitterly after denying he knew Jesus. “We all go through moments of weakness, but Peter was quick to ask ...

The Gospel of Mark (4:1-2) says, “Again Jesus began to teach beside the sea. And a very large crowd gathered about him, so that he got into a boat and sat in it on the sea; and the whole crowd ...

In other words, Jesus gave Zacchaeus a big HOORAY! And when asked about paying taxes, Jesus tells Peter to go fishing (see Matthew 17:24-27) and sure enough Peter catches a fish with a coin in its ...