From Here to There

I’ve been plowing through the Gospel of John for my morning devotions lately.  I don’t mean plowing in the sense that I was carefully working through the text; I’m afraid I’ve been going through it on autopilot because it’s so familiar.  Coming up to chapter 19,...

The Silence of Jesus

Every year at the start of Holy Week, I find myself silently uttering the same question: how in the world did Jesus go from being seen as a coming King who should rule and reign to a hardened criminal who should suffer and die in just 4 days?  How does that work?  How...