Judas went off and spoke with the chief priests and the officers of the Temple guard about how he could betray Jesus to them. Luke 22:3-6 Questions for Life Groups Read Luke 22:3-6. What are some of the emotions that you feel when reading this text? Read the article...
The story of Judas Iscariot is heartbreaking. You likely recall that Judas betrayed Jesus by turning Him over to the authorities. He is the disciple everyone loves to hate. Why? Perhaps we worry that there may be too much Judas in us. What happened? Like the others,...
Today, this Scripture has been fulfilled in your hearing. Luke 4:20-23 Questions for Life Groups Read Luke 4:16-30. Is this a familiar story? What do you suppose the people turned against Jesus? Read the article in this week’s Circuit Rider titled The Neighbors. Who...
The Bible doesn’t tell us much about the village of Nazareth. Most of what we know comes from archeologists, who tell us that Nazareth was hardly a village at all. In Jesus's time, Nazareth was a collection of huts, two-room houses that often consisted of a cave in...
When Herod realized that the visitors from the East had tricked him, he was furious. Matthew 2:16-18 Questions for Life Groups Read Matthew 2:16-18. Is this a familiar story? What do you suppose Matthew included this story in his gospel? Read the article in this...
Tobi Raji and Michael E. Ruane reported in a Washington Post article that background information on black, Hispanic, Native American, and female veterans had been removed from the Arlington Cemetery website. Pentagon officials defended the deletion as part of an...
Jesus said to them, “Is it lawful on the Sabbath to do good or to do harm, to save life or to kill?” But they were silent…The Pharisees went out and immediately held counsel with the Herodians against Jesus and plotted how to destroy Him. Mark 3:1-6 Questions for Life...
The gospels are filled with stories in which Jesus faces off with the Pharisees. They are his most consistent foils, which is odd, considering that Jesus and the Pharisees had a lot in common. In fact, they had so much in common that some scholars have suggested that...
For our Who Dunnit? series, we’ll use The Friends and Foes of Jesus for a companion book by Dr. Peter DeHaan. In this series, we will learn about the people who wanted Jesus dead, and we will discover that God is calling us still to resist the powers that conspired to...
The chief priests and the teachers of the Law were afraid of the people, and so they were trying to find a way of putting Jesus to death secretly. Luke 21:37-22:2 Questions for Life Groups Read Luke 21:37-22:2. What do you suppose Jesus was saying to the people that...