Greetings, everyone. Easter weekend is here and billions of Christians from around the world are taking time to reflect on the death and to celebrate the resurrection of Jesus. Recently, a friend of ...

In the Word column for Easter Sunday, I posed the question, “What if you believe in the resurrection but don’t understand it?” In today’s Gospel, Luke offers answers: be patient, pay attention to how ...

Easter is a reminder of the love Jesus taught, how to help a neighbor, and the need to be the hands, feet, and heart of Jesus at all times. Pastor Shana Dry, First United Methodist Church, said living ...

The Gospel of the Third Sunday of Easter focuses on Jesus and the two disciples going to Emmaus. Luke 24 recounts two appearances of Jesus after his Resurrection: in Emmaus and in Jerusalem, both on ...

The disciples instead believed Jesus was the powerful Messiah — the one who would destroy God’s enemies and establish his kingdom here on earth, with himself at its head. They assumed he was going to ...

What comes to mind at the thought of Easter? For some, it’s the profound and solemn proposal of Christianity. For others, there is the frivolity of pastels, of bunnies, of jellybeans and eggs. Still ...

More than 2,000 years ago, Jesus asked His disciples, "But who do you say that I am?" It is a question that the Apostle Peter famously answered, "You are the Messiah, the Son of the living God." Peter ...

Easter is the celebration of the finished work of the messiah Jesus Christ, the ultimate rescuer and savior for mankind who sacrificed his life to provide forgiveness of sin—enabling all who believe ...

Today, we witness the scene of Jesus’ last earthly meal and encounter with his disciples. In John’s Gospel, Jesus had turned what we popularly call the Last Supper into an occasion to teach his ...

After witnessing such suffering, after absorbing the depth of these problems, where can Christians turn to find Easter hope? (iStock/RomoloTavani) In the Scripture readings for the week following ...

On the night before his crucifixion, after the Last Supper and shortly before receiving Judas’ kiss of betrayal, Jesus took three of his other disciples with him to the Garden of Gethsemane. Feeling ...