HER STORY: Christ’s Ministry, The Cross – Symbol of Victory

Is the cross a symbol about death or life? defeat or triumph? humiliation or glory? Or all those things? As I searched for answers, I became drawn to how Christians depicted crosses a thousand years ago and more, and that search became this fifteen minute video on the ancient symbols of Christianity. From the eight-hundred-year … Continue reading HER STORY: Christ’s Ministry, The Cross – Symbol of Victory

HER STORY: Christ’s Ministry, The Wife of Pilate

Of the several influential women in the Bible who are not given names—Job’s wife, comes to mind—the wife of Pilate is perhaps the most shadowy. All that is known of her from the scriptures is her relationship to the Procurator Marcus Pontius Pilate, and the message she sent to him while he was sitting on … Continue reading HER STORY: Christ’s Ministry, The Wife of Pilate

HER STORY: Christ’s Ministry, The Widow’s Mite

In the passage just before this one, Mark talked about the scribe who had asked Jesus about the greatest commandment and was impressed with Jesus’ answer. Jesus was also pleased. He told the scribe he was very close to entering the kingdom of heaven. With such a warm endorsement from a scribe, this was a … Continue reading HER STORY: Christ’s Ministry, The Widow’s Mite

Women Disciples: Conclusion to the Series

The Twelve Elements in Jesus’s Call to Discipleship The Greek verb ζητέω | zēteō held a centuries-old spiritual significance sourced in the Hebrew scriptures and was well-known to Jewish students of sacred writings. It means to seek God, in the hope that God may be found. Within a hundred years before Jesus’s ministry, it came … Continue reading Women Disciples: Conclusion to the Series