As we prepare to celebrate Easter, we are forced to contemplate that the events of this Holy Week were all part of God's perfect plan, even though things seemed to be going so wrong for Jesus and His disciples. Col 1:19  reveals what God was doing through the betrayal...

‘Father, into Your hands I commit my spirit.’ (Luke 23:46) Jesus has clearly moved from the place of dereliction and forsakenness to the place of childlike trust and simplicity. This is a prayer of security prayed in the most horrendous of circumstances. Many of us...

‘Today you will be with me in Paradise.’ (Luke 23:43) During Jesus’s lifetime, He told a parable to answer the question ‘Who is my neighbour?’ (Luke 10:29) In that parable of the Good Samaritan, one of the most famous stories He ever told, He demonstrated that we have...