Before going to the cross, Jesus prayed. Jesus prayed hard. Jesus prayed earnestly (Matthew 26:36-45; Mark 14:32-42; Luke 22:40-46). Jesus, His soul gravely, overwhelmed with sorrow, prayed three times asking if it was possible for the cup of crucifixion to be taken from Him. Each time He prayed, He submitted to God’s will, His Father’s will, over His own will. (I imagine that in His Spirit, His Divinity, Jesus knew what He had to do, but His humanity was overwhelmed with the reality of the...

2 Corinthians 2:14-17, NIV 14 But thanks be to God, who always leads us as captives in Christ’s triumphal procession and uses us to...

A story doesn’t usually start with the words “the end.” What, after all, does “the end” mean? It means something is over, something has...