Many perceive leadership as a grand stage, a title, or a position of authority. However, true Christian leadership, like ...

When asked by his disciples to teach them to pray, part of what Jesus asked his disciples to pray to God for was: “Your kingdom come. Your will be done, on earth as it is in heaven” (Matthew 6 ...

Jesus responded by first giving His disciples a model for prayer. “When ye pray, say, Our Father which art in heaven…” (verse 2). Like many of you, I was taught this prayer as a child.

"Now Jesus was praying in a certain place, and when he finished, one of his disciples said to him, 'Lord, teach us to pray, as John taught his disciples.' 2 And he said to them, 'When you pray, say: ...

As N. T. Wright has put it, Jesus’ proclaimed the “victory of God.” Jesus didn’t teach his disciples to withdraw from the rough and tumble of Jewish-Roman or Jewish-Jewish conflict.

“If we pray rightly,” St. Augustine taught, “we say nothing but what is already contained in the Lord’s Prayer.” The prayer ...

After Jesus taught his disciples his style of prayer — what we call the Lord's Prayer — he told them a parable that can be misinterpreted in various ways.

In John’s Gospel, Jesus had turned what we popularly call the Last Supper into an occasion to teach his disciples at length. The last meal Jesus shared with his disciples was not that supper ...

In his teachings on prayer, Jesus shows his disciples how to break through this illusion and encounter divine grace. In Luke’s Gospel, Jesus offers these teachings during his journey to Jerusalem.

The Gospel of Good Friday (John 18:1 – 19:42) leaves off in a garden at a newly hewn tomb. Here Jesus has been laid to rest and his disciples must try to make some sense out of this ignominy ...

They reach Jesus at a critical moment, as he realizes the full implications of the mission he accepted. In that realization, Jesus also comprehends the role his disciples will have to fulfill.

But, as many scholars recognize, Jesus was being ironic with His disciples, saying to them, “Look, the Scriptures teach that I will be numbered among the transgressors, the lawbreakers.