Down to Earth

Down to Earth

Down To Earth by Mike Slaughter  Holy Cross’ Recommended Advent Small Group Bible Study   ABOUT:   A virgin birth. God’s son…a helpless baby. Fleeing certain death. Much like this year, nothing about the Christmas story is ordinary. Mike Slaughter says it’s enough to...
Uncontainable (Connect, Nurture, Serve)

Uncontainable (Connect, Nurture, Serve)

15 When they had finished eating, Jesus said to Simon Peter, “Simon son of John, do you love (agape) me more than these?” “Yes, Lord,” he said, “you know that I love (fileo) you.” Jesus said, “Feed my lambs.” 16 Again Jesus said, “Simon son of John, do you love...

Now Serving Breakfast

John 21:1-14 Afterward Jesus appeared again to his disciples, by the Sea of Galilee.[a] It happened this way: 2 Simon Peter, Thomas (also known as Didymus[b]), Nathanael from Cana in Galilee, the sons of Zebedee, and two other disciples were together. 3 “I’m going out...
Oh, My God!

Oh, My God!

24 Now Thomas (also known as Didymus[a]), one of the Twelve, was not with the disciples when Jesus came. 25 So the other disciples told him, “We have seen the Lord!” But he said to them, “Unless I see the nail marks in his hands and put my finger where the nails were,...
Keeping A Promise

Keeping A Promise

19On the evening of that first day of the week, when the disciples were together, with the doors locked for fear of the Jews, Jesus came and stood among them and said, “Peace be with you!”  20After he said this, he showed them his hands and side. The...

The Central Perk

10 Then the disciples went back to their homes’ 11 but Mary stood outside the tomb crying. As she wept, she bent over to look into the tomb 12 and saw two angels in white, seated where Jesus’ body had been, one at the head and the other at the foot. 13 They...
Come In, We’re Open!

Come In, We’re Open!

1 Early on the first day of the week, while it was still dark, Mary Magdalene went to the tomb and saw that the stone had been removed from the entrance. 2 So she came running to Simon Peter and the other disciple, the one Jesus loved, and said, “They have taken...
Gone For The Weekend

Gone For The Weekend

38Later, Joseph of Arimathea asked Pilate for the body of Jesus. Now Joseph was a disciple of Jesus, but secretly because he feared the Jews. With Pilate’s permission, he came and took the body away.  39He was accompanied by Nicodemus, the man who earlier had...
Paid In Full

Paid In Full

28 Later, knowing that everything had now been finished, and so that Scripture would be fulfilled, Jesus said, “I am thirsty.” 29 A jar of wine vinegar was there, so they soaked a sponge in it, put the sponge on a stalk of the hyssop plant, and lifted it to Jesus’...
Good To The Last Drop

Good To The Last Drop

17Carrying his own cross, he went out to the place of the Skull (which in Aramaic is called Golgotha).  18Here they crucified him, and with him two others–one on each side and Jesus in the middle.  19Pilate had a notice prepared and fastened to the cross. It...