Follow Jesus Christ

The Bible is like a music archive. It contains laments, military marches, love songs, prayers, courtly hymns, the voices of the exiled. Try to perform them all at once: the trumpets will drown out the lullaby, the victors will shout down the mourners. You’d have to hunt for the music…

Imagine someone tries to explain radio to a person who has never seen electricity. He says, “Music is sounding in the air.” The person looks at the air. Nothing. “Then where are the musicians?” he asks. A whole concept, a whole world is packed into a few words, and the…

How to come to know Jesus, to commune with Him, to discern His presence? The first decision is to devote as much time as possible to Him: read, study, return to what you don’t understand. Accumulate “Christ-hours” until the information coalesces into a recognizable face and study becomes an encounter.…

A person sits in the kitchen staring at their phone. They want to call someone — to tell how their day went, to complain, to hear, “I understand you.” They scroll through names and put the phone down. This one will be studying. That one will make a joke. Another…

A caterpillar becomes a butterfly. We have known this since childhood and have almost stopped being surprised: a creature whose whole life took place on the surface of a leaf one day unfolds its wings. But what if the possibility of change is hidden in a person as well—change that…

If you read the parable of the unforgiving debtor through a lawyer’s eyes, it turns into almost a courtroom puzzle about debt forgiveness, abuse of rights, and the consequences of one’s own conduct. Jesus frames the story pointedly in legal terms: there is a creditor, a debtor, a deadline for…

Night had fallen over the far country. Outside the walls of a strange city the lights were going out, the wind drove dust along the road, and a man sat where the pigs were fed — the one who had renounced. Once he had a home, a name, a father…

Should we suppress our emotions? We’re used to answering: absolutely not. But imagine a child who is terrified and cannot run away or ask for help. His mind does the only thing left: it buries the fear deep and switches on a protective system. The system works quietly. It teaches…

Imagine a huge old tree. An oak a hundred years old. Several tons of wood. Its roots plunge deep into the ground, the trunk rises out of the soil, the branches spread overhead. It seems perfectly obvious where it came from. From the earth. After all, it literally comes out…