Egypt was incredible, we spent three years there, and I can’t even begin to describe what we saw. The trip was hardly longer than the journey would have been back to Nazareth, but we knew that we would be safe from Herod’s insanity once we left Israel. His reach didn’t extend across the border. It…

What was Jesus like as a child?”  Mary smiled. “It was easy to forget that he was the Son of God. He was just a kid, but a kid that didn’t seem to get in trouble.  Which really annoyed his brothers and sister. I had to be so careful not to compare them with their…

He was a great storyteller.  People may have called him a teacher, but he taught with stories.  He told us stories about beggars and kings, farmers and fields, fish and fisherman and brides and grooms.  Sometimes the meaning was obvious.  Like the story he told about the man who was forgiven the great debt but…

It wasn’t long after that that Jesus introduced us to his friend Lazarus and his sisters, Mary and Martha. We were on our way to Jerusalem and stopped in Bethany; the group scattered to find rooms where they could but Jesus invited Andrew and me to spend the night with him and his friends.  Lazarus…

Not everybody got it.  The next morning, the rest of the group gathered together at Lazarus’ before heading out.  Martha outdid herself again with breakfast, and when we were done we tried to help, but Martha wouldn’t let us.  She said that it would take a week to figure out where we put everything when…

Hey Peter,” Jesus’ voice broke through my fog, we’d been walking for what seemed like forever, but was probably just a couple of hours and I had gone to my nothing place. “Peter, do you remember the day that we almost sunk the two boats with all the fish?”  It was amazing how he did…

We had been together the better part of three years when Jesus started talking about the end.  It wasn’t like he pulled us together for “The Talk”, it just became a part of what he was saying. He told us he would be betrayed, but he didn’t mention who would do the betraying.  It was…

We had just finished breakfast when Jesus motioned for me to join him outside the group.  “Hey Pete, we are going for a little hike, go get the Thunder Boys and meet me on that little trail that leads up the mountain outside of town.”  I felt like saying “Come on Jesus, a little hike,…

The road between Jericho and Bethany was pretty barren, and it wasn’t long before the crowd became a group and then the group became a few, and soon it was just us walking along the road. The conversation had turned bleak again, Jesus was insisting that the time was getting close.  He spoke of being…