His response to Jesus is instructional to us. Jesus calls his disciples to abandon everything and follow him. Peter was the first disciple that Jesus called. He is the disciple that Jesus focuses ...

That’s why Isaiah calls it “Galilee of the ... had called and selected a normative group of disciples — the Apostles — in his community. Jesus has moved to Capernaum, a major port on ...

Jesus calls them, “Follow me ... This reminds me of the occasion when Jesus commands His disciples to feed the thousands who gathered to hear Him. The disciples wanted Jesus to send them ...

Although his message was proving popular, the claim of his disciples that Jesus was the son of God offended many people. What’s more, his ideas were revolutionary and threatened to undermine ...

Jesus calls these two “foolish” and “slow ... At some point it clicked. They would be his disciples in a new way. There would be no more running away, no more competition.

There was a disconnect between what Jesus had told His disciples about His death and ... is possible” (Matthew 19:26). When Jesus calls out your name, impossibilities become possible.

“When Jesus called his disciples his friends ... In articulating what Gail R. O’Day calls his “theology of friendship,” Jesus says if we are his friends, we will do what he commands ...