Going on a Journey

  • Series Outline

    Crucified Path — Series OutlineSeries description: A devotional series tracing the call of Jesus in the Gospels and the echoing call of the apostles in the Epistles to walk the crucified path — the way of the cross that leads, always, to resurrection. The series opens with the shape of that path itself — a…

  • Series Description / Outline

    The Crucified Path is a devotional series exploring Jesus’s call in the Gospels and the apostles’ message in the Epistles to embrace a life of sacrifice leading to resurrection. It intertwines suffering and hope, grounded in Scripture, while offering practical steps for daily living aligned with Christ’s path of humility and surrender.

  • The Map

    As I sat on the hillside that morning I watched the leaders of the Great Hall distributing something to all who gathered at the entrance. As I drew closer I could see they were maps — detailed, carefully drawn maps of the Great Hall itself. Every corridor was marked. Every room was labeled. Every entrance…

  • The Empty Chair

    I saw him from across the courtyard as the afternoon shadows grew long across the stones. He was seated alone on a bench just outside the doors of the Great Hall, and there was that familiar weight about him — the weight that speaks without words.The doors to the Great Hall opened and closed many…

  • First Encounter

    I did not know what it was the first time I came upon it.I had been walking through the valley that morning when I noticed the people — more of them than I expected, moving along the road from several directions with the purposeful air of those who know where they are going. Something drew…

  • Take Up Your Cross

    Luke 9:23 — “And he said to them all, If any man will come after me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross daily, and follow me.” Jesus said this to everyone, not just the twelve — “he said to them all.” The call to take up a cross was never reserved for…

  • Looking Unto Jesus: Where the Crucified Path Begins

    Hebrews 12:2 — “Looking unto Jesus the author and finisher of our faith; who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising the shame, and is set down at the right hand of the throne of God.” There is a path every follower of Jesus is eventually asked to walk, and…

  • Looking Unto Jesus

    Hebrews 12:2 — “Looking unto Jesus the author and finisher of our faith; who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising the shame, and is set down at the right hand of the throne of God.” There is a path every follower of Jesus is eventually asked to walk, and…

  • Welcome to the Crucified Path

    Hebrews 12:2 — “Looking unto Jesus the author and finisher of our faith; who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising the shame, and is set down at the right hand of the throne of God.” Every believer eventually meets a fork in the road that the New Testament describes…

  • The Choir She Has Joined

    She wrote about it herself, three years before she left.She was singing a hymn in her living room during the pandemic — alone with me, separated from her church, the way everyone was separated that year — and something happened that she felt she had to write about. She sensed, in the middle of the…