by Rich Timmons | Mar 10, 2023 | Passion Week
When they had mocked him, they took the purple cloak off him, and put his own garments on him. They led him out to crucify him. They compelled one passing by, coming from the country, Simon of Cyrene, the father of Alexander and Rufus, to go with them that he might...
by Rich Timmons | Mar 5, 2023 | Encounters with Jesus
Now when Jesus was in Bethany, in the house of Simon the leper, a woman came to him having an alabaster jar of very expensive ointment, and she poured it on his head as he sat at the table.But when his disciples saw this, they were indignant, saying, “Why this waste?...
by Rich Timmons | Mar 1, 2023 | Abstract, Portrait
“Jerusalem, Jerusalem, who kills the prophets, and stones those who are sent to her! How often I would have gathered your children together, even as a hen gathers her chicks under her wings, and you would not!” Matthew 23:37 Much of Western art from the Medieval,...
by Rich Timmons | Feb 21, 2023 | Encounters with Jesus
The woman said to him, “I know that Messiah comes, he who is called Christ. When he has come, he will declare to us all things. ”Jesus said to her, “I am he, the one who speaks to you.” At this, his disciples came. They marveled that he was speaking with a woman; yet...
by Rich Timmons | Feb 16, 2023 | Miracles
Jesus therefore, again groaning in himself, came to the tomb. Now it was a cave, and a stone lay against it. Jesus said, “Take away the stone.” Martha, the sister of him who was dead, said to him, “Lord, by this time there is a stench, for he has been dead four days.”...
by Rich Timmons | Feb 5, 2023 | Encounters with Jesus
So, he came to a town in Samaria called Sychar, near the plot of ground Jacob had given to his son Joseph. Jacob’s well was there, and Jesus, tired as he was from the journey, sat down by the well. It was about noon. When a Samaritan woman came to draw water, Jesus...
by Rich Timmons | Jan 26, 2023 | Encounters with Jesus
Then Jesus came from Galilee to the Jordan to John, to be baptized by him. But John would have hindered him, saying, “I need to be baptized by you, and you come to me?” But Jesus, answering, said to him, “Allow it now, for this is the fitting way for us to fulfill all...
by Rich Timmons | Jan 24, 2023 | Creation
For by him all things were created in the heavens and on the earth, visible things and invisible things, whether thrones or dominions or principalities or powers. All things have been created through him and for him. Colossians 1:16 Before Christ was born into our...
by Rich Timmons | Dec 12, 2022 | Nativity
“When the angels went away from them into heaven, the shepherds said to one another, “Let us go over to Bethlehem and see this thing that has happened, which the Lord has made known to us.” And they went with haste and found Mary and Joseph, and the baby lying in a...
by Rich Timmons | Oct 18, 2022 | Mary
The angel said to her, “Don’t be afraid, Mary, for you have found favor with God. Behold, you will conceive in your womb, and bring forth a son, and will call his name ‘Jesus.’ He will be great, and will be called the Son of the Most High. The Lord God will give...