Ken Winter Ken Winter

God promised Moses and the Israelites that each morning He would provide bread that would be sufficient for every person for the day – everyone would have their fill. After the people had gotten over the shock that this “manna” was God’s bread for them, they set about the process of gathering what was needed for their household.

There is no such thing as a perfect church. That statement does not come as a shock to any of us, whether we are a part of a church … or not. However, i do believe that those of us inside the church often tend to want everyone to believe we have it all together. We have a tendency to hide the “real me” behind a mask and cover up the things, the hurts, the doubts, and the imperfections that we don’t want anyone else to see. (It’s similar to the way most of us – believers and non-believers alike – tend to portray ourselves on social media.)

Jesus was sitting on the slopes of the Mount of Olives with His disciples telling them about the perilous times that would signal the end of the age and the promise of His return.

Now it came to pass, when the time had come for Jesus to be received up, that He steadfastly set His face to go to Jerusalem.

The apostle Thomas allowed shame, guilt, and faithlessness to blind him to the Good News of Jesus’s resurrection. But though he faithlessly abandoned Jesus, his Savior never abandoned him.

Though Judas Iscariot walked with Jesus for over three years, his sin of selfish ambition blinded him to the truth of who Jesus was, and led him down a path from which there was no turning back.