Joanna Kimbrel

Aug 27, 2024 | crossway.org | Joanna Kimbrel |Courtney Doctor |Lydia Brownback

He Is the WayWe often hear the encouragement to go our own way or blaze our own trail. We can find our truth or write our story. In a lot of ways, that sounds like freedom. But without Christ, it’s actually bondage because it leaves us exhausted, overwhelmed, and enslaved to our sin—because what Jesus is saying is that we need a way. We need a way to God that we cannot blaze ourselves. Only Christ can be that way because only Christ lived perfectly.

Jun 18, 2024 | crossway.org | Courtney Doctor |Joanna Kimbrel

The Good ShepherdPsalm 23 is arguably one of the most well-known and most beloved passages in all of Scripture, and so it’s familiar to a lot of people. David, who was a shepherd himself and was a boy from Bethlehem who would go on to be the king of Israel, he says certain things in it. We all know the opening: “The Lord is my shepherd; I shall not want.”What David does in Psalm 23 is he describes who the Lord is.

May 16, 2024 | crossway.org | Courtney Doctor |Megan Hill |Melissa Kruger |Joanna Kimbrel

What Brings You Peace? What brings you peace? A quick scroll through social media reveals multiple attempts at answering that question. Some indicate that peace is a commodity we gain while sitting by a quiet lake, strolling on a wooded path, or gazing at the night sky. Others imply that a sparkling clean kitchen, a freshly made bed, a basket of folded laundry, or an inbox clear of unanswered emails will garner peace in your life.

Apr 5, 2024 | crossway.org | Joanna Kimbrel |Courtney Doctor |Mitchell L. Chase

A Resurrection unto Eternal LifeWhen Jesus makes the claim, “I am the resurrection and the life,” his friend Lazarus is in the tomb, and he’s speaking to Lazarus’s grieving sister. And when he makes this claim, he says something that doesn’t quite make sense. He says, “Whoever believes in me, though he die, yet shall he live.” It doesn’t quite make sense because there’s never been a resurrection to eternal life—until Jesus is raised.

Feb 21, 2024 | crossway.org | Courtney Doctor |Joanna Kimbrel |Lydia Brownback

The Door of the SheepJesus said in chapter ten of John’s Gospel, “Truly, truly, I say to you, I am the door of the sheep. All who came before me are thieves and robbers, but the sheep did not listen to them. I am the door," verse nine says. “If anyone enters by me, he will be saved and will go in and out and find pasture. The thief comes only to steal and kill and destroy. I came that they may have life and have it abundantly” (John 10:7–10).