Dwell with the words of the risen Christ to know and proclaim the reality of the risen Christ.

A temple packed with worshipers. A tree covered with leaves. Both looked alive, but one got cleansed, and the other got cursed. What did Jesus see that everyone else missed? And why did blind beggars and shouting children receive His approval while religious experts received His rebuke?

This week, we will discover what kind of worship God actually recognizes as genuine and how the answer might not be what we expect.

Have you ever watched Jesus do something that didn't make sense? A prayer goes unanswered. A situation gets worse instead of better. His timing feels off. His methods feel strange. The crowd on Palm Sunday had the same experience. They watched Jesus ride into Jerusalem on a donkey (not a war horse) and thought they understood what He was doing. They were wrong. Within five days, confusion turned to outrage, and "Hosanna!" became "Crucify!" What went wrong? How could people so close to Jesus, people serving Him, praising Him, and listening to Him, miss what He was actually doing?

This week, we will discover what prevents us from understanding Jesus' methods and how receiving His mission changes everything.

As Jesus and his disciples left Jericho on their way to Jerusalem, two blind men sitting by the road called out to him for mercy. The crowd around them told them to be quiet, but they refused. What Jesus did next, and why he did it, reveals something important about the kind of king he is and the kind of people he stops for.

This week, we will discover what the Lord's compassion produces in those desperate enough to cry out for it.

What would you do if you had direct access to the most powerful person around and could ask for anything? What would your request reveal about what you really value? In this passage, a bold request triggers an eruption of anger among Jesus' closest followers, and what comes to the surface is something none of them expected. Jesus responds with a statement so counterintuitive that it would have stunned every person in the room.

This week, we will discover what Jesus taught his disciples about the path to honor in God's kingdom.

Most of us have spent considerable energy arranging our lives to avoid predictable conflict. We soften convictions, delay difficult conversations, and quietly take the long way around trouble we can see coming. Yet here is Jesus, three days from Jerusalem, telling His closest followers in specific detail what the city holds: the betrayal, the condemnation, the mocking, the flogging, the cross, and walking straight toward it. What kind of person does that, and what does it mean for the people He calls to follow Him?

This week, we will discover what Christ's resolute advance toward certain suffering reveals about the nature of kingdom obedience and what it demands of those who bear His name.

Most of us have a deep instinct for fairness — and Jesus told a parable that seems to violate it completely. Workers hired at the end of the day receive the same wage as those who labored through the scorching heat since dawn. Some walk away astonished. Others walk away furious. The difference between them has nothing to do with how hard they worked — and everything to do with what they were trusting while they worked.

This week, we will discover what Jesus teaches about the only posture toward kingdom reward that positions a servant to receive what the King truly wants to give.

A wealthy, morally upright young man runs to Jesus, kneels before Him, and asks an urgent question. Jesus looks at him, loves him—and then makes a demand so radical the man walks away grieving. What was he really asking? Why did Jesus respond with commands rather than comfort? And what was the "one thing" that stood between this impressive young ruler and what he was seeking?

This week, we'll wrestle with one of the most puzzling encounters in the Gospels—and discover that the answer may challenge everything we assumed about what Jesus was offering.