Category: Ministry of Presence

Topic: Ministry of Presence   —   Key Scripture: Genesis 16:13 and Psalm 139:1-3 There’s a moment in Genesis that I come back to more than almost any other passage of Scripture — not because it’s triumphant, but because it’s so quietly desperate. Hagar is alone in the wilderness. She’s been cast out, first by circumstance and…

Topic: Ministry of Presence   —   Key Scripture: Matthew 25:40 “The King will reply, ‘Truly I tell you, whatever you did for one of the least of these brothers and sisters of mine, you did for me.’” — Matthew 25:40 Jesus has a way of upending the categories we use to decide who matters. In Matthew…

Topic: Ministry of Presence   —   Key Scripture: John 11:43-44 “When he had said this, Jesus called in a loud voice, ‘Lazarus, come out!’ The dead man came out, his hands and feet wrapped with strips of linen, and a cloth around his face. Jesus said to them, ‘Take off the grave clothes and let him…

Topic: Ministry of Presence   —   Key Scriptures: Job 2:11-13, Job 42:7-9 “Now when Job’s three friends heard of all this evil that had come upon him, they came each from his own place, Eliphaz the Temanite, Bildad the Shuhite, and Zophar the Naamathite. They made an appointment together to come to show him sympathy and…

Topic: Ministry of Presence | Key Scripture: John 11:35 John 11:35 is the shortest verse in the Bible. Two words. And yet it may be one of the most theologically significant moments in all of Scripture. Jesus stood at the tomb of Lazarus. He knew what was about to happen. He knew He was going…