Category: Holy Angels

I once spent a week with a new friend I’ll call Lisa. Several decades older than me, she exuded love and wisdom. We were enjoying each other so much, until one day I shared something…

I don’t believe angels only show up to help certain types of people, such as, say, only people doing difficult things for God in foreign countries. Hebrews 1:14 says that the only qualification for having…

Now that we’ve looked at angels in the Bible, and specifically in the life of Jesus, I wanted to start sharing a few of my own experiences regarding angels. I’ve written before about how the…

Angels adorn the pages of the gospel story like the illuminated letters of a medieval manuscript: perhaps they are not strictly necessary to have around, but they draw attention to the glory and beauty and…

Jesus wouldn’t let the angels (or humans) fight back when He was being killed. But at His resurrection, the angels get to show up and be helpful again. God’s power raised Jesus from the dead,…

We’ve looked at an overview of angels in Jesus’ life, and then zoomed in on Scene 1: His Birth and Scene 2: His Temptation. Now let’s zoom in on Scene 3: His death (read today’s…

The “temptation of Jesus” is a fascinating episode right before Jesus started His ministry to human beings, in which He interacted with all the other kinds of beings: God, the devil, the angels, and even…

Before we look in depth at moments where Jesus interacted with angels, let’s get the bird’s eye view. Angels show up in the life of Jesus to mark crucial moments in the plotline: His conception,…