Pastor Mark Wells

“Truly this was God’s Son!” Matthew 27:54 The cross of Jesus Christ has a way of reaching places nothing else can. At the foot of the cross stood a Roman centurion, a hardened legionnaire. Historians tell us that at the time of Christ, the Romans had crucified more than 5,000 people in the province of Judea. He likely had overseen countless crucifixions. This execution should have been no different from any other. He was a pagan who knew nothing of the Old Testament's promises. He had not...

Now from the sixth hour darkness fell upon all the land until the ninth hour. And about the ninth hour Jesus cried out with a loud voice, saying, “Eli, Eli, lama sabachthani?” that is, “My God, My God, why have You forsaken Me? Matthew 27:45-46 One of the most heart-wrenching statements ever spoken was made by our Lord as He hung on the cross. These were not words of despair but a deliberate quotation from Psalm 22, a messianic psalm written by David nearly a thousand years before the...

Then he showed me Joshua the high priest standing before the angel of Yahweh, and Satan standing at his right hand to accuse him. Zechariah 3:1 In Zechariah 3, the prophet receives a vision of Joshua the high priest standing before the Angel of the LORD, while Satan stands at his right hand to accuse him. It is a courtroom scene. Joshua is the defendant, Satan is the prosecutor, and the Angel of the LORD—the pre-incarnate Christ—is the Judge and Defender. The remarkable thing about this...