Jesus didn’t leave us alone. He promised to send a helper, the Holy Spirit. Jesus told the apostles twice in John 16, “He will take what is mine and declare it to you.” (English Standard ...

He didn’t just promise to be with us…He was with us, in the most intimate and personal way possible. “The Word [Jesus] became flesh and made His dwelling among us” (John 1:14).

Then John writes that Jesus said, “I will pray to the Father and he will give you my Spirit, the Comforter, who will never leave you.” For 50 days after Jesus went back to heaven, we are told ...

We have an unshakable connection with Jesus, who said that he would never leave us. That is the promise that we must claim as today’s disciples, even as we read, “a cloud took him out of their ...