Pāhonoa te oro

You've seen the paintings. Twelve men gathered around Jesus. Calm faces. Peaceful expressions. Almost glowing with holiness. They look like men who were born righteous. But Scripture tells a far more surprising story. The twelve disciples were not a spiritual dream team — not the most polished, most educated, or most qualified men in Israel. They were ordinary men. Flawed men. Men with tempers, doubts, ambitions, and failures that Scripture doesn't hide from us. Among them was a fisherman with a