Throughout The Promised Land series, the following resources were consulted, quoted, or paraphrased. The use of these sources does not equate to full agreement with all of the authors’ theological or practical interpretations of Scripture.…
NOTE: the following is my manuscript and will be different than the sermon recording. Today, we begin a journey with the Israelites into the land that was promised to them many centuries prior to their…
The Prayer of Jesus in John 17 In John 17, we encounter a prayer spoken by Jesus Christ in the presence of his disciples on the night before his crucifixion. It functions, in a meaningful…
If you ask most people what eternal life is, you’ll mainly hear answers that relate to place and time. The place is heaven. The time is after we die. And the duration is, well, forever.…
Last Sunday, we looked at the resurrection of Jesus. He appeared to his disciples, reassuring them of who he is. He is still the same Jesus of Nazareth. The same teacher they had been learning…
Early on the first day of the week, while it was still dark, Mary Magdalene went to the tomb and saw that the stone had been removed from the entrance. So she came running to…
Since the beginning of January, we have been immersing ourselves in the life of Jesus as recorded by John, one of his closest companions. And this week we approach the climax of the story. We…
We continue today in our journey through John’s Gospel. We’ve moved into the section of the book that is known as the farewell discourse, which runs from chapter 13 through 17. Last week, we ended in…
Think about the moment the curtain gets pulled back in the Wizard of Oz. Dorothy and her companions have made a long journey through real danger and uncertainty. All because someone told them there was…
The purpose of John’s Gospel is stated in John 20:30–31 “Jesus performed many other signs in the presence of his disciples, which are not recorded in this book. But these are written that you may believe that…
170 years ago, a 20 year old preacher in London England named Charles began a sermon on the unchanging nature of God this way: It has been said by someone that the proper study of…
Introduction What is the purpose of hunger and thirst? Hunger and thirst are built-in warning signals, telling us what we need to stay alive. Ignore them long enough, and you die. But we don’t live…