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…
Yesterday, at our church prayer and abiding night, we were led through an experience of encountering Jesus. We were asked to imagine a safe place and to meet Jesus there. Two young children were there,…
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…
Introductory Note [a.d. 130.] The anonymous author of this Epistle gives himself the title (Mathetes) “a disciple of the Apostles,” and I venture to adopt it as his name. It is about all we know…