Too much to take!

Jesus is being extreme in both cases because many wanted only the miracles they didn’t want the deep connection and relationship that ensures eternal life and a successful life in the Kingdom here on earth as well….you can not be light, life, salt if you are not completely connected and in intimate relationship with the one who is all of these things himself….the belief is a daily communion with him, daily living a life that is Jesus pouring through us…we are light, life, salt, hope, joy, love and all of these things because that is how he is and we are daily becoming one with Him.

Doing the deep dive (of love) Part 1

This is what religion does, it takes the love and grace of God and turns it into tyranny. This is what happened in the dark ages from 500 to 1500 AD people forgot about grace and soon people were being killed for their “failure to live up to the rules” love and grace went out the window….before we get critical, how many times do we judge people based on our interpretation of the scripture rather than the law of love?

A date by the well

I didn’t quite finish chapter 3, last week so this week we pick it up… Jesus had just cleared the temple both physically and spiritually. He challenged the people to remember their recalling. He left Jerusalem for the Judean countryside to begin bringing people to repentance. Jesus’s disciples are baptizing, …

Born what????

The phrase “born again” is more effectively translated being “born from above,” they have the same meaning  but in today’s culture understanding it is a work only God can do through us if we allow him is important because so many try to earn their salvation and try to be good enough to be saved but it is an act of surrendering to God that we choose and then He does the work in us

Double John! John Part 2

Double John! Study of the Gospel of John Part 2 Brief summary of last week before we launch this week Jesus always existed with God and is God Through Him everything is created and sustained He invaded and overcame the darkness  Everything is in God’s hands and until God’s plan …

The Creation of Jesus?

John starts by making sure that we understand, before anything was, before time was, existed, before the universe, the world, man, before there was anything Jesus, the Father, and the Holy Spirit existed…when He says “in the beginning he is establishing Jesus’ linage as always existing with The Father and the Spirit, they are the same essence…