Bread was a staple in the middle east as it is in the west today. Bread was used by God as a sign of life and supply. Today we will see the blessing and challenge of Jesus use of bread as a sign of real life. John 6 is the longest chapter in the book so let’s see if we can get through it today.
Let me ask you a question: if you were told today you only had six months to live, what would you do? How would the priorities in your life change? How important would family be? How important would work be? How important would your faith be? We have the luxury …
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?
Worshiping in spirit and in truth is simple….it is simply loving God with all of your heart, mind, soul, and strength….let everything within you praise the Lord!
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, …
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
Jesus came as the best wine showing those in the feast, the messiah had come the best had come at last.
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 …
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…
The Christmas story is full of promise, God revealed to us, the hope of heaven, victory over the enemy….and so much more but there is one part of the story, one part of the promise that I want us to focus on today as we launch into this new year
