Things You Should Know About The Author Of This Blog: I have two personalities
Read John 12:1-11. Read More
Your Status Quo And How Your Life Will Count (One way or the other)
Read John 11:45-57.
I Want My Life To Count
I just finished watching a video of a David Platt teaching called Don’t Waste Your Life. At the beginning of this teaching Platt makes the statement: “I want my life to count.”
As I watched him say that, I thought to myself: Read More
Read How Thomas Gets A Raw Deal
Read John 11:7-16.
Last post from the book of John we looked at, what it looks like, when God doesn’t make sense. The post from the book of John before that one, we looked at how Martha gets a raw deal. Today we’re going to look at the record of another person in the Bible and how he gets a raw deal. Today we’re going to look at “Doubting Thomas.”
“A Skeptic” Of Epic Proportions Read More
When God Doesn’t Make Sense
Read John 11:1-6.
“So, when he heard that Lazarus was ill, he stayed two days longer in the place where he was.” John 11:6
The Watney House Fire
From the street it looked like a one story house. But because it was built on a hillside, from the back you could see another level below with sliding glass doors opening out to a patio and back yard. This was the house where the Watney kids lived: Melissa, Mark, and Emma. Read More
A Curious Thing About The Miracles Of Jesus
Read John 10:30-42.
The Artist Who Proved It
During the mid 1600s there was a famous French artist named Raymond Lafage. One evening he was introduced to a crowd in a tavern, but the man impressed them as a bumpkin. No one believed this completely unremarkable person could possibly be the famous artist Lafage. Read More
“I Am Trash”
“I give them eternal life, and they will never perish, and no one will snatch them out of my hand. My Father, who has given them to me, is greater than all, and no one is able to snatch them out of the Father’s hand.” (John 10:28-29)
Bad Shepherds, The Good Shepherd (and Choosing Your Shepherd)
Read John 10:1-21.
Bad Shepherds
I was reading today about bad leaders (or bad shepherds, if you will). Read More
How I Gave Myself To Jesus But Then Gave Myself To Doubt (And Then Found Him Again In The Old Testament)
“Truly, truly, I say to you, he who does not enter the sheepfold by the door but climbs in by another way, that man is a thief and a robber. But he who enters by the door is the shepherd of the sheep.”
John 10:1-2
How Jesus Views The Tanakh
In the verses to follow, Jesus is about to share who he is, using shepherd and sheep imagery from the Tanakh (or Old Testament). Something I’ve noticed about Jesus is his complete belief in the reliability and authority of the Old Testament scriptures. Speaking of the Tanakh he said, Read More
One thing I do know, though I was blind, now I see
Read John chapter 9.
In our last post from the book of John, Jesus’ disciples ask him why a man was born blind from birth. They open a dialogue about an age old question: Why is there suffering? (See Whose Sin Caused This (And does suffering prover there is no God?))
Concerning this man’s particular situation, Jesus answers his disciples directly: “It was not that this man sinned, or his parents, but that the works of God might be displayed in him.” He then went on to say, “We must work the works of him who sent me while it is day; night is coming, when no one can work. As long as I am in the world, I am the light of the world.”
Night Is Coming
Jesus identifies himself as “the light of the world.” But he also told his followers that Read More
