The Reason Heaven Is Heaven
In my Father’s house are many rooms. If it were not so, would I have told you that I go to prepare a place for you? And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again and will take you to myself, that where I am you may be also.
John 14:2-3
What Makes Heaven Heaven Read More
You Have More In Common With Jesus Than You Might Think (Except for maybe Christmas)
“A new commandment I give to you, that you love one another: just as I have loved you, you also are to love one another. By this all people will know that you are my disciples, if you have love for one another.”
John 13:34-35
You Have More In Common With Jesus Than You Might Think Read More
The Type Of Person Jesus Was Looking For (And the type of person you should look for too)
Read John 13:31-33.
To His Little Children, He Said . . . Read More
People Who Betray Jesus
Read John 13:18-30.
The Original Betrayer
Jesus and his disciples are at his last supper where Jesus has just finished washing his disciples’ feet, including the feet of Judas. After the foot-washing, Jesus says that he’s just given an example of how we are to serve each other, and love each other. And then he says that if we understand him, and if we do what he wants us to do, we’ll be blessed. (see previous post from the book of John series, How The God Of The Universe Came To Serve)
But then he qualifies these statements. He says, “I’m not Read More
How The God Of The Universe Came To Serve
Read John 13:12-17.
After Jesus finished washing his disciples’ feet, he put his outer garments back on and went back to his place at the table. And he said to them, “Do you understand what I have done to you? You call me Teacher and Lord, and rightly so, because I am. So if I then, your Lord and Teacher, have washed your feet, you also ought to wash one another’s feet. For I’ve given you an example, that you also should do just as I have done to you.
“. . . If you know these things, blessed are you if you do them.”
John 13:12-15, 17
How Jesus Served Read More
Everything Was So Normal . . .
Don Bennett on the other side of the tunnel, in PV, January 24, 2013
Everything Was So Normal
It was Friday, October 13th. Read More
Like Me (or like Jesus)
Sculptor Anthony Smith at work. (Wikimedia Commons)
. . . having loved his own who were in the world, he loved them to the end.
John 13:1
