JOHN 10:9-11 – I am the door. If anyone enters by me, he will be saved and will go in and out and find pasture. The thief comes only to steal and kill and destroy. I came that they may have life and have it abundantly. I am the good shepherd. The good shepherd lays down his life for the sheep.” I…
Pleasing God, Making Disciples of Jesus Christ
Pleasing God, Making Disciples of Jesus Christ
John
Now on the first day of the week Mary Magdalene came to the tomb early, while it was still dark, and saw that the stone had been taken away from the tomb. 2 So she ran and went to Simon Peter and the other disciple, the one whom Jesus loved, and said to them, “They have taken the Lord out of the…
JOHN 19:18 – There they crucified him, and with him two others, one on either side, and Jesus between them.” God’s Word tells us a couple things about temptation to sin. They are found in the Apostle Paul’s first letter to the Corinthian church – No temptation has overtaken you that is not common to man. God is faithful, and he…
JOHN 12:20-21 – Now there were some Greeks among those who were going up to worship at the feast; these then came to Philip, who was from Bethsaida of Galilee, and began to ask him, saying, “Sir, we wish to see Jesus.” The story is told of a seasoned pastor. He had served the Lord in pastoral ministry for decades. He had…
Now before the Feast of the Passover, when Jesus knew that his hour had come to depart out of this world to the Father, having loved his own who were in the world, he loved them to the end. 2 During supper, when the devil had already put it into the heart of Judas Iscariot, Simon’s son, to betray him, 3 Jesus,…
JOHN 3:30 – He must increase, but I must decrease.” It isn’t far away. Really it isn’t. There are small signs of it even though mounds of dirty snow still occupy spots in many parking lots. I am referring to spring and the “resurrection of nature” from the deadness of winter. The flowers are eager to burst forth and the sweet fragrances…