JOHN 13:34-35 – 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.” THEME OF THE DAY. THIS IS HOW WE WILL BE KNOWN. Imagine if Christians, all Christians,…
Pleasing God, Making Disciples of Jesus Christ
Pleasing God, Making Disciples of Jesus Christ
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JOHN 14:15 – If you love Me, you will keep My commandments. THEME OF THE DAY. PROVING OUR LOVE FOR GOD. The Bible does not leave us in the dark with today’s nugget theme – proving our love for God. One of the most wonderful aspects in our Bibles is the amazing simplicity by which it instructs us how to love…
JOHN 13:1-5 – 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. During supper, when the devil had already put it into the heart of Judas Iscariot, Simon’s son, to betray him,…
Our lives often are nice neat packages of projects, responsibilities, schedules, and tasks. And that works in a lot of things but not when it comes to obeying the command of our Lord to “love one another.” He doesn’t give us a nice little handbook to follow. Nor does He gives us a pamphlet of three easy instructions to implement. No, like all things in the Christian life, He brings us to Himself. He is the “handbook”. He is the sheet of instructions. The simple words “just as I have loved you” force us to do two things, if we are to obey it.
JOHN 15:7-8 – If you abide in me, and my words abide in you, ask whatever you wish, and it will be done for you. By this my Father is glorified, that you bear much fruit and so prove to be my disciples. THEME OF THE DAY. THE FRUIT-BEARING LIFE. This true story I am about to share happened while I was…
JOHN 21:15a – When they had finished breakfast, Jesus said to Simon Peter, “Simon, son of John, do you love me more than these?” THEME OF THE DAY. MORE THAN THESE. The scene in today’s scripture is Jesus serving breakfast to His twelve disciples on the shore of Galilee. Imagine watching this meal unfold. I don’t think there was much of an…