Pleasing God, Making Disciples of Jesus Christ

John

Don’t Take It For Granted

JOHN 17:1-3 – When Jesus had spoken these words, he lifted up his eyes to heaven, and said, “Father, the hour has come; glorify your Son that the Son may glorify you, since you have given him authority over all flesh, to give eternal life to all whom you have given him. And this is eternal life, that they know you, the…

This Is How We Will Be Known

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,…

Proving Our Love For God

  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…

The Dirty Work Of 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,…

As I Have Loved You

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.