Harmonizing Us to Our Humanity

HARMONIZING US TO OUR HUMANITY   John 14: 15-24 15 “If you love me, you will keep my commandments. 16 And I will ask the Father, and he will give you another Advocate, to be with you forever. 17 This is the Spirit of truth, whom the world cannot receive because...

“Discipleship in Times of Betrayal”

DISCIPLESHIP IN TIMES OF BETRAYAL   John 13:31-35 31 When he had gone out, Jesus said, “Now the Son of Man has been glorified, and God has been glorified in him. 32 If God has been glorified in him, God will also glorify him in himself and will glorify him at...

Choosing Vulnerability

CHOOSING VULNERABILITY John 10:11-21 11 “I am the good shepherd. The good shepherd lays down his life for the sheep. 12 The hired hand, who is not the shepherd and does not own the sheep, sees the wolf coming and leaves the sheep and runs away, and the wolf snatches...

Hard Truths and Grace Upon Grace

HARD TRUTHS AND GRACE UPON GRACE   John 1:12-17 12 But to all who received him, who believed in his name, he gave power to become children of God, 13 who were born, not of blood or of the will of the flesh or of the will of man, but of God. 14 And the Word became...

You Ask Me How I Know He Lives

YOU ASK ME HOW I KNOW HE LIVES   I have always been confounded by how little we discuss the resurrection.  We celebrate the resurrection but do not examine it.  I suspect this is due in part to the inherent difficulty in using words to describe...