In the Absence of Life

John 5   It was the only hope they had—waiting by the pool for the water to stir—waiting for the healing these stirrings could bring.  If the leaders of the day had been properly focused, there wouldn’t have been any waiting by the pool.  In fact, by the time John writes this, they had already [...]

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Waiting on the Kingdom’s Business

John 21   What do you do when you have encountered Christ and He has yet to make it clear what His plans for you are?  Peter and the other disciples had seen Jesus since the resurrection.  It was exciting and all, but what did it mean to them personally.  So far, they didn’t know.  [...]

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Where No Man Has Gone

John 20   John 20:1-8 “Early on the first day of the week, while it was still dark, Mary Magdalene went to the tomb and saw that the stone had been removed from the entrance.  She came running to Simon Peter and the other disciple,” whom I will call John.  John “outran Peter and reached [...]

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The Cost of Living

John 19   “Then Pilate took Jesus and had him flogged.”  The guards made fun of Him saying, “Hail, king of the Jews!”  “And they struck him in the face.”  He was made to carry His cross to Golgotha.  “Here they crucified him.”   Just days or perhaps only hours earlier, Jesus made the excruciating [...]

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To Whom It May Concern

John 18   When Pilate asked Jesus if He was a king, Jesus said, “You are right in saying I am a king.  In fact, for this reason I was born, and for this I came into the world, to testify of the truth”.   At a certain point in history, when the whole world [...]

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Lesson from the Walleye

John 17   I recently heard Dobson speak on an experiment with a walleye.  The walleye was placed in a glass tank.  Minnows were released into the tank, and soon, the minnows were gone.    Then a sheet of glass was slipped into the tank—dividing it in two sections.  Minnows were released into the section [...]

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Staying Connected to the Truth

   John 15, 16   When Jesus finished the things He talked about in John 15, He concluded with this, “All this I have told you so that you will not go astray.”  After everything He said in John 16, He concluded this way, “I have told you these things, so that in me you [...]

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The Significance of Remaining

John 15   At the end of all that Jesus says in chapter 15, He concludes with “all this I have told you that you will not go astray”.  If you could know something that would keep you from ‘going astray’, wouldn’t you want to know it?     In the first 10 verses of [...]

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The Greatest Truth Meets The Greatest Lie

John 14   The greatest truth in all the Bible is that God loves us.  Is it any wonder that the greatest lie would be Satan’s attempt to convince us that He doesn’t?    John 14:21 says, “Whoever has my commands and obeys them, he is the one who loves me. He who loves me [...]

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Levels of Belief

John 12, 13     Some believe but fear what others will think. John 12:42 42 Yet at the same time many even among the leaders believed in him. But because of the Pharisees they would not confess their faith for fear they would be put out of the synagogue;   Some believe but sell [...]

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