“The Father loves me because I sacrifice my life so I may take it back again. No one can take my life from me. I sacrifice it voluntarily. For I have the authority to lay it down when I want to and also to take it up again. For this is what my Father has…
And though I have no wish to glorify myself, God is going to glorify me. He is the true judge. I tell you the truth, anyone who obeys my teaching will never die!” (John 8:50-51) Read: Isaiah 1:21 – 5:30 Relate: Death is a choice. I know, I know, that old adage says that the only two…
Later Jesus said to them again, “I am going away. You will search for me but will die in your sin. You cannot come where I am going.” The people asked, “Is he planning to commit suicide? What does he mean, ‘You cannot come where I am going’?” (John 8:21-22) Read: 2 Kings 12:17 – 13:25,…
I will raise them up at the last day. It is written in the Prophets: ‘They will all be taught by God.’ Everyone who has heard the Father and learned from him comes to me. No one has seen the Father except the one who is from God; only he has seen the Father. Very…
There is no judgment against anyone who believes in him. But anyone who does not believe in him has already been judged for not believing in God’s one and only Son. (John 3:18) Daily Bible Reading: Numbers 2:1 – 3:51 Relate: Almost as inane and far more lasting than the stupid phrase, “Yolo” is the response,…
For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have everlasting life. (John 3:16) Daily Bible Reading: Leviticus 25:24 – 26:46 God: The King. The Creator. The One who established the universe with a word and set time in motion. The One with all…
The wind blows wherever it wants. Just as you can hear the wind but can’t tell where it comes from or where it is going, so you can’t explain how people are born of the Spirit. (John 3:8) Daily Bible Reading: Leviticus 17:1 – 19:37 Relate: Are you familiar with spoken word? It is a form…
“What!” they exclaimed. “It has taken forty-six years to build this Temple, and you can rebuild it in three days?” But when Jesus said “this temple,” he meant his own body. (John 2:20-21) Daily Bible Reading: Numbers 7:1-89 Read: I had just finished preaching one of my first sermons ever. I was a young youth…
Read: Genesis 45:16-47:27 Now the Pharisees who had been sent questioned him, “Why then do you baptize if you are not the Messiah, nor Elijah, nor the Prophet?” (John 1:24-25) Relate: React: The Pharisees ask why John is baptizing and in the gospel of John gives a shortened version. In John’s response to this question in the…
Read: Genesis 7:1-10:32, 1 Chronicles 1:5-23 The Word gave life to everything that was created, and his life brought light to everyone. (John 1:4) Relate: He doesn’t even know he is dead. He is walking around going through the motions of life. He is working, sleeping, walking, and talking, but he is as dead as dead can be.…
THE RIVER WALK 