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…
I assure you, no one can enter the Kingdom of God without being born of water and pneuma. Humans can reproduce only human life, but pneuma gives birth to pneuma. So don’t be surprised when I say, ‘You must be born again.’ Pneuma blows wherever it wants. Just as you can hear it but can’t tell where it comes from or where it is going, so you can’t explain how people are born of pneuma.
Jesus replied, “I tell you the truth, unless you are born again, you cannot see the Kingdom of God.” (John 3:3) Daily Bible Reading: Leviticus 9:1 – 11:47 Relate: In 1978 Chuck Colson wrote entitled “Born Again” and earlier that same year Jimmy Carter publicly professed to being born again. The term, used to describe a spiritual conversion to…
There was a man named Nicodemus, a Jewish religious leader who was a Pharisee. After dark one evening, he came to speak with Jesus. “Rabbi,” he said, “we all know that God has sent you to teach us. Your miraculous signs are evidence that God is with you.” (John 3:1-2) Daily Bible Reading: Leviticus 7:1 –…
Because of the miraculous signs Jesus did in Jerusalem at the Passover celebration, many began to trust in him. But Jesus didn’t trust them, because he knew human nature. No one needed to tell him what mankind is really like. (John 2:23-25) Daily Bible Reading: Leviticus 4:1 – 6:30 Relate: There was this movie where the main…
“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…
But the Jewish leaders demanded, “What are you doing? If God gave you authority to do this, show us a miraculous sign to prove it.” “All right,” Jesus replied. “Destroy this temple, and in three days I will raise it up.” (John 2:18-19) Daily Bible Reading: Exodus 39:32 – 40:38, Numbers 9:15-23 Relate: I don’t even watch the show. I…
Then his disciples remembered this prophecy from the Scriptures: “Passion for God’s house will consume me.” (John 2:17) Daily Bible Reading: Exodus 37:1 – 39:31 Relate: The word is ‘akal. Passion for God’s house will consume me. It will ‘akal me. The word means to devour. In the Tanakh (the Old Testament) the word appears over…
After the wedding he went to Capernaum for a few days with his mother, his brothers, and his disciples. (John 2:12) Daily Bible Reading: Exodus 32:1 – 34:35 Relate: The prophet Nahum wrote the book bearing his name right some time shortly before the Assyrian empire collapsed. He was a subject of that empire and there are…
This miraculous sign at Cana in Galilee was the first time Jesus revealed his glory. And his disciples believed in him. (John 2:11) Daily Bible Reading: Exodus 29:1 – 31:18 Relate: When I go to a wedding I am taking mental notes. What did I like? What didn’t I like? How would I have done something different?…
THE RIVER WALK 