John 16:23-33 Jesus gives words to the disciples to bring them peace. Because there are times coming where there will not be peace in the world for them. There will be trials, tribulations, trouble. Amidst of all that, the disciples are told to take heart, because Christ has overcome the world. Maybe the same words […]
John 16:12-22 Jesus talks about the connection of the joy of childbirth to the joy of His return. As a woman goes through the sorrow (pain) of childbirth, when she meets her baby face to face, the feeling turns to joy. For the disciples, as Jesus was taken from the earth, died on the cross, […]
John 10:22-33 Babies can hear the voice of their mother early on while they are still in the womb. The first of many voices, but mom’s will always be the one they hear the most. Jesus says, “My sheep hear my voice, and I know them, and they follow me.” As the Good Shepherd, Jesus […]
John 21:1-19 Jesus appears to His disciples for a third time after the resurrection, and this time they are fishing on the Sea of Galilee. Jesus first called disciples (Peter, Andrew, James, John) to leave their life of fishing and to come and follow Him and be fishers of men. They left everything to follow […]
John 20:19-31 On Easter Sunday, Jesus appears to the disciples, but Thomas missed that first appearance. His response to the disciples seeing the resurrected Christ was basically saying, “I won’t believe it until I see it.” More specifically, he wanted to touch Jesus’ hands where the nails were and His side where the spear pierced […]
John 20:1-10; Luke 24:1-12 On Easter Sunday, the women go to the tomb to prepare Jesus’ body. He isn’t there. The angels tell them. But still, they are looking for His body, they’re perplexed. The disciples hear from the women. They go to the tomb, it’s empty. They’re confused, they don’t understand, they go back […]
John 19:1-42; Matthew 27:39-47; Luke 23:32-47, 55-56 As we gather on Good Friday, we see Jesus’ beaten, bruised, bloody body on the cross. His body that is nailed for us. His blood that is shed for us. His death that is died to give us life. Seeing what Jesus went through can create many feelings […]
Matthew 26:17-46; John 13:1-7 On Maundy Thursday Jesus washes the feet of His disciples, giving them an example of service. He eats the Passover meal with them and shares His own Supper with them, a Supper we still partake of today. He prays in the Garden of Gethsemane that God’s will would be done, knowing […]
John 12:12-19 Jesus had raised Lazarus from the dead. The crowd that saw these things happen was the crowd that welcomed Him into Jerusalem with shouts of “Hosanna! Blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord.” Little did they know that their shouts of joy might soon turn to shouts of “Crucify […]
Luke 20:9-20 When we think about parables being an “earthly story with a heavenly meaning” we might often think about where we fit into the story. In this parable we are the wicked tenants. And unlike last week when Jesus was the father in the Parable of the Lost Son(s), here Jesus is actually the […]