From here forward in John comes the “Great Revelation” of Jesus as the Lion of Judah — sacrificed as a Lamb for our sins. Make no mistake: Jesus is in complete control of all that is happening in this text. A mob of soldiers fall down and cower at His feet….yet Jesus still offers Himself […]
Our text today is so needed, and so difficult, in light of the protests, the venom, and the vitriol that are infecting our society right now. How do we walk among them and not be affected by it? Against the hate, Jesus calls for His followers to be marked by love. We are to walk […]
Christians are a people who have been lavished with a radical, undeserved love. That love is to show up in radically different relationships we have with each other, and it is reverberate before a watching world — and beyond!
This text is contains one of the most beautiful invitations from Jesus in all of Scripture — and one of the most terrifying. For the idea of laying it all down and simply coming to Jesus, collapsing in Jesus, and enjoying resting in Jesus is so attractive, so needed….and so incredibly hard for us to […]
