Where in the Word are you today? I’m in John chapter 5. A lot happens here and it’s tempting to linger on the healing of the man at the pool of Bethseda but Jesus’ teaching in this chapter about his identification with the Father, his work on the Father’s behalf and the evidence we have […]
Where in the Word are you today? I’m in John chapter 4. Jesus goes out of his way to keep an appointment with a Samaritan woman at a well only God could have set. And Jesus reveals to this most unlikely of candidates that He is the promised Messiah. The woman runs back into town […]
Where in the Word are you today? I’m in John 3 and there’s a verse in here you know by heart. If I were to start “For God so loved the world,” you’d likely be able to finish it – “that He gave His only begotten son, that whoever believes in Him, would not perish […]
Where in the Word are you today? I’m in John, chapter 2, where I realize we are glimpsing the glory of God in the face of Jesus. We witness here the first of several signs or miracles of Jesus recorded in the fourth Gospel. And what is the first miracle John records? Jesus turning […]
Where in the Word are you today? I’m in John, chapter 1. If you really want to get to know someone you need to know their back story – where they came from, what makes them who they are today. To help us know Jesus, John’s Gospel starts in the beginning – when the Word […]
Have you ever thought about how you pray? Do you pray as Jesus taught us to pray? Do you pray like Paul prays in Ephesians 1 and 3? Do you pray in Jesus’ name? Do you pray in the Spirit? In Ephesians 6, Paul not only instructs us to pray at all times but “in […]
We’re going to talk today about praying at all times with an open 2-way comms channel between here and heaven – but first, let me ask: have you ever been to a concert with an all access pass? That’s really what God is giving us when we pray in the Spirit and in the name […]
Remember sword drills? I asked my Sunday school class of 7th and 8th graders a few weeks back if they remembered sword drills and many said yes. Then one student added, “I remember sword drills, testing our ability to be quick on the draw. The problem is we needed to be taught fencing. What good […]
With all the armor covering our legs, chest, feet and arms, what’s left exposed is our head. So Paul says, in Ephesians 6:10-20, “take up the helmet of salvation.” That’s right, in the same way the breastplate guards the heart, the helmet protects the head. And this isn’t just any helmet, this is the helmet […]
The shield of faith is an essential piece of the whole armor of God described by the apostle Paul in Ephesians 6:10-20. He says “the shield of faith” is that “with which you can extinguish all the flaming arrows of the evil one”. Flaming arrows or flaming darts sound terrifying so let’s consider two images […]