In John 13:20 Jesus Christ makes a statement that is often either overlooked in this age of diminishing church attendance and increasing television ministry viewing.  Ministers, particularly television ministers, have become celebrities–religious rock stars.  Some have global congregations numbering in the millions.  In one case people are known to fly in to Sunday services from […]

Of the four Gospels (the “good news” about the Kingdom of God), the Gospel of John is the most personal and morality-focused in my opinion.  John tells us literally dozens of Truths that we need to be continually aware of as we walk with the Lord in our daily lives.  In this series I will […]

“You had one job!”  Those words often accompany a picture of a mess someone has made.  Not only are those eye-catching predicaments humorous, they serve as reminders to pay attention to what we are doing and to do the job the way it was designed to be done.  They also remind us that someone is […]

In the financial world the word “denominations” refers to the various types of paper monitory notes a nation uses when conducting economic transactions.   In the church world the word denotes the various and differing brands of professing Christendom.  A relative once said to me while we were discussing religion in general, “Well, one thing I […]

Recently the editor of the San Francisco Chronicle wrote that the days of objective news reporting were over and done, that newspapers could build more trust on the part of their readership by printing subjective news articles.  For those who are not familiar with the terms being used, “objective” means that truth is truth, no […]

In this final posting of the Why Jesus Came To Earth series we will be addressing several Biblically-stated answers to the question, the most famous of which is John 3:16 and 17.  Here we find the Lord expressing the Father’s desire that all people enter into a salvation-producing relationship with Him.  Though verse 16 it […]

The Word divested Himself of His godly powers and came to live on planet earth in the form of Jesus of Nazareth for a variety of reasons, several of which are discussed in this series.  Two reasons for His coming to earth previously discussed are 1) to provide the Holy Spirit for those who seek […]

Of all the words found in the Holy Scriptures, two stand out among the most hated by those who claim oneness with the Almighty: “if” and “works.”  These are two of God’s “fine print” utterances He arranged to be printed and preserved for those who would spend eternity with Him in paradise.  These believers search […]

“In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was (a) God.  All things were made by the Word, and without Him was not anything made that was made.  In Him was life, and the life was the light of men.  The light shines in the darkness and the […]

In the eighth chapter of the Apostle John’s Gospel we find Jesus of Nazareth talking with two groups of Jews in Jerusalem’s Temple complex.  After debating with a contingent of scribes and Pharisees He then turned His attention to the others within the large crowd.  We pick up the narrative in verse 30 where we […]