So, I was pondering the 4th Soil and asking myself, “What does Jesus really value?” What makes the 4th Soil so valuable to Jesus? From Mark 4 and the Parable of the Sower of the Seed, you may remember the 4 Soils 1st Soil – seed sown on the wayside and birds ate it up […]
In this series we are looking at Jesus’ New Commandment: “Love one another. As I have loved you, so you must love one another.” John 13:34 So how did Jesus love the disciples? We are looking at how Jesus loved the disciples during failure or sin. In Mark 10:13 people are bringing little children and […]
This week’s post has a direct connection to last week where we looked at how Jesus motivates Peter relative to his immanent denial and abandonment of Jesus before the Romans and the Pharisees. We found that even though Jesus knows how Peter will fail, Jesus builds Peter up by doing 2 things for Peter […]
In this current series we are looking at these 2 passages: John 15:12 “My command is this: Love each other as I have loved you.” John 13:34 “A new command I give you: Love one another. As I have loved you, so you must love one another.” Here is my simple question: “How did Jesus […]
In this series we are looking at John 13:34 where Jesus says, “A new command I give you: Love one another. As I have loved you, so you must love one another.” The question then is, “How did Jesus love the disciples?” There are two water events in the Gospels. One involves a furious storm […]
For the next number of weeks I would like to start a series on how Jesus loved the disciples. Specifically I want to start from: John 15:12 “My command is this: Love each other as I have loved you.” John 13:34 “A new command I give you: Love one another. As I have loved you, […]
Today’s post is a quick summary of the series on Jesus’ Praise & Encouragement for imperfect people. Over the last 2 months we looked at numerous passages where Jesus praises various people. Initially we looked at Jesus praising Nathanael for his basic honesty and lack of deceit. “There’s a real Israelite, not a false […]
As I conclude this series on Jesus’ praise for imperfect people I thought it would be good to visit the two times that God, the Father, praises Jesus! Mark 1:9-11 paints the scene of Jesus coming to John, His cousin, to be baptized. John says that he didn’t know that Jesus was the Messiah until […]
In Matthew 15:21 we find one of the highest praises Jesus has for an imperfect person. However, we have to wade through a very confusing counter-intuitive passage to get there. The full text is at the end of this post. It should be noted how often Jesus praises women in the old world. He consistently […]