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, […]
Last post we started the subject of Jesus’ earthly reign as the King or President of all nations. That post was the foundation of this subject. If you missed it you can find it here: http://godisjustlikejesus.blogspot.com/2014/01/jesus-earthy-king-or-president-of-all.html. In these posts I want to do two things. First, I want to define Jesus’ Kingdom on the earth (not […]
As you probably know, these weekly emails focus on Jesus’ good character during His three and a half years of public life. We study many aspects of Jesus’ character from His compassion to clean anger and also cover His protection, approachability and self-control among others. As we study these elements of Jesus’ character, we realize […]
Pardon me, but this week I am going to have to rush by the Angel of the Lord meeting with Gideon, Joshua and others so that I might get us to two encounters with Jesus before Christmas. I will come back to these others in the New Year.
Today let’s consider John 15:21. Jesus is speaking to his 12 (and other disciples) that have gathered in the Upper Room the night before He is arrested. Jesus says, “My command is this: Love each other as I have loved you.”
Here is a quick list of some of Peter’s failures “off the top of my head”.