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, […]
Just so you don’t think the last post was a “one off,” let’s consider Jesus’ desires further. On the last night Jesus gathers with the 12 and some other disciples. They have their last meal together before Jesus is handed over to the Romans. At the table Jesus says something interesting. He says, “I have […]
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.
Strangely, the series we are working on presently is in fact a “Christmas” theme. We are considering who Jesus is eternally. We want to get more insight into His true identity. It is one thing to think about Jesus becoming a human baby. We celebrate this during Christmas. However, the more we get detailedknowledge about His life before He […]
Let’s continue looking at the combination of Jesus’ divinity and His humility! I am combining these two aspects of Jesus because it inspires awe and worship! In Matthew 23:34 Jesus says something, almost in passing, as He is confronting the Pharisees about the gravest deception and hypocrisy imaginable. The Pharisees are deceiving the people of God […]
I will be starting a mini-series comparing Jesus’ diety (the fact that He is God) to His humility. Specifically, I want to look at statements that indicate Jesus was alive before He became a human being. Since Jesus is God, it follows that He has always existed. Contrasted to His eternal identity, I want to explore the […]