In John 18 Jesus is arrested, in chapter 19 he is crucified. The part of chapter 19 that intrigues me is the shift in Pilate’s thinking and behavior. In chap...

Hello all my virtual friends! I’m glad we live in a time where we can connect virtually, but I do miss seeing you all at church and our weekly hangout times....

Why should I not fear the Coronavirus? In Psalm 23 David says, 23:4 Even though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil, for yo...

Place matters. The betrayal and arrest of Jesus in the intimate setting of the Garden of Gethsemane is a painful scene. This is the garden where Jesus freque...

In chapters 15 and 16 Jesus has just finished briefing the disciples on the fact that suffering and persecution are around the corner and they should expect ...

“I have said all these things to you to keep you from falling away” (John 16:1). What were “these things” that Jesus spoke of? Jesus had just explained in ch...

The first three verses of John 15 have caused no small degree of concern for Christians. Does it teach that if I don’t “abide” that I’ll be burned in hell? N...

For several chapters now, Jesus has been driving at the point that He and the Father are one: That He is in the Father, and the Father is in Him. Here’s a br...

Have you ever met someone that was super smart, knew a ton of stuff, but their life was a bit sideways? Or, they couldn’t figure out something fairly basic? ...

The “hour” that had not come when Mary suggested that Jesus solve the shortage of wine at the wedding in Cana (John 2:4), has now come. Jesus said, “the hour...

In John 10 Jesus made it clear that he was the Good Shepherd who laid down his own life of his own accord. He said that in spite of the attempts by the Jewis...

Jesus claims he is Israel’s True Shepherd. He spells it out very clearly through the metaphor of the Shepherd and the sheep. Yet, again, the Pharisees failed...

You may have heard of Dietrich Bonhoeffer’s classic book, “The Cost of Discipleship.” It’s a really good book. He digs into the Sermon on the Mount, and expl...

Up to this point John has recorded that Jesus called himself “the Bread of Life” (6:34, 48), the Water of Life (7:37-38), and now, in chapter 8, he records t...

It may not be readily obvious, but the key to chapter 7 is the Feast of Booths or Tabernacles, which commemorated the Israelite's 40 years of wandering in th...

The key to John 6 is verse 4, “Now the Passover, the feast of the Jews, was at hand.” It seems odd, random and out of place, but Jesus proceeds to demonstrat...

As we saw in chapter 3 with Nicodemus, you can have a PhD in Theology and not know Jesus. The classic verse in John 5 is verses 39-40. I can hardly preach an...

John 4 The Sketchy Samaritan Woman Have you ever heard the phrase “three strikes you’re out!”? Well, that’s what we have in John chapter 4. Jesus is talking w...