I have set you an example that you should do as I have done for you. —John 13:15 When Jesus shucked his robe, wrapped the servant towel around his waist, filled the basin, and began washing his disciples’ feet you could have heard a pin drop. Those disciples […]
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Did I not tell you that if you believed, you would see the glory of God? —John 11:40 Jesus delayed. Lazarus died. His sisters didn’t understand why Jesus hadn’t dropped everything and come running when he got their message that Lazarus was ill. “If you had
Though John never performed a miraculous sign, all that John said about this man was true. —John 10:41 John the Baptist had been dead for two years, but his influence was alive and well. His miracles weren’t remembered, for he
It all started with a simple hello. You didn’t know it at the time, but that hello was the opening curtain of your love story—a story that would play out too fast, the goodbye of the closing curtain coming too soon. The whole story seemed compressed into just five words: Hello. I love you. Goodbye.
You do not want to leave too, do you? —John 6:67 They loved his healing and feeding, but didn’t cotton to his teaching. His miracles enthralled them; his words repulsed them. What they wanted he would not give; what he offered they
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Many of his disciples turned back and no longer followed him. —John 6:66 Feel like giving up? Disappointed because things haven’t worked out the way you wanted them to and thought they would? Thinking of turning back to your old life, returning to your old haunts and habits? Jesus knows
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Here is a boy with five small barley loaves and two small fish. —John 6:9 What was the name of the kid who shared his lunch and with wide-eyed wonder saw it multiplied to feed a multitude? What was the name of the guy who loaned Jesus his donkey
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Do you want to get well? —John 5:6 Home ownership isn’t an unmixed blessing; there is always something that needs to be repaired or replaced. The sink backs up, the AC gives out, the roof springs a leak, the drier goes on the fritz. If you own a home
He told me everything I ever did. —John 4:39 There was nothing to indicate that this would be anything but another miserable day in her this-is-the-pits life. If you had told her that this was the day she would meet her Savior she would
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From the fullness of his grace we have all received one blessing after another. —John 1:16 Having recently received CPA certification, he set out to enlighten his immigrant father. “Dad, your business is a mess,” he said. “You have no inventory procedure. Your accounts-receivable are
