Often the disciples can’t figure out what Jesus is saying. Like the parable of the 4 soils, or Jesus talking about food not making people unclean. Personally, that gives me room to breathe regarding understanding the bible. The disciples as Jesus what do the 4 soils represent? Jesus doesn’t get uptight. He just breaks it […]
I love Peter walking on the water towards Jesus! Who even knows why Peter blurts out, “Lord if it’s you, tell me to come to you on the water.” Don’t you love it! Peter has such boisterous and exuberant faith! He has a great success here! In fact, he is the only disciple to get […]
I love this event in Jesus’ life! There was a leprous man and he probably hadn’t been touched for years, even 10 or 20 years or more. Sometimes Jesus heals with a “word” but this time Jesus comes near the man and heals him by “touching” him. Wow, can you image how wonderful it was […]
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 […]