Monday John 8:31-38 – Freedom! “… and the truth will make you free.” —Jesus Christ (John 8:32) FREEDOM—a most valued, highly charged word, inspiring revolutions and wars, mass movements in literature, art, and music. It’s almost the very definition of what is good, and the lack of it is defined as bad. People struggling for...
Monday John 6:35, 48, 51, 68 Jesus’ teaching of the Bread of Life Discourse (6:35-70) is given the day after Jesus fed 5,000+ hungry people in Galilee, using a small boy’s two fish and five loaves of barley bread. This sign points to Jesus as the Messiah, and made Jesus’ identity clear to any who...
Monday Please begin today by reading: John 9:1-7; Psalm 107:19-21 John 9 holds important spiritual truths as Christians. The Lord brings blessings out of suffering; He teaches us to be cautious in our judgment of others; and He uses our difficult times to grow our faith. In John 16:33, Jesus says: “I have told you...
Monday John 3:1-21, 7:45-52, 19:38-40 In our continuing “Questions Asked of Jesus” series, this week’s centerpiece is “How can someone be born again?” Sanhedrin (ancient Israel’s legal court) member Nicodemus— “Nick at night”—visited Jesus with the apparent aim to disarm Him with charm. But Jesus was neither political nor interested in flattery; instead He rocked...
Monday John 1:43-46; Micah 5:2; Luke 24:13-27 “Can anything good come out of Nazareth?” —Nathanael to Philip (1:46 NKJV) Some are asking this same question today in different forms: Can anything good come in the New Year 2020? Can anything good come out of Glenkirk Church? Can anything good come out of my life? Can...
Monday 1 John 5:13-21; 1 John 2:16; Matthew 22:36-40 We started Glenkirk’s 1 John teaching series about 11 weeks ago; this week completes our related study. Some Bible scholars lament the challenges of summarizing 1 John, as it can read like a rambling collection of semi-connected thoughts. John may have been approaching 90 years old...
Monday 1 John 5:1 “Everyone who believes that Jesus is the Christ is born of God, and everyone who loves the father loves his child as well.” (1 John 5:1) A paraphrase of 1 John 5:1 in The Living Bible says it like this: “If you believe that Jesus is the Christ—that he is God’s...
Monday 1 John 4:7, 8; 1 Corinthians 13:4-7; Matthew 7:15-20 If 1 John 4:7, 8 sounds familiar, it’s because it is. John repeatedly uses the “love theme.” Love appears 27 times in 1 John 4. He makes stupendous claims which we may not fully grasp because they are so familiar and at the core of...
Monday John 9; Matthew 25:31-46 Discerning Jesus We sometimes think, “If we could only see Jesus, we would recognize Him.” And yet many who saw Him in His day did not discern who He was. In John 9, the disciples were debating what caused a certain man to be born blind—the blind man’s sin or...
