John 10:7,So Jesus said to them, “Truly, truly, I say to you, I am the door of the sheep.” John 10:11,“I am the good shepherd, the good shepherd lays down his life for the sheep.”John's gospel, as I'm sure most of you know, is very different from the other three gospels. They are called the synoptic gospels because they approach the life of Jesus in basically the same way in terms of his life and ...  Read More

2 Chronicles 14:1-12,Abijah slept with his fathers, and they buried him in the city of David. And Asa his son reigned in his place. In his days the land had rest for 10 years. And Asa did what was good and right in the eyes of the Lord his God. He took away the foreign altars and the high places and broke down the pillars and cut down the Asherim and commanded Judah to seek the Lord, the God of th...  Read More

John 14:1-3,“Let not your hearts be troubled. Believe in God, believe also in me. In my Father's house are many rooms. If it were not so, would I have told you that I go to prepare a place for you? And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again and will take you to myself, that where I am you may be also.”I think you could say when it comes to godliness and growth in grace, one of the ...  Read More

Luke 4:16-21,And he came to Nazareth where he had been brought up. And as was his custom, he went to the synagogue on the Sabbath day, and he stood up to read. And the scroll of the prophet Isaiah was given to him. He unrolled the scroll and found the place where it was written, “The Spirit of the Lord is upon me, because he has anointed me to proclaim good news to the poor. He has sent me to proc...  Read More

John 4:13-26, Jesus said to her, “Everyone who drinks of this water will be thirsty again, but whoever drinks of the water that I will give him will never be thirsty again. The water that I will give him will become in him a spring of water welling up to eternal life.” The woman said to him, “Sir, give me this water, so that I will not be thirsty or have to come here to draw water.” Jesus said to ...  Read More

Exodus 2:23-25,“During those many days, the king of Egypt died and the people of Israel groaned because of their slavery and cried out for help. Their cry for rescue from slavery came up to God. And God heard their groaning, and God remembered his covenant with Abraham, with Isaac and with Jacob. God saw the people of Israel and God knew.”I want to focus this time not necessarily on an example of ...  Read More