Aside from the clear point John is making of Jesus being the Messiah, there is also the challenge of the previously held tradition that blindness was the direct result of sin. It was a widely held bel...  Read More

5Then the eyes of the blind shall be opened,And the ears of the deaf shall be unstopped.6Then the lame shall leap like a deer,And the tongue of the dumb sing.For waters shall burst forth in the wilder...  Read More

The events that transpire in this section is laden with traditionally held beliefs being challenged by Jesus. While Jesus and His disciples are walking, they pass a man who was blind from birth. As wa...  Read More

Now as Jesus passed by, He saw a man who was blind from birth. 2 And His disciples asked Him, saying, “Rabbi, who sinned, this man or his parents, that he was born blind?”3 Jesus answered, “Neither th...  Read More

Prayerfully consider how you can make the Lord a greater priority for you today. Consider your week, your day to day, and submit it to the Lord. Ask Him to reveal anything that may be hindering your w...  Read More

Admittedly, it gets way too easy to get distracted. I can't begin to describe the amount of times I go to search up a Scripture on my phone, see a notification, and get pulled away into something else...  Read More

Therefore be imitators of God as dear children.-Ephesians 5:1I believe in Jesus. I submit to Him as Lord. This means, based on what we have been studying John, that I come from my Father, God. Now the...  Read More

The audience would have seen these two sides being juxtaposed against one another and would find themselves at the helm of choice. Where one side is presented as the truth, the other side is presented...  Read More

Taking from just a few selections of the meat found in this section of Scripture, I want to hone in on a couple major points.Let's look at Jesus being the light of the world. The language is very remi...  Read More

Well there is a lot to cover in this passage. Jesus is in the temple, speaking with the Pharisees and you have two sides juxtaposed to one another. On one side, you have Jesus. He is making some extre...  Read More

12 Then Jesus spoke to them again, saying, “I am the light of the world. He who follows Me shall not walk in darkness, but have the light of life.”13 The Pharisees therefore said to Him, “You bear wit...  Read More

I do sincerely hope that this time of prayer has been taken seriously and that you have developed a stronger prayer life through my encouragement last week. I want to continue on that trend.Today, tak...  Read More

When it comes to dealing with sin in our lives, it is easy to get focused on the wrong things. Let me give a simple fitness analogy. Let's say I was wanting to run faster. I recognized that I have sla...  Read More

Let's zero in on a specific phrase that Jesus uses."Go and sin no more." -John 8:11bThe instruction to sin no more is not only found in this place. It is also found in John 5:14. These are instruction...  Read More

Considering that this narrative was likely passed by way of oral tradition, we can examine it by way of the themes found in the text. The theme that most would recognize is the fact that Jesus is the ...  Read More

Admittedly, the connection and context is a little difficult to ascertain here. Bible scholars will tell you that John 7:53-8:11 is a little bit controversial, and most Bibles will tell you as much. T...  Read More

In this section, we have a very interesting narrative that has caused a lot of question marks for a lot of scholars and raised a lot of speculation on everything that transpires in this text.To begin,...  Read More

But Jesus went to the Mount of Olives. 2 Now early in the morning He came again into the temple, and all the people came to Him; and He sat down and taught them. 3 Then the scribes and Pharisees broug...  Read More

This may serve as a secondary application, and I am going to take advantage of it. Get your calendars and planners out and block out a section of time each day where you are devoted to the Lord in pra...  Read More

As I weigh the questions from yesterday, I consider something serious. I find that I do thirst, but that it has been increasingly easier for me to quench that thirst with things other than Christ. The...  Read More

Just as the invitation was extended to them, so the invitation is also extended to me. A convicting question occurs to me. Before I share the question, I want to highlight the prerequisite that Jesus ...  Read More

A mentor of mine helped me to see something extremely important throughout the Gospels. Jesus extends a simple invitation. He does not make demands and insist. He invites. And here, we see that invita...  Read More

Bible scholars have long made the connection with Jesus' statement with what is occurring at that time with the Feast of Tabernacles. It has been well established that the Biblical feasts give strong ...  Read More

Jesus is continuing in Jerusalem at the Feast of Tabernacles. In this passage, it is now the final day of the feast and Jesus stands and announces prophetically something about Himself.37 On the last ...  Read More