Jesus says something, doesn’t really explain himself, and leaves it with them. The Jews (which is usually code for the religious leaders) question Jesus running the traders out of the Temple and ask f...  Read More

Have you ever been deeply passionate about something? So passionate that you devoted huge portions of your time, energy, and effort into that thing? When I was a young man, I was deeply passionate ab...  Read More

What’s the point of a sign? As you drove to work this morning or the grocery store, you likely passed a number of signs. Some signs give you information (the speed limit or a road number). However, th...  Read More

Have you ever had a moment in your life where you made a discovery or learned something new that opened a whole other world for you? This is what happened to Nathanael, who we met last time. Full of s...  Read More

Do you know anyone who you would describe as blunt? Someone who fits the bill of “what you see is what you get”? I appreciate these kinds of people. While they often get criticized as being too direct...  Read More

When you get really important news, who do you call, text, or track down to tell? If you found out today that you had discovered the cure to cancer, who are you calling? If you met your favorite athle...  Read More

This passage is an example of asking the right question at the right time. At the beginning of the passage, we are introduced to two of John the Baptist’s disciples, who hear John say of Jesus, “Behol...  Read More

The opening chapter of John’s Gospel is a back and forth between who Jesus is and who John the Baptist is. In the last section, we talked about how John knew who he was and how he mattered deeply to G...  Read More

What’s interesting to me about all this is that sometimes we fall into the trap of believing that we don’t really matter to God’s plan because we aren’t the main character. What if John the Baptist ha...  Read More

In other words, God the Son has come from the Father’s side and made the invisible God visible to us. How does he do this? Let me use an analogy to explain how Jesus does this. If someone were to show...  Read More

To believe in his name is to put full trust in him and his character. It is to say that what he says is true and what he does is right because of who he is. These people have been given a very special...  Read More

In this section of John, we learn more about John the Baptist. We are told that he was simply a witness to the light, but that he himself was not the light. As we work our way through the first chapte...  Read More