There is only one food that is common to every culture on the planet, and that is bread. Each culture has their own version, from Native American fry breads to Swedish limpa, but every culture in the world has some sort of bread. This makes it a perfect metaphor for Jesus to us, one that […]
Continuing with the theme of the Jewish feasts, Jesus today takes on the Festival of Unleavened Bread, which begins with Passover (6:4). Passover is the first day of the Unleavened Bread Festival, and itself begins with the Seder feast. It is the celebration and remembrance of the Exodus, God’s act of freeing His people from […]
The question of whether we get in to heaven based on what we do (works) or what we think (belief) is as old as the bible itself, and passages like today’s only help to muddy those waters. in John 5:28ff, Jesus talks about the resurrection, and He says, “…a time is coming when all who […]
John leaves his section dealing with Jesus superseding the symbols of Judaism and moves on to the next section which deals with the Jewish feasts. There are a number of these feasts and Jesus takes on 4 of them before the middle of John’s gospel. The first is Sabbath. Every week, the Jews celebrated work […]
Yesterday Jesus showed Himself to be more than the sacred well where He met the woman in Samaria. While the water from this well that Jacob dug generations ago will leave you thirsty again, Jesus said, the water I give you (meaning a relationship with God lived through the Holy Spirit) will not only never […]