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 […]
John continues to show that Jesus is greater than the symbols of Israel today when He meets the Samaritan woman at the Sacred Well. Having traveled through Samaria, the center of worship for Israel back in the days of Ahab, He stops at one of the sacred wells that Jacob dug. Here He meets a […]
Taking a break today from John’s gospel, we turn to another of my favorite stories of the Old Testament, that of Hezekiah and the Assyrian invasion. Hezekiah is one of the true heroes of the bible, yet is little known. He is king of Judah, the most southern of the two kingdoms into which God’s […]
As John continues his teachings that Jesus is greater than the symbols of the Jewish culture (yesterday it was Ritual Cleansing and the Temple), today he takes on the Pharisees. But when John takes on the Pharisees, he doesn’t do it the way we usually see it, with Jesus attacking them as His enemies. Instead, […]
The book of John is laid out theologically instead of chronologically, and this is desperately important as we read it. Again and again I’ve heard people dispute the truth of the bible by arguing that John is in a different order than the other three gospels, an argument that doesn’t realize John’s purpose in writing. […]