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The Spirit plays an essential role in Christian faith and yet is something many find hard to deal with in preaching.1 The art in our churches pictures episodes from Jesus’ life, death, and resurrection. But (...)

For many years, tradition and biblical studies held that the Gospel of John was understood to be the “Spiritual” Gospel. This generally meant two things: it did not provide historical content (i.e., not much historical (...)

Jesus never stopped talking, in case you were wondering. While the lectionary came to a halt at 14:14 last week, Jesus didn’t and so we pick up where we left off. This section of text (...)

This passage is part of Jesus’ farewell discourse to his disciples on the night before his death, a discourse punctuated by the anxious questions of his disciples about his impending departure. First Peter (John 13:36), (...)

These verses are part of the so-called Farewell Discourse which goes John 14:1-17:26, and during which Jesus promises his disciples that he will send the Holy Spirit, the Advocate (parakletos) to be with them for (...)

When we think of Pentecost we immediately think of the book of Acts, when the Spirit came on the primitive community gathered in one place in the form of a strong wind that filled the (...)

While John 1:1–14 is the appointed gospel lesson for Christmas Day (Proper III), I prefer to preach on the first 18 verses.1 The Prologue to John’s Gospel is John’s birth story of Jesus. The themes (...)

The first three words of John 1:1 can be literally translated “In a beginning” and are reminiscent of the Priestly creation story in Genesis 1, which begins with the same three words. Did both writers (...)

Though I’ve never been much of a baseball fan, I’ve seen plenty of games on TV over the years thanks to my baseball-loving husband, son, and son-in-law. Which means I’ve seen plenty of “John 3:16” (...)

John’s audience would have been familiar with the first few words of the prologue, “In the beginning.” When they hear that phrase, they are immediately reminded of the book of Genesis, which narrates the creation (...)