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Preaching Series on 1 John (Week 3 of 4) July 8, 2018 Preaching text: 1 John 4:1-6 Testing the spiritsGospel: John 14:15-17 The Spirit of truth In the context of 1 John, there were many (...)

Preaching Series on 1 John (Week 1 of 4) June 24, 2018 Preaching text: 1 John 1:1-4 God’s Tangible Word of LifeGospel: John 1:14-16 The Word became flesh The short book known as 1 John (...)

Preaching Series on 1 John July 13, 2014 Preaching text: 1 John 1:1-4 God’s Tangible Word of LifeGospel: John 1:14-16 The Word became flesh The short book known as 1 John re-proclaims the message of (...)

Christ is risen, and Mary is weeping: John’s account of the disciples’ discovery of the resurrection has this tension at its heart. In his telling of the story, John stretches out the interval between the (...)

Our four Gospels each offer a unique portrait of Jesus. Perhaps their most stable agreement comes in the Passion Narrative. However, leave it to John to insist on being the black sheep, even in this. (...)

John’s passion narrative presents Jesus as the Son of God and Son of Man who is the Christ, not by coming down from the cross and living as an earthly king in splendor, but by (...)

Christian tradition has long identified Jesus’ willing acceptance of the mounting conspiracy against him as his “passion,” and John’s telling of these events spans John 18–19. Further, Jesus’ suffering, even to the point of the (...)

The narrative lectionary gives us two weeks to consider Jesus’ interaction with Pilate in John 18:28-19:16a. This is the climactic moment in a trial motif that spans the Gospel, beginning with God’s Word spoken into (...)

The week’s text is a tale of two interrogations, with Peter’s threefold denial of Jesus told in two parts and Jesus standing like a beacon of truth in the center. Immediately on either side of (...)

This story in John 11 often carries the heading “Jesus Raises Lazarus,” but Jaime Clark-Soles calls it “The Confession of Martha.”1 As Gail O’Day aptly describes, “The miracle of the raising of Lazarus is the (...)