May God’s Holy Spirit shine his light and connect the threads as we continue to read Jesus’ teaching about the Spirit and life in Jesus, God’s Son. Read John 6:60-65. The disciples said Jesus’ teaching was harsh and offensive. They struggled to accept the teaching on eating Jesus’ flesh and…
Catching up posting to the blog on the website. If you receive this as a duplicate email, I’m sorry I don’t fully understand the internet gremlins behind the scenes. It never hurts for us to read God’s Word again and again. 🙂 As we read and learned from Jesus last…
This scene almost looks isolated. Jesus revealed his glory to his disciples through a miraculous sign in Cana. In John chapter 1, we read about the disciples’ first steps toward confident belief that Jesus was the Messiah. Jesus added to their faith in Cana. In this second part of chapter…
What a feast we have in God’s Word this week! John included several names to introduce who Jesus is. In her book, Walking on Water, Madeleine L’Engle wrote, “To name is to love. To be Named is to be loved.”1 Earlier, on the same topic of names, a character in…
Ezekiel was quite the word smith as he described Israel’s spiritual adultery and unfaithfulness to the Lord. In this single chapter, he used more than one word for harlot, two different words for lover, and more than one word for nakedness. He also wrote more than one word for alienated…
This week we resume reading at the end of Ezekiel 20, since chapter breaks are human, not necessarily divine. Ezekiel proclaimed a prophecy toward Israel’s south, identified by Baker as the general region of the Negev. We’ve seen in previous readings how God used multiple words to express similar concepts…
The Sovereign Lord is also a God of restoration and reconciliation. He calls His people back to Himself over and over again. He does all this for His glory, to uphold the power and essence of His holy Name. We observed in Ezekiel 19 how God remained true to His…