Be With Me: 7 Minutes of Biblical Wonder

It is "commandment Thursday" and the crucifixion is Friday.  Only Precious words are left. He calls this one a MUST DO, a commandment: Love One Another.

In fact, do it so well that the loving becomes …

My surprise is that when Jesus told the disciples that "someone" would betray Him, they had no idea who this  possibly could be! They didn't even have a good guess.

Judas did a spectacular job living …

An effective KICK is 6x the power of a punch.  When we learn Judas "lifted up his HEEL" to Jesus we might pay particular attention. He's the bad example at the washing of the feet.

The good example is…

I am washed. I am clean. But, I am NOT STATIONARY.

Service is the engine that makes the Church run

HIS SERVICE to us is the engine that makes us run to SERVICE.

Having your feet personally washed by the…

You gotta love Peter.  With one sentence from Jesus, He moves from "You will NEVER wash my feet" to "You should wash my feet and the rest of me NOW". 

Today we learn that dirty feet=dirty souls so a s…

Today we hear Jesus Himself say "...I did not come to judge the world..." Why is that? Well, because you are judged already. You have been judged. You stand in current judgment. You will be judged. Y…

What is God's role in human belief? 

He will draw the soul of those that will believe. He will harden the heart of those who will not. All who come to Christ do so on the heels of God's enabling grace…

Point #1: You don't have much time. This is no time to be yawning.

Point #2: Meantime, you are being HUNTED. Darkness is trying actively to overtake you. You have threats being arrayed against you.

The…

Notice with me the principles from John 12

1. the first thing I notice is Jesus' HUMANITY
2. the second thing I notice is Jesus' UNITY with the Father
3. the third thing I notice is Jesus' PURPOSEFULNESS
4. Finally,…

Jesus drops 3 truth bombs on some curious gentiles:

1.Maximal fruitfulness is CONDITIONED upon death & death determines fruitfulness

2.If you KISS the next world, it changes everything about THIS World

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Jesus is going to have a salvation party. The question is: "Who is invited"? Today, as has been true throughout spiritual history, we find that the Gentiles, aka "greeks", are invited to this party a…

Everybody loves the popular, powerful and successful Jesus. They are singing songs and imprinting their preferences on Jesus.  The problem with this great support is that it is a mile wide but only a…

The great irony of Lazarus being raised from the dead is that he then gets to live and die a second time.  His new life is still fragile and wonderful. He acts as a beacon to Jesus' power, so Lazarus…

Worship should be wildly committed, radically positioned in the human experience, public, costly and urgent. With a great nod to SNL's year 2000 skit, worship is to give Jesus MORE COWBELL.

Join me fo…

If you knew a friend were to die in a week or so, would you throw a dinner party? That's what Mary, Martha and Lazarus did. They responded to the call of their day: "What might I do on the day that I…

The nasty Caiaphas speaks words about Jesus that are truer than he knows: it is better that 1 should die than the whole nation (and the whole world) should perish. This describes Jesus' mission in a …

The resurrection of Jesus is the singular core belief of Christianity.  If you don't believe in the resurrection, I cannot see how you could be a Christian. It is so important, that Jesus gives us a …

When Jesus tells death to do something, death faithfully obeys.
Death is loyal to the commands of God.

When God speaks authoritatively Death answers faithfully.

I hope that we can at least be as good ex…

Borrowing from Julius Caesar, "I came, I saw, I conquered" Jesus does that over death, but first He weeps.

Jesus weeps because He loves people.  Every person who has ever lived has felt the sting of d…