Be With Me: 7 Minutes of Biblical Wonder

The contents of this passage are serious.  "Serious as a heart-attack" we might say today.  

 In just a few verses, they go from a debate about Abraham's merits and limitations to 'we are going to kil…

So I have a massive heart attack in WalMart.  And "drop dead" right there in Asile 9.

Am I dead?
It depends who you ask.

If you ask the bystanders, they will tell you a dramatic story with CPR, defibril…

I think I am a pretty good person.

But what if in reality, the characteristics of my life do not align with my hopeful perception of myself?  What if I don't look like and act like who I say I am foll…

Jesus accuses his listener's MOTHER in this passage.  

Obviously that is incredibly offensive.  Then He gives the data:  You don't look like the father that you are claiming.  You walk and talk and ha…

Question:  Do you Want to be FREE?
Answer:  Does His Word FIND A PLACE in you?  
Would you describe your relationship with Him and His Word as ABIDING?

This might be the most attractive thing about beco…

Wouldn't it be great if BELIEF was just the first step?

Wouldn't it be great if The Good Lord wants to help us attack our stickiest problems?

Wouldn't it be great if that which I have unsuccessfully tr…

Don't say Jesus never claimed to be God.  He does so definitively in this passage.

In fact, He did yesterday in Episode #218 as well.  After hearing that Jesus claimed a piece of spiritual real estate…

Imagine playing a game of SPIRITUAL HOT POTATO.  Except you have no one to off load your hot potato to.  Just you.  When the buzzer goes off you are holding the HOT POTATO.  You lose.

Similarly, this …

Jesus is back in His dispute with the Pharisees.  They are superficially wrestling with what makes a testimony true.  It is a continuation of an argument they started in John 5.  Jesus more than hold…

Once again we circle back to the TITLE of this podcast.  Be With Me.  

Whoever follows me
Will not Walk in darkness 
But will have 
THE LIGHT OF LIFE.

Jesus just got done saying that HE was and is the LIG…

Jesus says I AM THE LIGHT OF THE WORLD.  Join me in considering that today.

First, we have got to just stand in awe that He invented it.  The third verse in the whole Bible says so.  We'll skip some o…

God has designed all of us with sexual engines.  Fortunately, God has also a fantastic provision for the care, feeding, and enjoyment of that sexual engine.  It is called marriage.  

In that design we…

Who exactly is the Boss of SEX?  Who invented it?  Who designed it?  Who is the AUTHOR of it?  Who holds the authority? What duties do I owe and to whom? Who is the boss of my ZIPPER?  Today we will …

Nicodemus gets the best Gospel Good News/Bad News presentation of all time in John 3.  Just like reality, we don't really find out if he BELIEVES until later.  We get our first hint in John 7 when Ni…

The Best "Gospel presentation" of all time is in today's podcast.  But before we get there just a word about the only guy in the audience, Nicodemus.

You can't BELIEVE what Jesus SAYS to Nicodemus (Jo…

Just when you thought this couldn't get any better...  No, not the podcast, but what Jesus says to our real friend, Nicodemus. 

Yesterday we got the first half of Jesus undoing Nicodemus to his very …

Nicodemus DEFENDS Jesus at great peril in John 7:51.  But the story doesn't START there.

Nicodemus has met Jesus before, probably years before.  Jesus did not live in Jerusalem, but went there multipl…

The hilarious part of today's passage is that those who were tasked with arresting Jesus failed miserably.  They get gobsmacked spiritually by Jesus teaching.  "No-one ever spoke like this man".  No …

If I Could Ask Jesus ONE QUESTION.  John 7:35 (Episode #206)

Jesus is at the Feast of Booths in Jerusalem.  Some of the people there charm me.  In Episode #205 they are asking, "Could this be the Chri…