You are in me, and I am in you. —John 14:20 Remember television before remote control? To turn it on or off, change channels, or adjust volume you got some exercise—took a walk to the set, punched buttons and turned knobs. Now you move only your […]
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Because I live, you also will live. —John 14:19 Death is the great equalizer; it treats everyone the same: “… each person is destined to die once and after that comes judgment” (Heb. 9:27 NLT). Die we must—but not alone, not in fear, and not forever.
By this all men will know that you are my disciples, if you love one another. —John 13:35 David Doubilet is arguably the greatest underwater photographer in the world. His stunningly beautiful work appears in publications worldwide. Environmentalists castigate him for not publishing
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I have set you an example that you should do as I have done for you. —John 13:15 When Jesus shucked his robe, wrapped the servant towel around his waist, filled the basin, and began washing his disciples’ feet you could have heard a pin drop. Those disciples
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Did I not tell you that if you believed, you would see the glory of God? —John 11:40 Jesus delayed. Lazarus died. His sisters didn’t understand why Jesus hadn’t dropped everything and come running when he got their message that Lazarus was ill. “If you had
Though John never performed a miraculous sign, all that John said about this man was true. —John 10:41 John the Baptist had been dead for two years, but his influence was alive and well. His miracles weren’t remembered, for he
It all started with a simple hello. You didn’t know it at the time, but that hello was the opening curtain of your love story—a story that would play out too fast, the goodbye of the closing curtain coming too soon. The whole story seemed compressed into just five words: Hello. I love you. Goodbye.
You do not want to leave too, do you? —John 6:67 They loved his healing and feeding, but didn’t cotton to his teaching. His miracles enthralled them; his words repulsed them. What they wanted he would not give; what he offered they
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Many of his disciples turned back and no longer followed him. —John 6:66 Feel like giving up? Disappointed because things haven’t worked out the way you wanted them to and thought they would? Thinking of turning back to your old life, returning to your old haunts and habits? Jesus knows
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Here is a boy with five small barley loaves and two small fish. —John 6:9 What was the name of the kid who shared his lunch and with wide-eyed wonder saw it multiplied to feed a multitude? What was the name of the guy who loaned Jesus his donkey
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