Getting Back to the Gospel of John

13:16-17  ”But blessed are your eyes, for they see, and your ears, for they hear. For truly, I say to you, many prophets and righteous people longed to see what you see, and did not see it, and to hear what you hear, and did not hear it.” 20:30-31  ”Now Jesus did many other signs … Read more

Mortality by Cyprian, Bishop of Carthage

1. Although in most of you, beloved brethren, there is a resolute mind and a firm faith and a devout spirit, which is not disturbed at the numbers in the present mortality, but like a strong and unmoving rock breaks rather the turbulent attacks of the world and the violent waves of the age and … Read more

Noah’s Boat, Part 3: “God Remembered Noah”

Introduction & Text Genesis 7:11-8:1-2 11 In the six hundredth year of Noah’s life, in the second month, on the seventeenth day of the month, on that day all the fountains of the great deep burst forth, and the windows of the heavens were opened. 12 And rain fell upon the earth forty days and forty nights. … Read more

Noah’s Boat, Part 2: The Earth was Corrupt and Filled with Violence

Introduction & Text Luke 17:26-30 [Jesus said to the disciples:] “As it was in the days of Noah, so it will be also in the days of the Son of Man: 27 They ate, they drank, they married wives, they were given in marriage, until the day that Noah entered the ark, and the flood came … Read more

Noah’s Boat, Part 1: “Just as it Happened in the Days of Noah”

Introduction & Text These next few messages will be ‘awareness messages’ – and as such, they are about studying the days in which we’re serving the Lord in light of His prophetic timetable. My prayer is that they equip us for the work of the ministry, convict us as to the urgency of the current … Read more

The Stranger on the Road, Part 4: The In-Gathering

Introduction Last week we looked at two things that keep us from seeing Jesus clearly: walking by sight and impurity in our hearts. We also saw that at the core of both of these things is the human impulse toward self-preservation. Yet, Jesus calls to those who have been saved – who have found life … Read more

The Stranger on the Road, Part 3: The Hands that Invite Us to Follow

Luke 24:13-28-35 13 Now behold, two of them were traveling that same day to a village called Emmaus, which was seven miles from Jerusalem. 14 And they talked together of all these things which had happened. 15 So it was, while they conversed and reasoned, that Jesus Himself drew near and went with them. 16 But their eyes were … Read more