Discipleship

John 8:31: So Jesus said to the Jews who had believed Him, “If you abide in My Word, you are truly My disciples …”

1 Dodd, Charles Harold, The Interpretation of the Fourth Gospel (1953) ad loc.

Hebrews 11:23-27: “By faith Moses, when he was born, was hidden for three months by his parents, because they saw that the child was beautiful, and they were not afraid of the king’s edict. 24 By faith Moses, when he was grown up, refused to be called the son of Pharaoh’s daughter, 25 choosing rather to be … Read more

Revelation 1:5-6 calls Jesus, “the faithful witness, the firstborn of the dead, and the ruler of kings on earth … who loves us and has freed us from our sins by His blood and made us a kingdom, priests to His God and Father …” 1 Peter 2:9: “But you are a chosen race, a … Read more

1 DeHaan, M. R., M.D., The Chemistry of the Blood (Grand Rapids, MI: Zondervan, 1943) pp. 53-57.

Greetings Church! As we’ve been studying the Blood of Jesus together in our worship services, I’m presenting some reflection questions that consider Jesus’ Blood in light of some of the themes we looked at during Holy Week. May they help us to draw nearer and grow deeper to the worthy One. And they sang a … Read more

Greetings Church! The questions I’ll present over the next few weeks will look at some of the themes we encountered in the Holy Week messages when we had no questions. May these questions help us to go deeper and grow nearer in every way!

We’ll begin this time with some devotional considerations and then move on to more theological ones.

The entrance to the Tabernacle complex was on the East side (Exodus 27:13). This meant that to enter the Outer Court (toward the direction of the Presence of God in the Holy of Holies), one had to travel West. The High Priest on the Day of Atonement (Yom Kippur) traveled from the Outer Court, through … Read more