Jesus Takes the Stand (John 5.17-30)

John 5:17-20 5:17Jesus answered them, “My Father is working until now, and I am working.” 18 This was why the Jews were seeking all the more to kill him, because not only was he breaking the Sabbath, but he was even calling God his own Father, making himself equal with God. 19 So Jesus said to them, … Read more

A Deliberate Provocation (John 5:1-18)

John 5:15-30 5:15The man went away and told the Jews that it was Jesus who had healed him. 16 And this was why the Jews were persecuting Jesus, because he was doing these things on the Sabbath. 17 But Jesus answered them, “My Father is working until now, and I am working.” 18 This was why the Jews … Read more

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

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