36 So if the Son sets you free, you will be free indeed. Would you like to be free? Really free? One of the…
Category: John’s Gospel
What kind of church would we like North Springfield Baptist Church to be? A church with good teaching? A church with genuine worship? A…
This message is on video here. https://www.facebook.com/groups/155446597813837/permalink/5297841006907678 In case you wanted to read further, here are the notes for the sermon. JOHN 6:55 =…
25 Jesus said to her, ‘I am the resurrection and the life. The one who believes in me will live, even though they die;…
We look in depth at probably the most widely-known verse in the Bible, the gospel in a nutshell, and consider three questions. For God…
It was a few weeks after Jesus rose from the dead. Peter took some of the other disciples out fishing. Perhaps they just wanted…
Did you ever have a nickname? As a teacher I was known as “Mr T” obviously after my striking resemblance to the actor who…
JOHN 20 17 Jesus said (to Mary), “Do not hold on to me, for I have not yet returned to the Father. Go instead…
JOHN 19 28 Later, knowing that everything had now been finished, and so that Scripture would be fulfilled, Jesus said, ‘I am thirsty.’ 29…
Who was responsible for the crucifixion? Who bears the blame for the Jesus’s death? On the night before the cross, Jesus faced three trials.…
By my desk I keep a hilarious and inspiring book called The Book of Heroic Failures. Back when I was a school teacher whenever…
“His yellow skin scarcely covered the work of muscles and arteries beneath; his hair was of a lustrous black, and flowing; his teeth of…
John 17:3 Now this is eternal life: that they may know you, the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom you have sent. And…
The journalist Clive James once wrote about a best-selling book from Canada called “Coping with Back Pain.” It did so well that the Americans…
JOHN 13:1 It was just before the Passover Festival. Jesus knew that the hour had come for him to leave this world and go…
John 14:13 And I will do whatever you ask in my name, so that the Son may bring glory to the Father. 14 You…
There is a very important question many people spend a lot of time thinking about and many other people try hard to avoid thinking…
“Jesus wept.” At the graveside of his dear friend Lazarus, “Jesus wept.” It is a good thing that John 11:35 is there marked out…
“Hear O Israel, the Lord your God, the Lord is one.” Those words from Deuteronomy 6 formed the beginning of the Shema, the prayer…
There is a story about a group of pilgrims who were on a tour around the Holy Land. The guide was explaining how for…
Being a shepherd in the Middle East in the time of Jesus was not an easy job! If your picture of a shepherd comes…