What do you want from Jesus? The huge crowd that followed Him across the lake and into the synagogue at Capernaum had initially been attracted to Him because they wanted to be healed from bodily disease (6:2). And all they asked Him to do was to keep on repeating the…

On one occasion, Jesus fed 5000 families on the shores of the Sea of Galilee, and did it with only five barley loaves and two fish. And no, this wasn’t a miracle of division, as some “scholars” insist – Jesus didn’t divide the food into infinitesimal amounts and make sure…

Bible Reading for January 13 – John 5:19-47 Who is Jesus? That’s the central question for all humanity for all time. For Jesus did not claim simply to be a great teacher of ethics, although He certainly taught about the need for all of us to live according to the…

“Do you want to be healed?” It might seem like a silly question for Jesus to ask an obvious invalid. But the fact is that many who are trapped in various kinds of sin have grown accustomed to their slavery. Many are no longer looking for relief from anger or…

What is it that really feeds your soul? During these stressful, lonely days, some seek solace in handicrafts, others in music or painting. Some live for participating in sports, while others love to watch displays of athletic excellence. But when Jesus told His disciples about His own soul food, when…

What’s your main concern right now? Maybe with fewer of your colleagues able to come to work because of COVID, you’re just trying to get through the day. So maybe you just don’t have time to pay much attention to “church stuff” – and maybe because of some of the…

Bible Reading for January 8 – John 3:22-36 “He must increase, but I must decrease.” That’s a pretty good summary of the Christian life, for once Jesus has saved us, our lives should be completely devoted to Him. After all, as John reminds us, we wouldn’t have anything from Heaven,…

If there’s anything we all should have learned from the year 2020 it is that the world is broken, and that there’s very little any of us can do to fix it. Indeed, From hurricanes in the Gulf to wildfires in California to a pandemic that has swept all over…

Jesus never leaves things in this sinful world the way they already are. When He went to the Temple, He saw how the religious practices of the time had become corrupt. He saw how people had taken the Old Testament sacrifices and turned them into something purely transactional, imagining that…

“You’re just trying to take all the fun out of life!” That’s what many unbelievers say about Christians, and it is easy to see how they might draw such an incorrect conclusion. After all, our allegiance to the Lord Jesus requires us to uphold His standards of morality and conduct,…