John 11:25-26 Jesus said unto her, I am the resurrection, and the life; he that believeth on me, though he die, yet he shall live, and whosoever liveth and believeth on me shall never die. Believest thou this?

What a power packed text!  There is enough good hearty instruction here to set souls free and deliver them again into the hand of the One to whom we belong.  Long I have felt the importance and seen the beauty of this text.  But today I stopped while reading over it.  So many of the... Continue Reading →

John 11:4 ¨This sickness is not unto death, but for the glory of God, that the Son of God is glorified thereby. (American Standard Version)

True to the usual way of Jesus, when He spoke, the words addressed a common situation.  As we see continually throughout the Bible, men and women look with earthly eyes at the passing scenes and take always the physical and the common interpretations of those moments.  However Jesus was constantly trying to tell us and... Continue Reading →

Sin

I found a passage from Luther´s Commentary on Galatians where on p.14.  He was defending Jesus as very God and that it was correct and just that only God could make amends for the damages of sin.  Here Luther goes so far as to point finger at those sects who still cling to the notion... Continue Reading →

Those who would climb into the fold through another door

In reading the first verses of John 10 we can find a world of instruction. Jesus was explaining to those around Him that there were those who were missing the picture. A miracle was happening before their eyes, in that One from the other side had come to us to teach and restore us unto... Continue Reading →

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