Do we spend more time being prepared for Christmas each year, celebrating His birth rather than being prepared for His soon return?
Loving God, Loving Others, Making Disciples
Loving God, Loving Others, Making Disciples
Sermons by Paul Cook (Page 10)
There is an unwritten thought about Christmas gifts, and gifts in general. The gift someone gives tells us what they think about us. Goes even deeper. Not just what they think of us but also how much they know us. How they think and feel about us. Christmas is ultimately not about us giving gifts…
6 Jesus said to him, “I am the way, and the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me. John 14:6 Often in today’s world, we look for our comfort and joy in material things. Our wealth, families, jobs, etc… are necessary but they don’t give us the joy and comfort…
Now before the Feast of the Passover, when Jesus knew that his hour had come to depart out of this world to the Father, having loved his own who were in the world, he loved them to the end. John 13:1 How much did Jesus know of what was going to happen to Him? All of…
23 And Jesus answered them, “The hour has come for the Son of Man to be glorified. 24 Truly, truly, I say to you, unless a grain of wheat falls into the earth and dies, it remains alone; but if it dies, it bears much fruit. 25 Whoever loves his life loses it, and whoever hates his life…
Rejoice greatly, O daughter of Zion! Shout aloud, O daughter of Jerusalem! Behold, your king is coming to you; righteous and having salvation is he, humble and mounted on a donkey, on a colt, the foal of a donkey. Zechariah 9:9 As Jesus enters Jerusalem during this week of the Passover, He is hailed as King, Angering the…
29 My Father, who has given them to me, is greater than all, and no one is able to snatch them out of the Father’s hand. 30 I and the Father are one.” John 10:29-30 The Jews ask Jesus to tell them plainly who he is. They probably wanted a sign. Jesus says that he told them but they…
11 I am the good shepherd. The good shepherd lays down his life for the sheep. John 10:11 The Lord has brought us in through the door of Jesus Christ who shepherds us each and every moment. Praise be to the Father for THE Good Shepherd, our very Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, the doorway to…
In so much of John’s Gospel the question of the identity of Jesus is paramount.Is he a man? Is he the prophet? Is he the messiah? Is he the Son of God? Now, following Jesus’ miracle of giving sight to the man born blind, we find again a discussion of who Jesus is. There are…