If I were to ask your spouse, your boss, your coach, your teacher, your colleague or your best friend to give you a grade as a listener from 1 to 10, 10 being the best listener, what grade do you think you would receive? More importantly for discipleship, if God were to give you a…
Home conjures up a lot of emotion for me. I grew up in a great home surrounded by a loving family. My mother still lives in my childhood home on 530 West Kings Road in Ada, Oklahoma. Having travelled around the world and lived in different places and cultures, it has always been a source…
“If you love me, keep my commands. 16 And I will ask the Father, and he will give you another advocate to help you and be with you forever–17the Spirit of truth. The world cannot accept him, because it neither sees him nor knows him. But you know him, for he lives with you and…
Philip found Nathanael and told him, “We have found the one Moses wrote about in the Law, and about whom the prophets also wrote–Jesus of Nazareth, the son of Joseph.” 46 “Nazareth! Can anything good come from there?” Nathanael asked. “Come and see,” said Philip. 47 When Jesus saw Nathanael approaching, he said of him,…
“13When it was almost time for the Jewish Passover, Jesus went up to Jerusalem. 14In the temple courts he found people selling cattle, sheep and doves, and others sitting at tables exchanging money. 15So he made a whip out of cords, and drove all from the temple courts, both sheep and cattle; he scattered the…
“A new command I give you: Love one another. As I have loved you, so you must love one another. 35 By this all men will know that you are my disciples, if you love one another.” John 13:34 NIV
“I tell you the truth, the man who does not enter the sheep pen by the gate, but climbs in by some other way, is a thief and a robber. 2 The man who enters by the gate is the shepherd of his sheep. 3 The watchman opens the gate for him, and the sheep…
“My prayer is not for them alone. I pray also for those who will believe in me through their message, 21 that all of them may be one, Father, just as you are in me and I am in you. May they also be in us so that the world may believe that you have…