Old Testament Law

by | Feb 12, 2024 | Christianity, God's Love, Law, Rules

Old Testament Law Humans are lawmakers. We all have reams of regulations stored in our heads. We think highly of our own rules and are scornful of rules that contradict them. We get angry at people who break our rules, even when they have no idea what those rules...

John 4.1-45

by | Sep 18, 2022 | Deliverance, God's Love, Grace, Racism, Sin

Now when Jesus learned that the Pharisees had heard that Jesus was making and baptizing more disciples than John (although Jesus himself did not baptize, but only his disciples), he left Judea and departed again for Galilee. And he had to pass through Samaria. So he...

John 3.31-36

by | Aug 18, 2022 | God's Love, Grace, Jesus as God, Salvation

He who comes from above is above all. He who is of the earth belongs to the earth and speaks in an earthly way. He who comes from heaven is above all. He bears witness to what he has seen and heard, yet no one receives his testimony. Whoever receives his testimony...

John 3.17-21

by | Feb 14, 2022 | God's Love, God's Sovereignty, Human Nature

John 3.17-21 For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but in order that the world might be saved through him. Whoever believes in him is not condemned, but whoever does not believe is condemned already, because he has not believed in the name...

John 3.16

by | Feb 7, 2022 | Faith, God's Love, God's Sovereignty, Jesus as God

“For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life.  John 3.16 may be the most well-known verse in the Bible. It’s certainly important. Nearly forgotten is that it comes to us as part of...