What is not seen

I know it is true about me, and I know it is true about you.  There is more about us than we reveal or even know ourselves.  Just like an iceberg, we might be visible to many, but that is just the “tip of the iceberg”. Even the people closest to use know about some

Bread of Life

35 Jesus said to them, “I am the bread of life; whoever comes to me shall not hunger, and whoever believes in me shall never thirst. 36 But I said to you that you have seen me and yet do not believe. 37 All that the Father gives me will come to me, and whoever

Not so fast

If someone were to come to you and ask; “Tell me about Jesus walking on water”. What would you describe? We know that each miracle was not just to show off, but to teach lessons. What is your knowledge of the bible when this question is asked? Let us look at this one encounter and

Can I get a witness?

Witnesses to Jesus 30 “I can do nothing on my own. As I hear, I judge, and my judgment is just, because I seek not my own will but the will of him who sent me. 31 If I alone bear witness about myself, my testimony is not true. 32 There is another who bears

You’re who?

Jesus Claims to Be the Son of God 16 So the Jewish leaders began harassing Jesus for breaking the Sabbath rules. 17 But Jesus replied, “My Father is always working, and so am I.” 18 So the Jewish leaders tried all the harder to find a way to kill him. For he not only broke

Do you want to be healed?

1 After this there was a feast of the Jews, and Jesus went up to Jerusalem. 2 Now there is in Jerusalem by the Sheep Gate a pool, in Aramaic called Bethesda, which has five roofed colonnades. 3 In these lay a multitude of invalids—blind, lame, and paralyzed. 5 One man was there who had

Why do you seek?

43 After the two days he departed for Galilee. 44 (For Jesus himself had testified that a prophet has no honor in his own hometown.) 45 So when he came to Galilee, the Galileans welcomed him, having seen all that he had done in Jerusalem at the feast. For they too had gone to the

Confrontation, awe & wonder

We left last week with Jesus and the Samaritan woman at the well. Two unlikely characters in an unlikely backdrop, for divine purposes. Jesus had moved into her comfort zone and disrupted her a bit, by asking for some water, but then offering the eternal offer of “living water”.  We were left with the reality

An everlasting offer

1 Now when Jesus learned that the Pharisees had heard that Jesus was making and baptizing more disciples than John 2 (although Jesus himself did not baptize, but only his disciples), 3 he left Judea and departed again for Galilee. 4 And he had to pass through Samaria. 5 So he came to a town

The humble one

22 Then Jesus and his disciples left Jerusalem and went into the Judean countryside. Jesus spent some time with them there, baptizing people. 23 At this time John the Baptist was baptizing at Aenon, near Salim, because there was plenty of water there; and people kept coming to him for baptism. 24 (This was before John was thrown