Gospel (118)
  1. A wonderful intimacy, eternal and beyond our understanding, lies beneath the surface of these words. What is even more wonderful is how this intimacy is also ours. Through the saving work of Jesus, this intimacy is extended unto us.
  2. Jesus is not celebrating diversity or difference. He is promising sameness. Redundancy. A repeat of what has happened before.
  3. Jesus sees His disciples facing future uncertainty and responds not with details about dates and times and procedures to follow, but with His promise and His presence.
  4. We have one thing which will never change. We have a shepherd who knows us by name and who promises to speak to us in all of life’s situations.
  5. Jesus raises Lazarus from the dead. But if you pause the story...then it is not just about Jesus raising Lazarus.
  6. When the story begins in creation and ends in restoration, all the moments in between are filled with the working of God.
  7. Jesus sits by the well as a shepherd, coming to offer this woman a life-giving stream.
  8. Jesus promises to work for you, forgiving your sins, but He also promises to work through you, forming you into a witness to the world.
  9. But this is not a story of Jesus being taken many places. This is a story of Jesus remaining in one place and deepening in His love of the Spirit and the Father.
  10. This is the wonder which is present in the calling of the disciples. Not how they drop their nets to follow Jesus, but that Jesus does not need to go far to find disciples. He chooses the people He lives among.
  11. This is what makes the reading from John so frightening and yet so exciting. Notice how Jesus appears. Not in miracles, not in marvels, but in relationships.
  12. Jesus did not need to be baptized. But he did it. Why?
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