Ministry of the Church (69)
  1. In Christ, God promises to forgive sin and bring about new life: Life after being canceled.
  2. We cannot control the resistance of people to God’s Word, but we can trust in God’s power and promise to work through His Word.
  3. Jesus did not come to be first. He came to be faithful, faithful to His Father’s mission for you.
  4. Whether we are sheltering at home on Pentecost or gathering together in church, we have reason for praise. Jesus Christ is the source of the Spirit and that Spirit will never fail.
  5. 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.
  6. Jesus is not celebrating diversity or difference. He is promising sameness. Redundancy. A repeat of what has happened before.
  7. 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.
  8. When the story begins in creation and ends in restoration, all the moments in between are filled with the working of God.
  9. Jesus sits by the well as a shepherd, coming to offer this woman a life-giving stream.
  10. 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.
  11. 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.
  12. 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.
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