by Eric Spivey | Nov 24, 2019 | Kingdom of Love
Passage Intro The book of John has a masterful structure to it. It falls into four big sections: the Prologue (1:1-18), the Book of Signs (1:18-12:90), the Book of Glory (13:1-20:31), and the Epilogue (John 21:1-25). Thus far in 2019 we’ve looked primarily at the...
by Eric Spivey | Nov 6, 2019 | Kingdom of Love
November 17 – John 17:1-19 Passage Intro If we’re honest, the High Priestly Prayer is kind of hard to take in all at once. Jesus weaves and interweaves perhaps a dozen different themes while addressing every relationship permutation of him, the Father, his...
by Eric Spivey | Nov 4, 2019 | Kingdom of Love
Passage Intro We’re going to spend part of our discussion this week looking at this passage inside out. Doing so will hopefully provide your group with some insight into how much Jesus cared for his disciples and, by extension, how much he cares for us. Starting...
by Eric Spivey | Nov 3, 2019 | Kingdom of Love
Passage Intro Dialogue in ancient writing can sometimes come across as kind of silly to us today. You’ll see this pretty regularly in the Bible, where Jesus will say ____, the disciples will wonder why he said ____, they will then ask him why he said ____, and...
by Eric Spivey | Oct 26, 2019 | Kingdom of Love
Passage Intro For the next four weeks we’ll be looking at sections from Jesus’ last discourse with his disciples just before his betrayal and arrest in the Garden of Gethsemane. It’s helpful to keep that order in mind because everything Jesus says in these...
by Eric Spivey | Oct 20, 2019 | Kingdom of Love
Passage Intro For a bit wider context, the monologue in the passage occurred either during the time of the Feast of Booths, which we looked at last week, or sometime between it and the next feast (10:22). For immediate context, this is just after Jesus healed a man...
