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...
by Eric Spivey | Oct 14, 2019 | Kingdom of Love
Passage Intro Take just a moment to try to get in the mind of Jesus’ audience in this passage. In the US in 2019 you’re rarely more than a few minutes from what amounts to an endless supply of water, and folks only die of dehydration from freak accidents....
by Eric Spivey | Oct 6, 2019 | Kingdom of Love
Passage Intro This week is the climax of our little three week unit in John 6 in which Jesus will explain what he was getting at when he fed the 5000 (two weeks ago). One great thing about John’s Gospel is his careful attention to detail with Jesus’...
by Eric Spivey | Sep 29, 2019 | Kingdom of Love
Passage Intro With Jesus having withdrawn from the crowds, the disciples decided to head back to Capernaum, a city they had stayed in before that offered some provisions and a place to stay, something they didn’t have on the other side of the Galilean Sea. Part...
by Eric Spivey | Sep 22, 2019 | Kingdom of Love
Passage Intro Over the next three weeks we’re going to look at three events in John 6 that all follow after one another. This week we’ll look at Jesus’ miracle of feeding the 5,000, followed next week by Jesus walking on water to get away from that...
