Who is Jesus? Who are we?
As we begin our year-long journey into the Gospel of John and explore what a life of truth and grace looks like, the first place to look is Jesus himself. To better understand who Jesus is, is to better understand who we are and who Jesus makes us to be by his grace and truth. In a wonderful series of statements, Jesus shares his true identity with us and in doing so, shapes our own identities so that his blessings might overflow in us and through us to the world he loves.
1 John 4:7-16 Beloved, let us love one another, for love is from God, and whoever loves has been born of God and knows God. Anyone who does not love does not know God, because God is love. In this the love of God was made manifest among us, that God sent his only Son into the world, so that we Read More
Hebrews 10:19-27 Therefore, brothers, since we have confidence to enter the holy places by the blood of Jesus, by the new and living way that he opened for us through the curtain, that is, through his flesh, and since we have a great priest over the house of God, let us draw near with a true heart in full assurance of faith, with Read More
Romans 6:1-11 What shall we say then? Are we to continue in sin that grace may abound? By no means! How can we who died to sin still live in it? Do you not know that all of us who have been baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized into his death? We were buried therefore with him by baptism into death, in order Read More
Psalm 23 The Lord is my shepherd; I shall not want. He makes me lie down in green pastures.He leads me beside still waters. He restores my soul.He leads me in paths of righteousness for his name’s sake. Even though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil,for you are with me; your rod and your staff, they comfort me. You prepare a table before me in the presence of my Read More
Isaiah 62:10-12 Go through, go through the gates; prepare the way for the people;build up, build up the highway; clear it of stones; lift up a signal over the peoples.Behold, the Lord has proclaimed to the end of the earth:Say to the daughter of Zion, “Behold, your salvation comes;behold, his reward is with him, and his recompense before him.”And they shall be called Read More
Philippians 2:12-18 Therefore, my beloved, as you have always obeyed, so now, not only as in my presence but much more in my absence, work out your own salvation with fear and trembling, for it is God who works in you, both to will and to work for his good pleasure. Do all things without grumbling or disputing, that you may be blameless Read More
Exodus 16:1-5, 9-35 They set out from Elim, and all the congregation of the people of Israel came to the wilderness of Sin, which is between Elim and Sinai, on the fifteenth day of the second month after they had departed from the land of Egypt. And the whole congregation of the people of Israel grumbled against Moses Read More
