New Testament (1636)
  1. 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.
  2. The children of Israel are on the fast-track to bondage. What is so tempting about foreign gods and why do the people turn to them so quickly?
  3. Jesus foretells His death more than once and the disciples don’t understand it. Jesus says all who follow Him must take up their cross.
  4. 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.
  5. One name repeatedly emerges from the heart and mind of Paul: Jesus. Jesus is Messiah, Jesus is Savior, Jesus is the world’s rightful and reigning King.
  6. Healings, mission trips and how to feed thousands with five loaves of bread and two fish.
  7. This text explicates the Christian life in light of the reality of Christ’s lordship and the gift of the Holy Spirit amidst a world and a Church which has not experienced the fullness of redemption and recreation itself.
  8. Jesus did not need to be baptized. But he did it. Why?
  9. The following is an excerpt from “Faithless to Fearless” written by David Andersen (1517 Publishing, 2019).
  10. Lamps under beds, a raging storm and a demon-possessed man living in a graveyard.
  11. God reveals Himself to us in Word and Sacrament but sometimes these revelations happen in unexpected ways.
  12. Every verse rings with the Gospel, declaring the giving of God the Father consisting of the Son and the Spirit and we, contrary to what we deserve for our sins, the recipients of His “lavish” love and grace.
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