This is one of the two passages Jesus quotes as the summary of “all the law and the prophets”—“you shall love your neighbor as yourself.”
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Imagine that you are living in Gergesa, situated on the eastern shore of the Sea of Galilee.
In the Corinthian correspondence, Paul wrote to a church he had founded three or so years earlier to deal with issues and questions that had arisen in the church.
“In Christ,” Ephesians 1:11 says, “we have also obtained an inheritance.”
Gratitude is powerful for several reasons.
The Psalmist says, “It is good to give thanks to the Lord.” It is good.
Gratitude is powerful for several reasons.
Among the entries in The Guinness Book of World Records is the shortest sermon ever preached.
The disciple Thomas was a realist. He had been hurt and disappointed. He had expected so much from Jesus. Then, to watch Jesus die on the cross like a common thief was too much for Thomas to bear. All of his hopes were dashed.
A legal expert stood up to test Jesus’ understanding of the law.
Imagine. For 38 years he was unable to walk. For much of that time, he lay beside a pool called Bethzatha (in some translations, Bethesda or Bethsaida).