Now the birth of Jesus Christ took place in this way. When his mother Mary had been betrothed to Joseph, before they came together she was found to be with child from the Holy Spirit. And her husband Joseph, being a just man and unwilling to put her to shame, resolved to divorce her quietly. But as he…

Now before the Feast of the Passover, when Jesus knew that his hour had come to depart out of this world to the Father, having loved his own who were in the world, he loved them to the end. During supper, when the devil had already put it into the heart of Judas Iscariot, Simon’s son, to betray him,…

contains the final three parables of Jesus teaching ministry. Jesus is now 48 hours away from His crucifixion. These are His final days and His final words. We would do well this morning to heed the final words of a dying man. Those who know that death is imminent only speak what they want remembered.…

In today’s text we find Jesus once again in conversation. In the preceding chapter Jesus was engaged in a midnight conversation with a devoutly religious Jew and a learned theologian named Nicodemus. Today’s text, , is a conversation with an uneducated and immoral Samaritan woman. The contrast between…

Our text this morning is often called “the gospel within the gospel”. The gospel’s are filled with radical stories but none as radical as this one. Jesus means for his parable to correct the human misconception of how one connects to God. His parable finds the entire human race guilty of knowing how…

It’s safe to say that our society deals with more distractions than any previous society in history. Most of us persistently feel pulled in different directions. I saw a bumper sticker once that said, “God loves you and everyone has a wonderful plan for your life.” I certainly feel that—, and it seems…