Loving the Scriptures

In this episode, we begin to look at Jesus' discourse in John 5, on the heels of His healing of the invalid in verses 1-18. Here we unpack what Jesus says regarding His identity as God and His unity with God the Father in nature, work, and ministry. In these words, we will see why Jesus' enemies are out of place to object to His work on the Sabbath and His self-identification as God.

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In this episode we explore Jesus' healing of the invalid at the Bethesda pool in John 5. This story is more than an account of a healing, but it is also a message...both of who Christ is, and of the man's need for his greater need for spiritual healing. We will talk about how this is determined from the text and how this sets the stage for Jesus' discourse in the following verses about Himself.

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(*Note: During the introduction there is about a ten second loss of audio due to yet another technical issue. My apologies.)

In this episode we finish John 4 by exploring Jesus' second sign performed in Galilee. What was Jesus' angle in saying the things that He said to the official with the ill son, and in performing the healing altogether? And how did this miracle work to communicate to the man who Jesus is?

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(*Note: During the introduction there is about a six second loss of audio due to a technical issue. My apologies.)

After the amazing encounter between Jesus and the Samairtan woman at the well, we see something magnificent take place, where Jesus and the disciples have an opportunity to minister to the entire city of Sychar itself. In this episode, we talk about the woman's testimony to the Samaritans at Sychar, Jesus' lesson on the harvest to His disciples, and the harvest itself that is realized with the Samaritans at the end of the section.

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In this episode we continue our examonation of Jesus' encounter with the outcast Samaritan woman at the well. We discuss the tactic Jesus uses in the conversation to make His true identity known to this woman, what the woman was really asking when she brings up worship on Mount Gerazim and Jerusalem, and what it means to worship in spirit and truth.

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In this episode we begin to look at the well-known account of Jesus' encounter with the Samaritan woman at the well. How do we see Christ, the Master Evangelist, engage this woman in order to point her to truth? And given this woman's past and present, what does this encounter say about our Savior Himself?

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Following up on last episode's topic on obedience, this episode looks at two specific biblical examples (1 Samuel 15 and Mark 7) of God's view of obedience versus going about our own understanding (disobedience).

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I'm sure that Christians would agree that the Word of God should be the standard by which we walk. However, in the American Christian culture, are there many areas where obedience to the Bible isn't taken seriously? Do we as believers come up with unbiblical exceptions as to why we can't obey certain areas of Scripture? Or perhaps ignore them althogether? In this episode, we talk about the importance of obedience, and discuss a couple of examples where many Christians dismiss true obedience and instead operate by our own understaning.

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In Christian life and ministry, everything we do is (or should be) about Jesus Christ. He is the main attraction, and not anything of ourselves. And this is the lesson that John the Baptist's disciples had to learn when they expressed their worry about more people going to get baptized by Jesus than John. In this episode, we learn about John's humble attitude as he talks about why it is absolutely appropriate for Jesus to increase, and for John to decrease.

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Many of us love John 3:16. But when Jesus was saying the words of this verse to Nicodemus, Nicodemus probably would not have received them the same way we do today. In fact, what Jesus says in that verse and the verses that follow would likely have not sat well with him. Why? That's what we explore in this episode as we finish this section of John 3.

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