Despite all the gloom hanging over Christ's imminent situation and his disciples' sorrow, Jesus tells them not to be troubled: how is this possible, for them... or for US when in similar seasons of our life? Christ explains the only way this TRULY works in this chapter with some well-worn verses.

If you knew the exact time of your death and it was fast approaching, what would you do? Jesus' bucket list looks a LOT different than most of ours...

In God's game of incarnational chess, Jesus' story transitions from the middlegame to the endgame, and a baffling move that breaks (our) rules

Only one person EVERY embodied the "fruit of the Spirit" perfectly... and we see all 9 exhibited in the final days before His crucifixion. And what does this mean for us?

In Sunday's sermon passage Jesus pushes back on his biological brothers, goes incognito to a festival, and we find out that everyone has variant opinions of Jesus that still persist 2,000 years later.

What IS grace, REALLY? Do we cheapen it? How do we weaponize the word? We pause from John's gospel to contemplate God's undeserved favor... which includes discipline and the power to pursue holiness.

Jesus doesn't mince words about what is involved in salvation, faith, and belief in John chapter 6... and subsequently his followers go from about 5,000 down to a dozen. Turns out the call of gospel isn't propositionally selling salvation... it's about seeking and sifting for the saved.

Miracles might defy natural law, but they do NOT defy reason. At the same time, we should most definitely MARVEL at them, for what they are and what they represent.

Jesus circumvents superstition and shows that sometimes he helps those who are ungrateful and unthankful... and how they'd better heed His words.

Jesus' famous encounter with a woman at the well continues and punctuates John's illustrations of water in relation to the life Jesus brings.