Stonybank Community Church with Pastor James Carroll

This great portion of Scripture is Jesus making high priestly intercession for us as He was about to become the atoning sacrifice.

This is a powerful conclusion to the Lord's longest discourse. The Paschal discourse ends with a powerful lesson of joy. Our greatest sorrow is often the foundation of our greatest joy. Before the crown, there is always a cross.

The most comforting thing about heaven is that we can call it "home."  Everything you think about heaven or know about God is revealed for us in relationship to the Lord Jesus Christ.

Christ enacts a living parable to teach us how to live in this present world.  God calls us to a self-sacrificial lifestyle.  Every argument, fear or frustration you experience in life is when you hang onto anything other than Jesus.

With one third of the gospels focused on the last eight days of Jesus' life, if you talk about Jesus without including the death burial and resurrection you have nothing more than a social gospel.  The problems we have in the nation today are not caused by crazy unbelievable politicians but the likes of the liberal preacher who thinks the days of the condemning sin is past.  Hosea 9:7

Christ is the resurrection and the life.

Perhaps the greatest of all illustrations in the Bible of God's care for His people and the inclusion of "other sheep," which transcends ethnic identity.

People are not blind (sinners) because they sin, they sin because they are blind (sinners) from birth.  God is not the author of sin but his defeat of sin displays the glory of God.

Jesus reveals the true evil in the heart of hypocritical religious people who use God's word to judge others and not their own self.

Every relationship reaches a turning point.  Chapter 6 begins with a crowd of about 20k and by the end of the chapter just the 12 and one of them is a traitor.  When you follow Jesus for the wrong reason you will eventually become offended by what He says.