The next day Jesus found Philip, and Philip in turn went and brought Nathanael. Notice the sequence: – Jesus said to Andrew: Come and See. – Andrew went and brought Peter to Jesus. – Jesus ...
Those who should have seen and led were blind…. “the people” who would not have been expected to understand “rejoiced at all the glorious things that were done by him” (v.17). The owner of the ...
The account of Paul’s first visit to Philippi is found in Acts 16. Despite the violent beginning described there, the Philippian church had taken root and flourished. Paul was only able to go back there ...
The Son was sent by the Father and can do nothing by himself, but on the other hand, everything the Father does, the Son does. It follows that failure to honour the Son is failure ...
Acts 18 tells us something of Paul’s visit to the city of Corinth. Corinth was a vast city, a rough, tough place, a centre for trade, for idol worship, for prostitution and for crime of ...
In the central act of Holy Communion, Christians enjoy fellowship with the Lord Jesus Christ and with one another: “Because there is one bread, we, though many, are one body, for we all partake of ...
Unlike the other gospels, the fourth gospel here records a time when both John and Jesus were teaching. A Jew came to discuss the situation with John’s disciples, and thereby stirred up questions and perhaps ...
The Bible urges us to forsake what is behind and reach out to what is ahead of us. That is not to say that all our past is necessarily bad, but we must not “live ...
Many cases of physical ill-health are products of spiritual ill-health. In this story Jesus first told the man to take up his bed and walk; but later when the man sought him out, Jesus warned ...
The people to whom Peter was writing were scattered and on top of that they were being persecuted. However, verse 2 assures them that they have been: “chosen … sanctified by the Spirit… for obedience ...