by stuart | May 21, 2020 | Bible Study, Understanding Jesus, Weekly Reflection
You who are going to destroy the temple and build it in three days, save yourself! Come down from the cross, if you are the Son of God! Matthew 27:40 If we are to understand Jesus, then we must understand the cross. While Jesus was suffering and dying on the cross, he...
by stuart | May 20, 2020 | Bible Study, Understanding Jesus, Weekly Reflection
My prayer is not for them alone. I pray also for those who will believe in me through their message. John 17:20 In John 17 we have one of the most powerful parts of scripture as Jesus prepares his disciples for his arrest and death which is only hours away. When we...
by stuart | May 19, 2020 | Bible Study, Understanding Jesus, Weekly Reflection
Jesus answered, ‘I am the way and the truth and the life. No-one comes to the Father except through me…’ John 14:6 If we are to understand Jesus, then we must understand there is a reason for him. We understand there is a reason for doctors. When we are sick, we go to...
by stuart | May 18, 2020 | Bible Study, Understanding Jesus, Weekly Reflection
Whoever believes the Son has eternal life, but whoever rejects the Son will not see life, for God’s wrath remains on them. John 3:36 If we are to understand Jesus, then we need to understand what it means to believe in him. Over and again in scripture we are told to...
by stuart | May 15, 2020 | Bible Study, Understanding Jesus, Weekly Reflection
“Look! All these years I’ve been slaving for you and never disobeyed your orders. Yet you never gave me even a young goat so I could celebrate with my friends.” Luke 15:29 On one level it is easy to sympathise with the older brother in this parable. Who among us...
by stuart | May 14, 2020 | Bible Study, Corona Virus, Understanding Jesus, Weekly Reflection
Once when Jesus was praying in private and his disciples were with him, he asked them, ‘Who do the crowds say I am?’ They replied, ‘Some say John the Baptist; others say Elijah; and still others, that one of the prophets of long ago has come back to life.’ ‘But what...
