Gospel of John: Metaphor to Reality

This is the deepest purpose of Bible study and prayer โ€“ to come to know and experience Godโ€™s love for us, Father, Son and Spirit, and to share Godโ€™s love with each other. The transformation of the Holy Spirit begins and ends here, in Godโ€™s love.

Miriam

In God's wisdom, Miriam experienced both the pain of exposure, and the deep and abiding joy of healing, restoration, and reconciliation.

Minor Prophets: Habakkuk’s Questions

There is no power in all the physical world or the spiritual realm that is not ultimately under the authority and dominion of Almighty God. Things are not always what they appear to be.

Gospel of John: Promise of Joy

It is not the Lordโ€™s way to substitute something else to relieve pain. Instead, God uses what is already there, but transforms it.

Gospel of John: Penalty, Power, Presence

It is the work of the Holy Spirit to convict hearts and reveal truth to minds. Our work is to love.

Gospel of John: The Ruler of this World

Godโ€™s mighty deliverance of the world through the cross held echoes of the ancient contest God entered into with the powerful gods of Egypt.

Gospel of John: Three Concerns

This is good news for humankind, for we have been trying to appease angry gods for all of our recorded history.

Woman at the Well

Jesus was thirsty for water, and knew the woman at the well was thirsty for eternal life. But. There is so . . . much . . . more to this story. You may be surprised by what the Greek reveals.

Minor Prophets: The Book of Habakkuk

Habakkuk evokes the deer which nimbly โ€œtread upon the heights,โ€ escaping, in the end, the trampling horses of Babylon.

Gospel of John: Rumpelstiltskin

How in the world might Rumpelstiltskin be -at all- like the Paraclete?