We’ve been enjoying a beautiful week here in northern Michigan with things warming up a little more each day. I can hardly wait for some of those seventy and eighty degree days of summer. Last Sunday was a special day for us as a church family as we celebrated the baptism of the three youngest […]
They Have Kept Your Word – John 17:6-9
Are you always faithful to the Lord? Do you always have faith in God’s promises and never doubt? Do ever make it through a day without sin? Are you always completely obedient to the Lord in every way? And you say, “Well, thanks for the encouragement, thanks for reminding me that I’m not the follower […]
Prayer is God Changing Me
It’s the first day of May today and as I woke, the first thought that came to my mind where: Why do I pray? For a few months now our church family has been using the first and the fifteenth of each month as a reminder to pray for the work the God is doing […]
The Joyful Prayer of Jesus – John 17:1-5
As we enter chapter 17 of John’s Gospel we come to what has been called the High Priestly Prayer of Jesus. It is a great prayer — a wonderful prayer of our Lord’s. It is in fact the longest prayer of Christ’s we have recorded for us in God’s Word.
No One Can Steal Your Peace – John 16:25-33
For a few weeks now we’ve been examining the teaching of Christ to the disciples and we’ve noted often their confusion and failure to understand all that Christ taught them. We arrive at the closing verses of chapter 16 today and with them we find encouraging promises from Christ given to His disciples and given […]
No One Can Steal Your Joy – John 16:16-24
I have some good news and I have some bad news. Which would you like to hear first? Good news and bad news. Don’t you love it when someone says that? A look at the text here in John 16 reveals that Jesus has some good news and some bad news. Let’s look and see […]
How Does God Convict the World? – John 16:8-15
We heard last week here in John 16 of the warning Jesus gave His disciples, that they would be persecuted and some of them even put to death for following Christ and preaching the Gospel. And he had told them these things so that when it all happened they would not be shocked or dismayed […]
Have You Counted the Cost of Following Christ? – John 16:1-7
Have you ever considered what it could cost you to wholeheartedly follow Christ? On the morning of July 15th 1555 at 9am, two men were led to their execution at London’s Smithfield in the reign of “bloody Queen Mary”. They were condemned to be burnt alive as heretics. One was a young man of 19 […]