John 15 marks a transition in Jesus’ farewell discourse from the prior focus on how the disciples might let faith triumph over fear to a...

As our Lord continues to give good reasons for his disciples to let faith in God soothe their troubled hearts, he turns in the second...

As our Lord seeks to encourage his disciples on the eve of his crucifixion, he focuses them on faith over fear. One encouragement that he...

John’s account of the Last Supper has its own distinct flavor compared to the accounts of Matthew, Mark, and Luke. For example, he...

I am not a great swimmer. It is only due to the mercy of our high school swimming instructor, Ms. Soss, that I graduated high school,...

As John closes out the public ministry of Jesus in his gospel account, John inserts the words of the prophet Isaiah in explaining that...

About a month ago, more than 2,000 representatives gathered in Memphis, Tennessee, for the 50th General Assembly (GA) of the Presbyterian...

In the aftermath of Christ’s tremendous miracle of raising the dead man Lazarus to life, there was, as there always seems to have been,...

As John continues to narrate the events leading up to the raising of Lazarus, he includes one of the shortest sentences in the New...

As Jesus confronts the death of his friend Lazarus, he declares, “I am the resurrection and the life” (John 11:25 ESV). A significant...

It is alleged that Mark Twain once said: “Some people are troubled by the things in Scripture that they can’t understand. The things that...

The following is revised from a previous version. In light of Christ’s confession that he is the Good Shepherd, and the focus in the...