But [Jesus healed the man by the pool of Bethesda] on the Sabbath, so the Jewish leaders objected. They said to the man who was cured, "You can't work on the Sabbath! The law doesn't allow you to carry that sleeping mat!" But he replied, "The man who healed me told...
If I asked a room full of people, "What is the hardest task of parenting?" I would get a variety of answers. Some would be based upon the mistakes the people think their parents made with them. Other answers would be centered on what people have read online or in...
About This Devotional What Jesus Did! is a series of one-year devotional guides through each gospel, using one short scripture passage each day and following the Gospel in sequential order. Each devotional consists of a scripture passage and a reflection and a prayer...
People matter more than stuff - the things, the trinkets, of this world. As Father, Son, and Holy Spirit, God matters more than everything else and anything else. Jesus made this clear when He said: And what do you benefit if you gain the whole world but lose your own...
No matter how many good friends we have, we will face times when they are not around us, cannot cheer us, or cannot accompany us. We all will face death. While friends and family can comfort and encourage us as we die, they cannot accompany us through death. [1] We...
One of the men lying [by the pool of Bethesda] had been sick for thirty-eight years. When Jesus saw him and knew he had been ill for a long time, he asked him, "Would you like to get well?" "I can't, sir," the sick man said, "for I have no one to put me into the pool...
Afterward Jesus returned to Jerusalem for one of the Jewish holy days. Inside the city, near the Sheep Gate, was the pool of Bethesda, with five covered porches. Crowds of sick people — blind, lame, or paralyzed — lay on the porches.One of John's recurring...
My dad drilled a principle into me over the years, repeating it regularly. That principle is "You can tell the values of people by the quality of the people with whom they keep company." Versions of this saying appear in multiple languages across multiple centuries,...
About This Devotional What Jesus Did! is a series of one-year devotional guides through each gospel, using one short scripture passage each day and following the Gospel in sequential order. Each devotional consists of a scripture passage and a reflection and a prayer...
