SHARING BREAD 1 It was just before the Passover Feast. Jesus knew that the time had come for him to leave this world and go to the Father. Having loved his own who were in the world, he now showed them the full extent of his love. John 13:1 (NIV) Our Lord’s appointed “fullness of time” [...]
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May_30
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SHARING BREAD 50 “I know that his command leads to eternal life. So whatever I say is just what the Father has told me to say.” John 12:50 (NIV) Jesus’ purpose in His first Advent was to save and to reveal God to mankind. It was positive – He came neither judging nor condemning. Yet to [...]
May_25
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SHARING BREAD 48 There is a judge for the one who rejects me and does not accept my words; that very word which I spoke will condemn him at the last day. 49 For I did not speak of my own accord, but the Father who sent me commanded me what to say and how to say [...]
May_23
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SHARING BREAD 47 “As for the person who hears my words but does not keep them, I do not judge him. For I did not come to judge the world, but to save it.” John 12:47 (NIV) Simply put, Jesus came to save, to make whole, and to preserve from danger those who would trust in [...]
May_20
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SHARING BREAD 46 I have come into the world as a light, so that no one who believes in me should stay in darkness. John 12:46 (NIV) Here Jesus proclaims yet again His mission for coming into the world – He came as the source of life and light and peace to a world that was [...]
May_18
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SHARING BREAD 44 Then Jesus cried out, “When a man believes in me, he does not believe in me only, but in the one who sent me. 45 When he looks at me, he sees the one who sent me. John 12:44-45 (NIV) Make no mistake about it, when we reject Jesus, we reject God. There is [...]
May_13
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SHARING BREAD 38 This was to fulfill the word of Isaiah the prophet: “Lord, who has believed our message and to whom has the arm of the Lord been revealed?” 39 For this reason they could not believe, because, as Isaiah says elsewhere: 40 “He has blinded their eyes and deadened their hearts, so they can neither see [...]
May_11
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SHARING BREAD 37 Even after Jesus had done all these miraculous signs in their presence, they still would not believe in him. John 12:37 (NIV) Once again, John sounds the trumpet on the theme of persistent unbelief among those privileged to be both eyewitnesses of Jesus’ miracles and hearers of His Word. These serve as red [...]
May_09
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SHARING BREAD 35 Then Jesus told them, “You are going to have the light just a little while longer. Walk while you have the light, before darkness overtakes you. The man who walks in the dark does not know where he is going. 36 Put your trust in the light while you have it, so that you [...]
May_06
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SHARING BREAD 34 The crowd spoke up, “We have heard from the Law that the Christ will remain forever, so how can you say, ‘The Son of Man must be lifted up’? Who is this ‘Son of Man’?” John 12:34 (NIV) Give the crowds their due – they were pulling their knowledge from the prophet Daniel [...]
