Tag: John 15

You’re Loved

“When connected to the vine of Christ we grow in healthy ways and produce fruit that others feed from and grow strong because of the life of Christ in and through us.”

From One World to the Next

John 10: 1-10 The thief comes to steal. In a confessional booth, a man confessed to his priest he’d been stealing building supplies from the lumberyard where he worked. In fact, he stole enough to build homes for himself, his son and his two daughters. “This is very serious,” the priest said. “I shall have…

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Love Is That Certain

John 15: 9-17 A man stood in his front yard accessing the damage to his front porch after a storm came through the night before. It didn’t appear severe, but he knew he didn’t have all the tools he needed to remove the damage and begin the work of repairing his house. Before long, several…

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A Vine Through a Branch

John 15: 1-8 The pastor asked a small boy in the church, “Can you tell me who made you?” The youngster thought a moment. Then he said to the pastor, “God made part of me.” The pastor asked, “What do you mean, ‘part of you?’” The boy answered, “Well, God made me little. I grew…

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You Can Do Nothing

“There are times we determine by our own honest evaluation of our actions that we’ve accomplished nothing when really we’ve done a lot.  We’ve constructed and manipulated and created and communicated and congregated and represented and calculated and still accomplished nothing.”

Surrender All Resistance (Part 2)

There have been times in my life when I’ve learned something new from either living independently or in cohabitation. I recall living as the youngest in my family when my sister got married and moved out.  It was as if there was one less supportive parent-like figure in the house, and I had to get…

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Ahead of God

“Is faith found in that to be a determining factor in how we should act?  Probably not.  Again, Jesus said, “Apart from me you can do nothing.”