Weekday Word w/ Eric

Tag: gospel

  • Thank God for the Gospel of John

    John 1:16-18, CEB From his fullness we have all received grace upon grace;      as the Law was given through Moses,     so grace and truth came into being through Jesus Christ. No one has ever seen God.     God the only Son,         who is at the Father’s side,         has made God known.…

  • The Beautiful Irony of John the Baptist

    John 1:6-8, 15 CEB A man named John was sent from God.  He came as a witness to testify concerning the light, so that through him everyone would believe in the light.  He himself wasn’t the light, but his mission was to testify concerning the light. John testified about him, crying out, “This is the…

  • Pharisaical Tendencies

    Matthew 12:1-14 – At that time Jesus went through the grainfields on the Sabbath. His disciples were hungry and began to pick some heads of grain and eat them. When the Pharisees saw this, they said to him, “Look! Your disciples are doing what is unlawful on the Sabbath.” He answered, “Haven’t you read what…

  • Seeing the World the Way We Want. . .

    Matthew 11:16-19, The Voice – What is this generation like? You are like children sitting in the marketplace and calling out, “When we played the flute, you did not dance; and when we sang a dirge, you did not mourn.”  What I mean is this: When John came, he dressed in the clothes of a…