“I am telling you what I have seen in the Father’s presence, and you are doing what you have heard from your father.” “Abraham is our father,” they answered. “If you were Abraham’s children,” said Jesus, “then you would do what Abraham did. As it is, you are looking for a way to kill me, a man who has told…
Category: Devotions
Consider the Claims of Christ this Christmas: ‘I am not of this world’
“The one who comes from above is above all; the one who is from the earth belongs to the earth, and speaks as one from the earth. The one who comes from heaven is above all.” John 3:31 (NIV) John the Baptist testifies Jesus is from above, ‘the one who came from heaven.’ But he continued, “You are from below; I am from above. You are of this world; I am not…
Consider the Claims of Christ this Christmas: ‘I am the light of the world’
In him was life, and that life was the light of all mankind. The light shines in the darkness, and the darkness has not overcome it…The true light that gives light to everyone was coming into the world… The Word became flesh and made his dwelling among us. We have seen his glory, the glory of the one and only Son, who…
Consider the Claims of Christ this Christmas: ‘I am the bread of life’
When Jesus looked up and saw a great crowd coming toward him, he said to Philip, “Where shall we buy bread for these people to eat?” Philip answered him, “It would take more than half a year’s wages to buy enough bread for each one to have a bite!…Here is a boy with five small barley…
Consider the Claims of Christ this Christmas: ‘I am the life’
Now there was a Pharisee, a man named Nicodemus who was a member of the Jewish ruling council. He came to Jesus at night…(John 3:1) I love this scene from the Bible. Nicodemus seeks Jesus out to ask him questions—Is he truly from God? Could he really be the Messiah? “You are Israel’s teacher,” said Jesus, “and do…
Consider the Claims of Christ this Christmas: “I am he” (the Messiah)
The woman said, “I know that Messiah” (called Christ)“is coming. When he comes, he will explain everything to us.” Then Jesus declared, “I, the one speaking to you—I am he.” John 4: 25-26 (NIV) “But what about you?” he asked. “Who do you say I am?” Peter answered, “You are the Messiah.” Mark 8:29 (NIV To those…
Consider the Claims of Christ this Christmas: the Giver of Living Water
“If you knew the gift of God and who it is that asks you for a drink, you would have asked him and he would have given you living water…Everyone who drinks this water will be thirsty again, but whoever drinks the water I give them will never thirst. Indeed, the water I give them…
Consider the Claims of Christ this Christmas: ‘Whoever is not with me is against me’
“Whoever is not with me is against me, and whoever does not gather with me scatters.” Luke 11:23 (NIV) “Whoever acknowledges me before others, I will also acknowledge before my Father in heaven. But whoever disowns me before others, I will disown before my Father in heaven.” Matthew 10: 32-33 (NIV) There are only two sides of…
Consider the Claims of Christ this Christmas: Lord of the Sabbath
Then he said to them, “The Sabbath was made for man, not man for the Sabbath. So the Son of Man is Lord even of the Sabbath.” Mark 2:23-28 (NIV) The Old Testment laws for the Jews included a required day of rest—just as God rested from his work of creation of the world in Genesis (Genesis 2:2)….
Consider the Claims of Christ this Christmas: He Knows and Reveals the Father
“All things have been committed to me by my Father. No one knows the Son except the Father, and no one knows the Father except the Son and those to whom the Son chooses to reveal him.” Matthew 11:27; Luke 10:22 (NIV) What a bold claim to say he alone knows the Father, the Almighty God in…
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