Sep 302 min read
John 15:18-21, The Hatred of the World
15:18 “If the world hates you, know that it has hated me before it hated you. 19 If you were of the world, the world would love you as...
Sep 272 min read
John 15:16-17, I Chose You
15:16 “You did not choose me, but I chose you and appointed you that you should go and bear fruit and that your fruit should abide, so...
Sep 262 min read
John 15:12-15, Greater Love
15:12 “This is my commandment, that you love one another as I have loved you. 13 Greater love has no one than this, that someone lay...
Sep 252 min read
John 15:9-11, Abide in My Love
15:9 “As the Father has loved me, so have I loved you. Abide in my love. 10 If you keep my commandments, you will abide in my love, just...
Sep 242 min read
John 15:5-8, I Am the Vine
5 “I am the vine; you are the branches. Whoever abides in me and I in him, he it is that bears much fruit, for apart from me you can do...
Sep 232 min read
John 15:2-4, Abide in Me
15:2 “Every branch in me that does not bear fruit he takes away, that it may bear more fruit. 3 Already you are clean because of the...
Sep 201 min read
John 15:1, I Am The True Vine
“I am the true vine, and my Father is the vinedresser.” Jesus knows that images communicate powerfully with people. That is why he...
Sep 192 min read
John 14:27-31, Peace I Leave With You
27 “Peace I leave with you; my peace I give to you. Not as the world gives do I give to you. Let not your hearts be troubled,...
Sep 182 min read
John 14:25-26, The Helper
25 “These things I have spoken to you while I am still with you. 26 But the Helper, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in my...
Sep 173 min read
John 14:18-24, I Will Not Leave You
18 “I will not leave you as orphans; I will come to you. 19 Yet a little while and the world will see me no more, but you will see...