The Lord is not slow in keeping his promise, as some understand slowness. Instead he is patient with you, not wanting anyone to perish, but everyone to come to repentance.  2 Peter 3:9 Not wanting [...]

Did you ever play the video game Oregon Trail? It was one of the first role-playing video games ever.  A generation of kids lost untold hours online accumulating shovels, buying pack mules, hunting wild [...]

“You yourselves can testify that I said, ‘I am not the Messiah but am sent ahead of him.’ The bride belongs to the bridegroom. The friend who attends the bridegroom waits and listens for him, [...]

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 [...]

An argument developed between some of John’s disciples and a certain Jew over the matter of ceremonial washing. They came to John and said to him, “Rabbi, that man who was with you on [...]

“For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life.”  John 3:16 As a public school teacher of [...]

Speaking to someone at nighttime is so different than in the brash light of day.  It was at night that Nicodemus went to visit Jesus.  Quiet.  Candlelit.  He went seeking concrete answers to the [...]

In the early 1970s, a large-scale, Christian revival unfolded in the U.S.; many people trusted Jesus for the first time. The term “born again”, lifted from Jesus’ conversation with Nicodemus in John 3:1-21, was a [...]

He came to Jesus at night and said, “Rabbi, we know that you are a teacher who has come from God. For no one could perform the signs you are doing if God were not [...]

The temple of Jerusalem at Passover must have been a complete sensory overload:  this manic festival atmosphere with people struggling to acquire what was necessary for worship.  Thousands of worshippers, thousands of sellers, shouting [...]