John spares us the logistic details here, not explaining if the spotlight moved from one individual to What's important in today's passage is another aspect that's conspicuously missing from John's account John tells of a second book: the book of life , and anyone whose name was not found written in the book If that we're the case, certainly John would mention those who passed the King's judgment. Those names written in the book of life are welcomed into the new heaven and new earth that John goes

the men who have been with us the whole time the Lord Jesus was living among us, 22  beginning from John   Then they cast lots, and the lot fell to Matthias; so he was added to the eleven apostles. -- Acts 6: 3-6 (NIV) CONTEXT: This is a portion of the text we read last week in which the office of deacon was Spirit; also Philip, Procorus, Nicanor, Timon, Parmenas, and Nicolas from Antioch, a convert to Judaism. 6  Today: John 1

John's utilization of adjectives increases, however, to describe what he sees next. The scene, John writes, is like a bride, beautifully dressed for her husband . Any groom or father of the bride can appreciate the words John conveys this vision to us with! But John really doesn't tell us anything about what life will be like. John simply reports what he's been told by the One who was seated on the throne: "Behold, I am making

John records Jesus offering the Samaritan woman living water (John 4:10) and then later on he tells whoever believes in me, as Scripture has said, rivers of living water will flow from within them (John But the trees John sees are no ordinary trees. life , as awesome and amazing as it is, is not even the most significant aspect of what's revealed to John So we end our year together in the Belgic Confession the way that John ends scripture: Amen.

ASK GOD FOR WHAT YOU NEED: Read the New Testament in a year, a chapter a day - John 21

When the apostles in Jerusalem heard that Samaria had accepted the word of God, they sent Peter and John come on any of them; they had simply been baptized in the name of the Lord Jesus. 17  Then Peter and John Philip was one of the men the church called on to help the widows (Acts 6) and who would go on in the When Peter & John give the Spirit by laying on their hands (Luke refers here to Spiritual gifts, not

Point 3 - Total Depravity Point 4 - Irresistible Grace Point 5 - Perseverance of the Saints Article 6: He's the God of peace: John Stott notes here that God is both the author of harmony and that He's the Today: John 16

Logos.com Isaiah 64:1–8 (NIV) 64 Oh, that you would rend the heavens and come down, that the mountains 6   All of us have become like one who is unclean, and all our righteous acts are like filthy rags; we

DailyVerses.net Psalm 62 For the director of music. For Jeduthun. bless, but in their hearts they curse.  5  Yes, my soul, find rest in God; my hope comes from him. 6  Such is the case here in Psalm 62, where v7 is sandwiched between two 8 line stanzas. David's central claim in Psalm 62 is that his salvation and his honor - that is, every aspect of His

Earlier, in Matthew 3:11, John the Baptist spoke to the nature of this baptism. There are several things we can take away from John the Baptist's words, one being that not all baptisms John was out in the wilderness administering a baptism of repentance. John also speaks to how baptism in Christ is more than what one can physically see. Today: John 18