In 2022, a church in Chicago's Old Town neighborhood spent five weeks preaching a series called "The Gospel According to Dolly." Not five minutes borrowing an illustration. Five full Sundays, each one
Look at what Jesus does not say to the twelve after the crowd walks off. He doesn't remind them of all he's done for them. He
The world has spent this week deciding what to do with Dolly Parton's soul. Half of them have preached her straight into glory because she was kind, generous,
Judas didn't leave the group in John 6. Everybody else did. He stayed. He kept eating the bread, kept following the crowd, kept his seat at the table.
You would not stand by and watch another man beat you. Why do you let your own mind do it? "There is therefore now no condemnation to them which
John 6 is full of real disciples — church folks — who hear something hard from Jesus and go looking for the door. Verse 60: "This is an hard saying; who
Adam hid in the garden, and God knew right where he was. Adam's hiding wasn't for God's benefit — it was because Adam wasn'
There's a moment in John 6 where the Jews start arguing with each other about how Jesus could give them His flesh to eat. They're not
Tic-tac-toe on three squares gets old fast. Nine spaces, one predictable draw after another. Stretch that same idea out to fifteen squares, five in a row to win, and it
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