Paul, who writes this letter, is excited about the church. He is longing to encourage it, to encourage us. One of the stumbling blocks for us is that although we love Jesus, although we want to belong to him, we so often don’t understand all that he has in store for us. Paul wants us…

Last Sunday we looked at Paul’s introduction to the church at Ephesus. Introductions are really important; Paul wrote to them and describes them as follows: To the saints in Ephesus, to the faithful in Christ Jesus.’ Paul, in this introductory statement describes the life of the Christian. The who we are, the what we do…

John 21 is a beautiful chapter. It concludes with Jesus asking three questions of Peter, do you love me? A wonderful story of restoration as Peter had 2 times denied knowing Jesus . This story of restoration begins earlier. Jesus sees Peter and others fishing without success. He calls out to them to put their…