Dear Friends, This is the fourth message in a series on Jesus encounter with the woman at the well recorded in John 4. Jacob’s well was there, and Jesus, tired out by his journey, was sitting by the well. It was about noon(John 4:6). It is noon, the hottest part of the day. It is
Dear Friends, The fourth chapter of the Gospel of John contains the longest conversation recorded in Scripture. The principal participants are Jesus and a woman known only as “a Samaritan woman.” His disciples and her neighbors make appearances near the end, John had a long time to reflect on what he had seen and heard
Dear Friends, Last week’s message discussed what it means to “go back to Galilee” when your calling and your destiny is in Jerusalem. In other words, sometimes God changes our direction from where we thought we were headed with him. How do we respond to those detours? Sometimes those detours can take us through places
Dear Friends, Human nature tends to resist change. A lot of things motivate that resistance — pride, comfort, the threat of loss, fear of the unknown and disruption of familiar patterns and relationships would be some of those things. Yet, because we are mortal with limitations and inadequacies, change is inevitable. Jesus faced change as
Dear Friends, On a cold but sunny winter afternoon, I was seated on a large tractor tire tube racing down a snow-covered mountain slope. The tube hit a mound and went airborne. The rider in front of me fell off. I hung on when the tube slammed down. My neck wrenched with a crunch. I