Believe into God, Believe into Me Also

Believe into God, Believe into Me Also

5/21/17

John 14:1-21

Chris Breslin

“These chapters have often rightly been seen as among the most precious and intimate in the New Testament. They are full of comfort, challenge and hope, full of the deep and strange personal relationship that Jesus longs to have with each of his followers. We shouldn’t be surprised that they are also full of some of the richest theological insights, of a sense of discovering who the true God is, and what he’s doing in the world and in us.”  – N.T. Wright, John for Everybody

There are times that I believe I’m satisfied

Like an intimate connection

Despite this bad reception with you

Because I can’t afford to pay

For most of what I say

So it’s a lucky thing

That the truth’s public domain

-Derek Webb, Mockingbird

“Let your religion be less of a theory and more of a love affair.” –G.K. Chesterton

“How we spend our days is, of course, how we spend our lives. What we do with this hour, and that one, is what we are doing.” –Annie Dillard, The Writing Life

Scripture:

John 6:35-51

John 8:12, 9:5

John 10:9-11

John 11:25

John 8:58

John 8:28

John 10:30-38

Galatians 2:20

James 1:17

Songs for Today’s Worship Gathering:

Heart Feels Alive by DeJong

Leaning on the Everlasting Arms by Hoffman/Showalter

We Will Feast in the House of Zion by McCracken

How Firm a Foundation by Rippon/Funk

More than Anything by Leonard/Ingram/Jordan/Garrard

Enclosed by You by White

Doxology

Go further:

Godspeed film by Matt Canlis

The Gospel of John: A Commentary by F. Dale Bruner

John: A Commentary by Marianne Maye Thompson

John for Everybody (Part 2) by Tom Wright

Reading Scripture in Light of the Resurrection (chapter in the Art of Reading Scripture) by Richard B Hays (and Ellen F. Davis)

Can These Bones Live?: A Theology in Outline by Robert Jenson

Miracles by C.S. Lewis

The Resurrection of Jesus: A New Historiographical Approach by Michael Licona

Prototype by Jonathan Martin

Resurrection & Moral Order by Oliver O’Donovan

Living the Resurrection by Eugene Peterson

Practice Resurrection by Eugene Peterson

Resurrection and the Son of God by N.T. Wright (academic)

Surprised by Hope by N.T. Wright (accessible)

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