Our focus today is on the most common word in the Bible for love, agape. In the Lord’s last week before the cross, He answers a barrage of questions from his critics, including tis one on the first and foremost commandment. His answer is timeless.
Sermons by Billy Smith
By inspiration of God, the apostle John penned five New Testament books. In our final Sunday of 2019, we find a New Year resolution from each of these inspiring books by “the disciple that Jesus loved.”
John records the appearance of Jesus to Thomas following His resurrection. Although Thomas is often referred to as “doubting,” that is not the full story.
In the Upper Room, Jesus gave another timeless example of what it means to be a servant of God: serve others by being willing to do the smallest of tasks. What is small in our eyes may be huge in the eyes of God, and that’s what matters most.
The apostle John is known as “the disciple that Jesus loved.” As we begin our final theme for the year on the Words of John, we look at the apostle’s eye-witness account of his three years with the Lord.
This text includes the statement, “you should follow in His steps.” The context is we should suffer as Jesus suffered. We know how He responded when mistreated, how should we respond?
The apostle Peter reminds his readers of the divine privilege of becoming and being a people for God’s own possession. What did that mean for them, and what does it mean for us?
It is both a comforting and sobering truth that our Lord could appear at any moment. What should we know, and even more important, what should we do?
Solomon sought meaning and purpose to life in four wrong pursuits. From his experience, he gives us the benefit of what he learned, the conclusion to the whole matter.
The story of Job is so incredibly tragic that many people believe it is only a story and didn’t really happen. But it did happen. The real-life experience of Job and his response teaches us how to respond “when life tumbles in.”