As the Jews in the passage essentially say to Jesus, ‘who do you think you are?’ we take a look then at just who Jesus is. We consider whether he is a Samaritan with a demon? Is he greater than Abraham? Is he in fact the son of God? God himself come to earth? How […]

The day after Jesus has fed the 5,000 all the people go again to find Jesus.  They even travel across the lake in order to get to him, believing that he could once again feed them.  Yet later, when Jesus says you need to believe in me – that is too hard, a step too […]

Chapter 4 of John’s gospel introduces us to the woman at the well in Samaria.  As with Nicodemus and Mary previously, Jesus speaks to someone about spiritual and eternal things while they speak about the same things on a material and temporal, earthly level.  In this first part of the chapter, Jesus speaks 3 times.  […]

This Easter Day message considers the popular secular opinion that sees people trying to live their best life now.  Jesus death and resurrection, however, shows us that the best is yet to come!  Unless we follow Jesus today we will never experience the best that is yet to come and neither can we find true […]

The idea of changing the camel to a rope or the eye of a needle to a small door is to create the impression that you can gain eternal life if you simply pack light. Instead of having a big caravan connected to the Toyota land cruiser, you have a small trailer attached to a […]

No doubt those who heard this parable, especially the disciples who were fisherman, knew exactly what Jesus was talking about when he spoke about a dragnet. Once the fish were brought to shore, a judgement would have to be made about the fish. Which one’s made good eating and which ones did not! The good […]