The Shepherds are a well-known part of the Christmas story. But do we need them? What do they add to the story? What might we miss if they were not? Our sermon considers that as shepherds they point us to Jesus, the true and good shepherd. But they are also normal everyday people like all […]

Jesus actually declared that his own testimony was not enough to convince someone to believe that he was the Messiah, the Son of God and so in this passage he points to the reliable witnesses that should have been enough to convince even the most hardened sceptic.

As in Chapter 1 where the disciples go and tell others and bring them to meet Jesus, so too here we see the Samaritan woman tell the townspeople to “Come and See” Jesus.  Even the testimony of this outcast woman was used by God to bring many to believe and many more to come and […]