In John 14, Jesus sounds exclusive: “I am the way and the truth and the life.” It is a difficult text for many people. Maybe you. I could skip it, but I want to explore around it a bit. To start, a story. I was taking pictures of a crowd in a store. I wanted […]

Any idea what Jesus was thinking that night, the one right before the twelve disciples took off on an internship? They had been with him for many months. They had been watching how he lived, what he taught, where he ate. They had seen how he responded to challenges and conversations and suffering. Then he sent […]

Your team has been fighting hard on this product launch. You’ve spent three years trying to get it right. You’ve done extensive market research. You’ve talked with everyone in the whole country, it seems like, multiple times. In fact, your team split up into 6 teams to do focus groups in different parts of the […]

Jesus is an effective teacher. His capacity to use stories to illustrate concepts is fabulous. The verbal images he creates are used by people who don’t know they are his: good Samaritans; walking on water; the good shepherd; turn the other cheek; “A Charlie Brown Christmas.” His internship program  has worked with great resilience for […]

Here’s what I meant yesterday. At the end of chapter 12, John writes that some people didn’t believe Jesus, even though they had seen all the signs that John describes. Other people believed, but they were afraid of the religious leaders. They “loved praise from men more than praise from God.” Then Jesus has a […]