Category: John

• On The Once And Ever Miracle

  Isaac, The short answer to “Do you believe in miracles?” is “yes, of course”. But the answer goes deeper than how many think of “miracle”, as an occasional eruption into our space-time fabric from a far-off dimension, with oohs and aaahs. As usual, clearest reality is in the gospel accounts. At the Cana wedding, Jesus…

• John 18.37: Even The Earth Vomits God

  John 18.37: “I entered the world to tell the truth. All who love the truth love my voice.” On that portentous night truth telling broke out all over following the example of Caiphus who had burped the truth then looked behind himself to see who was speaking. As Caiphus, so Pilate: in spite of the…

• Take the mood – and I mean mood – of John’s gospel, especially the last 2 chapters, and imagine a whole world that feels like that, and you have Narnia.

• John 9: Jesus talks about design

  The sermon today really was about the healing of the blind man in John 9, though it might be hard to see that from these notes: 1. Man chose a random universe. If this part is left out, the rest makes no sense. And this is the part secularists insist on leaving out, so that…