Consider the implications of John 1:1-18—the Creator God we meet in Genesis, who existed before everything, came to Earth in the form of Jesus to live full of grace and truth as the light that eradicates darkness, humbled himself to the point of death on the cross and raised himself up on the third day [...]

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Flash forward to John 12.  Jesus and his disciples are in Jerusalem for the Passover celebration.  Some Greeks (not of Jewish heritage) wanted to see Jesus.
And Jesus answered them, “The hour has come for the Son of Man to be glorified.  Truly, truly, I say to you, unless a grain of wheat falls into the [...]

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Let’s fast-forward to the time of Jesus. The Torah, or Law, has been twisted, and many of the people of God have turned away from him once again—this time to a legalistic form of religion. The Pharisees, who were the keepers of the Law, were constantly testing Jesus, and eventually would plot to [...]

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It started a long, long time ago. Long before the Word became flesh, God’s people were enslaved. The Hebrew people were forced into hard labor. They built cities and monuments for Egypt. The people prayed that God would rescue them from their captors. God answered. A Hebrew named Moses, [...]

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