Today’s Reading: John 8:12-20 Hearing God’s Voice for Today: “Jesus spoke to them, saying, ‘I am the light of the world. Whoever follows me will not walk in darkness, but will have the light of life.’” * * * * * Here is the second of Jesus’ “I am” statements in John’s Gospel. He is …
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22404.0 Realize Your Sinfulness
Today’s Reading: John 8:1-11 Hearing God’s Voice for Today: “He stood up and said to them, ‘Let him who is without sin among you be the first to throw a stone at her.’ And even more he bent down and wrote on the ground. But when they heard it, they went away one by one, …
22403.1 Stop Grumbling
Today’s Reading: John 6:41-51 Hearing God’s Voice for Today: “Jesus answered them, ‘Do not grumble among yourselves. No one can come to me unless the Father who sent me draws him. And I will raise him up on the last day.’” * * * * * The Jews grumbled because Jesus had said he was …
22403.2 Ingesting Eternal Life
Today’s Reading: John 6:52-59 Hearing God’s Voice for Today: “The Jews then disputed among themselves, saying, ‘How can this man give us his flesh to eat?’ So Jesus said to them, ‘Truly, truly I say to you, unless you eat the flesh of the Son of Man and drink his blood, you have no life …
22403.3 The Words of Eternal Life
Today’s Reading: John 6:60-71 Hearing God’s Voice for Today: “After this many of his disciples turned back and no longer walked with him. So Jesus said to the Twelve, ‘Do you want to go as well?’ Simon Peter answered him, ‘Lord, to whom shall we go? You have the words of eternal life, and we …
22403.4 Being a Servant
Today’s Reading: John 7:1-9 Hearing God’s Voice for Today: “Now the Feast of Booths was at hand. So his brothers said to him, ‘Leave here and go to Judea, that your disciples also may see the works you are doing. For no one works in secret if he seeks to be known openly. If you …
22403.5 Choose to Obey God’s Will
Today’s Reading: John 7:10-24 Hearing God’s Voice for Today: “If anyone’s will is to do God’s will, he will know whether the teaching is from God or whether I am speaking on my own authority. The one who speaks on his own authority seeks his own glory; but the one who seeks the glory of …
22403.6 Jesus Knows the Father
Today’s Reading: John 7:25-31 Hearing God’s Voice for Today: “So Jesus proclaimed, as he taught in the temple, ‘You know me, and you know where I come from. But I have not come of my own accord. He who sent me is true, and him you do not know. I know him, for I come …
22403.7 Your Eternal Home
Today’s Reading: John 7:32-36 Hearing God’s Voice for Today: “Jesus then said, ‘I will be with you a little longer, and then I am going to him who sent me. You will see me, and you will not find me. Where I am you cannot come.’” * * * * * There is an old …
22403.8 Living Water
Today’s Reading: John 7:37-39 Hearing God’s Voice for Today: “Jesus stood up and cried out, ‘If anyone thirsts, let him come to me and drink. Whoever believes in me, as the Scripture has said, “Out of his heart will flow rivers of living water.”’ Now this he said about the Spirit, whom those who believed …