Dear CrossPointe,This Sunday we’ll finish John 5 before I take some time off this summer. Specifically, we’ll cover John 5:30–47 in which Jesus defends his authority against the accusations of Jewish leaders by appealing to four “witnesses”—John the Baptist, Jesus’ miracles, God the Father, and th...Read More ➔

Dear CrossPointe,The rest of John 5 is thick and it’s all about Jesus. In fact, J.C. Ryle, a great English preacher from the 1800s, said it was “one of the deepest things in the Bible.”So we’ll take the next two weeks to wade through Jesus’ words about himself. This week, we’ll cover John 5:16–29 ...Read More ➔

Dear CrossPointe,We’re back in John’s Gospel (5:1–17) this Sunday to consider the healing of a man who’d been disabled for 38 years! The tension is mounting between Jesus and the religious authorities as he heals this man on the Sabbath. We’ll get into this tension in more depth as we progress through John, b...Read More ➔