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Follow Jesus Anyway • John 21

Peter felt like he’d totally failed Jesus. He probably asked himself a question over and over again: now that Jesus is alive from the dead, why would He put up with a total failure like me?

So Peter wants to do Jesus a favour and quit.

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Believing Without Seeing • John 20

n John 20 we are shown what happened after the Crucifixion of Jesus Christ. With virtually every other person the biography ends there with the person’s death. You will be shown sometimes what’s happened after that person’s death, but that person who died is done.

But death is not the end of Jesus.

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Light Is Sown For the Righteous • Psalm 97

For many people life is becoming darker and harder to bear. They can only imagine what is going to happen, and all that dystopian science fiction doesn’t help things. They can imagine the worst. But they’re not even close to how bad it’s going to be.

I want to share a number of things I learned in my regular meditation.

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Great Presence of Mind • John 18:1-26

When you see Jesus being arrested and tried and crucified you marvel at His presence of mind. That is the only word for it.

It means self-control so maintained in an emergency or embarrassing situation, that one can say or do the right thing. That’s the best word for it. Jesus has presence of mind here in these next chapters of John.

When you see Peter during this same time you see him making mistake after mistake. He wants to follow Jesus with all his heart, but that’s not enough and he is intimidated and crumbles in fear.

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To See the Glory of God • John 17:20-26

Jesus’ request is for His disciples to be with Him where He is and to see His glory.

This will affect the whole world for the next twenty centuries because people will be able to grasp what is the whole point of existence: to be united into the family of the Father in love.

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