Even greater things

John 11:21-27; 14:12 Teaching, training apprentices, rebuking religious leaders. Healings, exorcisms, turning water into wine, calming a storm, feeding a crowd with five loaves and two fish. And then the biggest of all: raising a widowโ€™s son from death to life, and then raising Lazarus from the dead. Jesus was one of the most unusual, noteworthy …

A grain of wheat

John 12:23-24; Luke 9:23 Sprouted shoots of barley and wheat. Walk into almost any church, and you will see one of two realities โ€“ either the predictable machinations of moralistic therapeutic deism and passive consumer religion,ย or the beauty, mystery and enthusiasm of a gathered community of Jesus followers, experimentally living out their faith. One reality …