Praising God (1Peter 1:3-12)

3 Praise be to the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ! In his great mercy he has given us new birth into a living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead, 4 and into an inheritance that can never perish, spoil or fade. This inheritance is kept in heaven for you, 5 who through faith are shielded by God’s power until the

Christmas Day Gospel Commentary (John 1:1-18)

In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. 2 He was with God in the beginning. 3 Through him all things were made; without him nothing was made that has been made. 4 In him was life, and that life was the light of all mankind. 5 The light shines in the darkness, and the darkness has not overcome it.

Christology in the Letters of John

Christology means the study of the person, role and nature of Jesus. For the author of John it represents the encounter of God with our sinful world. The divine and the human come together through Jesus. In John’s usage, Christ refers to the divine aspect, the Son of God, while Jesus is used for the

The Vision of God in the Letters of John

The prologue of 1 John suggests that it will begin with a focus on Christology but this doesn’t happen. Instead in verse five, the author tells us that Jesus taught that “God is light and there is no darkness at all in him”. So, instead of the emphasis being on the second person of the

Introduction to Chapter 8

Most scholars consider chatper 8 to be the heart of Mark’s gospel because its two main themes are central: Jesus the Messiah and Jesus the suffering servant. Mark makes clear what the real definition of the Messiah is and also begins to spell out what this means for discipleship. There are three key events in