As you sent me into the world, I have sent them into the world. For them I sanctify myself, that they too may be truly sanctified (John 17: 18-19). Thought The form of these two verses is striking. Jesus compares and equates his coming into this world to our going...

But now I am coming to You; and these things I speak in the world so that they may have My joy made full in themselves. I have given them Your word; and the world has hated them because they are not of the world, just as I am not...

I am no longer going to be in the world; and yet they themselves are in the world, and I am coming to You. Holy Father, keep them in Your name, the name which You have given Me, so that they may be one just as We are. While I...

I have revealed Your name to the ones whom You gave Me out of the world; they were Yours and You gave them to Me, and they have followed Your word.  Now they have come to know that everything which You have given Me is from You; for the words which You gave Me I have given to them;...

The Saturday before Passover, Jesus arrives in Bethany to stay with Mary, Martha and Lazarus. His final march to Calvary and Easter starts with a prayer that has blessed and encouraged the Church for two millennia. Often referred to as the High Priestly Prayer of Jesus, it is a powerful, personal,and passionate...

Three lessons from John 21.

Is your mind ready for whatever God may be calling you to do?

Why Do We Reach For The Smelly Old Clothes?