In the hours following, the multitude and then one disciple after another slipped away, stunned and confused by the spiritual truth they had heard.  Jesus turned to His twelve handpicked men and asked them the pressing question, “Will ye also go away?”[i]  Peter...

Because of unbelief, the Jews failed to perceive the spiritual analogy that Christ was drawing for them.  Their unbelief caused them to view Him as a source for meeting their physical needs only.  They had followed Him to the other side of the Sea of Galilee simply to...

In John 6:35 Christ gave a promise: “I am the bread of life: he that cometh to me shall never hunger; and he that believeth on me shall never thirst.”  This was a promise of spiritual satisfaction.  The fact that Christ was fully capable of fulfilling this promise was...

Disappointment happens when you hoped for an outcome that did not come to pass. Or this outcome failed to meet expectations. In essence, these disappointments are “failed hopes”. We hoped things would turn out a certain way and they didn’t. If it didn’t bring the amount of pleasure you thought it would or things just didn’t turn out the way you wanted then you will be disappointed.

So, there is a lot going on right now. The coronavirus is taking a toll on people and entire countries. China was basically shut down and is just now, months after the outbreak, getting back to work. Italy, Spain, and France have basically shut down due to the spread...

I have finally lived long enough to see this text begin to come to fruition in the lives of people my age. It seems to have taken a while for me to notice, but I have looked around to see calamity after calamity tear the lives of people my age apart. They built their...