John 3:1-17 I thought this week I would spend my time elsewhere, but Nicodemus drew me in once more. Oh, I have been wrestling with Nicodemus and his nighttime encounter with Jesus for as long as I can remember. (Go ahead and search John 3:1-17 on this blog and you will get a sampling of …
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It’s No Wonder Nicodemus Wondered… Revisited
Below you will find a re-working of a post which was published on this site in 2012. I have had an unusually full week with multiple hospital calls and a couple of funerals and I simply haven’t had the time and space to dwell deeply in the lessons for Holy Trinity. In addition, I fly …
Wondering About Nicodemus…
John 3:1-17 It is so that I have been called upon to preach on this piece of John’s Gospel many times before and so it is with some effort this time through to come up with a new way ‘in’ to a very familiar story. And so I am allowing myself to begin by simply …
Nicodemus and You and Me and a Group of High School Seniors: God’s Time
Ecclesiastes 3:1John 3:1-17 Next Sunday night I will be one of two preachers for our High School Baccalaureate. By then it will already have been a very long week-end. Saturday morning I will officiate at the funeral of a woman who was just my age. It was my deep privilege to walk alongside her …
Nicodemus By Night
John 3:1-17 I saw a little of Nicodemus in myself this week. For you see, it’s the first week of a new session for my early morning workout class. Winter has worn on for us here in Northern Illinois and I have found it more and more difficult to respond immediately to my alarm when …
It’s No Wonder Nicodemus Wondered…
John 3:1-17 A couple of days back I stopped at the cemetery. Fifteen years after he died we finally got around to getting a Veteran’s marker for my dad’s grave. Perhaps you know what I’m talking about — the kind you simply push into the ground that holds a flag. I stopped by as I …