John 21:20-25. Forty days with Jesus, then ten more waiting — the gap before Pentecost, and what leaning and lingering are for.
John 21:15 and the question put three times. Peter had gone back to where it all started; Jesus meets him there and gives him sheep to feed.
John 13:31-35. Judas has gone out, and Jesus calls this the hour of glory — then gives a new commandment as the mark by which everyone will know.
John 13 and Jesus washing feet on the last night — resilient love, demonstrated rather than described.
Esau sells his birthright for a bowl of stew, closing the Old Testament narrative for the year before the Upper Room Discourse begins.
God had spoken to Abraham at least nine times and never used his name. The first time he says “Abraham!” is the moment of the test. Pastor Adam reads that…