I will sing of loving kindness and justice.     To you, Yahweh, I will sing praises. 2 I will be careful to live a blameless life.     When will you come to me?     I will walk within my house with a blameless heart. 3 I will set no vile thing before my eyes.     I hate the deeds of faithless men.     They will not cling to me. 4 A perverse heart will be far from me.     I will have nothing to do with evil. 5 I will silence whoever secretly slanders his neighbor.     I won’t tolerate...

22 So with you: Now is your time of grief, but I will see you again and you will rejoice, and no one will take away your joy. 23 In that day you will no longer ask me anything. Very truly I tell you, my Father will give you whatever you ask in my name. 24 Until now you have not asked for anything in my name. Ask and you will receive, and your joy will be complete. 25 “Though I have been speaking figuratively, a time is coming when I will no longer use this kind of language but will tell you...

17 At this, some of his disciples said to one another, “What does he mean by saying, ‘In a little while you will see me no more, and then after a little while you will see me,’ and ‘Because I am going to the Father’?”18 They kept asking, “What does he mean by ‘a little while’? We don’t understand what he is saying.” 19 Jesus saw that they wanted to ask him about this, so he said to them, “Are you asking one another what I meant when I said, ‘In a little while you will see me no more, and...

12 “I have much more to say to you, more than you can now bear. 13 But when he, the Spirit of truth, comes, he will guide you into all the truth.He will not speak on his own; he will speak only what he hears, and he will tell you what is yet to come. 14 He will glorify me because it is from me that he will receive what he will make known to you. 15 All that belongs to the Father is mine. That is why I said the Spirit will receive from me what he will make known to you.” 16 Jesus went on to...

7 But very truly I tell you, it is for your good that I am going away. Unless I go away, the Advocate will not come to you; but if I go, I will send him to you. 8 When he comes, he will prove the world to be in the wrong about sin and righteousness and judgment: 9 about sin, because people do not believe in me; 10 about righteousness, because I am going to the Father, where you can see me no longer; 11 and about judgment, because the prince of this world now stands condemned.

Everything Jesus has told you was so you will not slip away. People will do bad things to you because they don’t know God. Jesus gave you a warning that you will be mistreated. “All this I have told you so that you will not fall away. 2 They will put you out of the synagogue; in fact, the time is coming when anyone who kills you will think they are offering a service to God. 3 They will do such things because they have not known the Father or me. 4 I have told you this, so that when their...

7 If you really know me, you will know my Father as well. From now on, you do know him and have seen him.” 8 Philip said, “Lord, show us the Father and that will be enough for us.” 9 Jesus answered: “Don’t you know me, Philip, even after I have been among you such a long time? Anyone who has seen me has seen the Father. How can you say, ‘Show us the Father’? 10 Don’t you believe that I am in the Father, and that the Father is in me? The words I say to you I do not speak on my own...

14 “Do not let your hearts be troubled. You believe in God; believe also in me. 2 My Father’s house has many rooms; if that were not so, would I have told you that I am going there to prepare a place for you?3 And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come back and take you to be with me that you also may be where I am. 4 You know the way to the place where I am going.” Jesus the Way to the Father 5 Thomas said to him, “Lord, we don’t know where you are going, so how can we know the...

Podcast Episode 146 - John Chapter 13:31-38 31 When he was gone, Jesus said, “Now the Son of Man is glorified and God is glorified in him.  32 If God is glorified in him,God will glorify the Son in himself, and will glorify him at once.  33 “My children, I will be with you only a little longer. You will look for me, and just as I told the Jews, so I tell you now: Where I am going, you cannot come.  34 “A new command I give you: Love one another. As I have loved you, so you must love one...

Podcast Episode 145 - John Chapter 13:21-30 21 After he had said this, Jesus was troubled in spirit and testified, “Very truly I tell you, one of you is going to betray me.”  22 His disciples stared at one another, at a loss to know which of them he meant.  23 One of them, the disciple whom Jesus loved, was reclining next to him.  24Simon Peter motioned to this disciple and said, “Ask him which one he means.”  25 Leaning back against Jesus, he asked him, “Lord, who is it?” 26 Jesus...

Podcast Episode 144 -  John Chapter 13:10-20 10 Jesus answered, “Those who have had a bath need only to wash their feet; their whole body is clean. And you are clean, though not every one of you.”  11 For he knew who was going to betray him, and that was why he said not every one was clean.  12 When he had finished washing their feet, he put on his clothes and returned to his place. “Do you understand what I have done for you?” he asked them.  13 “You call me ‘Teacher’ and ‘Lord,’ and...

  Podcast Episode 143 - John Chapter 13:1-10 It was just before the Passover Festival. Jesus knew that the hour had come for him to leave this world and go to the Father. Having loved his own who were in the world, he loved them to the end. 2 The evening meal was in progress, and the devil had already prompted Judas, the son of Simon Iscariot, to betray Jesus. 3 Jesus knew that the Father had put all things under his power, and that he had come from God and was returning to God; 4 so he...

Podcast Episode 142 - John 12:44-50 Recorded 11/23/2018 44 Then Jesus cried out, “Whoever believes in me does not believe in me only, but in the one who sent me. 45 The one who looks at me is seeing the one who sent me. 46 I have come into the world as a light, so that no one who believes in me should stay in darkness. 47 “If anyone hears my words but does not keep them, I do not judge that person. For I did not come to judge the world, but to save the world. 48 There is a judge for the...

Believe in the light while you have the light, so that you may become children of light.” When he had finished speaking, Jesus left and hid himself from them. Even after Jesus had performed so many signs in their presence, they still would not believe in him. This was to fulfill the word of Isaiah the prophet: “Lord, who has believed our message     and to whom has the arm of the Lord been revealed?" For this reason they could not believe, because, as Isaiah says elsewhere:  “He has...

Podcast Episode 140 - John 12:25-33 Recorded 11/22/2018

Podcast Episode 139 - John 12:17-24 Recorded 11/21/2018 Why did Jesus Have to Die? And why did he die the way that he did? Could he have lived to 100 and passed away in sleep?

Podcast Episode #138   welcome to psalm and Prayer. I'm your host Chris Mann. Broadcasting live in Blog talk radio and Twitter. Thank you for joining me today.   Today we’re looking at   John chapter 12 verses 9-16   We’re going to see many people coming to Jesus Because of Lazarus,   And we’ll see the first palm Sunday.  

welcome to psalm and Prayer. I'm your host Chris Mann. Thank you for joining me today. Today we're looking at John chapter 12 verses 1 through 8. We're going to see more of Jesus' relationship with Mary, Martha and Lazarus. Jesus will be anointed with perfume. One of His disciples will object to the anointing. To be anointed means to be rubbed or smeared with oil.   If you wish to download this episode, You can do so on itunes and google play.  

Today we’re looking at John chapter 11. This chapter is very memorable because we see Jesus bring a dead man back to life. I don’t mean a re-animated corpse moving around like a zombie, but actually back to life.   This chapter has some pretty good lessons in it: Having full faith in Jesus, praising The Lord no matter what, and the importance of patience! When Jesus got word that his good friend was sick, he didn’t just rush over to his friend’s bedside and heal him. There’s no glory in...

Wow, what an awesome chapter. In John chapter 10, Jesus explains to us His real mission. He's not just here for Isreal, but for all mankind. Everywhere! That includes you and me.  We'll learn that Jesus is the only path to Heaven. We'll also learn that Jesus is our good shepard, watching over us while we stumble around earth.  Last week we looked at John Chapter 9. Jesus healed a blind man. We learned that without Jesus We become blind in faith.   Today, We’re looking at John chapter...

What does it mean to be blind? It means we're in the dark!  I had a co-worker many years ago who was partially blind. In one eye all he could see was blurry dark images. My co-worker needed a lot of light to see well. This is a dark world and Jesus is the light. Stand close to Him. The more light you have, the better you can see! Time Warp Questions: Who would be the pharisees? Who would be persecuting Jesus? What laws would He have broken. Verse of The Week: Then the man said, “Lord I...

Sometimes bad things happen. That doesn't mean that we sinned against God and we're being punished. It means that the work of God is about to be done. As he went along, he saw a man blind from birth. 2 His disciples asked him, “Rabbi, who sinned, this man or his parents, that he was born blind?” 3 “Neither this man nor his parents sinned,” said Jesus, “but this happened so that the works of God might be displayed in him. 4 As long as it is day, we must do the works of him who sent me. Night...

I’m Chris Mann and this is Psalm and Prayer. Today we’re looking at John chapter 6. We’re going to discuss Jesus’ compassion for His followers and how we should follow Him with our hearts and not our stomachs.   Last week, we discussed foreshadowing in the bible. Those little clues that seem out of place but lead to a big plot twist later on. For example, your reading a book and the author describes a water spot on the ceiling. Then a few chapters later a pipe bursts and water floods the...

Last week we talked about the importance of rest. Today’s lesson ties into that because of the interpretation of one in particular law that the Jewish leaders fest very strongly about.   I’ve had chronicle back problems most of my life. It’s a tightness that starts between my shoulderblades, goes up my teck, and causes pain in my shoulder. I went to a chiropractor for the first time this week. She realigned my back and neck. A side effect from your first realignment is really stiff and sore...

At the beginning of John chapter four, we read Jesus is beginning his journey from Judea to Galilee. How far did he walk? According to Answers.com, Galilee is about 70 miles from Judea. After walking about 30 of those miles, Jesus rested by a well outside of a Samaritan village and rested while the disciples went into town and bought food.   I wear a fitbit everyday and track my steps while at work. On average, I will walk about five miles during an eight hour shift. Assuming that Jesus did...