Bring Your Imperfect Offering
“‘Here is a boy with five small barley loaves and two small fish, but how far will they go among so many?’” John 6:9 (NIV) Andrew brought something and apologized for it in the same breath. He went looking when…
Rodney Garcia
The Math Is Not Mathing
“Philip answered him, ‘It would take more than half a year’s wages to buy enough bread for each one to have a bite!’” John 6:7 (NIV) Your math is not the problem. Philip was not being foolish or faithless when…
Still Walking and Still Trusting
“While he was still on the way, his servants met him with the news that his boy was living.” John 4:51 (NIV) The hardest part of faith is the road between. The official did not know his son was already…
What He Said Over You Still Stands
“Then the father realized that this was the exact time at which Jesus had said to him, ‘Your son will live.’” John 4:53a (NIV) What God spoke over you has not changed. The father discovered this when his servants named…
He Spoke and That Was Enough
“‘Go,’ Jesus replied, ‘your son will live.’ The man took Jesus at his word and departed.” John 4:50 (NIV) Five words changed everything in that sickroom that day. Jesus did not travel to Capernaum to heal the boy. He did…
The Prayer That Doesn’t Sound Religious
“The royal official said, ‘Sir, come down before my child dies.’” John 4:49 (NIV) Your most honest prayer is your most powerful one. We have been taught that prayer requires the right words. We rehearse it, refine it, and sometimes…
The Distance Was Never the Problem
“When he inquired as to the time when his son got better, they said to him, ‘Yesterday, at one in the afternoon, the fever left him.’” John 4:52 (NIV) Nothing is too far for God to reach. Some situations feel…
The Sign Was Never the Point
“What Jesus did here in Cana of Galilee was the first of the signs through which he revealed his glory; and his disciples believed in him.” John 2:11 (NIV) Glory showed up at a wedding and no one recognized it.…
The Servants Knew What the Master Missed
“And the master of the banquet tasted the water that had been turned into wine. He did not realize where it had come from, though the servants who had drawn the water knew.” John 2:9 (NIV) The people closest to…
He Does Not Do Barely Enough
“Everyone brings out the choice wine first and then the cheaper wine after the guests have had too much to drink; but you have saved the best till now.” John 2:10 (NIV) God is not in the business of barely…