Jesus: The Most Interesting Friend in the World – Friday
We’ll pray to Jesus as a friend this week. Meeting with a Group? Your discussion questions are in this week’s Group Study Guide [permalink append=”#comments”]Discuss the Challenge[/permalink]
Jesus: The Most Interesting Friend in the World – Thursday
We’ve already explored Jesus’ definition of deep, loving friendship – to lay down one’s life for his friends. Looking back, of course, we can see that when he said that, he knew what was coming for him. Within just a few days, he was crucified. He intended to lay his life down for his friends, […]
Jesus: The Most Interesting Friend in the World – Wednesday
We asked you yesterday, how do you react to Jesus being called a friend? Do you hear the lyrics of “What a friend we have in Jesus?” Does it sound sappy, undignified, or wrong to call Jesus a friend? I visited a website of top 50 film friendships. One of the top 50 friendships on […]
Jesus: The Most Interesting Friend in the World – Tuesday
Jesus gathered a band of disciples around him, like any Jewish rabbi would have done, to learn and live with him as a travelling school. Near the end of his life, Jesus said to his disciples: “This is my commandment, that you love one another as I have loved you. Greater love has no one […]
Jesus: The Most Interesting Friend in the World – Monday
It was just announced that the television show “Friends” is being released on Netflix in its entirety. Apologies to anyone who invested in a DVD set. To be honest, it wasn’t my favourite show at the time, I was way more into Seinfeld. But I watched, and so did everyone else. It was a trendsetting […]
Group Study Guide – Friend
Are you meeting regularly with a discussion group? If you meet just once a week, you can find all of this week’s discussion questions in one place right here. Question: How would you define a true friend? Would this person be a friend to even the friendless? Reading: “This is my commandment, that you […]