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John 1:7-8
“He came as a witness to testify concerning that light, so that through him all might believe. He himself was not the light; he came only as a witness to the light.” John the Baptist is still being talked about here in this passage. We see the mission for which God has sent him—to bear…
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John 1:6
“There was a man sent from God, whose name was John.” After talking about the God man, Jesus, a second man is introduced. Who is this man? He is the man simply described in his introduction as a man sent from God. John the Baptist—not to be confused with John the writer of the gospel—is the…
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John 1:5
“The light shines in the darkness, and the darkness has not overcome it.” There are two competing forces that Johns shows in this verse: the light and the darkness. These have always been commonly known to oppose each other, but what do they represent? The Light we get clues to what it represents in…
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10th Anniversary in South Dakota
It is crazy to think Thomas and I have been married for so long, but we celebrated our 10th anniversary in 2024. Because of scheduling conflicts, we didn’t get to take our celebratory trip until close to August. That turned out to be a bit of a good thing because we didn’t decide until about…
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John 1:4
“In him was life, and the life was the light of men” The previous context for this verse is how Jesus is the creator of all things and how nothing was made without Him. Here, we see the paraphrase of this context “in Him was life.” Reiterating in practical terms the same thing that…
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John 1:2+3
“He was in the beginning with God. All things were made through him, and without Him was not any thing made that was made.” The first phrase is a repeat of what came in the first verse to emphasize how important it is to know that Jesus was in the beginning with God. This is…
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John 1:1
“In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.” As this is the beginning of the gospel of John there, is not previous context in this book. The first phrase gives us all the context we need, “In the Beginning.” John is starting all the way…
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Intro to John
I will be going through John Verse by verse over the next forseeable future. I want to use this to help people supplement their own scripture reading as I think it is really important that everyone reads the Bible everyday. I will be going through John in the English Standard version for anyone who wants…
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In Love with the New In-Law
The biggest reason for Thomas and me finally taking to Vanlife at this time is so we can get to Michigan in time for a very special celebration. My baby brother, Joey, moved to Singapore not long after graduating from Berkeley in December 2022. All of us missed him right away and I worried he…
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We Have Walls
We got our walls and ceiling done in May 2024. We had gone back and forth on the method and materials we wanted to use. There were two main avenues we were pursuing. We wanted to either attach treated plywood to the existing metal framing using rivet nuts and bolts or create a wood frame…
The Traveling Mountains 