friendship with God

  • Seventeen Days in the Vine

    We didn’t plan to spend seventeen days here. But John 15 has a way of doing that. Seventeen verses — the vine and the branches, pruning, abiding, laying down your life, being called a friend, being chosen — all of it closing with the same sentence it opened with: “Love one another.” This post is a look back at all seventeen days before we move forward. Because John 15 doesn’t end when the series does. It becomes the lens for everything that follows — Genesis to Revelation.

  • No Longer Servants

    There’s a word Jesus uses in John 15:15 that changes everything: servant. Not as a title He’s giving — as a title He’s taking away. A servant does the work but never knows why. Never gets the full picture. Never gets let in. Jesus says that’s not what He’s calling us anymore. He uses a different word — and then tells us exactly what that word means. What does it mean to be called a friend of God?