Second Sunday of Lent: Unarmed - Love Without Leverage
It's the Second Sunday of Lent The season of Lent offers us a time to consider how best to identify with Jesus during the forty days from the Cross to Easter. This series will teach us what it means to face injustice, evil, and suffering by laying down everything but love. Today, we are going to be studying a passage from John’s Gospel that contains one of the most famous verses in the Bible, as we learn what it means to surrender to the transforming power of the Spirit. It's time we took a long, hard look inside ourselves to see what is truly motivating us. Are we being led by the Spirit, or our own ideas of what it means to be a follower of Jesus? GRACE DOESN’T COME WITH LEVERAGE, IT COMES WITH SURRENDER. John 3:1-17 Now there was a Pharisee named Nicodemus, a leader of the Jews. 2 He came to Jesus[a] by night and said to him, “Rabbi, we know that you are a teacher who has come from God, for no one can do these signs that you do unless God i...