Have you ever felt the shame of missing an opportunity to speak on behalf of Jesus? Perhaps you were in a situation when someone said something derogatory about the Christian faith, or something that was wholly inaccurate about salvation, or denigrated those who follow Christ. At that moment, though troubled...

“Now judgment is upon this world,” declared Jesus in our passage this Sunday. It isn’t a new theme in the Gospel of John. Nineteen verses in this short book take up the theme of judgment on the world. Such a pattern indicates that it is an important topic, and one...