A Slow Journey Through John

WEEK 37.3: 22  “If I hadn’t come and spoken to the people of this world, they wouldn’t be sinners. But now they have no excuse for their sin.  23  Whoever hates me also hates the Father.  24  If I hadn’t done works among them that no one else had done, they wouldn’t be sinners. But now they have seen and hated both me and my Father.  25  This fulfills the word written in their Law,  They hated me...

WEEK 37.2: 18  “If the world hates you, know that it hated me first.  19  If you belonged to the world, the world would love you as its own. However, I have chosen you out of the world, and you don’t belong to the world. This is why the world hates you.  20  Remember what I told you, ‘Servants aren’t greater than their master.’ If the world harassed me, it will harass you too. If it kept my word,...

WEEK 37.1: 16  You didn’t choose me, but I chose you and appointed you so that you could go and produce fruit and so that your fruit could last. As a result, whatever you ask the Father in my name, he will give you.  17  I give you these commandments so that you can love each other. SJTJ s a year-long contemplative journey through the Gospel of John. We invite you into Scripture, reflection, and i...

WEEK 36.7 Discussion questions below. Episode Summary In this Week 36 Explore episode, Nick and Jamie look into Jesus's seventh and final "I Am" statement from John 15:1-15, where he declares himself the "true vine." They explore how this metaphor connects to Old Testament imagery of Israel as God's vineyard, unpack the Father's role as the vine grower who lifts up struggling vines and prunes frui...

WEEK 36.6: The Prayer of Examen helps us reflect on the week that was in our Slow Journey Through John. SJTJ s a year-long contemplative journey through the Gospel of John. We invite you into Scripture, reflection, and intentional practices to help you pause, listen, and respond to God’s love in transformative ways.  Weekdays are 10-12-minute devotionals to help you abide in the presence of Jesus...

WEEK 36.5: 12  This is my commandment: love each other just as I have loved you.  13  No one has greater love than to give up one’s life for one’s friends.  14  You are my friends if you do what I command you.  15  I don’t call you servants any longer, because servants don’t know what their master is doing. Instead, I call you friends, because everything I heard from my Father I have made known to...

WEEK 36.4: 9  “As the Father loved me, I too have loved you. Remain in my love.  10  If you keep my commandments, you will remain in my love, just as I kept my Father’s commandments and remain in his love.  11  I have said these things to you so that my joy will be in you and your joy will be complete. SJTJ s a year-long contemplative journey through the Gospel of John. We invite you into Scriptur...

WEEK 36.3: 6  If you don’t remain in me, you will be like a branch that is thrown out and dries up. Those branches are gathered up, thrown into a fire, and burned.  7  If you remain in me and my words remain in you, ask for whatever you want and it will be done for you.  8  My Father is glorified when you produce much fruit and in this way prove that you are my disciples. SJTJ s a year-long contem...

WEEK 36.2:   3  You are already trimmed because of the word I have spoken to you.  4  Remain in me, and I will remain in you. A branch can’t produce fruit by itself, but must remain in the vine. Likewise, you can’t produce fruit unless you remain in me.  5  I am the vine; you are the branches. If you remain in me and I in you, then you will produce much fruit. Without me, you can’t do anything.  S...

WEEK 36.1: 1  “I am the true vine, and my Father is the vineyard keeper.  2  He removes any of my branches that don’t produce fruit, and he trims any branch that produces fruit so that it will produce even more fruit. SJTJ s a year-long contemplative journey through the Gospel of John. We invite you into Scripture, reflection, and intentional practices to help you pause, listen, and respond to God...

WEEK 35.7 Discussion questions below. Episode Summary In this Week 35 explore episode, Nick and Jamie venture outdoors for their first al fresco recording, looking at the second half of John 14 where Jesus promises the Holy Spirit and reveals the profound mystery of divine union. They explore how love for Jesus is expressed through obedience to his teachings, unpack Jesus's promise of "an...

WEEK 35.6: The Prayer of Examen helps us reflect on the week that was in our Slow Journey Through John. DONATE TO THE WILD WAY⁠ .   Your support helps us create spiritual formation and discipleship resources that help people be formed in the image of Christ for the sake of others.  SJTJ s a year-long contemplative journey through the Gospel of John. We invite you into Scripture, reflection, and in...

WEEK 35.5: 15  “I am the true vine, and my Father is the vineyard keeper.  2  He removes any of my branches that don’t produce fruit, and he trims any branch that produces fruit so that it will produce even more fruit.  3  You are already trimmed because of the word I have spoken to you.  4  Remain in me, and I will remain in you. A branch can’t produce fruit by itself, but must remain in the vine...

WEEK 35.4: 1  “I am the true vine, and my Father is the vineyard keeper.  2  He removes any of my branches that don’t produce fruit, and he trims any branch that produces fruit so that it will produce even more fruit.  3  You are already trimmed because of the word I have spoken to you.  4  Remain in me, and I will remain in you. A branch can’t produce fruit by itself, but must remain in the vine....

WEEK 35.3: 28  You have heard me tell you, ‘I’m going away and returning to you.’ If you loved me, you would be happy that I am going to the Father, because the Father is greater than me.  29  I have told you before it happens so that when it happens you will believe.  30  I won’t say much more to you because this world’s ruler is coming. He has nothing on me.  31  Rather, he comes so that the wor...

WEEK 35.2: 25  “I have spoken these things to you while I am with you.  26  The Companion, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in my name, will teach you everything and will remind you of everything I told you. 27  “Peace I leave with you. My peace I give you. I give to you not as the world gives. Don’t be troubled or afraid.  DONATE TO THE WILD WAY⁠ .   Your support helps us create spiritu...

WEEK 35.1: 22  Judas (not Judas Iscariot) asked, “Lord, why are you about to reveal yourself to us and not to the world?” 23  Jesus answered, “Whoever loves me will keep my word. My Father will love them, and we will come to them and make our home with them.  24  Whoever doesn’t love me doesn’t keep my words. The word that you hear isn’t mine. It is the word of the Father who sent me. DONATE TO TH...

WEEK 34.7 Discussion questions below. In this Week 34 explore episode, Nick and Jamie tackle the first half of John 14, where Jesus comforts his troubled disciples with promises of his return and his presence. They explore Jesus's famous declaration "I am the way, the truth, and the life," examining its exclusivity claims and what it means to follow Jesus' way of sacrificial love...

WEEK 34.6: The Prayer of Examen helps us reflect on the week that was in our Slow Journey Through John. NEW RESOURCE: Rhythms of Life spiritual formation course now available as digital download from our website or print version on Amazon . DONATE TO THE WILD WAY⁠ .   Your support helps us create spiritual formation and discipleship resources that help people be formed in the image of Christ for t...

WEEK 34.5: 18  “I won’t leave you as orphans. I will come to you.  19  Soon the world will no longer see me, but you will see me. Because I live, you will live too.  20  On that day you will know that I am in my Father, you are in me, and I am in you.  21  Whoever has my commandments and keeps them loves me. Whoever loves me will be loved by my Father, and I will love them and reveal myself to the...

WEEK 34.4: 15  “If you love me, you will keep my commandments.  16  I will ask the Father, and he will send another Companion, who will be with you forever.  17  This Companion is the Spirit of Truth, whom the world can’t receive because it neither sees him nor recognizes him. You know him, because he lives with you and will be with you. John 13 written and narrated by Jamie! NEW RESOURCE: Rhythms...

WEEK 34.3: 12  I assure you that whoever believes in me will do the works that I do. They will do even greater works than these because I am going to the Father.  13  I will do whatever you ask for in my name, so that the Father can be glorified in the Son.  14  When you ask me for anything in my name, I will do it. John 13 written and narrated by Jamie! NEW RESOURCE: Rhythms of Life spiritual for...

WEEK 34.2: 8  Philip said, “Lord, show us the Father; that will be enough for us.” 9  Jesus replied, “Don’t you know me, Philip, even after I have been with you all this time? Whoever has seen me has seen the Father. How can you say, ‘Show us the Father’?  10  Don’t you believe that I am in the Father and the Father is in me? The words I have spoken to you I don’t speak on my own. The Father who d...

WEEK 34.1: 4  You know the way to the place I’m going.” 5  Thomas asked, “Lord, we don’t know where you are going. How can we know the way?” 6  Jesus answered, “I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me.  7  If you have really known me, you will also know the Father. From now on you know him and have seen him.” John 13 written and narrated by Jamie! NEW RE...

WEEK 33.7 Discussion questions below. Episode Summary In this Week 33 Explore episode, Nick and Jamie jump into the second half of John 13, focusing intensely on Jesus's central theme of love. They explore Jesus' statement that "whoever receives someone I send receives me," examine the dramatic betrayal scene with Judas, and unpack Jesus's "new commandment" to love...