by nuc | Feb 4, 2026 | News
John 5:1-18 At first glance, John 5 looks like a simple healing story. A man who has been ill for decades is restored. He stands, picks up his mat, and walks. But the deeper disruption isn’t physical, it’s communal. For thirty-eight years, this man has lived on the...
by nuc | Feb 2, 2026 | News
John 5:1-18 Some waiting is short and defined. And then there is the kind of waiting that stretches on so long it begins to shape who we are. In John 5, we meet a man who has been waiting for healing for thirty-eight years. He waits by the pool, watching others step...
by nuc | Jan 28, 2026 | News
John 4:1-42 There are so many reasons Jesus shouldn’t have stopped at the well in Samaria, reasons that he should have just gone home. He was tired. It was midday. The woman was a Samaritan. She was alone. She was a woman in a world where men didn’t engage her...
by nuc | Jan 26, 2026 | News
John 4:1-42 The story of Jesus and the Samaritan woman unfolds in an ordinary place: a well. Not a sanctuary.Not a holy mountain.Just a place people go because they need water. And yet, it is here – in the heat of the day, in the middle of routine – that...
by nuc | Jan 21, 2026 | News
John 3:1–21 Some passages of Scripture feel familiar enough that we stop listening closely. John 3:16 is one of those verses. It’s printed on signs, memorized early, repeated often. And yet, when we place it back into its setting, it sounds different: deeper, gentler,...
