In the Beginning

You can’t really understand the real Jesus if you only look at his birth and his death. You must also look at his words and his deeds during his life.

To study the words and deeds of Jesus, we’re going to look in the Gospel of John, starting with John 1. It’s one of the most famous passages of the Bible, with too much great stuff to possibly discuss it all.

So I’d like to give a top-level view of it, looking at the three main parts: 1) a radical, amazing claim, 2) the rejectio...