John 17: The Real Lord’s Prayer (3) “And this is eternal life, that they know you, the only true God, and Jesus Christ whom you have sent.” (17:3) Apart from anything else, what I find striking about this verse is that it is, I am sure, the only place where Jesus refers to himself in…

Charles Ross was a Free Church of Scotland Minister in the mid 1900s, serving in Aberdeen and Tobermory.  In a lovely commentary on John 13-17, the account of Jesus’ time in the Upper Room with his disciples, he quoted others who had said of John 17, “This chapter is the simplest to all the Bible…

Introduction There are many ways in which we can learn to pray, but perhaps the best is to listen in on and learn from those who are more experienced in prayer. There are certainly those who seem to have a special gifting in prayer and when we see and listen to them, we sense something…