Insight! with Garry Nation
Garry Nation is an unusual combination: an award winning actor and narrator who is also a Bible scholar with a PhD. He also sings and plays music sometimes.
Episodes
April 25, 2024 • 39 mins
Why does John choose to focus on only seven of Jesus' miracles, and what is their significance? These questions answered in this talk. John 1 - 11.
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April 17, 2024 • 47 mins
Jesus performs the seventh and most dramatic sign of all, the raising of Lazarus from the dead. John 11.
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April 12, 2024 • 36 mins
In Jerusalem during the Feast of Dedication (Hanukkah), Jesus makes his most controversial statement yet. John 10:22-42.
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April 4, 2024 • 37 mins
The conversation between Jesus and the Pharisees begun in Chapter 9 continues. They've demanded to know who he is to do the things he does. He responds, "I am the Good Shepherd" a phrase more loaded with prophetic implications than we might imagine. John 10:1-21.
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March 29, 2024 • 42 mins
After proclaiming himself to be the light of the world, Jesus gives a fitting sign of his identity: he heals a man of blindness who had been born that way. The once-blind-now-seeing man encounters surprising blowback. John 9
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March 24, 2024 • 35 mins
The discussion and debate from Chapter 7 moves from the open court of the Temple a little further in, to the Treasury. The topic shifts from Jesus' proclamation of the gospel to what he has to say about himself--leading to an explosive climax. John 8:12-59.
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March 24, 2024 • 36 mins
On the last, great day of the feast Jesus publicly proclaims fulfillment of the prophets' promise of Living Water, and expounds on the gift of the Holy Spirit. John 7:32-52
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March 15, 2024 • 36 mins
Jesus attends the Feast of Tabernacles privately, and his public absence prompts widespread conversation about him. When he emerges to teach toward the end of the week, the divergent opinions are brought into the open as well--and he refutes them all. John 7:1-31.
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March 8, 2024 • 40 mins
With Passover at hand, Jesus admonishes his seekers to pursue the bread of life. He then tells them, "I am the bread of life." Then their doubts and questions arise. John 6:22-72.
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February 29, 2024 • 34 mins
All the Gospels depict the miracle of the feeding of the 5000, but only John connects it temporally and thematically to the Passover. And John is one of three evangelists who tell of Jesus walking on the Sea of Galilee to his disciples, but again he implies a connection to the Exodus. John 6:1-21.
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February 22, 2024 • 33 mins
Jesus singled out a man at the Pool of Bethesda who suffered from lameness, healed him, and stirred up a huge Sabbath controversy in the process— something familiar to us from the Synoptic Gospels, but here in John, Jesus takes it to a new level. John 5.
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February 17, 2024 • 42 mins
This is a chapter full of surprises: Jesus' astonishing revelation to a most unlikely person, the reception in Samaria, and his cool response to a Herodian official's request for his child's healing. John 4.
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February 8, 2024 • 37 mins
In this passage we hear testimony from John the Baptist followed by testimony from John the author of the Gospel, who clearly lays out the stakes of God's sending His Son into the world. John 3:22-36
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February 6, 2024 • 34 mins
One of the best known Bible verses is not only a concise summary of the gospel, it also leads off one of the most theologically rich passages in the Bible. John 3:16-21.
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January 30, 2024 • 33 mins
A religious leader named Nicodemus came to Jesus by night. Jesus answered questions he didn't know he had, and introduced a controversial and often misunderstood teaching: that one must be born again to enter the kingdom of God. John 3:1-15.
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January 23, 2024 • 39 mins
The overarching theme of the Gospel of John is Believing. Several sub-themes will contribute to it. In chapter 2 the author introduces the theme of Signs. The first sign Jesus performs is one only a few people knew about. But it was followed by a very public act that brought him a lot of attention. John 2:1-25.
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January 16, 2024 • 33 mins
In the midst of the Prologue, the author introduces one of the main themes of the Gospel: Witness. John 1:6-8, 19-51.
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January 16, 2024 • 32 mins
The Gospel of John is unique in many ways. The author explicitly tells us his purpose for writing in Chapter 20, verses 30 and 31.
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January 10, 2024 • 30 mins
The Prologue to the Gospel of John (1:1-18) is one of the most powerful short themes in all of literature and is foundational to Christian theology. Understanding this passage is crucial to understanding who Jesus is and what is the message of the gospel.
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January 3, 2024 • 53 mins
Jeremiah puts into words the utter devastation and profound grief and pain following the destruction of Jerusalem by the Babylonians. And in the midst of some very uncomfortable truths he reveals one of the most comforting truths expressed in the entire Bible.
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