Have you ever felt like you were trying to hold everything together on your own strength? In John 15, Jesus offers us a picture that gently corrects that thinking. He says He is the vine, His Father is the gardener, and we are the branches. And branches were never designed to survive by themselves. To…
Introduction John 15 is one of the clearest pictures Jesus gives about what it truly means to live closely connected to Him. Throughout this chapter, Jesus speaks about the vine and the branches, obedience, love, fruitfulness, friendship with God, persecution, and truth. Together, these verses reveal that the Christian life is not sustained by human…