Bucket Full of Grace

The rooster crowed. The world would say that when a Christian fails, it is evidence against God.  The bible shows that a failing Christian isn’t finished.  Jesus sees the failing and still has a plan for you!  We’re going to finish the book of John today with a focus on Simon Peter.  We’ve been through a lot with Simon Peter and the disciples throughout this series in John.  Jesus said, follow me, to a fisherman after miraculously helping them get a huge catch of fish, when they had caught nothing all night. Jesus called him Peter, which means rock, and when Peter said that Jesus is the Christ, the son of the living God, Jesus said, on this rock will I build my church. Peter had failures and compared himself to the others and wanted to be the greatest among the disciples and was told get thee behind me satan. Peter witnessed with his own eyes and was part of many miracles, from the feeding of the five thousand to the healing of the paralyzed, the lepers, the bli...

Name: Joses or Joseph [Nickname: Barnabas meaning son of encouragement or son of prophecy] Scripture References:           Also called JOSES A prophet Acts 13:1 Now there were in the church that was at Antioch certain prophets and teachers; as Barnabas, and Simeon that was called Niger, and Lucius of Cyrene, and Manaen, which had been brought up with Herod the tetrarch, and Saul.          An apostle Acts 14:14 Which when the apostles, Barnabas and Paul, heard of, they rent their clothes, and ran in among the people, crying out,           A Levite who gave his possessions to be owned in common with other disciples Acts 4:36-37 And Joses, who by the apostles was surnamed Barnabas, (which is, being interpreted, The son of consolation,) a Levite, and of the country of Cyprus, 37 Having land, sold it, and brought the money, and laid it at the apostles' feet.           ...