Exodus 4:7-15John 2:1-11 and John 11:20-27

For many people, the gospel according to John is at the heart of the whole Bible. I've known people who have read it over and over again, several times a year, and each time they have found God's blessing and God's comfort.

And so do I. "I am the Resurrection and the Life ...," Jesus says, and that alone is comforting enough, but for me there's something even more comforting in those words.

I guess we all know most of the "I am ..." statements of the Master.

"Truly, truly, I say to you, before Abraham was, I am," Jesus says in John 8:58.

"I am the Bread of Life," Jesus says in John 6:35, "he who comes to me shall not hunger, and he who believes in me shall never thirst."

"I am the Light of the world; he who follows me will not walk in darkness, but will…