 | Donal Harrington, Julie Kavanagh - 1998 - 256 pages
...without end. Amen. Ttying to Live your Life Focusing Unless a grain of wheat falls into the ground and dies, it remains just a single grain; but if it dies it bears much fruit. Those who love their life lose it, and those who hate their life in this world will keep it for eternal... | |
 | Photina Rech - 1998 - 130 pages
...to be glorified. Very truly, unless a grain of wheat falls into the earth and dies, it remains only a single grain; but if it dies, it bears much fruit" (John 12:23-24). The question prods us to consider first the purpose of such images. These words were spoken... | |
 | graf Leo Tolstoy - 2000 - 130 pages
...ourselves are standing at the same point in the cycle. 1 . Very truly I tell you, unless a grain of wheat falls into the earth and dies, it remains just a single grain; but if it dies, it bears much fruit. Those who love their life lose it, and those who hate their life in this world will keep it for eternal... | |
 | J. Robert Baker, Barbara Budde - 1999 - 164 pages
...beasts to make a pure loaf for Christ. First century VERY truly, I tell you, unless a grain of wheat falls into the earth and dies, it remains just a single grain; but if it dies, it bears much fruit. lohn 12:24 o UR life — to be eucharistic — must be wheat — seed and soil — light and darkness,... | |
 | Christopher Kleinhenz, Fannie LeMoine - 1999 - 242 pages
...short parable in John 12:24, where the Lord says: "Very truly, I tell you, unless a grain of wheat falls into the earth and dies, it remains just a single grain, but if it dies, it bears much fruit." We tried to accept both: if a Church is reduced in size and possibilities by a secular power, that... | |
 | Grant R. Osborne, Philip W. Comfort - 1999 - 502 pages
..."body." Jesus had given the same metaphor for his own death in John l2:24. "Unless a grain of wheat falls into the earth and dies. it remains just a single grain: but if it dies il hears much fruit" lNRSV). Jesus was referring i0 what his death would accomplish. hut his analogy... | |
 | Sheila O'Connell-Roussell, Therese Vorndran Nichols - 1999 - 130 pages
...will continue past death into eternity. Jesus promised: "Unless a grain of wheat falls to the ground and dies, it remains just a single grain; but if it dies, it brings forth much fruit. People who love their life will lose it, but people who hate their life in... | |
 | David Noel Freedman, Michael J. McClymond - 2001 - 720 pages
...that Jesus and his followers must undergo (Mark 10:38-40; cf. Luke 12:50). "Unless a grain of wheat falls into the earth and dies, it remains just a single...but if it dies, it bears much fruit" (John 12:24). In its positive aspect, Jesus' teaching offered the prospect of a transformed self and a transformed... | |
 | Nora Bradbury-Haehl - 2000 - 96 pages
...must die to come into eternal life with God. In the Scriptures Jesus says, "Unless a grain of wheat falls into the earth and dies, it remains just a single...but if it dies, it bears much fruit" [John 12:24]. So it was with Jesus; he died and came to life again. So it is with us; we will die and rise again.... | |
 | Eddie Gibbs - 2000 - 256 pages
..."The hour has come for the Son of Man to be glorified. Very truly, I tell you, unless a grain of wheat falls into the earth and dies, it remains just a single grain; but if it dies, it bears much fruit. . . . Whoever serves me must follow me, and where I am, there will my servant be also. Whoever serves... | |
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Very truly, I tell you, unless a grain of wheat falls into the earth and dies, it remains just a single grain; but if it dies, it bears much fruit. 
