Raised Again

This Sunday we continue our series in the gospel of John, and continue to look at chapter 5, verses 25-29.  In this passage Jesus continues His explanation and teaching after a defiant response to His healing of a paralyzed man that He heals on the Sabbath.  The Jews (Pharisees) complain that the man can’t carry…

Jesus Is God – Believe

This Sunday we continue our series in the gospel of John, and continuing our study of chapter 5, looking at verses 17-24.  In this passage Jesus has selected one random paralyzed man to heal and heals him on the Sabbath.  The Jews (Pharisees) complain that the man can’t carry his bed on the Sabbath.  Again,…

A Hostile Miracle

This Sunday we are back in our series in the gospel of John, and are now at chapter 5, looking at verses 1-16.  In this passage Jesus is back in Jerusalem near the sheepgate at the pool of Bethesda.  Here many crowds of people are gathered including many sick, blind, lame and paralyzed; hoping to…

God Is Still in Control

This Sunday, the Lord laid on my heart to do a different message before we return to our series in the gospel of John.  Our text is 1 Kings 12:1-20.  In this text of scripture, we have a sad story where people fail to obey the Lord, but where God shows them, and us that…

What a Church Does

This Sunday, we continue a brief series we began 2 weeks ago on the local church.  This time we look at what a church does.  I want to spend a little time talking about how the church is described in scripture.  Starting in 1 Corinthians 12:12-31 we look at several metaphors used in scripture to…

What Is the Church?

This Sunday, we take a break from our series in the gospel of John and focus on a series about the local church.  What is the local church?  In a lot of places today there is a misunderstanding of the church, and what it is all about.  A shallow view of the church in recent…

Pseudo-Faith

This Sunday in our series in the gospel of John, we are looking at chapter 4, verses 43-54.  While this passage is talking about faith, and the great faith of the royal official; it starts out dealing with the problematic lack of faith, or what I call pseudo-faith.  Christ has already experienced much pseudo faith…

The Woman at the Well

This Sunday we continue our series in the gospel of John, now entering chapter 4, looking at verses 1-42.  In this passage, John the evangelist, the writer of this gospel, now presents us with a totally different prospect for the gospel than he showed us in chapter 3.  A Samaritan woman that is very much…