Category: <span>Sermons</span>

This morning we enter our third week of looking at John 3:3-11, it is a passage we tend to rush through because we hear “you must be born again” and we assume we already have all the understanding we need. But there is beauty in the Scriptures being the active and living Word of God...

Last week we started talking about Jesus’ interaction with Nicodemus. Nicodemus was a Pharisee and a member of the Sanhedrin. After Jesus’ cleansing of the temple and His working of signs during the Passover and Feast of Unleavened Bread, Nicodemus approached Him to learn more about Him. He spoke to Jesus as an equal, a...

John chapter 2 closes with this incredible revelation about Jesus, “He knew what was in man”. Last week we closed our time together by talking about the beauty of being known. Being fully known by God isn’t something that should cause us to be afraid or ashamed…Being known means we are never alone. Being known...

This morning we continue our journey through the book of John. Our text, John 2:23-25 tells us that the miracles or “signs” that Jesus was performing in Jerusalem were causing people to begin to “believe in Him”. While Jesus was being believed in as the Messiah, John wrote that Jesus did not “commit Himself” to...

Two weeks ago, we started talking about Jesus’ first cleansing of the Temple as it is recorded here in John 2. Today we are going to continue to look at this passage and see how Jesus is not only righting wrongs, but is revealing Himself as the Messiah. He demonstrates that He is merciful and...

When God moves in unexpected ways, we are faced with the option to become anxious, fearful or worried or we can choose to believe that His heart is trustworthy and see that He desires for us to grow in these places when things don’t go exactly as we have planned. Whether it’s through pain, grief,...

Today’s text presents some questions that we must deal with from the beginning so that we are on sure footing as we walk through it. All four gospels, Matthew, Mark, Luke and John, present us with an account of Jesus cleansing the temple but they do not present us with the same account. Matthew, Mark...

So far in the book of John we have been introduced to Jesus, the Son of God, completely divine and yet somehow completely human. We have been painted a picture of the Messiah as the Creator of the world, the Word who was with God and was God, who was not only before all things...

Over the last few weeks we have begun our study of the book of John by seeing how John introduces us to Jesus. John doesn’t start with Jesus’ genealogy or birth like Matthew and Luke, he doesn’t begin with John the Baptist as Mark does, John begins with Jesus’ eternal nature. It’s important to John...

In his commentary on the book of John, Rodney Whitacre wrote “He who brought the universe into existence now is born within the universe as a human being. This thought is so familiar in Christianity we may no longer be staggered by it.” John began his gospel introducing us to Jesus by saying “In the...