In this message Peter kicks off our new series in the Gospel of John. We will be taking all of 2020 to go through John, 40 weeks with John the Evangelist, spread out over the coming year. In this opening message we learn about who John really was, when and why he wrote this Gospel, and we receive an invitation to allow God to plant new life in us and to see it grow and to be birthed in the coming 40 weeks.
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In week two of our series in John we look at John the Baptist and how he viewed himself and how he viewed Christ. Turns out he didn't even really see himself, he just saw Christ. And he saw Christ as three things: Lamb of God, Baptizer in the Holy Spirit and Son of God. In this weeks message we explore what that meant to John and what it means to us.
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The text for this message is about the calling fo Jesus' first disciples. It's all about what it means to be a Jesus follower. What is he calling us to when he calls us to follow? Three things we found in the text. Listen find out what those three things are.
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The miracle of Jesus turning water into wine was more than just saving a bridal couple from social embarrassment. It's a sign that reveals something significant about who Jesus, what he means and why he came. The lesson in this miracle is to be the lens through which we view the call of Jesus to follow him with total commitment. What it points to is our relationship to Jesus as that of a bride to her groom! In viewing Christ like that, total commitment takes on a new dimension.
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Jesus was zealous for the temple, for His House, meant to be a house of prayer for all people - for the nations. It was distorted and corrupted in his day, and so came in anger. But through his death and resurrection he has restored the true temple, access back to Eden and so now made us to be His New Temple - filled with the Holy Spirit we are to be that reflection of his glory and light to the nations. He is still zealous for His temple. He is zealous for you!
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Jesus said to Nicodemus unless you are born again of water and the Spirit, you cannot enter the Kingdom of God. Being born again, Jesus said, is an absolute necessity. Why is that? And what does it mean to be born again and how do you know that you are born again? Those are the questions tackled in this message on John 3:1-15.
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In this weeks text we return to John the Baptist who we spent time with in chapter one. John, the gospel writer, seems to be offering us a contract between John the Baptist and Nicodemus who we looked at last week. In this weeks teaching we ask the question where does your joy come from? For John the Baptist it comes from Christ. But can we really have that kind of joy even when things are not going well? Pastor Peter shares his own struggles in that arena this week but also offers some hope and direction for how to return to that true source of real joy every single day.
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In this powerful and deeply personal message, D'Vante looks at the cultural statement Jesus made by talking to the Sarmitain woman who is sometimes known as "The Woman At the Well." In this teaching we see how Jesus' encounter with this woman shows God's value for people.
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This is part two of a message on John 4 and the woman at the well. In this teaching D'Vante talks about the void that exists in each one of us and how only God can fill it.
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In this message we learn all about faith: what it is, where it comes from, how it matures. And we need faith right now as we battle the fears associated with the coronavirus crisis. We need to learn how to choose faith over fear. This text points the way.
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For Palm Sunday we jump ahead in our John series to John 12 and the record of Jesus entering Jeruslam with crowds hailing him as a hero, hoping he'll become a second but greater Simon Maccabees. Jesus is more ambitious than that though. He's after the whole world.
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The Resurrection account in John 20:1-18 offers us three things: 1) A real and rational hope, 2) Demonstrates the Depths of Grace, and 3) It invites us into a love affair with the one who knows our name. He is Risen!
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In this sermon D'Vante and Grace team up to deliver an awesome message based on John 6:1-18 and the Feeding of the 5000.
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People respond to Jesus and Jesus responds to people in four different ways in our text for this week. Which one are you?
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Jesus couldn't get rid of the crowds until he said the startling, shocking things he says about himself in this weeks text. This message tackles the first half of a highly significant dialoge between Jesus and some of his disciples.
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In this text Jesus says some of the most shocking things you'll ever hear him say in the Bible. "Unless you my flesh and drink my blood you have no life in you." "My flesh is real food, my blood is real drink." What?! Find out what this means (I think) in this weeks message.
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In this message Pastor D'Vante gives a practical application to our John 6 theme of feeding on Jesus as the Bread of Life and how we do that through prayer and reading the Word. It's all about relationahip and communication with God empowered by the Spirit.
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In this Pentecost message, starting with John 6:63, Peter gives a topical overview of the theme of the Holy Spirit in the Gospel of John. He then shares about what happened on Pentecost in Acts 2 and how that event was the beginning of the end of racism.
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