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After generations in slavery to Egypt and then 40 years of wandering in the wilderness, Israel was finally entering into the Promised Land. In Joshua 4, God gives a command: to take stones and create a monument to remember the character and work of God. In this message, Pastor Steve starts a new tradition for New Creation Church to stop each year and remember the faithfulness of God.
In this message from John 11 where Jesus raises Lazarus from the dead, we see:
1) Jesus does the unexpected
2) Jesus demonstrates his humanity
3) Jesus displays his divinity
John 9 is more than the healing of a blind guy. It's a lifetime of discovery and growth in understanding in who Jesus is compressed into one single day. The man born blind grows:
from seeing Jesus as a man
to a prophet
to clinging to his testimony when others attack his faith
to identifying himself as a disciple
to grasping that Jesus is from God
to "Lord I believe"
The Pharisees were using the woman as a pawn in their plot to trap Jesus. But John 8:1-11 is not the story of Jesus caught in a trap, but of Jesus taking both the sin and shame of this woman upon himself. When all eyes were on her and she was the center of attention, Jesus became the center of attention and all eyes were on him. What an incredible act of compassion, gentleness and kindness from Jesus!
But the story gets better still for it is at the cross where our story meets the story of this woman. On the cross, justice is satisfied as sin in punished by death. And on the cross, mercy is exalted as that death is taken by Jesus, not us.
It is on the cross, as Psalm 85:10 summarizes, "where mercy and justice meet, where righteousness and peace kiss." Mercy and justice meet for us eternally and perfectly through his finished work on the cross!
In this message from John 4:46:5:18, we see:
2 men
2 settings
2 needs
2 healings and
3 responses - faith, indifference and hostility.
As Jesus asked the invalid, "Do you want to be healed?"
When the Samaritan woman encounters Jesus at Jacob's well in John 4:1-45, we learn 6 things:
1) Jesus ordained the encounter
2) Jesus is greater than Jacob because he is the God of Jacob
3) Jesus is the Living Water
4) Jesus sees her
5) Jesus is the Messiah
6) Jesus receives all who come to him in faith
"For God so loved the world..." The most famous words in the whole Bible. Or as John 3:16 has been called, "a power verse." Pastor Steve continues our series with Nicodemus encountering Jesus, the teacher graduating to student where he learns:
The surprising sovereignty of the Spirit.
The sufficient sacrifice of the Son.
The steadfast love of the Father.
Guest speaker, Pastor Pilgrim, continues our series on Encounters with Jesus by looking at the encounter that Philip and Nathanael have with Jesus in John 1.
When Jesus calls, we respond.
When Jesus confronts, we repent.
When Jesus comforts, we rest.
The greatness of Jesus transforms us into his witnesses, roots our purpose and worth, and grants us peace for our doubts. When John the Baptist encountered Jesus, he revealed to us just how great Jesus is.
Jesus is greater than the Law and the Prophets.
Jesus is greater than the Old Testament sacrificial system.
Jesus is greater even than time itself.
And Jesus is greater because he is the Son of God.
John 1:14 tells us that Jesus came "full of grace and truth." What happens in our lives without grace and truth? We can easily become prideful of what we have or anxious about what we don't have. But when we encounter Jesus "full of grace and truth", we find that grace makes us secure while truth makes us humble.
Pastor Steve introduces our new series on "Encounters with Jesus." The gospel of John features several individual encounters that people have with Jesus. But those encounters are not merely historical record, but an invitation that we, too, can encounter Jesus. God has made himself knowable in Jesus. God has made it so we can encounter Jesus. But we must not simply encounter Jesus: we much believe that he is the Christ and that by believing in him, we may have life in his name.
Luke 16 records one of the more confusing of Jesus' stories about a manager who cuts deals to garner favor before he gets fired. What does it mean? Pastor Steve summarizes it like this:
Because our true home is with Christ, we can use the fleeting wealth of this world to invest in the world that will never end.
The most famous story Jesus ever told (Luke 15) was about a father and his relationship with each of his two sons. The younger son was lost by leaving, only to be found and celebrated (previous message in this series). In this message, Pastor Steve focuses on on the older son who was lost even while he stayed. He was lost in his bitterness and self-righteousness. The story Jesus tells invited us to ask: How am I like this older son?
The most famous of the stories Jesus told was about a father with two sons. Both were lost, one was lost by leaving and the other was lost even as he stayed. In this message from Luke 15, Pastor Steve investigates the relationship between the son who left and his father through the lens of two questions:
For all that you've gained, what have you lost?
For all that you've lost, what have you gained?
In Luke 15, Jesus tells 3 stories that come together to form one parable about lost things. In this message, Pastor Steve looks at the first two stories about a lost sheep and a lost coin. Then he asks:
1) How are we like the lost sheep and lost coin?
2) How are we not like the lost sheep and lost coin?