The Best Shepherd Introduction Working on Car, Oil Leak, wanting to “get it right” [EXPAND] If a $1,000 repair job is important enough to want to get right, how much more so our faith. When you’re looking at a church to attend, when you’re looking at elders and preachers and what a church teaches, and…

Counterfeit Jesus John 6:25–35 “When they found him on the other side of the lake, they said to him, “Rabbi, when did you get here?” Jesus replied, “I tell you the solemn truth, you are looking for me not because you saw miraculous signs, but because you ate all the loaves of bread you wanted. Do not…

Discipleship through Relationship Introduction One of the things that Jesus did often was pray. We as a church ought to model our prayer life after that of Jesus. But what’s interesting, if you read through the accounts of Jesus’ life, we actually don’t get a LOT of the details surrounding Jesus’ prayer…

Into the Light Introduction John 3 , if you have your bible’s please make your way to John 3 . On August 5th 2010, Jose Henriquez kissed his wife blanca, got up and left work, and clocked in to his shift at the copper mine Jose, the 55 year old man, had done this for 33 years. And as he went in to work…

The Reason for the Season INTRODUCTION Holiday Traditions, breaking traditions. Cultural, National and Religious Holidays. Jesus upset the traditions, and re-framed these holidays, and explained that they point to him. NARATIO Sevens Series. Looking at these Groups of Sevens. Seven Miracles/Signs that…

He Is Setup: Argument with the Jewish people. About who is truly a son of Abraham, and how they should listen to Jesus as their teacher, and obey him . Your father Abraham rejoiced at the thought of seeing my day; he saw it and was glad.” “You are not yet fifty years old,” they said to him, “and you…

All Our Needs Introduction Maslow’s Heirarchy of Needs Transition Seven’s Sermon Series Roadmap Big Idea: Jesus meets all of our needs Point Statement State the idea simply in one sentence Explanation John 6 - Jesus had just finished feeding 5,000 people. When they found him on the other side of the…

The Hour Has Come Introduction Early people and late people. Working on God’s timeline. Throughout the book of John there is this theme of Jesus’ hour H-O-U-R like an hourglass. Where there is sort of an expectation of him being the messiah, and doing messiah things. But then the text will say something…

Can I Get a Witness Introduction P52 Papyri. I showed this on tuesday night a few weeks ago. Oldest surviving manuscript of the new testament in existence. Dated to the early 2nd century. This was written within 30 years of when John wrote his original. Less than a hundred years after the events of Jesus…

Here’s Your Sign INTRODUCTION John 2 “On the third day a wedding took place at Cana in Galilee. Jesus’ mother was there, and Jesus and his disciples had also been invited to the wedding. When the wine was gone, Jesus’ mother said to him, “They have no more wine.” “Woman, why do you involve me?” Jesus…