Jesus was no used car salesman. He challenged us to stay faithful no matter how hard Jesus following will inevitably get. His claims to our allegiance were unbounded.

Jesus claimed absolute authority over everything in heaven and on Earth. In his teaching, he claimed to supersede Moses, to have the right to countermand the law. If he was wrong, he would be a raving lunatic or a maniacal liar. If he was right…what do you say he is?

Jesus had incredible power, which he used with maddening restraint. But he didn’t come to fix all of our problems…but he did give us a glimpse of what is coming.

Satan and his demons are incredibly powerful; Jesus infinitely more so. It’s not just demon “possession,” sometimes it’s “under the influence.” All of us allow him to slip in, and unless stopped, he will enslave us. And there is only one powerful enough to stop him.

Storms are incredibly powerful; Jesus infinitely more so. Four big ideas: there is a good kind of fear; fear does not exclude love; God will not keep us out of all the storms; but you can trust him in the storms.

Jesus’ power was unmatched, the power of God. But sometimes we obsess over the wrong things. He didn’t come to fix broken bodies, he came to fix broken souls.

So much information exists to prove that Jesus of Nazareth was a real person. But was he truly the Messiah, son of God? We’re going to look at the stories written about Jesus and some of the people who lived right alongside him and see if we can figure it out.

The classic Christmas story we’ve all heard is pleasant; God born as a baby on a silent night in the little town of Bethlehem. But that’s not all there is to the story. The true Christmas story has more to it than just what we can see.

The Book of John is unique in its telling of the birth story of Jesus. While Matthew and Luke wrote about Jesus’ birth on earth - John stepped back and described how Jesus, the one who is forever, stepped from infinite space into our little world. The very one who created the universe being born as a vulnerable baby.

We're in our second week of Advent and the Christmas series, "The One Who Is." We're looking at the peace that Jesus brought when he came to earth and the miraculous birth story in Luke.