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Join ECC as we look at 1 John 1:1-10 for two elements essential to growing in our relationship with Jesus Christ.

Through grace, God gives us victory in Christ Jesus. We have victory and triumph over death. But we don't have to wait to live this victory. Our victory is 100% in Christ Jesus - right now!

If God is the God of all grace, then does God offer grace in a limited supply, or does the God of all grace want us to experience all the grace of God? Are we short-changing ourselves and those around us by not experiencing the even more that grace has in store during the rest of our lives?

Experience the even more that grace has in store for us!

Jesus has to be first in everything we do and everything we're about. How do we put Jesus first in our lives? In Colossians 1 we find good news - God has put us in a place so Jesus can be First!

From the day we're born till the day we die, we're guaranteed will change. Life happens and we don't always know what our days will bring; yet, we can rest in the Truth that God is constant!

When it comes to planting seed for the Kingdom, we often put ourselves at the center of the story. We ask: "How good is the seed I planted doing?" But it's not about us. It's about the One who causes the growth!

Why do we focus on a disease like Malaria? In John 21:15-17, Jesus told Peter three times "Tend my lambs. Feed my sheep."

Kylie Foley, Imagine No Malaria Florida Field Coordinator, shares real, lifesaving ways we can answer Jesus' call to tend His lambs, feed His sheep.

*We apologize as the first portion of the sermon was not recorded.

John 15: 9-17

“As the Father has loved me, so have I loved you. Now remain in my love. If you keep my commands, you will remain in my love, just as I have kept my Father’s commands and remain in his love. I have told you this so that my joy may be in you and that your joy may be complete. My command is this: Love each other as I have loved you. Greater love has no one than this: to lay down one’s life for one’s friends. You are my friends if you do what I command. I no longer call you servants, because a servant does not know his master’s business. Instead, I have called you friends, for everything that I learned from my Father I have made known to you. You did not choose me, but I chose you and appointed you so that you might go and bear fruit—fruit that will last—and so that whatever you ask in my name the Father will give you. This is my command: Love each other."

The Fifth Sunday of Easter

John 15: 1-8

”I am the true vine, and my Father is the vinegrower. He removes every branch in me that bears no fruit. Every branch that bears fruit he prunes to make it bear more fruit. You have already been cleansed by the word that I have spoken to you. Abide in me as I abide in you. Just as the branch cannot bear fruit by itself unless it abides in the vine, neither can you unless you abide in me. I am the vine, you are the branches. Those who abide in me and I in them bear much fruit, because apart from me you can do nothing. 6Whoever does not abide in me is thrown away like a branch and withers; such branches are gathered, thrown into the fire, and burned. If you abide in me, and my words abide in you, ask for whatever you wish, and it will be done for you. My Father is glorified by this, that you bear much fruit and become my disciples. (NRSV)