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When Pastor Jeff was a kid and his parents went away, they often left him a to-do list. The night before the cross, Jesus does something similar for His disciples. He's leaving, they're afraid, and He tells them exactly how to live until He returns.

This is Believe! The Gospel of John. Pastor Jeff Thompson takes us through John 13 and 14 in a message called "While I'm Away." Let's get into it.

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Most of us remember the first time a close friend turned on us, and that sick feeling in the pit of your stomach. Jesus felt it too, and it came from one of the Twelve. So what do we make of people who follow Jesus for a while, then walk away?

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Imagine the President showing up at your house to scrub your toilet. You'd stop him. It's beneath him. Now picture the One who holds all authority in the universe kneeling with a towel to wash dirty feet, including the feet of the man about to betray him.

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When something is too big for words, we turn to poetry. That's exactly what happens in Romans 11:33–36 — Paul is so overwhelmed by God that all he can do is burst into song. Today, Pastor Jeff Bucknam walks us through that hymn of praise, showing us a God who is wiser, better, and the whole point of it all. This is 'To Only God Be the Glory.'

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Word had spread across Jerusalem: Jesus raised a man from the dead. Everyone had to decide what to do with that. The religious leaders plotted to kill him. A grieving sister poured out a year's wages in perfume on his feet. And a trusted friend, smiling the whole time, was already planning to betray him. Same news, three completely different responses — and today, we're asking which one looks like ours. This is Believe! The Gospel of John.

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There was a season of my life when I lived above a morgue. Late-night garage doors rolling open below my floor. Embalming. Makeup on someone who'd never wear it again. Before that, death was something that happened to other people. Most of us keep it that way — we make the dead look alive, we keep the kids away from funerals.

But death doesn't stay at arm's length forever. Eventually you're the one sitting alone next to a body you love. And when that day comes, you want more than a philosophy. You want an answer.

Every religion has tried to give one. Enough good lives and maybe you dissolve into eternity. Enough good works and maybe the scale tips your way. Or — just take what you can get, because after this, nothing.

Jesus gives a different answer. And he gives it outside a tomb that's already started to smell.

In John 11, Lazarus has been dead four days when Jesus finally shows up. What happens next shows us three things: death is overwhelming, Jesus feels it too, and Jesus overwhelms death anyway.

Pastor Jeff Bucknam brings us "Lazarus: Back By Popular Demand," from John 11:17–44. Let's get into it.

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You get the call. Someone you love is in trouble, and you expect help to come right away. But it doesn't. Not that hour. Not that day. The silence stretches on, and you're left wondering if anyone's coming at all.

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Have you ever been in an argument where the other person refuses to engage with the evidence? No matter what you say or show, they've already made up their minds.

That's exactly where Jesus finds himself at the Feast of Dedication — what we know today as Hanukkah. After three chapters of debate with the religious leaders, they still won't budge. So Jesus ends the argument.

But what he says isn't just for them. It's for anyone who's wondered whether their faith is secure, whether the evidence holds up, and whether there's something here worth staking your life on.

John 10:22–39. Pastor Jeff Bucknam. A Voice to Follow, Safe Hands, and Compelling Evidence. Let's get into it.

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Spend enough time around sheep and you start to understand why God compares us to them. They wander into ditches. They roll onto their backs and can't get up. They need constant rescuing — and somehow, they keep ending up in the same predicaments over and over again.

It's not exactly a flattering comparison. But Jesus leans into it fully in John chapter 10 — and what he says about the shepherd changes everything.

In this passage, Jesus draws a sharp contrast between the leaders who were supposed to care for God's people and actually used them, and a shepherd who is so committed to his flock that he knows every sheep by name — and is willing to lay down his life for them.

That's who Jesus says he is. And if that's true, it has something to say to anyone who is scared, or ashamed, or feels like they're coming up short.

We're in John 10:1-18 in our series Believe! The Gospel of John. This is A Shepherd, Some Thieves, and the Sheep. Let's get into it.

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A picture is worth a thousand words. Jesus knew that. He feeds five thousand hungry people — and then calls himself the bread of life. He meets a thirsty woman at a well — and offers her living water. He declares himself the light of the world — and then gives sight to a man who has never seen a single thing in his entire life.

That's where we are today in John chapter 9. And this story isn't just a miracle — it's an object lesson. A picture of what it looks like when someone moves from blindness to sight, from darkness to light, from not knowing who Jesus is to worshiping him.

We're going to follow two debates: one between Jesus and his disciples, and one between a formerly blind beggar and the most powerful religious leaders in Jerusalem. And by the end, you'll see that the man who couldn't see was never the one who was really blind.

We're in John 9:1–41, in our series Believe! The Gospel of John. Pastor Jeff Bucknam is preaching, and this is I See.

Let's get into it.

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