Harvest Bible Chapel

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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Have you ever been mistaken for someone you're not? Pastor Jeff Bucknam has, and it got him thinking about counterfeits. The kind that look convincing from a distance, but don't hold up on closer inspection.

That's exactly what Jesus is dealing with in John chapter 8. He's surrounded by people who have, in some sense, believed in Him. They followed Him. They used the right words. From a distance, it looked real. But Jesus isn't impressed by appearances — and in this passage, He draws a sharp and uncomfortable line between counterfeit faith and the genuine article.

And here's what makes this passage so unsettling: the people Jesus is talking to don't think they have a problem. They're confident they're on the right side.

We're in John 8:31-59 in our series Believe! The Gospel of John. This week Pastor Jeff Bucknam walks us through three facts about false belief — what it is, how to recognize it, and where it ultimately leads.

This is Counterfeit Faith. Let's get into it.

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Most of us think of faith as something complicated — too many questions, too much uncertainty, too much to figure out. But in John 8, Jesus lays it out in the plainest terms possible. There is a debt. There is a choice. And there is a cross that proves everything.

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What do you do when the light is right in front of you — and you still can't see? In John 8, Jesus makes one of the most stunning claims in all of Scripture: I am the light of the world. But the people standing closest to Him walk away unchanged. Today, Pastor Jeff Thompson opens John 8:12–20 and asks the question the whole passage is built around: do you see? This is Believe! The Gospel of John.

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Most of us come to Ephesians the way we'd enjoy a beautiful hotel room — we find our favorite truths, settle in, and feel at home. But Paul didn't write a room. He wrote a palace.

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We all hit moments when we look around and realize — we are in over our heads. The problem is too big, the burden too heavy, the road too long. And in those moments, the most important question you can ask is the one Psalm 121 opens with: where does your help come from? Today Pastor Christian Constante walks us through one of the most beloved psalms in all of Scripture — and the answer is better than you think.

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Every crowd that encounters Jesus has to answer the same question — and it's not a comfortable one. In John chapter 7, the tension is rising. The religious leaders are threatened. The crowds are split. And in the middle of it all, Jesus stands up and makes an invitation that stops everything.

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There's something uniquely heartbreaking about being close to Jesus — and still missing Him.

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