Sunday Sermons – Pace Campus

Love is ACTION. Pastor Jeff Cranford continues our "Faith, Love, & Hope- The Wonder of it All" sermon series this week as we focus on love.

Christmas is a story of faith, love, hope, and plenty of mystery, leaving us in wonder of it all. Faith is woven throughout the Christmas story as well as this week's sermon.

The Bible is not a book you read and then put on the shelf. Whether you read the Gospel of Matthew, Mark, Luke, John... the Jesus’ story doesn’t end there...

I left you with a teaser last week saying that there’s only one thing more sure than the death of Jesus… Well, we come to that today.— It is the resurrection of Jesus. Jesus Christ fulfilled hundreds, even thousands of years of prophecies...

As we come across the finish line of the Gospel of John, we realize that this is the greatest love story ever told. — Jesus has brought His message to the Jewish people, and now it is time for Him to die. He has prepped His disciples for the fact that He’s gotta die… it is the will of the Father, but there’s no way they really comprehend the way things are going down. - We’re now at the point in the story where He’s made it through the Kangaroo Court. The Roman governor Pontius Pilate could tell that Jesus was obviously no criminal, and these were a bunch of trumped-up charges.— So he tries to dissuade the angry Jewish mob to no avail. They are determined to crucify Jesus, or there will be a revolt, and Pilate can’t (won’t) take that chance. So we pick up in Chapter 19 as Jesus is delivered for crucifixion.

At this point, Jesus could not have told His disciples anymore to encourage or prepare them for all that was about to occur. It’s time. We’re going to do something a little different as we make our way through chapter 18. We will look at all the questions and answers mixed inside the passage.

After putting the disciples on notice that life was about to be turned upside down, causing them to be visibly “troubled”, He said, “I have overcome the world.”—We pick up in the aftermath of that conversation...

John 16 //

Last week, we went over the last of the “I am” statements from Jesus and read where He told them to abide in Him so they could persevere in ministry. Our “intro” today will be from the last half of Chapter 15.