Sunrise Church

A true encounter with Jesus leads to understanding that sight or walking or even life itself is not one’s truest need, but the healing that Jesus gives is.

After tasting the living water, the Samaritan woman left her jar behind and ran back to her village to invite them to come and see a man “who told me all that I ever did.” Many of them heard her and came to meet Jesus. The outcome was their salvation as they heard Jesus teach.

Jesus satisfies our deepest longings which are demonstrated in our empty pursuits. The encounter with the Samaritan woman at the well is a reminder for us of the life that comes only from Christ and an encouragement to us to offer this water to others so that they may worship the one, true God in spirit and in truth.

True thanks is a demonstration of humility. As Christians, the ultimate place of our thanksgiving is to God as we humble ourselves before Him.

Jesus is the promised Messiah from Heaven and his glory is to the primary concern of those who profess him. John the Baptist gives the strongest example of one who could have cared for his own renown, but desired to make more of Jesus.

The message of John 3:16 says a lot more about God and His grace than about our loveliness.

Jesus astounds Nicodemus by telling him that he needs to be born again. "How can anyone be born when he is old?...Can he enter his mother’s womb a second time and be born?"

Jesus' clearing out of the merchants from the Temple reveals something about who he is and what our worship of him should look like.

Jesus' first miracle, or sign, in John's gospel is about more than keeping the party going.

This passage is a short primer on the grassroots nature of evangelism. The first followers of Christ came to him by way of personal invitation; maybe there is a helpful encouragement to found therein.