Tears are part of our everyday lives – and yet we find them so hard to handle. The Bible models for us what it means to lament – and how learning to lament can transform our experience of tears.

John 6 ends with many of Jesus’ followers walking away. The words Jesus speaks are hard for us to accept. But they are also the only words that can ever bring life. Will we stay or will we go?

The more you look at Jesus, and the more you listen to his teaching the more simple it becomes, but also the more complex! The illustrations that Jesus uses have so much depth to them, and his teaching on ‘the bread of life’ is no different…

When Jesus walked on the water it was a sign that is brimming with meaning. Against the backdrop of the Old Testament we see Jesus once again ‘doing whatever His Father does’. And all of it so that we would trust Him.

We’ve seen several signs so far in John’s Gospel, signs that John tells us reveals Jesus’ glory. We often fall into the trap of reading ourselves into one of the roles of the signs… What if the feeding of the 5,000 is about more than us bringing our...

In this sermon we look back at where we have been. And we challenge one another to learn the events of John’s gospel and to think over them through out the week?

How can we ever be sure that Jesus is truly the Son of God? Jesus points us to the weightiest testimony possible, His Father. When we feel the wight of evidence we will be able to have confidence in Jesus no matter what life throws at us.

Jesus unpacks His equality with the Father as He expresses the relationship between them. The Father loves the Son, so the Father wants all people to honour the Son, so the Father entrusts His work to the Son.

Jesus makes the most audacious claim – and then backs it up with stunning words about His relationship with His Father. Our security and joy rests, not in us, but in this magnificent God.

Jesus demonstrates His great work in this miracle. He exposes the empty hope of the world and the only hope found in Him. Will you let Jesus make you well this week?