JOHN 6:60-71 | WHAT WILL YOU DO WITH THE MESSAGE? ILLUSTRATION : Last week I shared of how I grew up listening to a lot of different preachers. And when you grow up going to church, you find that there are a lot of different responses to messages that were preached. I’ve seen people cry in response to…

JOHN 6:25-58 | COME, SEE, AND BELIEVE ILLUSTRATION : Do you have a favorite preacher to listen to? Maybe for some of you that seems random… but maybe some of you have a favorite to listen to. When I was a teenager, my favorite preachers to listen to were screamers There was one preacher who was an evangelist…

JOHN 6:27-34 | CONFIDENTLY WRONG ILLUSTRATION : Have you ever been confidently wrong? My mind goes back to the school days when public humiliation was encouraged by the teachers. Maybe you remember public humiliation Math flash card competitions Classroom spelling bees The worst: Public Reading You don’t…

JOHN 6:22-26 | SEEKING FOR JESUS ME ILLUSTRATION : I had to be under 10 years old when I got it. I don’t honestly remember where it came form or who got it for me. All I know if for a few weeks I carried a real, genuine, rabbit’s foot in my pocket. I remember it had a little chain that came off of it,…

JOHN 6:16-21 | IT IS I ILLUSTRATION : As a child, I had the blessing of having a mom who drove a school bus. For nearly the entirety of my school years, from early grade school all the way until I got my license and could drive myself to school, my mom was the school bus driver. There were definitely…

JOHN 6:11-13 | GOD’S GLORY IN THE FRAGMENTS ILLUSTRATION : I have been blessed with a father in law who is gifted in doing a lot of different things. Similarly to my dad, they both have the ability to figure things out and usually have an answer on how to fix whatever the issue is. When me father in…

JOHN 6:5-11 | ARE YOU WILLING? ILLUSTRATION : Tressa and Jaxon were going out on a date, just the two of them. Our kids love to go on mommy and daddy dates. I love those opportunities to spend that focused time with our kids… we don’t do it enough. Jaxon is learning to be a little gentleman and was looking…

TEXT: JOHN 6:1-7 | HE ALREADY KNOWS EXPLANATION : We’ve reached one of the most familiar stories in the Gospels. In fact, the event we are about to walk through is the only miracle that is recorded in all four Gospels: Matthew, Mark, Luke, and here in John Jesus finished the evidentiary claims and defenses…

TEXT: 2 SAMUEL 23:11-12 | A FATHER WHO STANDS ILLUSTRATION : If you could be any superhero, who would it be? I’ve grown up in a time where superhero movies were a major emphasis in our society. You could be Batman, who by day is a rich business owner, but then uses his money to acquire some of the coolest…