BEATING THE FLESH
What do you do when your battle chooses you? What do you do when a conflict shows up and you did not choose it? Let’s study a veteran’s account of the conflict that is happening inside every believer’s heart between the Spirit and the flesh. At the beginning of Paul’s letter to the Romans, […]
PEACE IN THE STORM
The story in John Chapter 6 is not about the weather or fishing, it is about the power and sovereignty of God. It is a story about how we respond with confidence and hope when trials come to our lives. The biblical premise in this story is that we need a resource outside of ourselves […]
DO YOU WANT TO BE HEALED?
The narrative of the Gospel of John is centered around signs. The word “sign” means a miracle with a message, it points to something other than itself. The miracles are not only about Jesus’ power, but they are also about His redemptive plan for mankind. John 5 says, “After this, a Jewish festival took place, […]
COME FOLLOW ME AND RECEIVE LIFE
A reoccurring theme in the gospel of John is to “come and follow me and receive life.” This book is about how Jesus came to save us and give us life. Jesus came to earth so that people may have life, but we look for it in all the wrong ways. In chapter 3, Jesus met […]
BEING BORN AGAIN
In the book of John, chapter 3, Nicodemus meets with Jesus. Nicodemus was a man of the Pharisees and a preeminent voice of religious teaching of Israel. Jesus replied, “Truly I tell you, unless someone is born again, he cannot see the kingdom of God.” Jesus gets to the point by using new terminology. This […]
CLEANSING MY TEMPLE
The Lord and His disciples went to a wedding in Cana. The host family did not plan the wedding celebration well. They did not have enough wine to serve their guests for the entire time. Something needed to be done, so Mary turned to her son. It is likely she saw the present crisis as […]
DAILY REMINDERS
The premise in the book of John is that this life is not about us, it is about Jesus. The book of John, from the beginning, focuses on the who the essence and purpose of the Son, Jesus. We are not the main characters. We get to leverage what God has given us for the […]
THE MEANINGFUL LIFE
The Gospel of John is profound and full of truth about the divinity and mission. The first twelve chapters of the book cover a 3-year period. Throughout these chapters, there are conversations, interactions, and things that Jesus does that sow seeds for people that later come to Christ. This book is built around seven miracles […]
CRUSHING FAMILY DISCIPLESHIP…IT’S MORE ABOUT YOU THAN THEM
The goal of this message is to set you up to crush it in family discipleship. Deuteronomy 6:4-9 says, “Hear, O Israel: The Lord our God, the Lord is one. You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your might. And these words […]
EVERYONE LOVE EVERYONE
An important truth to always remember is that if God can raise His Son from the dead, He can work in your life. The gospel starts out with a transformed vertical relationship that begins to alter for the better our horizontal relationships. The power of the gospel transforms you, transforms your relationships. If […]
