Yesterday I, Pastor Todd, spoke on John 12. The title and emphasis of the message was “Fear Factor in John 12.” As Cara spoke last week about life and resurrection as the truth God has for all who will believe, this week, we examined the human experience. Everyone experiences fear. Sometimes it’s the crippling fear […]
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Yesterday, our elder Cara shared on passages between John 9 and 11. You can listen to it here. John’s Gospel is a great place for anyone to start reading. The grammar is simple (unlike Paul’s page long sentences). The concepts about Jesus are both personal and profound. It reads more as a friend relaying an
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Yesterday, Our elder, Jonathan, shared from the passages of John 6-8. You can listen to that on our podcast. Today, I’d like to reflect on Jesus as the bread of life. This was such a difficult thing for the Jews of Jesus’ day to understand that many turned away from Jesus, thinking he was talking
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Last week I, Pastor Todd, started us off on a new series in the Gospel of John. We looked at the first chapter of John and saw parallels to the accounts in Genesis. By the end, we came to the conclusion that John is a new type of creation narrative where Jesus, the Son carries
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Yesterday I, Pastor Todd, started us off on a new series coming from the Gospel of John. As I mentioned, John is a Genesis-ish kind of book. I first learned this from the New Testament Scholar N. T. Wright. Once I picked my jaw up off the ground, I went to investigating this and found
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