All That The Father Has | Sermon on John 16:5-15
You’ll turn with me in your Bibles, please, to John chapter 16, beginning at verse 5. John writes and Jesus speaks: ‘But now I am going to him who sent me, and none of you asks me, where are you going? But because I have said these things to you, sorrow has filled your heart. Nevertheless, I tell you the truth, it is to your advantage that I go away. For if I do not go away, the helper will…
The World’s Hatred | Sermon on John 15:16-16:4
If you would please turn within your Bibles to John chapter 15 beginning at verse 16. Jesus tells the disciples, ‘You did not choose me, but I chose you and appointed you that you should go and bear fruit and that your fruit should abide so that whatever you ask the Father in my name, he may give it to you. These things I command you so that you will love one another. If the world hates you, know that…
Greater Love | Sermon on John 15:13-15
Vers 13, Jesus says, ‘Greater love has no one than this, that someone lay down his life for his friends.’ You are my friends if you do what I command you. No longer do I call you servants, for the servant does not know what his master is doing, but I have called you friends. For all that I have heard from my father, I have made known to you. This is the word of the Lord. Thanks be to…
Abide in Love | Sermon on John 15:9-12
If you would please turn within your Bibles to John chapter 15 beginning at verse 9. Jesus says, ‘As the Father has loved me, so have I loved you. Abide in my love. If you would keep my commandments, you will abide in my love, just as I have kept my father’s commandments and abide in his love. These things I have spoken to you, that my joy may be in you, and that your joy may be full. This…
Abide in Me | Sermon on John 15:1-8; Romans 11:11-24
Bibles to John chapter 15 beginning at the first verse. John writes and Jesus says, ‘I am the true vine and my father is the vine dresser. Every branch in me that does not bear fruit, he takes away. And every branch that does bear fruit, he prunes that it may bear more fruit. Already you are clean because of the word that I have spoken to you. Abide in me and I in you. As the branch cannot bear…
I AM the True Vine | Sermon on John 14:26-15:6; Psalm 80
If you would please turn within your Bibles to John chapter 14 beginning at verse 27. John writes and Jesus says, ‘Peace I leave with you. My peace I give to you. Not as the world gives do I give. Let not your hearts be troubled, and neither let them be afraid. You heard me say to you, I am going away, and I will come to you. If you loved me, you would have rejoiced because I am going…
Another Helper Part 2 | Sermon on John 14:13-31
You’ll turn with in your Bibles, please, to John chapter 14, beginning at verse 13. Jesus tells his disciples, ‘Whatever you ask in my name, this I will do that the Father may be glorified in the Son. If you ask anything in my name, I will do it. If you love me, you will keep my commandments. And I will ask the Father, and he will give you another helper to be with you forever, even the Spirit of…
Another Helper Part 1 | Sermon on John 14:12-31
If you would please turn within your Bibles to John chapter 14, beginning at verse 12, Jesus tells his disciples, ‘Truly, truly, I say to you, whoever believes in me will also do the works that I do, and greater works than these will he do, because I am going to the Father. Whatever you ask in my name, this I will do that the Father may be glorified in the Son. And if you ask me anything in my…
Show Us the Father | Sermon on John 14:7-13
14 beginning at verse 7. Jesus is speaking to his disciples his last real time of teaching and conversation with them. And he says to them, ‘If you had known me, you would have known my father also. From now on, you do know him and have seen him.’ Philip said to him, ‘Lord, show us the Father, and it is enough for us.’ Jesus said to him, ‘Have I been with you so long, and you still do not…
I AM the Way | Sermon on John 13:31-14:6
If you would please turn within your Bibles to John chapter 13 beginning at verse 31. John writes, ‘When he had gone out, Jesus said, now is the Son of Man glorified, and God is glorified in him. If God is glorified in him, God will also glorify him in himself,’ and glorify him at once. ‘Little children, yet a little while I am with you. You will seek me. And just as I said to the Jews, so now…
Christmas Eve Whole Service
As we begin to return to our seats, please join me with a responsive call to worship. In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth. And the earth was without form and void, and darkness was upon the face of the deep. And the spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters. And God said, ‘Let there be light,’ and there was light. And God saw the light that it was good. And God divided the…
The Word Made Flesh Christmas Eve | Sermon on John 1:14
A reading this evening comes from the Gospel of John chapter 1. The evangelist writes, ‘And the word became flesh and dwelt among us. And we have seen his glory, glory as of the only Son from the Father, full of grace and truth.’ This is the word of the Lord. Thanks be to God. Let us pray. Heavenly Father, we thank you for your Son, the word, through whom all things were made at the power of your voice.…