The Woman at the Well | Sermon on John 4:1-28
Turn your Bibles please to John, beginning at the first verse. Now when Jesus learned that the Pharisees had heard that Jesus was making and baptizing more disciples than John—although Jesus himself did not baptize, but only his disciples—he left Judea and departed again for Galilee. He had to pass through Samaria. So he came to a town of Samaria called Sicar, near the field that Jacob had given to his son Joseph. Jacob’s Well was there, and Jesus, wearied…
Above All | Sermon on John 3:31-36
Thank you, Miss Bernice. This is why it’s so good for us as Christians to be thankful for grace. God truly is a merciful God. Please turn with me, if you would, in your Bibles to John chapter 3, beginning at verse 31. He who comes from above is above all; he who is of the earth belongs to the earth and speaks in an earthly way. He who comes from heaven is above all. He bears witness to what…
He Must Increase | Sermon on John 3:22-30
Turn with me in your Bibles, please, to John 3, beginning at verse 25. After this, Jesus and his disciples went into the Judean country, and he remained there with them and was baptized. John also was baptizing at Anan near Salom, because water was plentiful there, and people were coming and being baptized. For John had not yet been put in prison. Now a discussion arose between some of John’s disciples and a Jew over purification, and they came…
Only Begotten | Sermon on John 3:16-18; Genesis 22
Amen. Turn within your Bibles, please, to John 3:16. ‘For God so loved the world that he gave his only son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life. For God did not send his son into the world to condemn the world, but in order that the world might be saved through him. Whoever believes in him is not condemned, but whoever does not believe is condemned already because he has not believed in the…
This is the Judgment | Sermon on John 3:19-21; Genesis 1:1-5
So turn with me in your Bibles, please, to John chapter 3, beginning at verse 19. And this is the Judgment: the light has come into the world, and people love the darkness rather than the light because their works were evil. For everyone who does wicked things hates the light and does not come to the light, lest his works should be exposed. But whoever does what is true comes to the light, so that it may be clearly…
Not to Condemn the World | Sermon on John 3:16-18; Jonah 2:1-10
Again, it’s better than that. You’ll please turn with me in your Bibles. We’ll begin with the Book of Jonah, chapter 2. Then Jonah prayed to the Lord his God from the belly of the fish, saying, ‘I called out to the Lord out of my distress, and he answered me; out of the belly of Sheol, I cried, and you heard my voice. For you cast me into the deep, into the heart of the seas, and the flood…
For God So Loved the World | Sermon on John 3:16
Amen. You turn within your Bibles, begin in John chapter 3 starting at verse 16: ‘For God so loved the world that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life. For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but in order that the world might be saved through him. Whoever believes in him is not condemned, but whoever does not believe is condemned already because…
Either/Or Psalm 1 | Sermon on Psalm 1
Please turn with me in your Bibles to Psalm one. Blessed is the man who walks not in the counsel of the wicked, nor stands in the way of sinners, nor sits in the seat of scoffers; but his delight is in the law of the Lord, and on his law he meditates day and night. He is like a tree planted by streams of water that yields its fruit in its season, and its leaf does not wither. In…
As Moses Lifted the Serpent in the Wilderness | Sermon on John 3:11-15, Numbers 21:1-9
Amen. You’ll turn with me in your Bibles, please, to John chapter 3, beginning at the 11th verse. Jesus says, “Truly, truly, I say to you, we speak of what we know and bear witness to what we have seen, but you do not receive our testimony. If I have told you earthly things and you do not believe, how can you believe if I tell you heavenly things? No one has ascended into heaven except he who descended from…
No One Has Ascended | Sermon on John 3:1-13, Daniel 7:13-14
[Music] Those were made for our hymns. I don’t know why it got an extra verse, but I didn’t skip. We didn’t skip one, did we? I didn’t think so. Okay, if you would, please turn with me in your Bibles to John chapter 3. Now there was a man of the Pharisees named Nicodemus, a ruler of the Jews. This man came to Jesus by night and said to him, ‘Rabbi, we know that you are a teacher come…
The Curse of Babel Undone | Sermon on Genesis 11; Acts 2
Please turn with me in your Bibles to Genesis 11 beginning at the first verse. Now the whole earth had one language and the same words. As people migrated from the East, they found a plain in the land of Shinar and settled
You Must Be Born Again | Sermon on John 3:1-8
Amen. If you would, please turn with me in your Bibles to John chapter 3, beginning at the first verse. Now there was a man of the Pharisees named Nicodemus, a ruler of the Jews. This man came to Jesus by night and said to him, ‘Rabbi, we know that you are a teacher come from God, for no one can do these signs that you do unless God is with him.’ Jesus answered him, ‘Truly, truly, I say to…