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John - Clearing the Temple

Even as the Word is becoming flesh, and God comes to "tabernacle" among His people, it begs the question, what will happen when God comes to His temple? Early in his account, John tells the events that unfold when Jesus enters the Temple in Jerusalem, as tables are turned and people and animals flee into the crowded streets of the city. But what was behind this act? And how it should it shape the way we see ourselves today? 

John - The Wedding Banquet

Chapter 2 starts with Jesus' first "sign" - turning water into wine at a wedding. But why does John call it a sign and not a miracle? And what is the deeper significance of this moment that John wants us to grasp? 

John - Come Follow Me

In the opening chapter of John, we get to see the very first people begin to encounter Jesus and respond to Him in discipleship. What is involved in this encounter, and how are we to respond to the same Jesus today? 

John - Are You the Messiah?

As an oppressed nation waits with bated breath for their Messiah, suddenly a mysterious figure arises in the wilderness, and thousands flock to the desert to be baptized by him and sit under his teaching. The people believe he is a prophet (the first in 400 years) and the nation is stirred from top to bottom. The nation's leaders come to interview this man, and they start with the million-dollar question: are you the Messiah? How does John the Baptist respond to this crucial moment? And what does it have to teach us today? 

John - The Lamb of God

As John officially begins his narrative account, we get seven new titles for Jesus - only one of which appeared in the prologue. But the first is simply that Jesus is "the Lamb of God" come to take away the sins of the world. Why is this title significant? And why was it so difficult for John's original audience to receive? 

John - Light of the World

John describes the Word becoming flesh as "the Light of the world" stepping into the darkness. The true Light anticipated by all other lights has arrived. But what are the implications of this Light? How does it affect our dying world? And what does it illuminate as it comes?  

John - The Logos Became Flesh

In John's opening verses, he challenges and overthrows the beating heart of Judaism, setting aside the Law and the Temple, and recalibrating Jewish faith and history around the person of Jesus. But in the process he does something equally provocative to their very concept of God. 

John - His Own Did Not Receive Him

The Word (or Logos) of God was coming into the world. Light shown out in the darkness. But this was a moment of both joy and confrontation, an event that separated light from darkness, forcing a decision among all those who encounter the Light. 

John - The Logos

Mark starts his Gospel account with the a full grown John the Baptist, making an announcement about Jesus. Luke starts with the birth of John the Baptist, and the birth of Jesus. Matthew starts even further back in time, with a human genealogy of Jesus dating all the back to Abraham. But John starts from a different place entirely, with the pre-existent and eternal "Word" or "Logos" of God, through whom all the universe was made. 

Restoration in the Church - Revival

We often throw around the word "revival," but what do we mean? What does it look like? Join as we examine three revivals from recent history which speak to the cultural moment that we're living in.