Jesus promised believers another helper, the Holy Spirit. The Spirit lives in the love and unity of the Father and the Son as the one true God. This amazing promise from Jesus means that God has taken up residence in every believer’s heart. This messages looks at the imagery that Jesus Christ uses in this text to describe the ministry of the…
The key to giving you kid’s and spouse to Jesus is see the Lord’s compassion for your family: “Jesus went with his disciples to the village of Nain… a funeral procession was coming out as he approached the village gate. The young man who had died was a widow’s only son… When the Lord saw her, his heart overflowed with compassion.” Luke…
Jesus is the true Shepherd of the Sheep: “The man who enters by the gate is the shepherd of his sheep. The watchman opens the gate for him” John 10:2b-3a. This is call to be aware of the Shepherd’s presence and leading in our lives: “…the sheep listen to his voice. He calls his own sheep by name and leads them out.…
God moved through the words that Peter spoke, and it caused people to realize that they were in need—“Peter’s words pierced their hearts, and they said to him and to the other apostles, ‘Brothers, what should we do?’” Acts 2:37 (NLT) The needs that the people sensed were the exact same needs that every human being needs: God’s forgiveness through Christ and…
From our Gospel text in John 20:19-23, we can see how Jesus met His disciples and how He deals with us. In this message, we’ll explore how the Lord comes to us and is in fact with us at times. He comes into our lives to speak His peace. You can also listen to the children’s message for the day: Save Audio
Mary Magdalene never got over her encounters with Jesus. From the first moment Jesus rescued her from the seven demons who lived inside her and tormented her, to those six hours being near Jesus as He suffered and died on the cross, to the moment on the first Easter Sunday morning when Jesus spoke to her after He rose from the dead:…
The special day known as Palm Sunday is when Jesus’ Triumphal Entry is remembered and celebrated. Bartimaeus, the whom Jesus healed in Jericho, likely was there waving his palm branch and joining in the celebration. This Palm Sunday message focuses on the healing of Bartimaeus, focusing on the words of Jesus—words that everyone in the world needs to hear: “What do you…
Let us love the Lord with all our heart, soul, mind, and strength, and for the sake of his name let us serve one another! God will not forget what we do for Him and for others. God’s justice guarantees that He will remember and bless our love for Him and our sincere service to others for the glory of His name…
The text begins with Jesus seeing a man who was blind from birth; this starts a conversation with the disciples and more controversy with the Pharisees. One, Jesus sees us and knows about our suffering, weaknesses and disabilities. Jesus said, the blindness “happened so that the work of God might be displayed in his life” John 9:3b. Healing displays the work of…
Jesus said in John 4:14, “those who drink the water I give will never be thirsty again. It becomes a fresh, bubbling spring within them, giving them eternal life.” The woman in this text, to whom Jesus was talking, really wanted this living water. The word for “bubbling” in Greek means ‘a continuous flowing’, and the word “spring” is a natural source,…