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The Gospel of John

Stop Comparing

April 7, 2024 • Dan Bentz • John 21:18–22

There was something Peter needed to learn before he could become the man God intended for him to be; Jesus taught Him and every generation of Christians who would follow the how foolish it is to live trying to compare our lives to someone else.

When It's Least Expected

March 31, 2024

When we meet the risen Christ, we discover a new and unexpected joy, a courage like we’ve never felt before, and a passion to see the world come to Him.

It is Finished

March 24, 2024 • Dan Bentz • John 19:28–30

Today marks our remembrance the beginning of what is without a doubt the most important week in the history of the world. It began with Jesus’ entrance into Jerusalem to shouts of praise and ended with Him lying dead in a tomb, after a brutal and gruesome crucifixion. But before He laid down His life, Jesus utter three words we find great hope in: It is finished!

Troubled Hearts, Loving Savior

March 17, 2024 • Dan Bentz • John 14

With everything that just prior to Jesus' crucifixion it’s easy to see how the disciples would be confused, troubled, and afraid. In what was surely His desire to counter what the disciples were seeing as an increasingly dire situation; Jesus spoke to them words of great comfort that still resonate today!

Serving in Humility

March 10, 2024 • John 13:1–17, Genesis

God’s church should be filled with leaders, but not just any kind of leaders, we need the Jesus kind...leaders who value serving others so much that nothing is beneath them. That is the model of Jesus and to follow it we need to remember…

A Different Kind of King

March 3, 2024 • Dan Bentz • John 12:12–19

Jesus is making what will be His last mortal visit to Jerusalem, and on that first day of the week before the Passover when word got out that Jesus was coming to the city, a spontaneous welcome broke out for Him!

A Question of Value

February 25, 2024 • Dan Bentz • John 12:1–8

Authentic faith is a place where that is very personal to us, and despite our preconceived ideas of right and wrong, when truth is revealed, our hearts must be open to receive and when we do, it will forever change us.

It's Time to Act

February 18, 2024 • Dan Bentz • John 11:45–52

The raising of Lazarus was a miracle that should have convinced the Jews beyond any doubt that Jesus really is God in the flesh, what greater proof could He give them than the raising to life a man who had been dead four days? But for some even that was not enough.

A Matter of Death and Life

February 11, 2024 • Dan Bentz • John 11

God’s concern is more long-term and that can be frustrating because many times we tend to focus on the short term. We say I don’t want to hurt, so God please fix it, and when He says if a little pain causes you to turn to Me and trust Me more, isn’t that a good thing, we struggle. Those are hard lessons to learn, but once we get them everything changes.

Following Jesus

February 4, 2024 • Dan Bentz • John 1

There are two kinds of people and Jesus makes the division clear, those who have come to Him in faith, trusting Him to be their Savior and those who haven’t. Enteral blessing awaits those who come, and eternal punishment awaits those who won’t. It’s a simple but clear reality.

The Shepherd and His Sheep

January 28, 2024 • Dan Bentz • John 10

Jesus' declaration of being the Good Shepherd whose care for the sheep would be absolute and include laying down His life for them.

Spiritual Blindness

January 21, 2024 • Dan Bentz • John 9:13–34

As we have been working through John’s gospel that the idea of salvation relying of faith alone is the centerpiece of his message. And in John 9, with the healing of a blind beggar that truth is going to be clearly on display.

True Freedom in Christ

January 7, 2024 • John 8:29–32

As long as we make life choices without regard to the will of God, we remain shackled by those choices and will never know the freedom God wants for us.

Who Are You

November 5, 2023 • Dan Bentz • John 8:21–25

The possibility that Jesus really was the Messiah was something the Pharisees couldn’t grasp, and the more they interacted with Jesus, the more the depth of their spiritual darkness became apparent.

The Light of the World

October 29, 2023 • Dan Bentz • John 8:12

Jesus' claim about what He is offering those who come to Him. In earlier passages He offered Himself as living water (John 4) and as the bread of life (John 6), and now in John 8:12 He proclaims He is the Light of the world!