John
14 teachings that open John.
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Way Too Much Joy
On Shemini Atzeret, Scott turns to Psalm 100 to ask what genuine joy in worship looks like when life gives you little reason to feel it.
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A Feast of Faith
On the first day of Sukkot, Michael Thomas reads Leviticus 23 as a picture of the relationship God has always wanted with his people.
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Leave the Chariots at Home
On Erev Yom Kippur, Scott follows Naaman the Syrian general to Elisha's door in 2 Kings 5 and asks what our pride has to do with the healing we keep missing.
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Are We There Yet
On Yom Teruah, Dennis Karp sets Yeshua's warning that no one knows the day or hour beside Paul's promise of the last trumpet.
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Sovereignty and Trouble
On Erev Rosh Hashanah, Scott looks at the two things the shofar announces, God's sovereignty and coming trouble, and asks what they mean for how we measure success.
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A Community of Grace
Grace Rescues the Powerless
Robin's third week on grace, opening Galatians 1 to ask what grace actually is and why it takes hold only in people who have run out of their own strength.
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The Freedom of Grace
A message from Galatians on what the law was actually given to do, and the freedom that comes when we stop trying to earn what has already been handed to us.
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Foundations
Every Jewish Bride Was Stolen
A message on the first-century Jewish wedding as a picture of Yeshua the bridegroom and the bride he paid for, left, and is coming back to gather.
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Foundations
Christianity's Mother
Why Judaism is the mother that gave birth to Christianity, and why the real difference between the two faiths comes down to the person of Yeshua.
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Foundations
To the Jew First
Why the gospel is for the Jew first in every generation, and how Israel's role in God's plan is to carry his blessing to all the families of the earth.
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Making Disciples
The Soldier, the Athlete, and the Farmer
Scott closes the disciple-making series by walking through Paul's three metaphors in 2 Timothy 2 and showing that our weakness, not our competence, is what qualifies us to make disciples.
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Making Disciples
Death at Work in Us, Life in You
Scott moves from murdering the flesh to taking up the cross, where bearing the suffering of others becomes the channel through which the life of Messiah reaches them.
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Making Disciples
Learning to Ride the Backward Bike
Scott connects the joy of Sukkot and God's desire to dwell with us to the patient, daily work of letting our minds be retrained into the likeness of Messiah.
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Making Disciples
Taking Dominion the Way the King Did
Scott teaches that the call to multiply and subdue is fulfilled through disciple-making, and that godly dominion looks like service rather than lording it over.