Date: 02/15/15
Speaker: Matt McCullough
Title: Do You Love Me?
Scripture: John 21:1-25
Description: This conclusion to John’s Gospel does more than tie up a few loose ends. It illustrates the faithful, patient love of Jesus toward those who have failed him. And it shows us the only power that can transform our lives and sustain our faith to the end. Do you love Jesus?
Date: 02/08/15
Speaker: Matt McCullough
Title: Meeting The Risen Christ
Scripture: John 20:19-31
Description: Belief in the resurrection of Jesus is a self-involving belief. It’s more than intellectual. It’s personal. To meet the risen Christ is to be transformed—to move from fear to gladness, from doubt to worship, from aimlessness to mission.
Date: 02/01/15
Speaker: Matt McCullough
Title: I Have Seen The Lord
Scripture: John 19:38-20:18
Description: All the good news in Christianity hinges on what John tells us about Jesus in this text: Jesus’s physical body really did die, it really was buried, and it really did rise to new physical life. Why should you believe what John reports?
Date: 01/25/15
Speaker: Matt McCullough
Title: It Is Finished
Scripture: John 19:16-37
Description: This text tells the story of Jesus’s death by crucifixion, one of history’s cruelest forms of torture. Yet John spares us all the brutal details. He focuses instead on all the signs that Jesus died on his terms for his purposes. So why did Jesus have to die? What did his death accomplish?
Date: 01/18/15
Speaker: Matt McCullough
Title: Behold Your King
Scripture: John 18:28-19:16
Description: John gives us more detail about Roman governor Pontius Pilate than all the other Gospel writers combined. And John tells us that everything he’s included is meant to persuade us to believe that Jesus is the Christ. So how does looking at Pilate help us see the beauty of Jesus?
Date: 01/11/15
Speaker: Matt McCullough
Title: Courage, Cowardice, And Compassion
Scripture: John 18:1-27
Description: The opening scenes in the story of Jesus’s death tell a story of great courage, as Jesus faces his captors with unflinching resolve and in absolute control. They tell a story of great cowardice, as Peter faces his own examination and denies Jesus repeatedly. And they tell a story of great compassion: Jesus dies on purpose because he knew Peter would deny him, and he knew we’d deny him, too.
Date: 12/14/14
Speaker: Matt McCullough
Title: The Light Shines
Scripture: John 1:4-5
Description: The Advent season is an opportunity to reflect on why we need Jesus, on why the news of his coming is such wonderful news. John frames our need and what Jesus offers us in the images of light and darkness. We need Jesus because we are the people walking in darkness—the darkness of sin and the darkness of sorrow. And Jesus has come to us as the light no darkness can overpower.
Date: 11/30/14
Speaker: Drew Raines
Title: Jesus Prays
Scripture: John 17:1-26
Description: Jesus ends his time with his disciples in prayer. What requests does he make to His Father and what relevance do they have to us?
Date: 11/23/14
Speaker: Matt McCullough
Title: No One Will Take Your Joy
Scripture: John 16:16-33
Description: In his last conversation with his closest friends before his execution, Jesus promises real sorrow overcome by lasting joy. But why should we believe this joy is possible? And how can we connect with it?
Date: 11/16/14
Speaker: Matt McCullough
Title: How The Spirit Helps Us
Scripture: John 16:5-15
Description: The Spirit helps us see ourselves for who we really are—our sin, our self-righteousness, our misjudgments about what is good—and the Spirit helps us see Jesus for the all-satisfying glory that he is.
Date: 11/02/14
Speaker: Matt McCullough
Title: Chosen To Go
Scripture: John 15:12-27
Description: If you’re a follower of Jesus, you have been chosen by God to live your life on his mission with the promise of his power.
Date: 10/26/14
Speaker: Matt McCullough
Title: Love, Hate, And Life In The World
Scripture: John 15:18-16:4
Description: In this text Jesus implies that understanding and anticipating the hatred of the world for Jesus and his followers is crucial for faith that lasts. But what does Jesus mean by the hatred of the world? And how should we deal with the hatred of the world?
Date: 10/19/14
Speaker: Matt McCullough
Title: Abide In Me
Scripture: John 15:1-17
Description: When it comes to growth as a Christian, Jesus leaves no middle ground. Those who abide in him bear fruit, and those who don’t abide in him wither and die. It’s either/or. So what does it mean to abide in him? And what sort of fruit comes from those who do?
Date: 10/12/14
Speaker: Matt McCullough
Title: If You Love Me
Scripture: John 14:12-31
Description: Jesus teaches that if we love him we will obey him, and if we don’t love him we won’t obey him. The key to our behavior—what we do—is in the affections, what we love. That’s why Jesus’s promise of a Helper, the Holy Spirit, is such good news. The promised Spirit is also a promise of a new heart moved by love for Jesus.
Date: 10/05/14
Speaker: Matt McCullough
Title: The Way, The Truth, The Life
Scripture: John 14:1-11
Description: Jesus promises his followers a place of rest and belonging that only he can provide. Connecting with that promise is the key to lasting peace now.
Date: 09/28/14
Speaker: Matt McCullough
Title: A New Commandment
Scripture: John 13:21-38
Description: The primary mark of a genuine follower of Jesus is a love for others that reflects Jesus’s love for us. So what does this love look like?
Date: 09/21/14
Speaker: Matt McCullough
Title: He Loved Them To The End
Scripture: John 13:1-20
Description: Jesus serves us, so we serve each other.
Date: 09/14/14
Speaker: Matt McCullough
Title: Understanding Unbelief
Scripture: John 12:36-50
Description: Why was Jesus so widely rejected by his own people? That’s the question John takes up as Jesus’s public ministry draws to a close. And his answer is crucial for us as we face unbelief in ourselves and in those around us.
Date: 09/07/14
Speaker: Matt McCullough
Title: For This Purpose
Scripture: John 12:20-36
Description: Jesus came to win glory—the glory of his death, the glory of his Father, and the glory of all those who trust in him.
Date: 08/31/14
Speaker: Matt McCullough
Title: The Conquering Lamb
Scripture: John 11:45-12:19
Description: These three stories point us to the irony we have to recognize if we want to understand Jesus and what it means to follow him: he is the death-defeating king who conquers by dying, the champion who wins by losing, the one who gains his glorious throne by embracing the shameful cross.
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