Author: bill

Message: Don’t Give Up (John 5:1-15)

Over time, we begin to feel hopeless when needs go unmet and prayers go unanswered. If we are not careful, we will give up, self-destruct, or make a mess of things in those moments, seasons, or even decades when God seems silent or uninterested. Don’t give up but keep looking up because WHEN JESUS SHOWS […]

Message: God Still Answers (John 4:45-54)

What do we do when we are in a crisis? Who do we turn to for help? How do we respond when help is promised but it does not come when or how we expect it to arrive?

Message: God Pursues Me (John 4:1-30, 39-43)

It is understandable that Jesus would pursue “quality” people but what about A MESS LIKE ME? Jesus came to reach two people groups: The INSIDERS and the OUTSIDERS. The insiders were the Jewish people—God’s chosen group to work through to redeem the world—and the outsiders are basically everyone else. In John 3, we read about […]

Message: God Loves You (John 3:1-21)

How could God possibly love me? Why would He want to have anything to do with me? This is a tension that many of us struggle with at different times. Maybe you feel too insignificant, too messed up, too forgone to matter to God or to be loved by Him. We are going to explore […]

Message: God Is For Us (John 2:12-25)

Sometimes when I look at portions of the Bible—and definitely with how some Christians represent God—it looks like God is never happy with people. We have to try hard to get his attention and maybe we can earn being right with him. If we don’t measure up then it is easy to feel like he […]

Message: Be a Bringer

What so captivated these individuals about Jesus? So much so that 3 ½ years later they would not shut up about Jesus even when confronted by the highest religious leaders in their land—the very men that had conspired to have Jesus executed. (Acts 4:19-20 – Peter and John answered, “Do you think God wants us […]