March 22, 2026 – Jesus, The Resurrection & The Life
Today we continue in our series on some of the most essential pieces of who Jesus is. Our Teacher, the Son of God, Living Water, the Light of the World —and today, we encounter Jesus just outside of Jerusalem, with his friends. Now, it’s important to know that at the beginning of this story, Jesus is not in Jerusalem—he’s gone quite a distance, in fact, across the Jordan River to lay low after the religious leaders literally tried to stone him to death in Jerusalem. Scripture: John 11:1-45 In the previous ten chapters of the gospel of John, Jesus has been doing plenty of healing....
Read MoreMarch 15, 2026 – Jesus, Light of the World
We meet Jesus today in Jerusalem, walking along the road teaching his disciples, when he encounters a man who was born blind. This story is long, so BJ and I are going to read it together. But as you’re listening, I want you to listen for two things: who or what is healed, and who or what is not healed? Scripture: John 9:1-41 Every time I read this story, the question that the disciples ask just devastates me. They seem to ask it rather flippantly, assuming that this man’s life is a punishment for someone’s sin. The question is not whether his blindness comes from sin – they just...
Read MoreMarch 8, 2026 – Jesus, Living Water
Scripture Reading: John 4 But he had to go through Samaria. So he came to a Samaritan city called Sychar, near the plot of ground that Jacob had given to his son Joseph. Jacob’s well was there, and Jesus, tired out by his journey, was sitting by the well. It was about noon. A Samaritan woman came to draw water, and Jesus said to her, “Give me a drink.” (His disciples had gone to the city to buy food.) The Samaritan woman said to him, “How is it that you, a Jew, ask a drink of me, a woman of Samaria?” (Jews do not share things in common with Samaritans.) Jesus answered her, “If you knew the...
Read MoreMarch 1, 2026 – Jesus, Teacher
Today, we’re continuing our series on Jesus—examining some of the most essential titles and roles and names that Jesus has in the gospels. So we’re jumping over to the gospel according to John, where we find Jesus in Jerusalem, right after the Passover festival. When he first arrived in Jerusalem, he saw the money-changers in the temple courts, got angry, and flipped their tables and drove them out with a whip. Since the Passover, he has been teaching and healing and doing many wondrous things – and folks have taken notice. Scripture Reading: John 3:1-17 Now there was a Pharisee...
Read MoreFebruary 22, 2026 – Jesus, Son of God
Today, we begin our journey through Lent, where we will focus on some of the most central aspects of Jesus’ life and ministry—the essentials of who Jesus is and what he’s up to. Today, we find Jesus directly after his baptism, where the skies had opened, the Spirit descended, and the voice of God came down, saying: “this is my beloved son, with whom I am well pleased.” Having been named the Son of God, Jesus then follows the Spirit into the wilderness. Scripture: Matthew 4:1-11Then Jesus was led up by the Spirit into the wilderness to be tested by the devil. He fasted forty days and forty...
Read MoreFebruary 15, 2026 – In The Light of Resurrection
Today we’re jumping ahead in Matthew from the Sermon on the Mount to the middle of Jesus’ ministry in towns all over the countryside—teaching and healing, preaching and wondering. We meet Jesus today in Caesarea Phillipi, just 6 days after Jesus’ first declaration that he would be killed and rise again. Matthew 17:1-9 Six days later, Jesus took with him Peter and James and his brother John and led them up a high mountain, by themselves. And he was transfigured before them, and his face shone like the sun, and his clothes became dazzling white. Suddenly there appeared to them...
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