Christ Church IL Podcast

This is week ten of our nineteen-week series on the second half of John. We are marching through the last week of Christ’s life as we move through Lent. Today we are thinking about peace – inner peace - which we all want, and we looking at what is packed into the Jewish concept of Shalom.

Today, Mike will be focusing on the fact that some of the greatest threats to our faith are suffering, pain, and loss. Jesus wants to make sure that in the hard times, we remember His love and the power of the Holy Spirit. The life Jesus promises us is not easy, but it is abundant!

This Sunday we are privileged to welcome Cory Ratliff back to our church and we'll be hearing from him about Jesus' command to love one another as He has loved us.

As we continue our series on The Life in the book of John, we come to chapter 15, where Jesus builds an extended metaphor about Himself as the vine, and his followers as the branches. What does it mean to remain in the vine, and how do we do that in a world of hurry?

Today we continue our sermon series called THE LIFE. We have been discovering how we can have abundant life. Today Pastor Mike will be teaching from the second half of John 14, and focusing on a life of obedience that comes out of our love for God and our gratefulness for all that he has done for us.

We are now four weeks into our study of the gospel of John. This new series is called “The Life”, as we are exploring together the life that Jesus is inviting us to experience. So far, we have learned that it is a life of humility, a life of service, and a life of love. This week Mike is in John 14, and he will be focusing what it looks like to live life in light of eternity.

We are in our new sermon series on the Gospel of John called THE LIFE and we’re exploring what it means to have a good and full life. The Bible tells us that it’s found in Jesus and each week, as we walk verse by verse through the second half of the book of John, we hope you discover answers to these questions:  What is abundant life? How do we get it? How can we keep it? Today we are unpacking John 13: 1-16 and we will see how Jesus uses his power to serve others, a powerful reminder for us as we seek to become more like Jesus.

In John 10:10 Jesus says, “I have come that you may have life and have it to the full.” We can call this the good life, the abundant life, or life to the full. Isn’t this what we all long for? To have a good life? In our new sermon series on John’s gospel Jesus tells us that this full life is found in him, “these are written that you may believe that Jesus is the Messiah, the Son of God, and that by believing you may have life in his name” (Jn 20:31). John’s Gospel is all about Life. So, as we walk through the second half of John’s gospel chapter by chapter we are going to be asking: What is this life? How do we get it? What does it look like? Each week we will give us a different piece to the puzzle of what this life is like. Our goal is that by the end of the series, the puzzle pieces will be put together to paint a picture of finding life in Christ.