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As residents of the Land of the Free, we may take our freedom for granted. But Jesus warns us that freedom may not be so simple to come by. Pastor Bruce continues his sermon series on John with a discussion of Jesus's message of grace and freedom.

Despite our best attempts to make it simple, life is complex. Here Jesus avoids the temptation to respond simplistically to two complex situations. EP's sermon series on the Gospel of John continues with the story of the woman caught in adultery.

On the last day of the Festival of Tabernacles, Jesus stood up and declared, "if anyone thirsts, let him come to me and drink. Whoever believes in me, out of his heart will flow rivers of living water. "Each day during the week celebrating Harvest, the High Priest would carry a golden pitcher and fill it with water from the pool of Siloam while the people recited Isaiah 12:3, "With joy will you dr...

Are you satisfied? Jesus posed this precise question to a group he had just miraculously fed. You may have received bread to sate your hunger, he said, but there's a difference between mere survival and a full, satisfied life. Pastor Bruce invites us to consider how this challenge still resonates for us today.

"Do you want to be healed?" may seem like an obvious question to ask someone who has been paralyzed for thirty eight years, but Jesus meant something deeper than meets the eye.

Jesus crossed every boundary—social, religious, political, personal—to show love to the women he met at a Samaritan well. Our sermon series in John continues.

How does someone become pure? It may seem like an old-fashioned question, but if you pay close attention we still have this conversation all the time. Listen as Pastor Bruce walks us through one such discussion, between two groups of people in first-century Judea, which still matters for us today.

We've all had late night conversations that dip into the controversial waters of religion and theology. Jesus had just such a chat with Nicodemus, one of the prominent religious leaders of his day, which set Nicodemus on the path to learning just who this Jesus was.

Senior Pastor Bruce O'Neil continues EP's sermon series on the gospel of John, with a discussion of Jesus's action in the temple in 2:13-22.

What do Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens, and J. P. "The Big Bopper" Richardson—memorialized in singer-songwriter Don McLean's 1971 song "American Pie"—have to do with Jesus, John's gospel, and a wedding in Cana?

Nathaniel was incredulous when his brother Philip told him he found “one of whom Moses in the Law and also the prophets wrote.” “Can anything good come out of Nazareth?” Nathaniel asked. Philip said to him, “Come and see.” EP's series on gospel love continues with the final section of John 1.

Isaac Vineyard follows the story of a man named John, a nondescript but strange fellow who identifies Jesus as the lamb of God. EP's sermon series on John's gospel continues.

On Christmas Day, God broke into this world in a new way. Jesus, the divine logos (word), walked among us. So begins EP's sermon series on the Gospel of John.