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From Failure to Overwhelming Restoration - John 21.1-19 // The Resurrection & Today - Jeremiah Lepasana 21.04.2024 36:17 ↓

John 21 answers two foundational questions we find ourselves asking now and again: 1) given the pain I see others experiencing, what hope is there for the world? and 2) what about me...what hope is there for me?  The story of John 21 opens with the disciples struggling to catch fish. They worked overnight and nothing they did worked. And then, seemingly out of nowhere, Jesus shows up and at this W...

Something Happened in the Middle of History - John 1.1-4, John 20.1-10 // The Resurrection & Today - Jeremiah Lepasana 31.03.2024 24:55 ↓

Modern people don’t believe resurrection of the dead is plausible, was it just more plausible for people of the 1st century? Did people during the time of Jesus (1st Century) think this sort of thing could happen? The short answer is not at all. And the only plausible explanation for the first Christians’ belief in the Resurrection of Jesus is that it actually happened!  John and the other first C...

A King's Heart for Rebel Kid(s) - 2 Samuel 18, Zechariah 9.9, Matthew 21 24.03.2024 31:50 ↓

This past Sunday, we entered Holy Week by reading the story of Jesus entering Jerusalem, Matthew 21, alongside 2 Samuel 18, the story of King David entering Jerusalem after his son, Absalom, led a rebellion to push King David out of the city. Both narratives have key similarities - a donkey, a true King with an entourage, and a hostile Jerusalem! We saw the similarities are no accident, for 2 Samu...

Matthew 5.48 - "Perfect?!" // The Lord's Prayer - Jeremiah Lepasana 14.01.2024 33:58 ↓

This past Sunday, we started a sermon series on the Lord's Prayer but looking at the larger context of the Sermon on the Mount, Jesus' most famous sermon. We dug into the phrase translated in the ESV as, "You therefore, must be perfect, as your heavenly Father is perfect."  We (hopefully) saw together that instead of experiencing this sentence as the command of a terrifying dri...

1 Corinthians 16.22 - "Our Lord, Come" // Advent 2023 - Jeremiah Lepasana 03.12.2023 31:10 ↓

Tucked away at the very end of 1 Corinthians, the book's author grabs the pen of his amanuensis and writes the Aramaic phrase, "MARANA-THA," translated as "Our Lord, come." Pastor Eugene Peterson in his Bible paraphrase translates the phrase, "Make room for the master!" This past Sunday, we focused on this ancient creedal statement and (hopefully) saw the prayer...

Hebrews 12:18-29 - "A Mountain of Feasting" // Hebrews: Unshakeable - Jeremiah Lepasana 05.11.2023 27:25 ↓

Last Sunday, we started a short sermon series through the book of Hebrews entitled Unshakeable. Over these three weeks, we will see that in order to experience an unshakeable forever hope, the author invites us to 1) live from a "Mountain of Feasting," 2) trust a Perfect Priest-King, 3) strive for "Permanent Rest." We saw last week from Chapter 12 that we can live from either a...

Created for Adoration // Series: Genesis 1-3, Removing Alone-ness | Jeremiah Lepasana 17.09.2023 29:57 ↓

Last Sunday, we started a new sermon series entitled Removing Alone-ness. We began in Genesis 1 and saw that the first step to Removing Alone-ness is to allow creation to lead to adoration .  All of creation declares the glory of God, yet we often zoom in on the creation and dismiss the Creator. Scripture urges us to see that all creation is an invitation to relationship with Jesus—for “all things...