Gospel Life Sermons

The people who walked in darkness have seen a great light; Those who dwelt in a land of deep darkness, on them has light shone. That light is the promised Son of God and He will shine His light into the darkness, as He becomes flesh and dwells among His people. And He will defeat the darkness and bring eternal life, by dying for His people.

It’s the final curtain call on Jesus’ public ministry and from this point forward He will only speak with his disciples, his accusers, and His Father. As he retreats to walk the lonely road to the cross, John wants us to understand why Israel chosen to crucify rather than believe God’s Son and he wants us to see that our unbelief isn’t a problem with our eyes or our eyes. Instead, unbelief is alwa...

Jesus, The Light of the world, is on His way to the cross. He knows the weight of sin that He must carry and the wrath of God He must endure. Even though His soul is troubled, He longs to bring glory to His Father. The time to defeat darkness is now and it will take Him being lifted up on a cross and dying! The light shines into the darkness and the darkness has not overcome it.

Right after Jesus is welcomed into Jerusalem, Jesus makes it crystal clear to His disciples that His glory will demand his death – and that the Father will use his death to bring the most glory to Christ and many into His kingdom. However, this passage also shows us that the road to the cross is required for each of us as well. If we love our life, we’ll lose it...but if we lose our life for Chris...

John 12 places us 6 days before the Passover Feast and it’s becoming increasingly clear that the Pharisees want to murder Jesus. Not only this, but we learn in the passage that Judas has decided to betray Jesus and hand him over to death. However, as the heat turns up on Jesus, John presents us with an alternative response: worship. In this story, we witness Mary treasure, adore, and anoint Jesus...

God will accomplish all of His purposes and nothing or no one can ever stop His plans. Jesus is moving towards the last week of His earthly ministry and is in complete control of all that will happen to Him; for His glory and the good of His people. We see in these verses that God's purposes are always so much bigger and better than our plans.

The story of Lazarus invites us to join Mary and Martha on the pathway of mourning but it certainly doesn’t leave us there. In John 11:38-44, we learn that Jesus always keeps his promises when puts his power on display for all those that would believe! Jesus drives back death, reverses sin’s curse, and commands Lazarus to wake up and walk free in the power of the resurrection! Thankfully, this res...

When we lose someone we love and are filled with grief and sorrow, sometimes we get angry with God and wonder why He did not heal our loved one. We usually believe that true love shows up for us in our greatest hour of need and helps us. Jesus shows us in this text, that true love (His love) does show up, but not always to sustain physical life. His main goal is to display His Glory, so that we mi...

Jesus saves His people through His Word and when we’ve saved we are safe, secure, and satisfied in Christ. However, Jesus invites those that haven’t believed His words to consider his works – to examine them, to understand them, and to see that they validate His claim to be the Savior of the World. Ultimately, life comes to those that receive Jesus’ words and believe Jesus’ works and we invite you...

The Good Shepherd provides everything His sheep need to flourish and follow Him. He gives them His presence, His peace, His protection, His provision and His promises. No matter how many times His sheep wander away, He always goes after them and brings them back home. His goodness and mercy chases them down all the days of their life. And because of His sacrifice for them on the cross, they will b...

Jesus is the Good Shepherd that pursues, protects, and provides for His beloved sheep. He calls us, he goes before us, he takes us to good pasture, and he guards us from all spiritual harm. He even lays his own life down for us giving us forgiveness, freedom, and the promise of eternal abundant life through Him. At the end of the day, Jesus is our Good Shepherd and we’ve got nothing to fear when w...

In Jesus we have the ‘death of death’! From John 8:51 Jesus says, ‘Truly, truly, I say to you, if anyone keeps my word, he will never see death.’ Even in the midst of those that want to see Jesus killed, He gives His followers a promise that they will literally remember forever! The life we have with Jesus today will never end!

True disciples are those who abide. 'Abiding in God's Word'...is trusting that truth and freedom are found nowhere else but in Jesus! So stay with Him-all your life!

John chapter 8 is a tale of two sinners: a woman caught in adultery and a group of pharisees who didn’t believe that Jesus was the Son of God. Jesus did not distance Himself from either-instead He brought conviction. The woman drew near to her savior and called Him Lord, while the pharisees continued in unbelief and wanted Him dead. Since Jesus is the light of the world, His conviction can bring l...

The wonderful story of Jesus interacting with the adulterous woman in John 8 is filled with controversy, confusion, and plenty of misunderstanding about what this story is even about. However, we consider where this fits in the storyline of scripture, we discover that this story reflects wonderful truths of the gospel to us that will comfort us, call us, and change us to live differently! 

After arriving in Jerusalem during the most important spiritual festival of the year, Jesus announces his mission as the Messiah and invites the crowd to find true spiritual life through belief in Him. However, instead of seeing the crowds believe, what John describes is a scene of division where everyone has developed their own opinion about who they believe Jesus to be. Some will dismiss him, ot...

Like the people in Jerusalem, we often set our own expectations and we think we’ve considered of the best outcomes that will satiate our thirst for things to be made right. Jesus brings us better news. When we encounter good news of the Christ sent by YHWH, we (like the Jews) must set aside our expectations and be accepted into God’s plan to make all things new starting from within us. Our lives a...

On the 8th day of the Feast of Tabernacles (Celebrating God’s provision in the wilderness), Jesus alludes to His divinity; He comes from The Father and The Father sent Him. Centuries of prophecy and anticipation are about to be fulfilled.

As a people of Jesus, we celebrate the truth. Belief is knowing the truth of Jesus. Unbelief is not believing what He has said to be true.  

We confuse Bible knowledge with actual spiritual maturity. Spiritual maturity is submitting our will to the will of our Heavenly Father. Jesus did this perfectly for the glory of the Father and for our everlasting joy with the Father.

The disease of self-righteousness convinces us that we’re right, that everyone else is wrong, and that the world would be a much better place if everyone just listened to ‘me’. By God’s grace, our self-righteousness is always incompatible with the agenda, mission and righteousness of Jesus and this passage invites us to consider who we will choose to rule our lives - Jesus Christ or ourselves?