JCC: Sermons and Teachings

Pastor Byron describes Jesus’s ongoing rebuke of the Pharisees who had poorly shepherded God’s people and had rejected Christ as the true Good Shepherd. Are you listening to the Good Shepherd’s voice today?

Pastor Gary takes us through John 9, where a blind man is healed by Jesus on the Sabbath. Our humility allows God to work in our lives, while pride and arrogance quenches the Holy Spirit.

Pastor Gary explains what 1st century Jews were expecting when Jesus rode into Jerusalem before a palm-waving crowd and what it means for us to welcome Christ as King of our lives.

Pastor Gary explains the two different deaths people can experience and describes how Jesus’s perfect sacrifice on the cross can give us eternal life.

Pastor Danny examines the lineage of the Pharisees from a physical and spiritual standpoint and gives us three crucial tests to be sure that our Father is truly God: Do we love Jesus? Do we obey his Word? Does our life look like Christ’s life?

Pastor Gary describes how Jesus Christ is the truth and how He sets us free from sin and death when we look to Him.

Pastor Ryan illuminates the context of Jesus’s confrontation with the Pharisees over his statement: “I am the light of the world.” Jesus identified himself as God with these words, and when we contemplate what that means for our lives, we realize that confessing our dark secrets and forsaking our hidden idols are the only way to walk in the light of the Lord fully and freely.

Pastor Gary preaches on the story of Jesus’s restoration of a woman caught in adultery. While the Pharisees sought to trap him, Christ showed a way to set people free from both their besetting sins and their deserved condemnation.

Missionary Marcos Schultz traveled north of the border for our Wednesday night missions dinner. The Father loved and sent the Son, and the Son loves and sends us. We go even though the road isn’t easy because we know that God is faithful and worthy of all our obedience to the Great Commission.

Brooks Buser, president of Radius International, shares about his church planting work in Papua New Guinea and relates what makes a strong sending church. All Christians are a part of the Great Commission of Matthew 28:18-20, either as goers or senders. His message kicks off our Missions Week 2022—ALL FOR ONE!

Pastor Gary finishes the story of Jesus and the crowd at the Feast of Tabernacles. The crowd was divided over what they believed about Jesus’s identity, and today we still need to answer the essential question: “Who is God?”

Pastor Gary takes us through a difficult passage where Jesus dialogues and debates with a crowd about his identity and purpose, yet ultimately welcomes them to taste the living water which faith in Him provides.

Pastor Gary examines an interchange between Jesus and his brothers to show how God’s view of timing and of popularity is different from our worldly standards. God speaks to confront us about our sin, so that we’ll turn from our own ways and surrender to His Son and His perfect way.

Pastor Gary continues our study in John 6 with a study of the concepts of assurance, irresistible grace, and secure salvation, as found in Jesus’s words to Peter and the disciples.

Pastor Gary Musser further explains how Jesus is the bread of life and what it means when we put our full faith in His provision for our lives.

Pastor Gary continues the story of the feeding of the 5,000 with an examination of the self-centered crowds who followed after Jesus because of the miracle and not because of their worship of God Almighty.

Pastor Gary retells the story of Jesus calming the storm, and considers what storms face us and how God can lead us through.

Pastor Byron gives an overview of God's sovereign hand through the Old Testament and assures us that we can trust God's plan in our lives today as well.

Three Observations and three Challenges.

Candlelight service

Pastor Gary is teaching us about the most unlikely but most needed gift we ever needed.

How do we survive a war against God? Our human tendency is to fight Him and His ways. Pastor Gary continues our advent series by studying what it means when Jesus comes into our lives and hearts as the prince of peace.

Where does the Christian joy come from? How is it connected to Jesus and how is it affecting our lives? Pastor Gary Musser reminds us of one of the key elements in the Christian life.

Associate Pastor Byron Musser discovers the significance of Jesus’s feeding of the 5,000 for his hearers then and for our hearts now. God desires to feed His people with abundant life through faith in His Son and fellowship in His church.