JCC: Sermons and Teachings

Pastor Danny continues the amazing story of Joseph’s rise from prison to Pharaoh’s top advisor, while encouraging us to trust that God‘s heart and plan is good for His glory and our well-being.

Pastor Gary explains God’s boot camp for Joseph in an Egyptian prison and gives two great questions to ask in any difficult circumstance: how is God shaping me through this? and how can God use me in this?

Pastor Danny sandwiches a tale of temptation and of victory between two beautiful assurances of God’s presence with Joseph in the midst of unjust suffering. How will you stand strong in your faith when you’re tempted?

Our Missions Week dinner speaker is Luke Womack, founder of AIRO and The Go Fund. Luke asks three questions: who is missions for? who am I called to be? what can I do? He answers these with “Everyone” and “Global Christians.” And then he tells us four things were called to do—Go There, Go Here, Send by Praying, and Send by Giving. (The first 10 minutes of the recording have some slight audio inter...

Pastor Ryan kicks off Missions Week 2024 with an overview of God’s heart for all people of all nations, revealed from Genesis to Revelation in the Bible. From there, we ask ourselves how we can be good senders to reach the unreached and to fix the Great Imbalance present in world missions today.

Pastor Gary starts the last section of Genesis by introducing the life of Joseph. Joseph's story is a reminder that God works all things to the good of His glory.

Pastor Danny takes us through Esau’s genealogy and helps us reflect on what our legacy will be: one of faithfulness and blessing or unbelief and shame?

Pastor Gary explains how God redeems the past mistakes of Jacob and blesses his family.

Pastor Byron warns against living with compromise or vengeance as seen through Jacob and his sons' reaction to injustice.

Pastor Gary teaches us how Jacob’s plans and hopes for reconciliation paled in comparison to what God had in store for him. Genesis 33

Pastor Byron returns to Genesis and a real crisis in the life of Jacob: the reunion with his estranged brother Esau. God welcomes us as people who will wrestle with Him as Jacob did but invites us to rest in His finished work on the cross and in our new identity as believers. Genesis 32.

Pastor Danny takes us through the birth narrative of Jesus in Luke 2 and considers how Mary would have pondered all of these miraculous wonders all through Jesus’s childhood, and all the way to his sacrifice on the cross.

Pastor Gary dives into the powerful lyrics of “O Come O Come Emmanuel” and marvels at the wonder of “God With Us” at Christmastime.

Pastor Ryan teaches on the mysterious wise men of Matthew 2 and wonders if they might be connected with the prophet Daniel from the Old Testament exile. God revealed some of his plan to save and bring joy to the whole world in this part of the Christmas story.

As part 2 in our “Christmas Playlist” series, Pastor Danny explains what the manger really means to a holy and exalted God and for a people in need of a Savior. Luke 2:1-20

Pastor Gary opens up our Christmas series with a message about what the good news of “The First Noel” really was.

Pastor Byron discusses Jacob’s career as a shepherd and God’s goodness and trustworthiness to Him, even though his treacherous uncle continued to abuse Jacob.

Pastor Gary uncovers the fallout of Jacob and Rebecca’s deceptions of Isaac and Esau, but he shows that God is gracious to show the path, or stairway or ladder, to heaven for all who will believe like Jacob.

Pastor Danny explains a tragic scene of family drama in Isaac and Rebecca’s story but reminds us that even while we suffer the consequences of our actions, God still can achieve his plans for our good and His glory. Genesis 27-28:9

Pastor Ryan focuses on the one chapter solely dedicated to Isaac and traces the good and bad ways that he followed in Abraham’s footsteps. Also, the issue of “the promised land” and the name of the people opposed to God’s chosen ones—the “pelesheth” in Hebrew—appear to have amazing parallels with the events surrounding the October 7th attack on Israel.

Pastor Gary preaches on the death and legacy of Abraham, the father of our faith, and on the troubled brotherhood between his grandsons Jacob and Esau.

Pastor Byron explains how Abraham’s burial of his wife Sarah—the mother of the faith—displays his ongoing trust in God’s covenant with him, a covenant that promises him a people, a land, and a worldwide blessing.