Mineral Springs Church of Christ Podcast

As he continues the series on the gospel of John, Aaron Hill discusses a familiar passage, John 8:1-11. Though it is familiar, it is a text that is not found in most ancient manuscripts and so is excluded from many translations. While some may or may not believe it is a reliable part of the gospel of John, the text does teach important principals. The Pharisees bring a woman to Jesus. They report...

Minister Aaron Hill continues his series on the gospel of John in chapter 7 with Jesus still at the Feast. The leaders had commanded the officers to arrest Jesus earlier in the week, but they hadn't yet arrested Him yet. When questioned, their response was that no man had ever spoken like Him before! Other "messiahs" had appeared on the scene. They were killed and remained dead. The...

Minister Aaron Hill continues his series on the gospel of John by discussing Jesus' authority as illustrated in John 7. Jesus is still in Jerusalem at the feast. The people there have conflicting ideas about Him. They wonder how He can speak as He does, not having studied under any of their esteemed teachers. They marvel at the miracles and signs He performs. They know what He claims, but the...

Minister Aaron Hill continues his series on the gospel of John as he looks at John 7. As chapter 7 opens, Jesus is in Galilee. He hasn’t gone to Judea because the Jews there were seeking to kill him. Because it is about time for the Feast of Booths, His brothers encourage Him to go. They say it is so that His disciples can see His works. Even though His own brothers don’t believe in Jesus as Messi...

While we may often read scripture to see how it applies to us, we should recognize that scripture is more about Jesus than it is about us - a lot more. Jesus knows His disciples question Him. He loves them anyway. They don't understand all He does. He loves them anyway. Jesus' words are spirit and life. His words are what can give us true life, and He offers everyone true life. Some of H...

Minister Aaron Hill moves forward in his series on the Gospel of John as he continues through the passage in John 6 that follows the miracle of the feeding of the five thousand, picking up in John 6:41. People have been fed, yet the Jews are grumbling, and Jesus knows it. They grumble because they know Jesus; they know His family. They question how He can say what He says. He tells them that only...

Continuing his series on the gospel of John, minister Aaron Hill picks up in John 6:30-40. Although the people have just witnessed the miracle of Jesus providing bread to a multitude, they still ask, "Then what sign do you do, that we may see and believe you? What work do you perform?" They compare His miracle to Moses providing manna in the wilderness. Jesus reminds them that Moses didn...

Who do we trust? Trust is not easily earned, but in Jesus' day, as in our day, people look for someone they can trust. As minister Aaron Hill continues his series on the gospel of John, he looks at John 6:22-29. The people here have just been fed, and because they have been fed, they follow Jesus from that place where they have eaten to the place to which Jesus has traveled. Jesus  tells them...

Minister Aaron Hill continues his series on the gospel of John by looking at John 6 and the miracle of feeding the five thousand, a miracle recorded in all four gospels and one that occurs soon after the death of John the Baptist. This is obviously an important event given that all four gospel writers include it. Jesus' ministry attracted many followers, but for what were they following Him?...

While it might make us uncomfortable to realize it, we all begin from a state of unbelief. Minister Aaron Hill continues his series on the gospel of John discussing the final verses of chapter 5 in which Jesus addresses his listeners’ unbelief. Unbelief is characterized in many ways. One is that a person does not have God’s Word abiding in them. Jesus will not abide in us if we do not abide in Him...

Many in the world will say, "If I saw a miracle, I would believe in God." Or, "If God appeared to me and spoke to me, I would believe." But, would that belief prompt these people to want to change their lives? Perhaps not. Minister Aaron Hill continues his series on the gospel of John by exploring the reliability of Jesus' witness. John 5:30-37 reveals the strength of that...

The phrase  when pigs fly   has entered our language as a way to say that an occurrence is impossible. In reality, many would use the saying to discount Jesus. The Son of God came to earth, born of a human mother? When pigs fly! Jesus died on a cross, was buried, and rose from death to life on the third day? When pigs fly! And, yet, that is exactly what happened. Jesus came to earth, lived, died,...

Continuing his series on the Gospel of John, minister Aaron Hill focuses in this lesson on John 5:19-24. The Son and the Father and their relationship is the main focus of this passage. Whatever Jesus does, He does what the Father wills. The Father created; Jesus created. The Father gives life; the Son gives life. The Father touches everything we see, touch, and feel; so does the Son. The Father h...

The gospel of John has been the topic for several weeks. In today's message guest Robert Peek discusses the purpose of John's gospel. He wrote what he did to make sure we might believe that Jesus is the Son of God and that believing, we might have life through His name.

What a difference a day makes! What a difference three days made! On a Friday Jesus was arrested, beaten, crucified, and buried, but when Sunday came, God demonstrated that He had not abandoned His Son. He rolled the stone away, and Jesus arose. Death was swallowed up in victory. In this Easter Sunday message, Elder Eddie Beene tells the audience how we can experience that victory by making Jesus...

How much rest do we need? It is said that average adults need at least seven hours of sleep a day, but sometimes life doesn't allow us to rest as we need. We are not consistently well-rested. Minister Aaron Hill continues his series on John by returning to the text in chapter 5 and exploring the response of the Pharisees to Jesus' healing of the lame man on the Sabbath. Their objection w...

Where do we look for healing? Minister Aaron Hill recounts the story of the paralyzed man at the pool of Bethesda in John 5 as he continues his series on the gospel of John. The paralyzed man was only one of many who had gathered near the pool that day in hopes of receiving healing. That man, like all the others, was looking to the water of the pool to make him whole, but the man's healing ca...

The Jews viewed Jesus differently in comparison to the way outsiders viewed Him. Jesus’ own people, the Jews, wanted to kill Him early on, yet the Samaritans in John 4 believed in Him. Minister Aaron Hill continues his studies on the book of John showing how Jesus’ own people did not seek Him for who He was but for the signs and miracles He could perform.  Toward the end of John 4, Jesus makes His...

We often have a sense that we need to dress ourselves up to come to God, yet God would rather have our honesty. We don’t have to hide our pasts from God. Jesus knows our past and present. We don’t have to fix ourselves before we come to Jesus. It is to Jesus we come to be fixed. Continuing in John 4, minister Aaron Hill expands on the story of the Samaritan woman. Jesus knows her past, and he has...

Quenching one’s thirst is temporary. No matter how often we take a drink, we will eventually be thirsty again. Minister Aaron Hill continues his series on the gospel of John with a lesson about the Samaritan woman Jesus encounters at a well. Jews typically avoided Samaritans, but John 4 finds Jesus traveling through Samaria, stopping at a well, and asking a Samaritan woman for a drink of water. He...

Jesus is above all. He is from heaven. He bears witness to the things of heaven. He has been sent by God. He speaks the words of God. He is indwelled by the fullness of God. The Father loves the Son. The Father has given all things into His hand. Listen as minister Aaron Hill expounds on John 3:31-36 as part of his series on the gospel of John.

In light of Christ’s sacrifice, we should be willing to sacrifice our lives for Him. In this week’s lesson, minister Aaron Hill shows us how John the Baptist understood this. As Jesus’ disciples began baptizing, John’s baptism continued. John’s baptism was preparing people for Christ, but a conflict arose over questions of purification. John said, “A person cannot receive even one thing unless it...

Our spiritual birth is not something we can accomplish on our own. Minister Aaron Hill reminds listeners how Nicodemus found that out. Nicodemus sees Jesus as a man he knows God is “with,” but he doesn’t understand that Jesus is much more than that. Jesus tells him that he, Nicodemus, must be born again. Nicodemus confuses this with physical birth, but new birth must be of the water and the spirit...

Minister Aaron Hill focuses this teaching on the second chapter of John. Here, the apostle John recounts how Jesus performs the first of His miracles in Cana of Galilee when He turns water into wine. He performs this miracle to make clear His pre-existing glory. The miracles and signs He performs are done to manifest His glory. His glory being clear shows that He is the Son of God, and just as the...