St. John's Church Podcast

Scripture Reading: Genesis 22:1-14 The Good Life = the way things are supposed to be

Scripture Reading: Genesis 37 Your past does not have to be your future. Being a Christian is not about being an improved version of yourself, but about being made new. Jesus may be in your heart, but grandpa is in your bones.

Scripture Reading: Psalm 46:1-11 To be still is to say yes to the invitation. Be stilled by God.

Scripture Reading: 1 Samuel 17:26-45 Our self-awareness is intricately related to our relationship with God

Scripture Reading; 1 Samuel 15:7-24 This is what it means to stop being a human doing and come home to being a human being beloved, beneath the surface, all the way down

Scripture Reading: 2 Corinthians 8:1-4(MSG) We are Children of God. That is true wealth. That is what Christ traded heaven to give you. Forever.

Scripture Reading: Acts 2:1-21 Pentecost is God choosing us, all of us exactly as we are, without qualification Pentecost is God saying it doesn't matter if you think you're enough, because you're enough for God Your calling is based on God's empowerment, not your own perfection,

Scripture Reading: Luke 24:13-35 How are you creating space to experience the living Jesus? Jesus is on the road with you.

Scripture Reading: Philippians 2:19-24 A legacy of love and faith always begins with someone else. And the chain doesn't end with us. Who has Carried You? and who are you carrying now?

Scripture Reading: Luke 10:35-40

Scripture Reading: Deuteronomy 6:4-9 What Story do You want your life to tell? What story do you want St. John's to continue to tell to those beyond us?

Scripture Reading: Luke 14:15-24 Formative Questions: What consistently distracts you from paying attention to when God might be doing in those around you? Where, how, and why do you say "later" to things that actually matter most from God's prospective? God's desire is to have his table full as Jesus invites us to open our live to other so others can open their lives to Him.

Scripture Reading: Ephesians 3:14-21 We are getting on our knees, both of them and asking him not to let us miss what he's already doing.

Scripture Reading: John 20:1-2 He knows your name, and by calling you by name he gives us a new name, daughters and sons of the Father, My Father and your Father. My God and Your God. He is Risen! He is is Risen indeed!

Scripture Reading: John 19:16b-22 So with Jesus in our lives--we are free from the curse--the power of the enemy. Meaning we have the power--the ability--the grace to resist our temptations toward sinning.

Scripture Reading: John 19:1-16a Would you rather hold onto the keys--the weight, the responsibility, the fear--or put then down at the foot of the cross and follow Jesus?

Scripture Reading: John 18:28-40 What is truth? It's a direction, and it's a person. It's Jesus. "The cross is the moment when the power of evil did its worst and was defeated by the stronger power of God's love"~N.T. Wright

Scripture Reading: John 18:12-27 Because grace is the ongoing presence and empowerment of God Himself, actively working in us and through us so that we can live the life God is giving us to live. But what if, what if we turn and live in the flow of God's Grace?

Scripture Reading: John 13:1-17 (MSG) The Jesus Prayer: "Lord Jesus Christ, Son of God, have mercy on me, a sinner" Let him was the place you think disqualifies you. Because the place you think makes you unusable might be the very place where he meets you with love

Scripture Reading: Jon 11:1-44 Jesus calls us out of fear and into life---will you follow?

Scripture Reading: John 9:1-41 You are God's Masterpiece

Scripture Reading: John 4:46-54 Faith begins not when we add Jesus to everything else we trust--but when we finally let go of the things we've trusted instead of him.

Scripture Reading: John 4-6 John 6:35-40 You are enough.

Scripture Reading: John 3: 1-17 Jesus said: You want to see the Kingdom of God? You need to align yourself to be born again in me. Being drawn to Jesus. For God so love the world...That is how new life begins.

Scripture Reading: John 2:13-25 This week's invitation isn't "Go flip tables", it is: Come and see the table Jesus has set for you and me. Stop building walls where his grace has torn them down, and live like grace cost everything to God-and is free for us.