Another John Weekly Message

My guess is if the people didn't like what you said, they would let you know. People carried shotguns around back then.

What if I offered you this benediction before you left, "Go in peace. You'll need it because you will deny Jesus."

While you can pray faithfully sitting upright in your pew or driving in your car listening to praise music, imagine what happens in our soul when we praise God in kneeling adoration.

Need I remind you God doesn't operate by our desperate sense of time?

The message of the Risen Savior is ours. God gave it to us. What do we do with it?

Everyone looks like me. They sound like me. If we're really good at what we do, they even vote like me as well.

So much of our theological differences stem from not what we read in the Bible, but how we read it.

Blessed are the peacemakers and the ones who turn the other cheek.

If we abide in Christ, Christ abides in us. That's the promise.

Ralph Waldo Emerson said, "You are what you think all day long."

Has your church taught you to see resurrection? How do you know?

If it's hard to determine what's the one thing driving our faith and ministry today, that's telling.

You must decide where you will walk, what you will do with the life God gave you.

There is no one thing to do to reverse decline.

This feels like the perfect moment to respond to the power of God with a devotion to knowing God more.

Remember the worship wars of the last couple of decades? I sure hope we feel stupid about that.

"Christians should always be ready to do two things: They should always be ready to pray. And they should always be ready to die."

You don't have to create a legend of yourself. Just consider if you've experienced new life as a result of the resurrection of Jesus.

Our sincerity with others begins with our sincerity with God.

I so wanted him to let me have a moment of Lord's-table-superiority.