St. John's Church Podcast

Scripture Reading: 1 Samuel 2:1-10 You are enough. Period. Because you are God's child.

Scripture Reading: Exodus 32 Where do you feel closest to God? Jesus wouldn't die for the temple, he is the temple. The Temple was always about God's presence.

Scripture: Exodus 12-1-13 No Matter what moments you faced before you came in here, or will face when you leave. Scripture says that in Christ, we are adopted into the family of God, siblings to Jesus and children of the Father

You are created in the image of God You are God's handiwork, created in Christ for a divine purpose. God created you because He loves you, He has a purpose for your life, and He wanted to bless the rest of us with your being here.

As we reflect on the promises in our own lives, remember that while we may fall short. God never does. And in Jesus, we find the ultimate fulfillment of God's promises. It's not about the strength, of our faith, but the One in whom our faith is placed.

When we abide in Christ, we are already being grafted back into the life that God intended for us--life in abundance, life rooted in His promises.

Scripture: Romans 12: 1-8 All people are the recipients of God's mercy. We are called to be a living sacrifice, holy and pleasing to God in true, proper worship.

Scripture Reading: 2 Chronicles 10 What is the WISE thing to do? In the light of: my past experiences, my current circumstances, my future hopes and dreams, and where I see God leading in my life. What is the WISE thing to do?

Scripture Reading: Matthew 7:1-5 We are not motivated by judgment but by love. Love is our motivation.

Scripture Reading: Luke 2: 41-52 When we pray for an answer, God often gives us wisdom

Scripture Reading: Ephesians 2:19-22

Family Vacation Week 3-Family Faith On The Road by St. John's Church Podcast

Scripture Reading: Genesis 1:24-25 Animals are God's idea Animals are our responsibility God Ultimately takes care of creation(which includes you)

God gave us the Sabbath because the primary purpose God places us on the planet for is not centered on what we do, but who we are.

Our Kenya team shares about their different experiences while we were serving in Kenya!

Our mission from Jesus is to go into all the world and share the good news of the gospel. “The world” isn’t just some far-off place, it is in your neighborhood, workplace, and even within your own family. Each message in this series will help us dive deeper into how we can share God’s love in all times and in all places.

Our mission from Jesus is to go into all the world and share the good news of the gospel. “The world” isn’t just some far-off place, it is in your neighborhood, workplace, and even within your own family. Each message in this series will help us dive deeper into how we can share God’s love in all times and in all places.

Scripture Reading: 1 Peter 3:15-16 If you already have the kingdom, you don't need to win the argument. You already have the kingdom!

Scripture Reading: Matthew 28:16-20 To be a disciple is to be a follower of the ways of someone, not just absorbing what they know, but doing what they do. For Jesus, that means taking up a cross daily and following him. Therefore Go.

Scripture Reading: John 3:1-17 Faith is the only way to be born. What is faith, Now faith is confidence in what we hope of and assurance about what we do not see. May we be born again, embracing this daily renewal as we live by faith.

Scripture Reading: 1 Corinthians 12:1-13 Spiritual gifts are the unique and supernatural qualities, abilities, callings we are given by God to live out as part of the church, the body of Christ. What is your spiritual gift? Until the day Jesus returns and every need is met perfectly in His presence, we rely on one another, sharing our God-given gifts. This is how we experience a taste of heaven here and now--love and support, presence and provision, through those around us.

Scripture Reading: John 19:25-27 Family is redefined Family is expanded Family is eternal

Scripture: 1 Corinthians 13 Anything done without love amounts to nothing. God loves you with unconditional, sacrificial, 1st Corinthians 13 love that endures forever.

Scripture Reading: 1 Corinthians 1:10-18 The Message of the cross is the power of God to those who begin by recognizing that they need to be saved. It is at the cross where the root of division dies and the hope for unity rises with Jesus.

If you didn't do anything to earn God's love, then there is nothing you can do to lose God's love. For we know, brothers and sisters loved by God, that he has chosen you. -1 Thessalonians 1:4 Scripture Reading: 1 Thessalonians 1:1-10, Acts 17:1-19

This is the call to therefore, go. You have been given a gift...the gift of faith. A gift that is daily replenished when you wake up in the morning with the eternal promise that God will meet your every need. So the question is, how are you called to share that with the world? It starts by saying...."Yes Lord, I will go."

Therefore go and make disciples of all nations. Why? Because you know the love, grace and forgiveness of God. You are a witness to the death and resurrection of His Son, Jesus Christ who came entirely because God loves you. And you have received His gift of forgiveness and eternal life. Scripture Reading: Acts 1:1-14

So Go. (Anyway) And when you find the King of the universe who has conquered death and the grave is with you, and calls you by name, you can know that in him, you have everything you need. Scripture Reading: Mark 16:1-8

He gave his life so we could be forgiven.

Scripture Reading: Mark 11:1-11, 14:3-9 He will swallow up death forever. Jesus came to bring resurrection.

The life, death and resurrection of Jesus Christ IS the main event. This is because God loves you, and through Jesus Christ, He demonstrates His love, grace and forgiveness---All for you. So be Alert! Christ is coming again, and when he does, he will call you by name

"Before love is something you do, it has to be someone you've met"--Timothy Keller That's Jesus. To meet him is to know him, and to know him is to be loved by him. And because God's love is so immersive and overflowing, once you know you, you can't help but love him back, and then share it with the world...Love God and love your neighbor.

The world might not know God's love if you tell them, but they will know God's love if you show them. When difference threaten your relationships, don't change your opinion. Love deeper, Forgive more, Wash feet.

What do You want from Jesus?

Easter Eggs Week 1: First & Last by St. John's Church Podcast

Jesus tells his followers to lose everything for him. What Jesus is really saying is that when you lose it with him, in him, for him...what you'll find is that instead of losing anything, you'll gain everything. You will gain your soul.

Being Known for who you used to be can get in the way of who you are called to be. Who you used to be can serve as a testimony that illuminates who God has called you to be. He became nothing so that can find your everything in him

He wants anyone who has nowhere else to turn to do whatever it takes to come to HIM.

Pastor Tom sits down and interviews Jared and Mary McDaniel, about their vision and involvement with World Orphans.

Sinners Make good soil when they turn back to Him

The Way Week 2-Walk in Healing by St. John's Church Podcast

Good News!!! Good News!! Good News!!! Jesus Loves Me, and You!

Life is what happens to you while you're busy making other plans. Jesus didn't come to bring peace to those who had already found it, he came to bring peace to those who need it

When the Lord takes us through our exiles, He places us in situations where our own strengths are irrelevant, and our weaknesses are glaringly evident. Then He highlights our need for Him and says "Trust Me."

Advent Week 2-Promise of the Messiah by St. John's Church Podcast

"Trust Me"-God

Through The Waters Week 8 -Isaiah's Vineyard by St. John's Church Podcast

Through The Waters Week 7-Hosea by St. John's Church Podcast

Whatever your blank is that you filled in, Stop it. Put it down. That's enough. Come Close. The Lord-he is God! The Lord--he is God! God shows himself in a whisper. Don't be afraid to listen.

We know God's love and forgiveness, so we have the freedom in Christ to serve our neighbors and those around us. Through us serving God by serving them, they too might know the presence of Jesus Christ in their lives.

The more of ourselves is exposed to God, the more God's grace can be exposed to us. To heal, to forgive, to give strength.

Jesus doesn't have to redeem you and me. He wanted to. The Samaritan didn't need to save the man on the side of the road. He wanted to. That's love. It requires faith. It reflects the love of God for us.

The 10 Commandments are the Rules of the Road. God isn't finished when he set us free, he wants us to live free. So these commandments are rooted in three things: *Love *Freedom *Promise

Jesus came to set into our past and our present, to be with us in our sin and death so that he can take it all upon himself on the cross, so that we will never have to imagine a future alone without him ever again.

This is not just Jacob's story, it's your story as well. You wrestle God every single day who will be god in your life.

Want to know what God's address is? *It's at the end of your rope. There is nothing to hard for God to handle Next time you miss the moon, don't settle for the stars, because God wants to give you the Sun(Son).

What are we made for? *Potential *Purpose *Provision *Prohibition *Partnership LOVE The thing that we were made by God to do from the very beginning, the thing we will do for all of eternity, is to LOVE

In the scripture today it says to trust God How do we trust God? *Invest in your relationship with God *Experience His presence in the Lord's Supper *Remember your baptism

Your will be done on earth as it is in heaven....

Be Patient.....I can't. But God can, and He will be patient with me.

God doesn't call the qualified, He qualifies the called.

Three reasons given to "Praise the Lord" *Praise the Lord for the existence of creation itself. *Praise the Lord for every stage and season. *Praise the Creator, don't praise creation.

Peter teaches us 3 things about how to discern the truth. 1. Truth comes through an experience with the living God. 2. Truth isn't destructive. 3.Truth will set you free.

Even though you don't deserve it and can't earn it, Jesus Christ truly came and died on the cross then rose again to forgive your sins. And it's all because God truly loves you. That's graace.

3 Things we learn about the game of Faith: 1. Grace puts us on the board 2.God provides the instructions for the game 3. We don't play to win, we play because we've already won! We are all invited into the game of faith by the gift of God's grace. Follow the instructions, play to win, because in Christ, you already have.

Do you love yourself? God Loves You. His opinion about you matters more than anyone else's including your own. With that love, you can go then out to share it with the world.

The baggage of our past, when we use it through the lens of faith, can be woven by God into the good plans he has for our future.

Whatever unfulfilled expectations you're carrying around in your "summer baggage" you will find love, healing, and hope in Jesus Christ who loves you beyond your imagination.

If there is a reason to let go of our baggage, which is what forgiveness does, whether you're the one giving it or receiving it, it frees our hands so we can take hold of what matters most. Love. Love God and Love others.

We celebrate this Pentecost like millions of Christians right now, this day, every year because the same Holy Spirit is available to all of us right now. This summer, don't row. Spend some time sailing. Walk in the Spirit, because in Christ you have the Son. And if we have the Son, we have everything we need.

God sent the Spirit of his Son into our hearts, the Spirit who calls out, "Abba Father."-Galatians 4:6 Because the Spirit lives in us, we know that we belong to God. Jesus has gone to prepare a place for us to be with him forever, but that presence of God's Spirit reminds us from the inside that we are not alone, we belong to him.

People are called into our lives for a season. God is with us forever. So thank God for the people He placed in our lives, no matter how long or short the season is.

God is real, who is strong enough and true enough to bear your doubts and difficulties in trusting Him and believing in Him. How Far can we run from God?-----We Cannot outrun God. Bottom line: God Loves you.

Love is patient. God is a patient God who loves you no matter what you've done, or how far you run. God's patience will never fail you.

Our pain gives us a platform. Stop running and turn to God. Matthew 12:40 For as Jonah was three days and three nights in the belly of a huge fish, so the Son of Man will be three days and three nights in the heart of the earth.

We're all Jonah. Jonah shows us is that life isn't easy no matter which way you live. Life is will be hard if you run away, and life will be hard if you go. The difference? if you go, God goes with you. How far can we run from God?

He is Risen! He is Risen Indeed!

As we begin Holy Week, this week leading up to the celebration of Easter my you also know the reality of Jesus Christ's death and resurrection. He came and gave His life because He loves you. He has forgiven you of all your sins and enabled you to know the love of God.

Have you ever prayed for a resurrection? Jesus Loves. Jesus Weeps. Jesus raises the dead to life. Resurrection brings glory to God

Do you want Jesus to be your Good Shepherd?

Do you want Jesus to be your Good Shepherd?

Do you want Jesus to be your Good Shepherd?

What's awesome about God calling himself "I AM" is that when God fills in the blank -- the words actually do fill us with awe. Gracious, loving, forgiving God!

Jesus didn't come to throw stones he came to shine LIGHT Jesus didn't come into the world to condemn the world, but to save the world. God is light; in him there is no darkness at all.

When we are not enough, God says "I AM enough" Because he loves you so much that he came to redeem you

All moments that relate to moments you wish you could go back to....and in Christ they are all just a foretaste of the moment to come that will never end

It's all about Love. Love is what's important to God. Because God IS love. Love God. Love your neighbor. Love yourself.

1. The first step to bridgebuilding in conflict is to go o the person. 2. Bridgebuilding in conflict begins with you. 3. Our relationships on earth have eternal implications in heaven. We're not just building brides on earth, our relationships themselves are bridges to eternity.

If our world is fractured, we need to be connected..to God, to others, and to ourselves. We can't be connected if all we have time for is to react. Set aside time to pray and connect the way Jesus did early in the morning in the midst of the chaos.

Jesus doesn't only bring his words. He brings his wounds. For the message of the cross is foolishness to those who are perishing, but to us who are being saved it is the power of God-1 Corinthians 1:18

God is Love. Love God. Love Others.

God is love. Love is who and what God is. Without love none of our efforts matter. Because only love can cover sin.

*Do not be afraid *Do not worry *Give thanks to God *Seek first His kingdom and His righteousness

Jesus came to hold it all together--(so you don't have to)

Where are you this Christmas? Are you filled with joy, overflowing with miraculous blessing? or are you weary like a shepherd watching the flock by night? Know that in both cases, God is the same. it isn't about the trappings all around us. It's about Jesus. He's the gift He's the one who brings peace. "Glory to God in the highest heaven, and on earth peace to those on whom his favor rests"

Preparation=Peace The peace of God precedes our circumstances, meets us in our chaos, and infuses our future with hope

God is going to do what God is going to do. He is a lion, and his will and plans are not contingent upon our feelings. Your weariness is no match for God's goodness. Lastly, to be weary, is to be human.

The Beauty of the Gospel in every season is that the things in this world that matter the most are the things that are not confined to this world.

You are of infinite worth. So stop trying to earn it. And don't squander it either. Just come home!