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John's account of Jesus death focuses not so much on Jesus' suffering, but on his fulfilment of God's great plan of salvation. Finally, on our journey through Scripture, we get to see God's great plan to restore humanity into relationship with him--a relationship dashed by the first humans--accomplished by the Son of God himself.

Have you ever felt like losing heart ? You have this GOAL in view, a valid goal in fact yet... There is a losing of motivation to move forward to accomplish it You become discouraged in the process You just want to give up…is it all worth it? Luke in our text today begins with explaining to us WHY Jesus…

The Agony of Denial The Agony of Loneliness The Agony of the Cross

Read: Psalm 42 Intro: Q: What are we supposed to do, caught between the faithfulness of God and the often bleak realities of this life? Opening lines of the Psalm, “As a deer pants for flowing streams, so pants my soul for you, O God.” Picture in Your mind: a lush, green, PNW forest; or maybe ‘high desert’…

Call to Worship: Exod. 15:11 Prayer Adoration: None like you, majestic in holiness, glorious in wonderful deeds Confession: Your Son poured out his life in agony for us + our salvation; we have lived selfishly, pridefully, and without trusting you//in this, we have regarded your Son’s blood as cheap.…

Call to Worship: Psalm 149:1-4 Prayer Adoration: God who upholds all creation by your Word = praise; who keeps and sustains us by your Word of grace = praise Confession: failed to live in thankfulness for your forgiving mercy; in response to your redeeming love, have not loved you by obeying your commands…

Intro: Museum: 3 rooms (David/Jesus/us); we are going to spend most of our time in the central room. Please open your bibles/bible apps and follow along as we walk through this Psalm The Sufferings of the Messiah First Cry: Abandoned and Cursed To the choir master: according to the Doe of the Dawn. A…

Christ’s Victory Accomplished Through Suffering (3:18a) An extremely challenging passage. This morning we step into a passage that might be considered an odd choice for an Easter Sunday service. The first will consider the statement in 1 Peter 3:18 , “For Christ also suffered once for sins, the righteous…

Lessons we can learn from the woman who broke the flask of perfume over Jesus’ head. This was a moment Jesus saw as special and he referred to her as doing a beautiful thing.