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There were two siblings, a brother and a sister, who desired to please their father. Every morning, the brother would wake up and immediately get to work. Cleaning his room, cutting the grass, repairing the roof to the shed, organizing the garage, running errands all around town. He served in community…

Jesus Prays (Pt. 1) 1 Jesus spoke these things, looked up to heaven, and said, “Father, the hour has come. Glorify your Son so that the Son may glorify you, 2 since you gave him authority over all people, so that he may give eternal life to everyone you have given him. 3 This is eternal life: that they…

Time? Probably around midnight... Location? The have left the interior of the House at the end of chapter 13, but Chapter 18 tells us jesus went forth, over the Kidron ravine to the garden on the other side across the valley from the temple complex in Jerusalem. Therefore, The most likely location would…

Nitzavim Introduction Torah Portion This Torah Portion goes from Deuteronomy 29:10-30:20 In our previous Torah portion we talked about Re’eh (beholding: a blessing, and a curse) We talked about having two choices related to obedience / disobedience = blessing / cursing Obedience to blessing We talked…

Exegetical Point: Homiletic Point: Jesus will Glorify the Father by making his name known. Intro Jesus has been teaching his disciples, but this intensive is about to come to an end. This discipleship intensive started back in Chapter 13, right after Judas the Betrayer left. It’s all taken place over…

Who Will Go for Us? The arrival of Jesus, the Messiah of Israel, is the fulcrum upon which God’s plan for the restoration of Eden tilts toward realization. He is the center of the biblical epic. Even though someone reading the Bible straight through has to wade 3/4s of the way into it before encountering…

Issue of Identity Did you know that we’re soon set to reach a world population of 8 billion people? When I checked the world population clock this morning, we were at 7 billion, 970 million, 555 thousand, and counting. That’s getting pretty close to 8 billion! Imagine if you had that amount of money…

6 “I have manifested your name to the people whom you gave me out of the world. Yours they were, and you gave them to me, and they have kept your word. 7 Now they know that everything that you have given me is from you. 8 For I have given them the words that you gave me, and they have received them and…

The Three-Pointed Prayer Seven Petitions Point 1: Jesus and His Mission First Petition: Let’s Shine Together 1 Jesus spoke these things, looked up to heaven, and said, “Father, the hour has come. Glorify your Son so that the Son may glorify you, Jesus’ cause and God’s cause entwined in honor and praise.…

What is revealed about the heart and mission of Jesus in His high priestly prayer? What does this show us about the powerful savior of sinners? We ponder and answer these questions about where we see the heart of Jesus revealed.

Welcome Good morning everyone and welcome once again to church. Today we are looking at the second part of Jesus’ prayer in John 17 . Last week we saw how Jesus prayed that he would glorify God the father and that God the father would glorify him. We looked at what glory means, how God has glory, his…

Welcome Good morning everyone. Today we are going back to the Gospel of John. We are going to be going to be going through John 17 over the next three weeks. This chapter is entirely made up of one of Jesus’ prayers on his last night and it divides up into three sections. So today we are starting with…

The great prayer: Focuses: The glorification of Christ The spiritual safety of the Apostles The witness of the Apostles The sanctification of the apostles The Unity of the church Todays focus: The first four Big idea: In the moments approaching his greatest trial, Jesus concerns himself with his followers.…

Unity...Why the enemy is trying to destroy it. Jesus prayed, "that they will all be one, just as you and I are one— as you are in me, Father, and I am in you. And may they be in us so that the world will believe you sent me." How do you live out the saying, "in essentials unity, in non-essentials freedom and in all thing love in our offendable world?

The disciples could’ve asked for anything but they asked to be taught how to pray. Jesus Prays But Jesus often withdrew to lonely places and prayed. Jesus prayed to prepare. Then Jesus, full of the Holy Spirit, returned from the Jordan River. He was led by the Spirit in the wilderness, * where he was…

Recommended reading Replicate by Robby Gallaty & Chris Swain Biblical Slave Leadership by Daniel L. Anderson This morning we learned that Paul was faithful because he knew his “Why?” I never want you do something simply because it’s what Pastor wants you to do. I don’t want it to be because its just…

John’s Account John 18 1-11 there is a lot of the narrative John has left out the garden prayer great drops of blood sleeping disciples being ministered by angels Judas giving the kiss these accounts show the humanity of Jesus on the other hand John is always portraying the Deity of Jesus the miracles…

Mark 3:13-19 William Barclay gives a very informative introduction to the choosing of the 12 apostles and I want to share it with you. He says, “JESUS had come to a very important moment in his life and work. He had emerged with his message; he had chosen his method; he had gone throughout Galilee preaching…

Verses 12-16 Exodus 12 gives the instructions for Passover and the feast of unleavened bread - 14 “This day shall be for you a memorial day, and you shall keep it as a feast to the Lord ; throughout your generations, as a statute forever, you shall keep it as a feast. 15 Seven days you shall eat unleavened…

What do you do if you are expecting to be gone from your home and loved ones? Many of us will have someone watch over our place with detailed instructions. Some of us know this very well. We tell the babysitter what to do; we do not want our children to starve or be deprived of sleep. So, leaving copious…

John 17 has been called “the Lord’s high-priestly prayer. He knows that He will soon be taken from the disciples. He has been teaching them in preparation for this, and now he prays – for Himself, for those with Him in the upper room, and for all believers. Jesus prayed for Himself Scripture John 17:1-5…

Today we will be studying John 17 together. Often we refer to the Lord teaching the disciples to pray in Matthew 6:9-13 , and Luke 11:2-4 as the Lord’s Prayer. Certainly, Jesus did pray those words, and they are the Lord’s prayer. John 17 is another of his prayers. However, this prayer is not his instruction…

Southwest Airlines workers find thousands of lost items a year left by hurried passengers. But a ramp agent in Little Rock knew that a Buzz Lightyear toy with the name Hagen scrawled on the right boot especially needed to find its way home. In Dallas, the parents of 2-year-old Hagen Davis didn’t realize…

John 17:4–26 I have glorified thee on the earth: I have finished the work which thou gavest me to do. And now, O Father, glorify thou me with thine own self with the glory which I had with thee before the world was. I have manifested thy name unto the men which thou gavest me out of the world: thine…

INTRODUCTION: Welcome - Correction from weeks ago about protests... Book recommendation - Urban Legends Pray Open to John 17 ... We’re in the midst of a break from 1 & 2 Samuel Next week Nate Palmer, Youth Pastor from Faith Free in Sparta will be preaching Followed the next two weeks by Jared, one of…