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Good Morning. I am so glad that we can be here together. Today is Palm Sunday. The day we celebrate and look at the triumphal entry of Jesus to to Jerusalem. The journey is almost over. We return though to our series on the Farewell message of Jesus before he is arrested. In John 17 we see that Jesus…

Pre-Introduction Introduction [Transition Sentence] Post-Introduction For the last 9 weeks, we’ve followed Jesus’ teaching in the Upper Room on the night before his crucifixion. This morning is Palm Sunday, the beginning of Holy Week, when Jesus entered Jerusalem. Many of the Jews thought that Jesus…

Jesus has finished the Passover Meal with His disciples, and the Mount of Olives. The purpose was for prayer - Jesus prayed to God the Father for His Will to be done. The three closest disciples were to pray with Jesus; not for His deliverance but for their own sake. Time was drawing near, He was about…

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…

Good Morning church. It is good to be together. Even though it is still cold outside. We believe that the purpose of the church is summarized in three things: Glorify God Equip the Saints Share the Gospel This morning, my message is primarily focused on that second task - to equip the saints. In full…

John 14:1 0 -14 Proposition: God wants us to know that we will see the power of prayer when we pray in submission to His will, and to both the power and purpose of God. Read the text John 14:1-14 . Proposition: God wants us to know that we will see the power of prayer when we submit to His will to both…

Romans 15:1-13 We have been looking at the Christian’s relationships as we have studied the last few chapters. We talked about the Believers relationship to God in 12.1-2 Believers Relationship with Himself 12:3-8 Believers Relationship with Other Believers 12:9-13 Believers Relationship with Unbelievers…

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…

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…

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…

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…

One of the most spiritually healthy things we have done in a church since I took over as the head pastor is to begin to cultivate a disciple-making culture in our church. That process began about 2 1/2 years ago. We have come a long way, praise the Lord, but we still have a long way to grow- don’t we?…

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?

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…

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…