What To Eat

Preached on February 18, 2007 at PLWC.

Reading: Exodus 16:1-4a; John 6:32-35, 41-60

This Sunday was our first celebration of the Lord's Supper since we arrived at Pocono Lake, so I decided to preach on Jesus' statement that he is the bread of life. His allusion to God's gift of manna in Exodus 16 isn't too hard to pick out, but why does he keep talking about chewing?

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How To Go

Preached on February 11, 2007 at PLWC.

Reading: John 13:31-14:7, Hebrews 10:19-25

When Jesus calls himself "The way, the truth, and the life," he means that he is the way that God promised us to bring us to himself. He's talking about us being adopted into God's family, and that changes everything.

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Where To Go

Preached on February 4, 2007 at PLWC.

Reading: Ezekiel 34:1-6, 17-19; John 10:7-18; 1 Peter 5:1-5

Jesus calls himself the "door" and the "good shepherd." Anyone who doesn't come through the door, he says, is a thief and a robber...

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How To Stay Alive

Preached on January 14, 2007 at PLWC.

Reading: Isaiah 5:1-7, John 15:1-11

Jesus calls himself the vine, and those who want to stay alive must be grafted into him. If he is our source of life, though, he also gives us what we need to bear fruit.

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How To See

Preached on January 7, 2007 at PLWC

Reading: John 8:12, 9:39-41

This is the first sermon in a series looking at Jesus' "I am..." statements in John's gospels, where he describes himself in terms of something else. In this sermon, we see that Jesus is the light that give our eyes, which are blind on their own and cannot see the God that created them, sight to see God.

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