New Sermon Series

The story of Jesus could be told in many different ways.  The Bible uses four writers to give us a multi-dimensional feel for the life and times of Jesus.  Every moment of the story counts for something.  John tells us that he had to pick and choose which moments to tell us about because if everything that Jesus did were written down, "even the whole world would not have room for the books that would be written" (John 21:25).  The Gospel writers may have had their reasons for including parts of the Jesus story and leaving other parts out.  Matthew, Mark and Luke include a lot of the same scenes.  John approaches it from a completely different perspective.  For this reason the first three gospels have been labeled the synoptic gospels (the word synoptic means, "to see together").  But even these three writers who seem to be somewhat interdependent, diverge and converge in ways that are not always easy to understand.  They don't contradict each other ... they simply refuse to be pasted into the same mold.  Like four witnesses standing at four corners of an intersection watching an automobile accident -- their stories diverge and converge because they saw it from different angles.

We recognize that every moment of Jesus' life was an act of love for his Heavenly Father.  At one point toward the end Jesus prayed, "I have brought you glory on earth by completing the work you gave me to do.  And now, Father, glorify me in your presence with the glory I had with you before the world began" (John 17:4-5). Jesus lived every moment of his life for God and was the perfect reflection of God.  He said, "I have revealed you to those whom you gave me out of the world ... Now they know that everything you have given me comes from you" (John 17:6-7).  Jesus lived a life of perfect worship.

In this sermon series we will examine four critical moments in Jesus' life -- four moments so intense they reveal the eternal relationship between Father and Son.  In these four moments Jesus teaches us what it means to worship an all powerful God.  Jesus teaches us about the depth of God's love.
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