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August 9, 2026
Believing is Seeing and Believing is Life - Held
<p>The world feels like it's spinning out of control — and fear is the natural response to feeling out of control. In this message, we close out Part 2 of our series through the Gospel of John ("Believing Is Seeing, and Believing Is Life") by looking at John 10–12, where Jesus reveals three ways His sovereign love drives out fear:</p><ul><li><strong>Love gives us security in the face of the enemy</strong> (John 10) — including an uncomfortable look at who Jesus actually calls "thieves and robbers"</li><li><strong>Love gives us hope in the face of death</strong> (John 11) — Jesus weeps at Lazarus's tomb, and offers Himself, not an idea, as the resurrection</li><li><strong>Love gives us belonging in the face of loneliness</strong> (John 12) — a single kernel of wheat, planted and multiplied into a people</li></ul><p>Next week, we step into Part 3 of the series: the glory of the cross.</p><p><strong>Scripture:</strong> John 10:1–18; John 11:1–44; John 12:20–26</p><p><strong>Discussion Questions:</strong></p><ol><li>Where have you experienced "insiders" — even well-meaning religious ones — creating fear or insecurity instead of grace?</li><li>Jesus stayed away from Lazarus because He loved him. Where in your life have you mistaken God's delay for God's absence?</li><li>Where do you feel isolated right now, and what would it look like to actually receive belonging rather than just agree with the idea of it?</li></ol>
August 2, 2026
Believing is Seeing and Believing is Life - Blind Spot
<p><strong>Episode Description:</strong></p><p>Jesus stands in the middle of the Feast of Tabernacles and claims both of its central images for himself — he is the living water, and he is the light of the world. In this message, we walk through John 7–9: the water-drawing ceremony and temple illumination that shaped the feast, Jesus's declaration to "let anyone who is thirsty come and drink," the woman caught in adultery and what her story exposes about selective grace, and the man born blind whose sight moves in stages from a name, to a prophet, to "Lord, I believe." Along the way we ask a harder question: where in our own lives has a rule or tradition become more important to us than the person standing in front of us?</p><p><strong>Scripture:</strong> John 7:37–52, John 8:1–30, John 9</p><p><strong>Series:</strong> Believing Is Seeing, and Believing Is Life — a walk through the Gospel of John</p><p><strong>Show Notes:</strong></p><ul><li>The two central images of the Feast of Tabernacles: the water-drawing ceremony at the Pool of Siloam, and the illumination of the temple's four golden lampstands</li><li>Jesus's claim in John 7:37–38, and its connection back to the woman at the well in John 4</li><li>The woman caught in adultery — a textual note on the passage's manuscript history, and what's conspicuously missing from the story</li><li>Jesus's claim to be the light of the world (John 8:12) and the pushback it draws</li><li>The man born blind — tracing his growing understanding of Jesus across four rounds of interrogation</li><li>The closing challenge: what rule, ritual, or tradition do we protect more than people?</li></ul><p><br></p><p><strong>Related listening:</strong> Believing Is Seeing: The Long Walk from Cana to Capernaum (John 4:43–54) · Night and Day (John 3:1–21, 4:1–42)</p>
July 26, 2026
Do You Want What Jesus Gives, or Do You Want Jesus?
<p>Three signs. Three questions. One that actually matters.</p><p>In this message, we take a big swing through John 5 and 6 together—the healing at the pool of Bethesda, the feeding of the 5,000, and Jesus walking on water—and land on the question underneath all of them: are we chasing Jesus, or just chasing what he can give us?</p><p>We look at a man who'd been sick for 38 years and answers Jesus' question with reasons why healing is impossible. We look at a crowd that gets fed and comes back the next day looking for more bread, not more of Jesus. And we look at Peter, who stays when everyone else walks away, because "you have the words of eternal life."</p><p>Along the way: why archaeology backed up a detail in John's Gospel skeptics doubted for years, why grace tends to collide with our religious rule-keeping, and a gut-check from C.S. Lewis about how easily we settle for less than we're offered.</p><p><strong>In this episode:</strong></p><ul><li>The healing at the Bethesda pool and the question, "Do you want to get well?"</li><li>Why the religious leaders missed the miracle and only saw a broken rule</li><li>The feeding of the 5,000 and its ties back to the manna in Exodus</li><li>Jesus' hard teaching about eating his flesh and drinking his blood—and why people left over it</li><li>Peter's answer: "Lord, to whom shall we go?"</li><li>The real question: do you want what Jesus gives, or do you want Jesus?</li></ul><p><strong>Scripture:</strong> John 5:1–15, John 6:1–15, 25–69</p><p><strong>Quoted:</strong> C.S. Lewis, The Weight of Glory</p>
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