The Light: Bread
Jesus challenges two of his disciples right before he miraculously feeds a crowd in the wilderness. A study of John 6.1-15.
The Light: Sabbath
On a Sabbath day, Jesus heals a man not just from his physical ailment but from spiritual darkness. A study of John 5.1-18.
The Light: Love
What needs to happen in a person’s heart to come into the light of Jesus? In this study of John 3.16-36, we think about God’s love for us and the new birth. (Pastor Raley answers questions about this sermon in a second video below.)
The Light: Whip
When Jesus finds darkness in the temple, he makes a whip and drives it out. A study of John 2.13-25.
The Light: Wine
The darkness often misses the light of Jesus entirely. When he turned water into wine, only a handful of people knew it. A study of John 2.1-11.
The Light: Baptism
The second theme of the Gospel of John is that Jesus is the light of the world. John the Baptist speaks to this theme as the story of Jesus’s life begins. A study of John 1.19-34. (Pastor Raley answers a question about this sermon in a second video below.)
The Word: Jesus’s Trial
The Word who was God from the beginning goes on trial before the Roman governor Pilate, who thinks he has the power of life and death over Jesus. A study of John 18.28-38.
The Word: Jesus’s Prayer
We can see see Jesus’s relationship with the Father in action when Jesus prays for his disciples and for us. A study of John 17.
The Word: Jesus’s Promise
With his disciples in the upper room, Jesus describes his own relationship with the Father. A study of John 14.1-11.
The Word: Jesus’s Friends
As the Word made flesh, Jesus is the resurrection and the life. That is why he risks death to raise his friend Lazarus from the dead. A study of John 11.1-44.
The Word: Jesus’s Flock
Jesus confronts the rebellion against his authority as the Shepherd of Israel. He defines the good shepherd as the one who lays down his life for the sheep. A study of John 10.1-39.
The Word: Jesus’s Freedom
By promising freedom from sin, Jesus offends his new followers. Then he offends them so severely that they try to kill him. A study of John 8.31-59.
The Word: Jesus’s Sign
When his followers demand a sign from Jesus like the manna from Moses, he debates them. He insists that he himself is the sign from heaven. A study of John 6.25-71.
The Word: Jesus’s Life
Jesus speaks directly about his relationship to his Father and the source of his life. He has the divine life within himself. A study of John 5.19-30.
The Word: Jesus’s Name
Jesus talks with the Samaritan woman at the well of Sychar, giving her his real name. A study of John 4.1-42.
The Word: Jesus’s Conflict
Jesus talks with Nicodemus not as a fellow teacher, but as the Word who came from God from the beginning. A study of John 3.1-21.
Prelude: Jesus the Witness
As he said to Mary Magdalene, Jesus testifies for the Father about a new family in the world–the family of faith. In this sermon, we study the third and fourth themes in John’s Gospel from the prologue in 1.1-18. (Pastor Raley answers questions about this sermon in two videos below.)
Prelude: Jesus the Light
A second theme in the Gospel of John is that Jesus is the light of the world. What did John mean by using this metaphor in his prologue? A study of John 1.1-18. (Pastor Raley answers a question about this sermon in a second video below.)
Prelude: Jesus the Word
As BG starts a two- year series in the Gospel of John, we study the first theme of the book. Jesus is the Word from the beginning. First in a three-part study of John 1.1-18.
New Series: The Gospel of John
Preaching through a Gospel is one of my favorite projects. All four Gospels in the New Testament offer drama, fascinating characters, and intense conflicts. Above all, they give us a long look at Jesus of Nazareth. Though every Gospel offers powerful truths, John is unique. John writes as an eyewitness of what Jesus said and […]
You and Your Bible: Authority
Like Jesus’s authority to turn water into wine, the Bible has authority to give light in the darkness. A study of John 12.44-50.
You and Your Bible: Inspiration
The Scriptures are like water turning to wine. Jesus describes the words of a man like Moses as God’s own words. A study of John 5.37-47. (Pastor Raley answers questions about this sermon in two additional videos below.)
You and Your Bible: Revelation
The Bible reveals knowledge that we cannot get anywhere else, the knowledge of God in Jesus Christ. A study of John 17.6-17.
Jesus, Power, and Mary Magdalene (Part 2)
In this Easter morning sermon from John 20.1-18, we encounter the first person to realize that Jesus had risen from the dead, Mary Magdalene. (March 31, 2024)
The Goal of Prayer
Aaron Hicks and his family have been connected with Bethel Grove since 1990. They serve as church planters in Spain. Aaron joins Matt to talk about John 16.16-24. (5th in the series.)
A Key to the Whole Bible: Jesus
People often treat Jesus as an inkblot test–as a projection of whatever they think he is. But when Jesus speaks for himself, like he does in John 8, he talks about his direct connection with Abraham. (7th in the series.)
Jesus Focuses Peter’s Camera
How does the resurrected Jesus relate to people? For Easter Sunday, a look at John 21.
The Camera Angles on Jesus
Why did so many 1st century people miss the power of Jesus’s death and resurrection? In this Palm Sunday sermon, we study John 12.1-26.