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Two Toxic Mentalities

Scott Risley

John 5:1-26

Two toxic mentalities are revealed through Jesus' miracle of healing a lame man: the victim mentality and the religious mentality. These mentalities are incompatible with real faith and keep people from believing. Jesus asks two questions as he interacts with the lame man and the Jewish leaders: 1) Do you want to get well; and 2) Are you willing to believe?

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2 Implications of Following Jesus

Gary DeLashmutt

John 21:18-23

Jesus concludes his interaction with Peter with two main lessons: 1) following Jesus means giving up being the solo director or your life; and 2) we are not to compare our own lot with other believers. Comparison is lethal to relationships and the New Testament highlights a few ways to transform this tendency. To have a healthy focus, we should compare what we have been given to what we actually deserve from God.

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Lessons from Prison

Jim Leffel

Acts 21-28

During his second missionary journey, Paul made his way to Jerusalem to help give relief with a famine that had occurred. He did this to establish unity amidst chaos and ended up spending two years in prison. Despite these circumstances, Paul learns more about God's sovereignty and how that was fully realized in the cross. A primary lesson Paul learned during his time in prison was considering the God he was following and how He would be glorified through this situation, not lamenting on why these circumstances happened to him. The questions of "who" and "how" are important for Christians to consider when encountering suffering, not to lament and become bitter and angry about "why" God would allow such things to happen.

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The Pool of Bethesda

Dennis McCallum

John 5:1-24

Jesus is in Jerusalem when he runs into a man who has been sick for 38 years. Jesus performs a miracle on the Sabbath and heals the man, who begins to walk again. Jesus performed this miracle to combat the religious mentality and to highlight the desire God has to heal broken lives. Jesus also discusses the authority God has given him to grant eternal life to those who believe in him. God cares more about the heart than outward dedication and wants people to inherit eternal life through Jesus.

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Faith And The Official's Son

Scott Risley

John 4:43-53

John 4 highlights the second of seven signs (miracles) that John describes in order to help the reader believe that Jesus is the Messiah. After a royal official begs Jesus to heal his dying son, Jesus leads him to Biblical faith and heals his son. Biblical faith believes God's Word, acts on God's Word and grows as it eventually sees. There are limitations to miracles: 1) they are different from evidence; 2) they require interpretation and remembering; 3) they can be manipulated by frauds. A TV clip of an ABC News Primetime Live investigation of W.V. Grant's phony faith healing ministry is included.

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Faith and Doubt

Conrad Hilario

Matthew 8:6-10

While Jesus was traveling to Galilee, a royal official approaches Jesus and asks him to heal his son who is sick. Through this interaction the role of miracles is challenged and compared to the Roman Centurion in Matthew 8. Faith and doubt are compared and we see that our faith should be placed in facts, and as we act in faith, we will experience the feelings that accompany it.

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faith vs. FAITH

Dennis McCallum

John 4:46-54

Jesus returns to Galilee where a royal official asked him to heal his sick son. Jesus addresses their attitude of desiring signs and wonders over authentic faith. Biblical faith isn't some mental assent, or feeling of what is true, or whatever we choose to believe. In this event, Jesus speaks a word and the official is willing to act on his word, and after acting God confirms the experience to be true. Biblical faith is the same today: it comes from hearing and acting on God's word, and afterwards experience can follow acting in faith on the word of God. This teaching includes an in-depth interview from Primetime TV from Dianne Sawyer and also includes a skit describing blind faith.

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Jesus' Resurrection

Gary DeLashmutt

John 20:1-31

Jesus is resurrected from the dead. He reveals God's plan for his relationship with humanity: 1) through Christ's sacrifice we can be in a love relationship with God; 2) Christianity is missional and purposeful; 3) Christianity is a religion of conversion. Jesus appears to his followers and they respond in various ways that highlight humanity's responses to Christ's resurrection as well.

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From Outward to Inward

Dennis McCallum

John 2:13-22

Jesus enters Jerusalem and drives the money changers out of the temple as they are shaming God's house. Afterwards, he speaks about the temple being destroyed and being raised up three days later. Jesus' audience didn't understand that the "temple" he was referring to was his body that would rise again three days after his work on the cross. Jesus' message was to point out that people's issues weren't solved with outward conformity to formalism, but through an inward change of the heart through a relationship with him.

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