Intro I remember when I was working at Moody Graduate School in administration, I would often get calls from people who were all about trying to get short-cuts. The Master of Divinity program (M.Div) was about 96 hours, which meant 32 classes (3 year program if you went full-time). It was intense and…

John 2:1-11 Introduction: This story reminds us just how easy it is for our best laid plans to go awry. Have you ever made plans in your life particularly in terms of what you wanted to do? Where you wanted to go? How you were going to get there? For some of us, our life plan took an abrupt detour, and…

So, we have a wedding at Cana Read the text… NKJV On the third day there was a wedding in Cana of Galilee, and the mother of Jesus was there. Now both Jesus and His disciples were invited to the wedding. And when they ran out of wine, the mother of Jesus said to Him, “They have no wine.” Jesus said to…

In a few short hours I’ll be leaving and making my way, 12 hours up north, to Ontario, CA. I’m headed up there for our annual FFM trip, we have been going now for the last several years. You might wonder why I do it. Why, Pastor, do you drive all that way, spend the money, the time, and the energy, to…

When seeking a miracle, the greater gift is the Master himself

Realizing our own limitations is an important process of self-discovering in every persons life. My youngest son just turned one, and he is still too young to understand his own limitations. Literally, he is a danger to himself. So we have to take certain precautions to make sure he avoids seriously…

In John 2:1-12 we find Jesus with his mother and disciples at a wedding feast. he we see Jesus begins begins his public ministry through a miracle but also his relationship with his mother transitions from son to Savior.

Picture with me this morning, a group of soldiers- a battalion of troops- they have been engaged in combat for quite some time. They are seasoned, weathered, they have had their fair share of conflict. Leading these men is a highly respected, a very wise, and an overwhelmingly successful general. Now…

©September 27th, 2020 by Rev. Rick Goettsche SERIES: John When I was in college, we had an on-campus worship service on Thursday nights. At one time, we had about 150 people regularly attending this service. One night while we were singing, the director of the ministry came and told me he needed me in…

Hello and welcome back to our devotions through the gospel of John. Last time we looked at Jesus calling his disciples and noticed that as we follow Jesus it should compel us to bring others to him. Today we are going to look at a somewhat familiar story and it is when Jesus turns water into wine. And…

Do we seek God for the wrong reasons? Are we coming to Him because we love Him or because we want something from Him.

God works in our lives every day. He does this both in miracles and mundane things. We need to notice the works of God in our lives and let it grow our faith in Him.

Theme: Jesus changes water into wine. The motive that God gave this sign was to fulfill up religious practices and to show that he is the fulfillment of everything that the people of Israel had been doing in the past. The first sing that Jesus gives is to fill up with himself the whole institution of why he invented and instituted marriage in this world.

What are miracles? Events which are not possible within the bounds of the physical laws which govern the creation in which we live. Events which therefore require a supernatural explanation and as such attest to an agent that exists outside of the laws which govern our existence. In a Judaeo-Christian…

Jesus makes the unclean clean and fills them with joy.

HOOK TURN OFF CALENDAR BREAK TURN OFF CAFFEINE DO NOT FORGET TO UNMUTE It’s MONDAY the 31st, the last day of August Welcome back to the verse by verse study of the gospel of John Last Thursday right here at “The Message” we heard about the author’s purpose when he wrote his Gospel— from his statement…

HOOK Let’s resume and see what happened when Jesus fed the 5,000— yesterday we just covered the first five verses and from them we saw some examples to follow, principles to apply, and festivals to remember An example to follow is when you saw Jesus miracle happening in your life— follow Him Going to…

Open: In 1994 Diana Duyser made a grilled cheese sandwich for lunch. After taking the first bite, however, she noticed the image of the Virgin Mary on the sandwich. Diana carefully preserved the sandwich, and in 2004 auctioned it on Ebay. A casino bought the 10 year old sandwich (which had not molded)…

Jesus performs his first miracle by turning water into wine at Cana. Jesus goes up to Jerusalem and drives everyone out of the temple.

The Gift of Marriage My Brothers and Sisters in Christ, Grace, Mercy, and Peace be to you from God our Father and from our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, What a wonderful and glorious day that we can come together to celebrate in the season of Epiphany not only God’s blessing upon the wonderful gift of…

Discussion around Jesus' first miracle