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Believing is Seeing and Believing is Life - Breakfast on the Beach
This is the penultimate message in our Gospel of John series — yes, I just like saying penultimate. We're in chapter 21, which, honestly, feels a little tacked on. John 20 ended so perfectly that scholars have been wrestling with chapter 21 ever since. I leave that mystery unresolved and just…
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Believing is Seeing and Believing is Life - Believing is Seeing
Happy Easter. Yes, I know it's October. This week I'm in John 20 — the pinnacle of John's Gospel, and the story of that first Easter morning. Mary Magdalene comes to the tomb while it is still dark, in chaos and heartbreak and fear, and she finds the stone rolled away. What follows is a story…
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Believing is Seeing and Believing is Life - The King We Need
Have you ever listened to a hymn or a piece of music that ends on an unresolved note? Rather than finishing with a tidy, comfortable chord, it leaves you sitting in a moment of tension and reflection. In today’s episode, we explore John chapters 18 and 19, walking through the final night and…
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Believing is Seeing and Believing Is Life - Unveiled Glory
In John 17 — Jesus's High Priestly Prayer, prayed on the night of his betrayal — I found a glory that looks nothing like the world's. Not palaces, crowns, or self-promotion. A cross. A protected mission. A unified church. In this message I walk through the three movements of Jesus's prayer: The...
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Believing is Seeing and Believing is Life - Abide
In this episode, we dive into John 15 and 16 to explore what it truly means to abide in the love of Christ. Walking through Jesus’ final upper-room instructions to His disciples, we break down two foundational principles—that God is sovereign and good and that reality is our friend. Discover how...
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Believing is Seeing and Believing is Life - Not Lost, Not Alone
We don't live in an easy world. Jesus knew that — and he didn't pretend otherwise. In John 14, we find Jesus in the upper room with his eleven closest disciples on the darkest night of their lives. Judas has left. Death is coming. And into that weight, Jesus speaks words that are honest, tender,...
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Believing is Seeing and Believing is Life - The Way Down
Jesus ties a towel around his waist and kneels at the feet of the man who will betray him. In this next installment of the John series, we step into the upper room — the last night, the last teaching, the last hours before the cross — and discover that the way of Jesus is rooted in a love that...
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Believing is Seeing and Believing is Life - Held
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...
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Believing is Seeing and Believing is Life - Blind Spot
Episode Description: 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...
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Do You Want What Jesus Gives, or Do You Want Jesus?
Three signs. Three questions. One that actually matters. 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...
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Believing is Seeing and Believing is Life - Faith My Eyes
Description: Jesus heals a royal official's son from twenty miles away — with nothing but a spoken word. But the real story here isn't the healing. It's the choice the official makes before he knows the outcome: will he trust Jesus's word, or walk away disappointed like so many others in John's...
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Believing is Seeing and Believing is Life - Night and Day
Two of the most famous stories in the Gospels, side by side: Nicodemus, a respected religious leader who comes to Jesus at night, and the Samaritan woman, an outcast Jesus meets at a well in the heat of noon. Night and day. Male and female. Insider and outsider. Same offer of grace. We walk…
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Believing is Seeing and Believing is Life - The Zeal that Consumes
John 2:13–25 | Acts 13 Network Everyone notices it eventually: this story shows up in the wrong place. In Matthew, Mark, and Luke, Jesus clearing the temple courts comes near the end of his ministry — it's the moment that gets him killed. John puts it in chapter two. Same event, two different...
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Believing is Seeing and Believing is Life - The Presence in Our Midst
We often view God in grand, cosmic, and epic terms. But what happens when the Creator of the universe steps out of the eternal scope and moves straight into a dusty riverside neighborhood? In this episode, we kick off a new study in the Gospel of John, diving into what commentators call the "Book...
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Believing is Seeing and Believing is Life - The God Who Moved into the Neighborhood
We often think of God in two ways: He is imminent (right here with us) and He is transcendent (completely beyond our comprehension). But how do these two realities mix when life gets messy? In this episode, we dive into the final verses of the John 1 prologue to explore one of the most radical...
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Believing is Seeing and Believing is Life - Radical Reality of Adoption
In this episode, we continue our journey through the Gospel of John, diving deep into the structural center of the famous Prologue: John 1:9–13. While it's easy to get caught up in the grand, cosmic scale of Jesus as the pre-existent Word and Creator of the universe, John’s ultimate destination…
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Believing is Seeing and Believing is Life - Sent to Point
We are diving back into the beautiful prologue of John’s Gospel, specifically looking at John 1:6–9 and verse 15. In this episode, we break down the unique role of John the Baptist, tackle some mind-bending theology regarding the pre-existence of Christ, and look at the two cultural errors the...
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Believing is Seeing and Believing is Life - Unstoppable Light
We are officially pivoting from the gritty, prophetic text of Amos to a massive, 20-week journey through the Gospel of John. If you were hoping for something light, easy, and straightforward... well, you might have missed the sarcasm! John is a magnificent, profound piece of literature that...
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The Mandate of Mishpat - Rebuilding from the Ruins: Grace, Justice, and the End of Amos
The Old Testament prophetic book of Amos is famous for being intense. For chapters on end, the message is unyielding: a holy God is dropping a plumb line, judgment is coming, and the nation will be sifted for its spiritual rot and systemic oppression. But Amos does not end with the tragedy of...
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Mandate of Mishpat - Grace, Alignment, and the Sifting of Our Souls
What does a structural tool from ancient masonry have to say about the state of our hearts today? In this episode, we dive into Amos chapters 7 through 9, exploring an intense but profoundly hopeful section of the Minor Prophets. While the book of Amos is famous for its relentless exposure of...
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Mandate of Mishpat - A Call to Empathy
Episode Summary:Have you ever been on a journey where you only wanted to look out one side of the window? In this episode, we explore the jarring contrast between the luxury we often seek and the reality of the world we often ignore. Drawing from a personal story of a Jamaican honeymoon and the...
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Mandate of Mishpat - Who Do You Seek?
What if your worship is empty? What if God looks at your religious life — the songs, the prayers, the offerings — and says, I hate it? That's exactly what Amos tells Israel in chapter 5. And it's just as much a word for us. In this episode, we work through the heart of Amos's prophecy — a funeral...
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Mandate of Mishpat - Chosen: On Empty Worship and the God Who Loves Too Much to Let Us Stay
Chosen: On Empty Worship and the God Who Loves Too Much to Let Us StayBeyond Sunday School | Amos 3–4 What does it mean to be "chosen" by God? In this episode, we dig into Amos 3–4 and discover that the Hebrew word for chosen isn't primarily a theological category — it's the language of intimate,...
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Mandate of Mishpat - When God Turns the Mirror Around
When God Turns the Mirror Around | Amos 1–2 Amos wasn't a professional prophet — he was a shepherd and a fig tree pruner from Tekoa. But God sent him to deliver one of the most uncomfortable messages in all of Scripture. In this opening sermon of our series on the book of Amos, we walk through...
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The Stories Are True - Resurrection Sunday 2026
THE PASTOR NEXT DOOR "The Stories Are True" | Resurrection Sunday Based on John 20:1-18 ───────────────────────────── ABOUT THIS EPISODE What if the first Easter wasn't triumphant — it was confusing? In this Resurrection Sunday reflection, we sit with Mary Magdalene outside an empty tomb and...
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Parables for the Long Way Home - Glory Upside Down
Episode Summary In this Palm Sunday reflection, we explore the radical subversion of power found in Jesus’ entry into Jerusalem. While the world defines "glory" through conquest, influence, and self-protection, Jesus redefines it through the lens of a cross. Drawing from John 12, we discuss the...
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Parables for the Long Way Home - Beyond the Catchphrase
In this episode, we dive into one of the most famous—and perhaps most misunderstood—stories Jesus ever told: The Parable of the Good Samaritan. While culture uses "Good Samaritan" as a catchphrase for basic kindness, Jesus used it as a scandalous challenge to religious insiders. We explore the...
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Parables for the Long Way Home - The Loving Father's Wide Grace
I’ll be honest: there is one story in the Bible I haven’t been able to escape lately. I find myself referencing it in almost every sermon, regardless of the text I’m actually preaching from. We usually call it the "Parable of the Prodigal Son," but as we wander through Lent together, I’ve started...
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Parables for the Long Way Home - Mow the Yard, Miss the Point
We've all heard the Parable of the Sower. Most of us have heard it wrong. For years it got preached — and taught — as a moralistic checklist: What kind of soil is your heart? Get it right. But that's not the gospel. And it's not what Jesus was doing. In this week's sermon from Mark 4:1-20, we dig...
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Parables for the Long Way Home - The Scandal of Generous Grace
"It’s not fair." If we’re honest, that’s how many of us feel when we read Jesus’s parable of the laborers in the vineyard. Why does the person who shows up for the final hour of work get paid the same as the one who labored all day in the heat? In this first installment of our Lenten series, we...
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God's Kingdom Come - The Joy of the Kingdom
Have you ever stumbled across something so valuable it changed everything in an instant? This week, we wrap up our Epiphany series by looking at two of Jesus’ shortest—and most provocative—parables from Matthew 13: the treasure hidden in a field and the merchant seeking fine pearls. We often talk...
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God's Kingdom Come - The Scandalous Guest List
Is your "circle" too small? On this Super Bowl Sunday, we’re trading the playbook for a prayer. While millions gather around TV screens and buffet wings, we’re diving into Luke 14 to look at a different kind of party: a high-stakes dinner where Jesus flips the table on social etiquette and...
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God's Kingdom Come - The Kingdom That Grows Small
We live in a world that tells us bigger is better, louder is stronger, and faster is more faithful. But Jesus tells a very different story. In this episode, we reflect on two short parables from Matthew 13—the mustard seed and the yeast—and what they reveal about the upside-down nature of God’s...
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God's Kingdom Come - God's Kingdom Reorders Our Lives
God’s Kingdom Come: When the Beatitudes Reorder Our Lives Matthew 5:1–11 What does it really mean to pray, “Your kingdom come, your will be done on earth as it is in heaven”? In this episode, we step into the opening lines of Jesus’ Sermon on the Mount and explore the Beatitudes—not as abstract...
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God's Kingdom Come - The Kingdom Received
God’s Kingdom Come Episode Title: The Kingdom Received What does it really mean to receive the Kingdom of God? In this episode, we explore Jesus’ surprising words in Mark 10:13–16, where he insists that the Kingdom belongs to infants—and can only be entered by receiving it like one. Drawing from…
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God's Kingdom Come - God's Kingdom Comes Near
What does it really mean when we pray, “Your kingdom come”? In this episode, we step into the season of Epiphany—a season that invites us to reflect on Jesus revealed as King and to wrestle with the nature of the kingdom he announces. Drawing from Matthew 4:12–17, we explore Jesus’ first public...
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Lives Hidden With Christ - Devoted
In this final episode on Paul’s letter to the Colossians, we turn to Colossians 4:2–6 and explore what it means to live lives hidden with Christ. Paul’s closing words center on devotion to prayer—not as a technique or spiritual performance, but as the very air we breathe. We reflect on how prayer...
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Lives Hidden With Christ - Grounded
What does following Jesus look like in the places that matter most—our marriages, families, and work? In this episode, we walk through one of the most challenging and often misunderstood passages in the New Testament: Colossians 3:18–4:1. Paul takes the big, beautiful theology of Colossians and...
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Lives Hidden With Christ - Yielded
In this episode, we dive deep into a short but potent passage from Colossians 3:15-17, exploring the radical demands it places on followers of Jesus. This text challenges us to measure our lives against three core mandates—and reveals that true Christian living encompasses all aspects of our...
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Lives Hidden With Christ - Put on Love
In this episode, we unpack Colossians 3:5–14 — a powerful and challenging passage that calls Christians to put to death their old nature and to “clothe themselves” in compassion, kindness, humility, gentleness, patience — and above all, love. With thoughtful reflection and practical application…
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Lives Hidden With Christ
You are not just a sinner striving to be better; you are a saint who has been raised with Christ. But do you live like it? This week, we explore Colossians 3:1-4 and the call to set our hearts and minds on "things above." We discuss the difference between earthly strategies and Kingdom living…
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Lives Hidden with Christ - Appearance
Are you truly following Jesus, or just following a set of self-imposed rules? For many, the answer to "How do I know I'm saved?" is a rigid checklist of do's and don'ts—behaviors that give us an "appearance of wisdom." In this powerful episode, we dive into Colossians 2:20-23, where the Apostle...
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Lives Hidden With Christ - Reality
In an age of relentless digital misinformation, how can we possibly tell the difference between what is real and what is cleverly crafted "baloney"? Dan dives into the current reality crisis, from AI-generated fake news and deceptively heartwarming social media stories to the subtle spiritual...
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Lives Hidden With Christ - Forgiveness
Do you ever feel weighed down by past failures, or caught in the trap of trying to earn your salvation? This week, we dive into Colossians 2:13-15 to understand the staggering reality of Christ’s work. Paul states plainly: we were "dead in your sins." If we were spiritually dead, what could we do...
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Lives Hidden With Christ - Fullness
What truly fills the void in your life? For many of us, life is an exhausting pursuit of satisfaction—we're convinced that one more victory, one more purchase, or one more accomplishment will finally make us whole. But this constant running to fill an inner void is what philosopher Blaise Pascal...
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Lives Hidden With Christ - Rooted
In this powerful episode, we dive into Colossians 2:6-8 to explore what it means to move beyond the world's "basic principles" and "human traditions." Pastor Dan argues that following Jesus requires an upside-down view of life, rooted in a radical sense of grace. Learn Paul's three...
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Lives Hidden With Christ - The Goal
Are you tired of feeling swayed by every new, "cool" idea that pops up on your feed? In this powerful episode, we dig into Colossians 2:1-5, where the Apostle Paul—in a rare moment of crystal clarity—lays out the single, most important goal of the Christian life. He gives us the ultimate defense...
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Lives Hidden With Christ - The Mystery
"I rejoice in my suffering... and I fill up in my flesh what is still lacking in regard to Christ’s afflictions." The Apostle Paul's words in Colossians 1 are some of the most challenging and misunderstood in all of Scripture. What could possibly be "lacking" in the suffering of Jesus? And why...
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Lives Hidden With Christ - Reconciled
Once alienated, now reconciled—Colossians 1:21–23 shows how Christ makes us holy, blameless, and free. Discover how this truth frees us to love even those we once called enemies.
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Lives Hidden With Christ - The Fullness of God
In this episode, we explore one of the most powerful passages in Scripture: Colossians 1:15–20. The Apostle Paul gives us a stunning portrait of Christ—the image of the invisible God, Creator of all things, head of the church, and the one who holds everything together. We’ll look at how this...
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