Gospel According to John
John 17.13-26 Sent, Like Jesus
04/27/08
Sam Ford
This is the final sermon in a study of the Gospel according to John. In one of His few, and longest, recorded prayers, Jesus asks that His disciples remain protected as the live in the world. He asks that they be sent just like Jesus. Meaning, we must live in the world, not apart from it, without compromising the truth.
John 17.1-12 Prayer of Jesus
04/20/08
Sam Ford
Jesus did not come to give us simply an example of righteousness. He came as our substitute on the cross AND give us His righteousness.
John 16.4-33 Jesus Overcomes the World
04/13/08
Matt Nickel
Jesus overcomes the world and changes our relationship with God.
John 15.18-16.4 Hated for Jesus or Just Hated
04/06/08
Sam Ford
Jesus says that the world will hate Christians. I can't help but wonder if Christians are hated because of how much the look like Jesus or because they don't look like Him at all.
John 15.1-17 Jesus the Vine
03/30/08
Sam Ford
Jesus does not command us to be fruitful, rather, He commands us to abide in Him and thus remain in His love. If we focus on the fruit and the works, we will never in fact be fruitful because we're not desiring the right thing. Our desire, our pursuit, our efforts, our energies should be poured into knowing, seeing, and loving our God which will naturally move us to have an obedient heart overflowing in joy and love for others.
John 20_Easter
03/23/08
Sam Ford
This is no candy-coated easter sermon...you're getting meat and potatoes shoved down your throat. Easter is forgotten for 364 days a year and celebrated on one. Stop blaming the bunny. The resurrection is what built the church and it's what will grow it. We need to preach Jesus crucified, buried, and risen. We want Jesus dead and alive.
John 14.12-31_The Spirit of Jesus
03/16/08
Sam Ford
Jesus tells his disciples that, although He will leave, He will not leave Him alone. Jesus not only secures our life in eternity, but he intends to give us life now. But we don't believe this. As we get older, we begin to think less like a child of faith who asks God because, well, he's God, and try to figure things out on our own. We depend less on God and more on ourselves to learn, to grow, to discern, to overcome, and to essentially, save ourselves.
Jesus the one and only way
03/09/08
Sam Ford
Jesus is the way the truth and the life. We try and change Jesus to use him as a tool to get what we want. Or, we change the truth and thus our need of a savior. In the process, we change our God-centered theology into a man-centered self-fix-it program.
Jesus, Judas, and Peter
03/02/08
Sam Ford
Judas and Peter are quite similar and yet, quite different. Despite all appearances and assumptions, Judas did not believe in Jesus--he was a betrayer. But even Jesus' good friend Peter, denied his Lord. At the core, the difference between those who believe and those who pretend to believe is the difference between who they love, themselves, or God.
John 13.1-20 Dirty Jesus
02/24/08
Sam Ford
Jesus' actions give us a living picture of the gospel. They do not move us to be "better" Christians, rather, his humility gives us a vivid picture of how God loves us to which we can't help but respond by loving others.
John 12.1-8 Jesus my Devoted
02/10/08
Sam Ford
Mary demonstrates a deep love for Jesus, rooted in an understanding of the Gospel. Devotion to Jesus is more than service, it is not partial, periodic, or easy. Too many of us stop at a Romantic love for Jesus where, like some boyfriend, we date him until he does something we don't like and dump him. We are called to be devoted to a God who is and was first devoted to us, even though we deserve nothing, he gave us everything.
John 11.1-44 Jesus the Resurrection
02/03/08
Sam Ford
Often times, suffering is God's way of reminding us we're broken, and drawing us closer than he could have if he had prevented it from happening.
John 10.29 God's pencil has no eraser
01/27/08
Aaron Wartes
A candid discussion of the eternal security of the believer whose salvation is based on Christ's work alone. We do not speak of losing our salvation, rather, but whether or not God can lose us.
John 10.1-21 Jesus the Shepherd
01/20/08
Sam Ford
With the backdrop of this incredibly broken and harmful Jewish leadership, Jesus sets himself in contrast to say I AM THE TRUE SHEPHERD. These shepherds, and ANY that do not point to the cross are either POWERHUNGRY or POWERLESS and all their sheep are lost in the confusion of religion that can only bring fear, despair, and rob people of life. Jesus is the MANLY True Shepherd who leads, protects, cares for, and willing dies to save us to life now and forever!
John 9: Jesus and the "blind"
01/13/08
Sam Ford
Jesus heals a blind man and reveals who is really "blind."
John 8.39-59 Jesus the I AM
01/07/08
Sam Ford
In one of the most heat arguments that Jesus has with the Jewish Pharisees, they tell him that he is possessed and he tells them that the devil is their Daddy. Jesus challenges these Jews to be more than believers in name only as they take pride in the fact that they are descended from Abraham. Jesus tells them that they are not in fact sons of Abraham because Abraham loved him...they want to kill him.
John 8.21-39
12/30/07
Mark Hakso
This passage which we’ll be studying today is very full of truth about Jesus and the way of salvation. Jesus is continuing his conversation with the Jews about who he is and absolute necessity of trusting in him alone for salvation. In this passage we learn: 1. That it is possible to seek after Christ in vain 2. The great difference between Christ and sinners 3. Dying in your sins = hell 4. The importance of persevering in the faith 5. The nature of true slavery and, 6. What true liberty is.
John 8.12-20
12/23/07
Sam Ford
Christmas Day without the chaos of Christmas Eve loses all its meaning. If the God of the Universe is going to become a baby for the purposes of saving the creation he loves, then we must understand that there is something we're being saved from. If we lose sight of the fact that we need saving, then the birth of Jesus Christ becomes meaningless, the life of Jesus Christ becomes common, and the death of Jesus Christ becomes the most brutal, cruel, and tragic events in history. But if we have rebelled against our Creator, then the celebration of Jesus birth becomes the cornerstone of our lives...and everything else becomes meaningless in its light.
John 7.53-8.11 Jesus the Stoner
12/16/07
Sam Ford
Jewish Scribes and Pharisees bring a woman caught in adultery to try find a way to get at Jesus. He encourages those who have no sin to start tossing...but they all walk away. When Jesus is left alone, we see the most vivid picture of mercy and grace. He was without sin, he could have rightfully punished, just as God would be perfectly just smite us out of existence this very moment. But he holds back that rock until tosses them at Jesus so that we might live.
John 7.25-52 Jesus the River
12/09/07
Sam Ford
In the middle of the feast of Tabernacles, in the middle of debate about who He is, Jesus cries out to the crowds. He challenges the people to step out of the ceremonial routines and remember what the feast points to...him. They've perfect their religion, but lost their faith.
John 7.1-24 Jesus Incognito
12/02/07
Sam Ford
Jesus is given some good "earthly advice" of how win back the followers that recently left him. Jesus patiently listens but recognizes God's timing in all things. We're challenged to ask ourselves whether we are truly dependent on God for our decisions (even the small ones) or whether we exhaust every earthly option available first. Do we allow the appearances of what "seems" good or bad dictate our decisions.
John 6.60-71 Jesus' Hard Words
11/25/07
Sam Ford
Jesus says some hard words and a bunch of his disciples walk away. We learn that there is a difference between being religious and being converted.
John 6.22-59 Jesus the Cannibal
11/18/07
Sam Ford
Jesus makes His first of the "I AM" statements, declaring himself the "bread of life." Throughout this exchange, Jesus makes some incredible claims about the true nature of salvation who the bread is, how we get it, who (if anyone) will ever accept it.
1 Year Anniversary - Sent like Jesus
11/11/07
Sam Ford
This is the 1 year celebration of Damascus Road's public launch on Nov 5, 2006. In this sermon, we explain our refined mission statement which, essentially, is a statement of what Jesus came to do and sent us to do: We are sent into the world to proclaim the gospels and to teach people to live like Jesus.
John 6.1-15: Barley bread and pickled fish
11/04/07
Mark Hakso
Jesus feeds the five thousand with a little boys lunch.
John 5.16-47: Jesus is God or a nutjob
10/28/07
Sam Ford
Some say Jesus is a good man, good teacher, good prophet. That's not what Jesus said. If what he's claimed is true, he's God and worthy of worship. If what he claimed is false, he's nothing less than a nutjob, a bad teacher, a lying possibly evil man, and a fool.
John 5.1-15: Jesus heals the lame...I'm lame
10/21/07
Sam Ford
Jesus heals a crippled whiny, complaining, broken man who is putting his faith in something that really can't heal him. By grace, Jesus selects this one guy among the multitude, and even though he didn't deserve, didn't earn it, perhaps didn't even want it, Jesus heals him. Even though he didn't know who Jesus was before, or after, he still heals him. For those whom God has redeemed, this is our story.
John 4.43-54 Jesus at His Word
10/14/07
Sam Ford
An official in Herod's court travels 20 miles to ask a Galilean carpenter to heal His son. This man who, for most of his life, ignores God's Word, now needs God in his time of suffering. Jesus challenges his faith as to whether he just wants the miracle, or he in fact, wants Him. Similarly, we our challenge to consider what our faith is based on and whether or not we'll take Jesus at His Word all the time.
John 4.1-26 Jesus the Well
09/30/07
Sam Ford
Jesus spends his times in the margins, with the people that most will avoid because they're dirty. What we forget, is that the gospel tells us we're all dirty. After asking for a drink, Jesus tells a young woman he meets at this well that she is the one who is in fact thirsty. She's been drinking from a well, but her well of broken relationships will not satisfy, and it will run out eventually. Jesus himself is a well that offers living water that never runs dry.
John 3.22-26 Jesus the Groom
09/23/07
Sam Ford
John's disciples get distracted by their own missiona and lose sight of God's mission. They more of what they needed to do versus what God was doing. Like a marriage that starts off all romantic and fluffy, quickly it becomes stagnate and burdensome when you forget your first love and you lose sight of what is of most importance--your groom, Jesus.
John 3.1-22 Jesus the Lover
09/16/07
Sam Ford
Nicodemus is a man who appears to have it all figured out. As a Pharisee he is as "good" as good will get. As a member of the Sandhedrin, he is successful, powerful, and wealthy. He has it all. But he comes to Jesus in the cover of night because there something that is missing. In this conversation, Jesus tells him that he needs something he isn't doing, something that he in fact can't do. Then Jesus tells him that He is going to die so that people can be reborn...all because of love.
John 3.1-15 Jesus the Obstectrician
09/09/07
Aaron Wartes
This is a two part sermon. In the first half, Aaron tells the story of Julie Wakefield, a woman who Aaron was able to minister to as Matthew 25.35 would have us all do. It is a wonderful story of redemption leading into the second half of the sermon focusing on being "born again."
John 2.13-22 Jesus the janitor
09/02/07
Sam Ford
***NOT PODCAST AVAILABLE*** Jesus is still in the temple cleaning business. Although there is no temple in Jerusalem, there is a temple in your heart. Jesus doesn't care about your behavior--he is passionate, angry, and jealous about your heart. If he gets your heart,the behavior will come because those who love Jesus obey, not because they have to be "religious" but because they desire to.
John 2.1-12 Jesus the bartender
08/26/07
Sam Ford
We must live a life that is no more than Jesus, no less than Jesus. In a passage full of imagery and symbolism, our focus on the simple facts of what Jesus does here is probably the most shocking. More than one church might question the character of a man who blesses a wedding party with 180 gallons of the best wine possible. Through this miracle, Jesus becomes real as he lives in culture yet remaining above reproach. We can learn a lot from an event we might consider unwise but that the bible says revealed His glory.
John 1.35-51 Jesus the Team Captain
08/19/07
Sam Ford
Jesus selects his first disciples; he picks his first team. But he doesn't pick who we probably think he should pick. He doesn't pick the people that look like what we might consider "religious" people--today we call them "Christians." But what these uneducated, hard-working, Bible-believing, simply dressed fisherman are, are Christ-followers.
John 1.19-34 Jesus the Lamb
08/05/07
Sam Ford
Like Jesus, John the Baptist is rejected because he did not meet the expecation of the "voice". He didn't act, talk, or look like the religious guys of the day. We all need to look beyond method sometimes and look for the spiritual fruit in the lives of those influenced by the ministry or miss where Jesus is on mission. Like the Pharisees who questioned John's authority because of his identity, we do the same to Jesus. A lot of us "know of Jesus", the good teacher, the unfortunate victim, the great example, but very few actually know Jesus as the lamb of God who takes away our sin.
John 1.1-18 God the Jesus
07/29/07
Sam Ford
The Word of God becomes flesh and suddenly God comes much closer. No longer is He a cosmic deity removed from His creation, something to be feared or frightened of. He is Jesus, someone you can touch, and feel, and fall in love with. What is Jesus like? God. What is God like, Jesus. In fact, there is no UNCHRISTNESS about God.
Introduction to John
07/15/07
Sam Ford
The gospel of John was written by a "son of thunder" to prove that Jesus is the "Son of God." Each of the gospels record the events about the life, and death of Jesus Christ, but all in a different way. John's portrait is especially unique causing scholars to often argue thatif Jesus was anything like the Christ portrayed in Matthew, Mark, and Luke, HE COULD not be like the Christ of the fourth gospel.
John 8.21-39
12/31/06
Sam Ford
This passage which we’ll be studying today is very full of truth about Jesus and the way of salvation. Jesus is continuing his conversation with the Jews about who he is and absolute necessity of trusting in him alone for salvation. In this passage we learn: 1. That it is possible to seek after Christ in vain 2. The great difference between Christ and sinners 3. Dying in your sins = hell 4. The importance of persevering in the faith 5. The nature of true slavery and, 6. What true liberty is.
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