Whitehall Bible Fellowship Church Sermon Podcast

While the religious leaders rule to cast out the blind man from the synagogue, Jesus warns them of God's verdict on them.

The formerly blind man gets grilled by people who already made up their minds about Jesus. A life changed always sticks out from normal.

Jesus healed a blind man. Jesus used the miracle to point out the spiritual blindness of His opponents.

A Recap of John Chapters 1 thru 8.

Christmas Eve Message on How God Came to Earth as a Human.

Jesus is God's gift that You need to receive!

A fundamental aspect of Christianity is that those who are given are also to give. It is better to give than to receive.

Jesus declares His divinity by claiming His eternal pre-existence. Before Abraham was, I AM.

A Thanksgiving devotion from Psalm 138.

We act like our physical fathers and our spiritual fathers. Are you acting more like God or more like Satan?

If the Son sets you free, you will be free indeed!

Pastor Tim leads us through Jesus' words and works from John 8:12-30

Pastor Tim leads us through Jesus' words and works from John 7:53-8:11

Pastor Tim leads us through Jesus' words and works from John 7:31-52

Pastor Tim leads us through Jesus' words and works from John 7:25-31

Pastor Tim leads us through Jesus' words and works from John 7:3-5, 14-18

Pastor Tim leads us through Jesus' words and works from John 6:60-71

Today, we baptize nine followers of Christ. What does the Bible say about believers being baptized?

Pastor Tim leads us through Jesus' words and works from John 6:40-59

Pastor Tim leads us through Jesus' words and works from John 6:30-39

Pastor Tim leads us through Jesus' words and works from John 6:22-29

Pastor Tim preps us to think on Jesus being true bread from heaven as we look at the Old Testament passage Exodus 16:13-30

Pastor Tim preps us to think on Jesus being true bread from heaven as we look at the Old Testament passage Exodus 16:1-12

Pastor Tim leads us through Jesus' words and works from John 6:15-21

Pastor Tim leads us through Jesus' words and works from John 6:1-14

Pastor Tim leads us through Jesus' words and works from John 5:30-47

Pastor Tim leads us through Jesus' words and works from John 5:17-29

Pastor Tim leads us through Jesus' words and works from John 5:1-16

Pastor Tim leads us through Jesus' words and works from John 4:46-54

Pastor Tim leads us through Jesus' words and works from John 4:27-45

Pastor Tim leads us through Jesus' words and works from John 4:1-26

Mark Hargrove leads us through Jesus' words and works from John 3:22-36.

Pastor Tim leads us through Jesus' words and works from John 3:16-21

This Easter, we look at the resurrection of Jesus as an example of what each of us can experience by becoming born again. Jesus told Nicodemus "you must be born again." Even the high-brow religious elite are not good enough to enter heaven. God's Spirit is moving, ready to bring you to life spiritually. Jesus died and rose again so that by His power and grace, you too can come to life though you were dead in your sins.

We survey the whole New Testament to find that the cross is God's expression of love for us. God demonstrates His own love towards us in this: while we were still sinners, Christ died for us.

The next greater thing Jesus did after the wedding wine miracle was to enter Jerusalem's Temple and drive out the moneychangers and the critters. While John puts this in chapter two, the other Gospel writers told this story at the end of their accounts, on Palm Sunday. This Temple cleansing shows us that humanity has a constant need for cleansing.

Jesus' first miracle was at a wedding. The moment got Him thinking about the cross: His love for mankind, this couple's love for one another. To foreshadow the life and fullness He'd give us at the cross, He fills the wedding party's empty glasses with water turned into the best wine.

Jesus calls Philip to follow Him. The first thing Philip does is to invite his own friend, Nathanael, to meet Jesus too. Nathanael at first is skeptical, but then Jesus shows him a glimpse of His glory. Nathanael is hooked -- he believes that Jesus is the son of God, the king of Israel. Jesus wants to show us greater things too, but He is waiting for us to have the faith to see Him at work.

John's only job, as he saw it, was to introduce people to Jesus. Having done that, he invites his disciples to start following Jesus. As Jesus begins to make disciples of Himself, He does not pressure them for quick decisions, but only invites them to come and see. Our witnessing needs to be winsome and engaging, also urgent, but reflecting this same calm patience that Jesus had.

Jesus reveals the whole scoop about God. Other leaders before and after Him told us bits and pieces, but Jesus pulls back the curtain to tell us everything because He Himself IS everything.

Jesus graciously came into the world to bring mankind into friendship with God. However, left to our own, mankind simply does not want to receive Jesus. God, therefore, steps in to bring life to our dead and rebel soul so that we have a changed heart that wants to receive Christ as our Savior.

John the Baptist was sent by God to point us to Jesus, the Light. He did all he could and trusted God that people would believe in Christ through his efforts. We, too, are sent by God to bear witness to how God has worked in us through Jesus.

Jesus is the Word, the Life, and the Light. These are three repeating themes in the Gospel of John. Here, we think about what those themes mean about Jesus - and what they mean for us.

Now that Paul intervened in this conflict between Philemon and Onesimus, he planned to follow-up to ensure that the relationship had moved forward for the longterm.

Paul gets in the middle of the tension between Philemon and Onesimus in order to ease the situation and help the healing process. He even offers to personally restore financially the harm that Onesimus brought to Philemon as a way to defuel the flames of this emotional confrontation.

As Paul continues to appeal to Philemon, the host of the church and a slavemaster, he appeals by way of reason, not rule. He does not abuse, or even use, his power. Instead Paul uses ideas and logic. He reasons with Philemon logically. Christians today will do well to follow this pattern of calm reason rather than emotional appeal or power plays to get their way. Logic unites. Power creates resentment.

Paul is trying to get Philemon to free his runaway slave, Onesimus. Paul chooses not to command him, but rather appeal to him for the sake of Christian love. We too need to release those with whom we have grudges and animosities.

Philemon was the host of his church, he welcomed the congregation to worship in his home. He was rich and influential in his city. He was a slavemaster. This letter of the Bible exists as a principles-based apologetic for emancipation of slaves. The hope of verses 1-7 is that no matter how far we have come in the faith, there is still room to grow and God still has greater work to do in us.

The new year is often a time when we think about making improvements in our lives. With the Lord, we are always growing or should be!

When Christmas is over, its not the end of special. Christmas is the beginning of all that God wants to do in humanity. He sent us His Son that first Christmas, the message and love of Jesus is continually at work.

Jesus did not begin in the manger or in the womb. Micah tells us that this baby born in Bethlehem was coming and going from long ago, ancient days. Jesus handcrafted the events of His birth while in eternity past. He then revealed the plans for those events to the prophets hundreds of years before He carried them out at the fullness of time.