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John 5:1-9 NIVSome time later, Jesus went up to Jerusalem for one of the Jewish festivals.Now there is in Jerusalem near the Sheep Gate a pool, which in Aramaic is called Bethesda and which is surrounded by five covered colonnades. Here a great number of disabled people used to lie—the blind, the lame, the paralyzed. One who was there had been an invalid for thirty-eight years. When Jesus saw him lying there and learned that he had been in this condition for a long time, he asked him, “Do you want to get well?” “Sir,” the invalid replied, “I have no one to help me into the pool when the water is stirred. While I am trying to get in, someone else goes down ahead of me.” Then Jesus said to him, “Get up! Pick up your mat and walk.” At once the man was cured; he picked up his mat and walked. The day on which this took place was a Sabbath.

We will remember the person who introduced us to Jesus for the rest of our lives. Their faith helps lead us into His presence, where our own is watered, nurtured, and strengthened until it becomes something we can truly call our own. It's a beautiful process to behold. If we aren't intentional though we can remain in a season that was only meant to be temporary. In this message, we explore the Father's heart for our spiritual maturity and what it looks like to seek Him personally and develop a faith that is truly our own.

We can have a full schedule, a successful career, family and friends…and still feel like something is missing. Our society places a premium on productivity and achievement, but only one thing can truly satisfy the deepest longings of our souls. Lean in for this week's message as we discover what it means to feast on the only food that can truly satisfy. Hungry for More | Victory Church Pastor Chris Frith Scripture | John 4:25-38 May 31, 2026

Where do you turn when you are empty? We have countless options—social media for affirmation, our jobs for security or stability, a relationship for physical connection... In a society that encourages us to “play the game” we end up losing a lot more than we gain. In this message, learn about how Jesus seeks us out in our pursuit of satisfaction with a deep and holy solution. Are you thirsty? Tired? Come to Jesus—He is a well that won't run dry.

Genesis 11:4 NIV Then they said, “Come, let us build ourselves a city, with a tower that reaches to the heavens, so that we may make a name for ourselves; 

We're more immersed than we think. Sports. Politics. Our careers. Relationships. But beneath all of it, the Bible reveals we're all born immersed into something deeper that has influenced each of our directions and desires—darkness. But here's the good news: God didn't send His Son to condemn you. He sent Him to rescue you. 

Very truly I tell you, no one can see the kingdom of God unless they are born again.” “How can someone be born when they are old?” Nicodemus asked. “Surely they cannot enter a second time into their mother's womb to be born!”

There is one question that has echoed through history, and it's still being asked today. “Who do you say I am?” This Easter at Victory, we're stepping into one of the most personal and powerful moments in Scripture.

Most people picture Jesus holding a lamb, wearing a peaceful smile. But in John 2, He walks into the Temple, makes a whip, and starts flipping tables. Same Jesus. Different moment. In this sermon, we unpack the side of Jesus we rarely talk about—righteous anger. He wasn't angry without reason.

John 1:1-5 NIVIn the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. He was with God in the beginning. Through him all things were made; without him nothing was made that has been made. In him was life, and that life was the light of all mankind. The light shines in the darkness, and the darkness has not overcome it.

“What's amazing about the book of John is that it's shallow enough for children to play but deep enough for elephants to swim.”-Dr. Gary Burge

1 John 1:1 NIVThat which was from the beginning, which we have heard, which we have seen with our eyes, which we have looked at and our hands have touched—this we proclaim concerning the Word of life.

Community is hardwired into our DNA because our God is, at His very core, relational. In fact, God cares so deeply about community that after creating the heavens, the earth, and everything in them—and calling it all good—He pauses and declares, for the first time, that something is not good: being alone. But if we're honest, being in community isn't always easy. So why does the bible continue to point us to doing life with others at church and home?

1 Peter 2:9-10 NIVBut you are a chosen people, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, God's special possession, that you may declare the praises of him who called you out of darkness into his wonderful light. Once you were not a people, but now you are the people of God; once you had not received mercy, but now you have received mercy.

As we close out 2025, we're taking time to look back and celebrate all that God has done. In this special service, we're gathering online to hear from our campus pastors as they highlight favorite moments from the year—powerful worship, meaningful messages, life change, and God's faithfulness. We're grateful for what He's done, excited for what's ahead, and we pray this service encourages your faith and reminds you of God's goodness.

As we close out 2025, we're taking time to look back and celebrate all that God has done. In this special service, we're gathering online to hear from our campus pastors as they highlight favorite moments from the year—powerful worship, meaningful messages, life change, and God's faithfulness. We're grateful for what He's done, excited for what's ahead, and we pray this service encourages your faith and reminds you of God's goodness.

As we close out 2025, we're taking time to look back and celebrate all that God has done. In this special service, we're gathering online to hear from our campus pastors as they highlight favorite moments from the year—powerful worship, meaningful messages, life change, and God's faithfulness. We're grateful for what He's done, excited for what's ahead, and we pray this service encourages your faith and reminds you of God's goodness.

TRUE, LASTING LOVE IS FOUND IN JESUS CHRISTLOVE is a SELFLESS, sacrificial action focused on the well-being of others regardless of their response.

TRUE, LASTING LOVE IS FOUND IN JESUS CHRISTLOVE is a SELFLESS, sacrificial action focused on the well-being of others regardless of their response.

Why is JOY So Important?1. Joy is a WEAPON2. Joy is a WITNESS3. Joy is an EVIDENCE4. Joy gives you RESILIENCE Nehemiah 8:10 NIVTHE JOY OF THE LORD IS YOUR STRENGTH!

John 3:16 NIVFor God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life.

Genesis 2:7 NIVThen the Lord God formed a man from the dust of the ground and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life, and the man became a living being.

One generation commends your works to another; they tell of your mighty acts. This is what one generation is supposed to tell to the next! 

Proverbs 22:6 ESVTrain up a child in the way he should go; even when he is old he will not depart from it. 

5 Principles of a Thriving Marriage1. Keep Jesus at the Center2. Understand Marital Banking3. Cultivate a servants heart towards each other4. Resolve conflict effectively5. Keep the fire burning

Genesis 2:23-24 NL“At last!” the man exclaimed. “This one is bone from my bone, and flesh from my flesh! She will be called ‘woman,' because she was taken from ‘man.' ”  This explains why a man leaves his father and mother and is joined to his wife, and the two are united into one. 

Genesis 2:15–18 (CSB)15 The Lord God took the man and placed him in the garden of Eden to work it and watch over it.16 And the Lord God commanded the man, “You are free to eat from any tree of the garden, 17 but you must not eat from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, for on the day you eat from it, you will certainly die.” 18 Then the Lord God said, “It is not good for the man to be alone. I will make a helper corresponding to him.” 

Dating God's way is rare in today's culture. If you're single and waiting on God's best, this message helps explore the five gears of Christian dating from that first glance all the way through to a healthy marriage. If you're ready to take the guesswork out of dating and discover how to build a Christ-centered relationship that lasts, then tune in to this sermon!

As believers, we know that our source of true wisdom starts in God's word. But passing on and receiving wisdom isn't a solo pursuit—it's a shared journey. In this message, we unpacked how God designed wisdom to flow through relationships, bridge generations, and be given and received with humility. If you want to learn how to build meaningful mentorships, glean from the experiences of those who've come before you, or pour into the next generation, then tune in!

What do worship, trust, generosity, and repentance have in common? They all flow from the heart. It's the source of our motives, our choices, our lives. In this message, Pastor Dennis teaches us how to guard the most important part of who we are—and keep our hearts aligned with God. Tune into find the key to staying connected to the true source of everything we need.

Here's the reality: we all face various circumstances that could easily offend us on any given day. But we don't have to be controlled by them. God's wisdom empowers us to live with soft hearts in a hardened world—to live free from the trap of offense. It isn't always easy, but we can choose to let go, forgive, and walk in the freedom Jesus modeled. Tune in to learn how to respond with grace and love, even in a world full of hurt.

Ga'avah – “to rise up; to lift oneself above others” Isaiah 14:12-15 NLTHow you are fallen from heaven, O shining star, son of the morning! You have been thrown down to the earth, you who destroyed the nations of the world. 

Ezekiel 48:35 NIV“And the name of the city from that time on will be: [JEHOVAH SHAMMAH] the Lord is there.”

WHAT GOD DOES flows from WHO GOD IS. Genesis 16:1-13 NIVNow Sarai, Abram's wife, had borne him no children. But she had an Egyptian slave named Hagar; so she said to Abram, “The Lord has kept me from having children.

Psalm 22:30-31 NIVPosterity will serve him; future generations will be told about the Lord. They will proclaim his righteousness, declaring to a people yet unborn: He has done it!

Throughout our lives, we are all faced with various decisions, some more difficult than others. Once we've made the decision to follow Jesus, we're called to not only address Him as Lord but also to obey Him as Lord—choosing to give up our will to embrace His. Jesus submitted Himself to the will of the Father and was obedient to the point of enduring suffering so that we may have life. He knew that His temporary suffering would lead to sharing eternal joy with all who would be saved through Him. Tune in to find out what it looks like to surrender our plans for His, which always have a greater purpose than anything we could ever imagine!

It's easy to think there's plenty of time, but eternity is closer than we realize. For some, this life is the closest they'll get to heaven. For others, the best is yet to come. The world is desperate for good news, and if you've met Jesus, you've got some.

As followers of Jesus, we have the privilege of knowing that earth is not our forever home. Because of His sacrifice, we now have a home prepared for us in heaven, where we'll get to spend eternity with the Father. But if we're honest, when it comes to money, sometimes we live like this world is the only one that exists.

We often chase happiness, hoping our circumstances will align with each of our preferences and desires—but what if there's something better? Happiness comes and goes, depending on what happens. But joy? Joy is rooted in Someone who never changes. Tune in to this sermon to learn how to stop pursuing only temporary happiness and embrace unshakable joy today!

Jesus tells us in His Word that He came so that we may have abundant life. But many of us are only living a fraction of the life He desires for us! As disciples of Christ, we were created for more than survival mode. Take an honest look at your own life. Would you say that you're walking in His purpose and experiencing all that He has for you? Or are you just going through the motions? Tune in to find out how to make the most of every opportunity and give God glory as you...

Hebrews 11 NIV 1-38By faith Abraham, when called to go to a place he would later receive as his inheritance, obeyed and went, even though he did not know where he was going… For he was LOOKING FORWARD to the city with foundations, whose architect and builder is God… They were longing for a better...

John was given a beautiful vision of the new heaven and earth. One day, Jesus will return as King, and He will vindicate His people who are found faithful. 

When sin entered the Garden of Eden, we lost the perfect peace and security that we can find only in God's presence. Unholiness cannot dwell with holiness. So, because of the curse, we lost unity with God. Our connection was severed, and we could no longer see Him face-to-face. 

How and why did human's develop self-awareness of what we know and don't know? How does it develop in relation to how we evaluate what other people know? What are the risks of cognitive bias tainting our ability to learn and self correct? In this episode, we have the interesting question of our own self-awareness, or Meta-cognition, to understand. For centuries philosophers have called on us to “know thyself”, but only now with the tools of modern neuroscience have we been able to scientifically quantify the way we consciously track our behaviour, performance, thoughts and knowledge. So today we'll be getting into why this is important for learning and error correction; we're going to talk about meta-cognition's use for “mind reading” I.e. tracking our confidence in others in their own knowledge, both friends and foes, fundamental for the evolution of our collaborative groups; the implications of cognitive bias blind spots in metacognition for updating our collective beliefs over time; also whether metacognition is proportionally correlated to intelligence; and how technology and AI has and will influence the future of our self-awareness, and whether it's convenient to try programming AI to be metacognitive too, or if that would invite disaster. For these matters there can be no better guest than University College London Cognitive neuroscience Professor, Stephen Fleming. He's the author of the 2021 book “Know Thyself, the science of self awareness”, and founder of the Meta Cognition Group at UCL, and the group leader of the Max Plank, UCL Centre for Computational Neuroscience. What we discuss: 00:00 Intro 05:15 Striking aspects of experience get you thinking. 08:00 ‘Know thyself' - a moral, social and spiritual responsibility 10:00 Lao Tsu - to think you know when you do not is a disease. 11:00 Tracking the quality of our performance, error correction and learning. 14:00 Cognitive offloading - compensating for our limitations. 14:30 Metacognition and intelligence are similar but different. 17:40 Inside-out modelling of the world influences your cognition. 20:45 The brain has confidence in colour - Subjective inflation in the periphery. 22:00 UCL metacognition lab experiments - confidence in performance. 25:20 Metacogntiive efficiency - skill in evaluating your success. 26:20 MRI scans of the processes of self-aware brain activity. 28:50 Sam Harris - Self-awareness in the brain vs Ego-self. 33:20 Mind reading/Theory of mind: Evaluation of others VS evaluation of myself. 38:50 Children's learning 43:40 Chris Frith - metacognition for collaboration: Balancing our own VS group evaluations. 44:30 Supremacy of collective knowledge 46:45 Why did self-awareness evolve? 51:30 The fight or flight mental state trumps self-reflective evaluation. 54:00 Stress blunts frontal cortex activity. 54:20 Modern life stress is not the same as the stress we evolved for. 57:20 We need self-reflection in stressful arguments but it's not available. 58:20 Education: re-presenting your ideas - an antidote to over confidence. 01:04:00 Left Brain Interpreter - lack of self-awareness of our cognitive bias. 01:10:00 Exacerbated confidence judgements in internet/social media information ecosystems. 01:14:40 Awareness of the inside out way we construct our view of the world could be positive for compassion. 01:17:10 Balancing long-term societal self awareness, with traditional short term one. 01:21:00 The influence of Ai and technology on our self awareness. 01:26:30 ‘Offloading' aids for cognition VS replacements for our cognition? References: Stephen Fleming, “Know thyself - the science of self-awareness” Steve Fleming's Lab - The Meta Lab, UCL Gilbert Riles, “Concept of Mind” - self awareness in us and others Peter Carruthers - “Knowledge of our own thoughts is just as interpretive as knowledge of the thoughts of others” paper Chris D. Frith - ‘The role of metacognition in human social interactions' paper

Acts 9:26-27 NIVWhen [Saul] came to Jerusalem, he tried to join the disciples, but they were all afraid of him, not believing that he really was a disciple. But Barnabas took him and brought him to the apostles.

You've probably heard the saying, “Stay ready so you don't have to get ready.” But what exactly does that mean, especially when it comes to living out Jesus' call to be light in a dark world and, ultimately, to make disciples wherever we go? Tune in to discover the power of preparation and what it looks like to live prepared for whatever, and whoever, God sends along our path as we journey with Him.

What does it mean to be a part of the family of God? What does it look like to live together in unity, loving one another day after day? Lean in with us as we remember God's design for the Church and consider how life in Godly community can transform us and the world around us.