Podcasts about john 1:1-18

The ball has dropped on a new year, but the light of Christ is rising. And we are not alone.  Scripture: John 1:1-18

Marvel at the Incarnation Of Christ

Marvel at the Incarnation Of Christ

Clive speaks to us from John 1 vs 1-18

Sermon recording from Sunday, January 14th, 2024. A study of John 1:1-18.Thesis: Recognize the Word has come into your story, to give you grace upon grace.

The Gospel of John stands apart from the other Gospels. While the others serve as a summary or synopsis of the life of Christ, John's Gospel paints a unique portrait of the heart of God. Join us this week as we see the portrait emerge and an invitation extended.

Given at St. Anselm's Abbey by Fr. Philip Simo on December 25, 2021.

In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. 2 He was in the beginning with God. 3 All things were made through him, and without him was not any thing made that was made. 4 In him was life, and the life was the light of men. 5 The light shines in the darkness, and the darkness has not overcome it.6 There was a man sent from God, whose name was John. 7 He came as a witness, to bear witness about the light, that all might believe through him. 8 He was not the light, but came to bear witness about the light.9 The true light, which gives light to everyone, was coming into the world. 10 He was in the world, and the world was made through him, yet the world did not know him. 11 He came to his own, and his own people did not receive him. 12 But to all who did receive him, who believed in his name, he gave the right to become children of God, 13 who were born, not of blood nor of the will of the flesh nor of the will of man, but of God.14 And the Word became flesh and dwelt among us, and we have seen his glory, glory as of the only Son from the Father, full of grace and truth. 15 (John bore witness about him, and cried out, “This was he of whom I said, ‘He who comes after me ranks before me, because he was before me.'”) 16 For from his fullness we have all received, grace upon grace. 17 For the law was given through Moses; grace and truth came through Jesus Christ. 18 No one has ever seen God; the only God, who is at the Father's side, he has made him known.1.     Do you see any ramifications for us today between everything starting from nothing rather than a community of love? 2.    How does it change your view of God to think of him as an eternal, loving relationship of three persons instead of an individual     in solitude before creation? 3.    How does your view and way of going through creation change if its purpose and design is of Jesus?   4.     Do you think that darkness/evil in creation is inconsistent with a loving God?  If not, how do you reconcile them? 5.     To be a child of God is to be included in this eternal bond of trinitarian love and fullness and beauty. Is that what abundant life means to you?  If not, what does abundant life mean to you?

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In our gospel reading from the first chapter of John certain words and phrases are repeated. In this sermon we ...

Given at St. Anselm's Abbey by Fr. Philip Simo on December 25, 2020.

We have a calling from God to be a good neighbour. But what does this really mean? Perhaps we can ...

Jonathan Smith preaches from John 1:1-18 - Introducing... The Word and the Light

Brad Sullivan 2 Christmas, Year B December 31, 2017 Emmanuel, Houston John 1:1-18 The Questioners, the Loners, the Kids with Behavior Problems… Over the weekend, a priest friend of mine and I talking and joking together about challenges of church life, and she said, “Yeah, church would be great if it wasn’t for all the people.” It’s a common joke about the imperfections of the Church which is the ecclesia (or gathering) of Jesus’ friends. Jesus’ ecclesia of friends began as a rather rag tag group of also-rans, the island of misfit toys type folks who needed and wanted the love and belonging which Jesus was offering. Being a rag tag group of folks, the church was always an imperfect bunch, and that proud tradition has continued on to this day. As the church, the ecclesia, the gathering of Jesus’ friends we’re a group of people who follow in Jesus’ ways, except when we don’t. We love well, giving compassion to those who really need it, to those whose lives have been shattered and need someone to sit with them among the broken pieces of their life and slowly begin sweeping them up and putting the pieces back together. That is, except for when we don’t love well for a variety of reasons, when our own lives just aren’t up to it, or when our own brokenness prevents us from seeing the broken person in front of us as a person, and we instead just see a broken thing. As Jesus’ ecclesia, his gathering of friends, we love God and love people above all else. That’s our way of being. Some friends of mine recently told me that in their efforts to love God and people above all else, they’ve been going through their house get rid of anything that they would be really upset about if it was broken by a child…or an adult. They want their home to be a place of love, where adults and children know they are loved, and that they are loved more than the stuff in their house. That’s a great model for the church, where we love God and love people above all else, except of course when, in our efforts to love God, we end up loving things, and we place that love of things in front of loving people. It happens. The church is imperfect because it is irrevocably peopled with people. In John’s Gospel this morning, we heard that the Word of God, which is God, is also the life and light of all, and that the Word of God became human, as Jesus, and lived among us as one of us. That was really his first mistake, wasn’t it? The Word of God already had a perfect ecclesia going, a perfect gathering of beloved friends with the Father and the Holy Spirit. This perfect ecclesia remained perfect until the Word became flesh and lived among us. Then, Jesus joined us to the ecclesia of God, along with all of our imperfections. That’s kind of the beauty of it. If God had wanted a perfect ecclesia, then I suppose he wouldn’t have become human at all. We wouldn’t celebrate Christmas, and there would be no baby Jesus, or adult Jesus, or even teenage angsty Jesus. There would just be the perfect ecclesia of God, without humanity, but God didn’t want that perfect ecclesia, a perfect church. God wanted the ecclesia of Jesus’ friends, the church, the gathering with humanity, along with all of our imperfections, even if that meant that we mucked things up a bit. So, “the Word became flesh and lived among us, and we have seen his glory, the glory as of a father’s only son, full of grace and truth.” In becoming human and living among us, God showed us his love for us, not his desire for us to be perfect. I mean, I suppose it’d be nice, but God showed that he loves us, warts and all. He then formed the church, the ecclesia or gathering of Jesus’ friends, so that we could further share his love for people, warts and all. Jesus wanted not a perfect ecclesia, but an ecclesia that shared his heart for people and his willingness to sacrifice personal comfort and convenience (and quite a bit more than that) for the sake of people…especially the ones no one else seemed to care that much about. The questioners, the loners, the kids with behavior problems. Seek them out, invite them in, and love them more than your stuff, Jesus has taught his church, and be willing to sacrifice your personal comfort and convenience for their sake. The people who don’t have life figured out and have spent their life mucking it up for themselves. The people who have life figured out and learned from a young age that life is harsh and cruel. The people who have been rejected by their peers, rejected by society, rejected by their church or family. Seek them out, invite them in, and love them more than your stuff, Jesus has taught his church, and be willing to sacrifice your personal comfort and convenience for their sake. The people who aren’t like us, who make us uncomfortable, whose very existence disrupts our world, shattering the illusions we created to make our world seem safe. The people whose need is greater than we can provide, whose loneliness and despair are deeper than we can see, and whose desire for connection and companionship is greater and more beautiful than even they are aware. Seek them out, invite them in, and love them more than your stuff, Jesus has taught his church, and be willing to sacrifice your personal comfort and convenience for their sake. We’re not going to fix every problem or make any lives perfect. The lives of all people still have that one flaw in them, that all lives involve people and are therefore irrevocably messed up, messed up just like the church, the ecclesia, gathering of Jesus’ friends, and Jesus didn’t form his ecclesia of friends in order to make a perfect institution. Jesus formed his church, his gathering of friends, in order to share with us his light, because he simply wanted us to be a part of the life of communion shared between Father, Son, and Holy Spirit, and so with all our imperfections, we reach out with that same light to others, and we sit with them in their imperfections, not to make them perfect, not necessarily to fix them, but simply to dwell with them, to shine some light into the darkness of their lives, and to join in communion with them, becoming friends, and joining together in the Church, ecclesia, the gathering, of Jesus’ friends.

Brad Sullivan 2 Christmas, Year B December 31, 2017 Emmanuel, Houston John 1:1-18 The Questioners, the Loners, the Kids with Behavior Problems… Over the weekend, a priest friend of mine and I talking and joking together about challenges of church life, and she said, “Yeah, church would be great if it wasn’t for all the people.” It’s a common joke about the imperfections of the Church which is the ecclesia (or gathering) of Jesus’ friends. Jesus’ ecclesia of friends began as a rather rag tag group of also-rans, the island of misfit toys type folks who needed and wanted the love and belonging which Jesus was offering. Being a rag tag group of folks, the church was always an imperfect bunch, and that proud tradition has continued on to this day. As the church, the ecclesia, the gathering of Jesus’ friends we’re a group of people who follow in Jesus’ ways, except when we don’t. We love well, giving compassion to those who really need it, to those whose lives have been shattered and need someone to sit with them among the broken pieces of their life and slowly begin sweeping them up and putting the pieces back together. That is, except for when we don’t love well for a variety of reasons, when our own lives just aren’t up to it, or when our own brokenness prevents us from seeing the broken person in front of us as a person, and we instead just see a broken thing. As Jesus’ ecclesia, his gathering of friends, we love God and love people above all else. That’s our way of being. Some friends of mine recently told me that in their efforts to love God and people above all else, they’ve been going through their house get rid of anything that they would be really upset about if it was broken by a child…or an adult. They want their home to be a place of love, where adults and children know they are loved, and that they are loved more than the stuff in their house. That’s a great model for the church, where we love God and love people above all else, except of course when, in our efforts to love God, we end up loving things, and we place that love of things in front of loving people. It happens. The church is imperfect because it is irrevocably peopled with people. In John’s Gospel this morning, we heard that the Word of God, which is God, is also the life and light of all, and that the Word of God became human, as Jesus, and lived among us as one of us. That was really his first mistake, wasn’t it? The Word of God already had a perfect ecclesia going, a perfect gathering of beloved friends with the Father and the Holy Spirit. This perfect ecclesia remained perfect until the Word became flesh and lived among us. Then, Jesus joined us to the ecclesia of God, along with all of our imperfections. That’s kind of the beauty of it. If God had wanted a perfect ecclesia, then I suppose he wouldn’t have become human at all. We wouldn’t celebrate Christmas, and there would be no baby Jesus, or adult Jesus, or even teenage angsty Jesus. There would just be the perfect ecclesia of God, without humanity, but God didn’t want that perfect ecclesia, a perfect church. God wanted the ecclesia of Jesus’ friends, the church, the gathering with humanity, along with all of our imperfections, even if that meant that we mucked things up a bit. So, “the Word became flesh and lived among us, and we have seen his glory, the glory as of a father’s only son, full of grace and truth.” In becoming human and living among us, God showed us his love for us, not his desire for us to be perfect. I mean, I suppose it’d be nice, but God showed that he loves us, warts and all. He then formed the church, the ecclesia or gathering of Jesus’ friends, so that we could further share his love for people, warts and all. Jesus wanted not a perfect ecclesia, but an ecclesia that shared his heart for people and his willingness to sacrifice personal comfort and convenience (and quite a bit more than that) for the sake of people…especially the ones no one else seemed to care that much about. The questioners, the loners, the kids with behavior problems. Seek them out, invite them in, and love them more than your stuff, Jesus has taught his church, and be willing to sacrifice your personal comfort and convenience for their sake. The people who don’t have life figured out and have spent their life mucking it up for themselves. The people who have life figured out and learned from a young age that life is harsh and cruel. The people who have been rejected by their peers, rejected by society, rejected by their church or family. Seek them out, invite them in, and love them more than your stuff, Jesus has taught his church, and be willing to sacrifice your personal comfort and convenience for their sake. The people who aren’t like us, who make us uncomfortable, whose very existence disrupts our world, shattering the illusions we created to make our world seem safe. The people whose need is greater than we can provide, whose loneliness and despair are deeper than we can see, and whose desire for connection and companionship is greater and more beautiful than even they are aware. Seek them out, invite them in, and love them more than your stuff, Jesus has taught his church, and be willing to sacrifice your personal comfort and convenience for their sake. We’re not going to fix every problem or make any lives perfect. The lives of all people still have that one flaw in them, that all lives involve people and are therefore irrevocably messed up, messed up just like the church, the ecclesia, gathering of Jesus’ friends, and Jesus didn’t form his ecclesia of friends in order to make a perfect institution. Jesus formed his church, his gathering of friends, in order to share with us his light, because he simply wanted us to be a part of the life of communion shared between Father, Son, and Holy Spirit, and so with all our imperfections, we reach out with that same light to others, and we sit with them in their imperfections, not to make them perfect, not necessarily to fix them, but simply to dwell with them, to shine some light into the darkness of their lives, and to join in communion with them, becoming friends, and joining together in the Church, ecclesia, the gathering, of Jesus’ friends.

John 1:1-18. John Banman. Dec 3, 2017Support the show (https://tithe.ly/give_new/www/#/tithely/give-one-time/1701382)

John 1:1-18 1.God comes at us in ways we recognize, v. 1 Four things about the people John is writing to... 1) Greeks believed that the universe was governed by this “order of nature” they called the Logos/Word. 2) A well lived live was defined as a life that conformed to this rational and moral order. 3) Life was about contemplating this order and trying to discern what it was all about. Lots of thinking, talking and discussion. 4) One of the reasons they put so much energy into contemplating this Logos is b/c they also thought of God as detached from the world regarding it’s struggles and fears so figuring this all out was up to them. The progression of the incarnation… * The Word existed… * The Word was with God… *The Word was God. 2. God is most recognizable in Jesus, v. 2 “This was why the Jews were seeking all the more to kill him, because not only was he breaking the Sabbath, but he was even calling God his own Father, making himself equal with God.” -John 5:18 3. All of humanity is morally responsible to God, v. 3 4. God came to be received, v. 4-13 5. It is the nature of God to reveal Himself, v. 14-18

The gospel, in all its multidimensional beauty, comes down to one Word, one Person and one Life: Jesus. In the end, the Word on God and God's message to the world is Jesus.

This sermon is a declaration about some of the ramifications of Jesus Christ's being the Son of God and the importance of our believing in it; even when we do not fully understand everything about Him.

This sermon is a declaration about some of the ramifications of Jesus Christ's being the Son of God and the importance of our believing in it; even when we do not fully understand everything about Him.

This sermon is a declaration about some of the ramifications of Jesus Christ's being the Son of God and the importance of our believing in it; even when we do not fully understand everything about Him.

This sermon is a declaration about some of the ramifications of Jesus Christ's being the Son of God and the importance of our believing in it; even when we do not fully understand everything about Him.

This sermon is a declaration about some of the ramifications of Jesus Christ's being the Son of God and the importance of our believing in it; even when we do not fully understand everything about Him.

This sermon is a declaration about some of the ramifications of Jesus Christ's being the Son of God and the importance of our believing in it; even when we do not fully understand everything about Him.

This sermon is a declaration about some of the ramifications of Jesus Christ's being the Son of God and the importance of our believing in it; even when we do not fully understand everything about Him.