Audio Messages

We all face trials of various kinds that provide us with opportunities to give truthful witness about Jesus. In this message on Jesus' and Peter's trials in the early morning hours, we see that Jesus fails no one. He is faithful, even when we are not.

In the Garden of Gethsemane, Jesus endured His “dark night of the soul.” In that time, He turned to His Father in prayer. In the same way, we too will have difficult days and dark nights. In this message, Pastor John looks at Jesus’ example and how He instructs us to pray.

There have been some spectacular sins in the history of the world. But because of God’s sovereignty, we can say, “What you intended for evil, God used for good.” (Gen. 50:20) In this message, Pastor John examines spectacular sins – including our own – and how the Son of God demonstrates the Father’s spectacular, sovereign love for us.

Life brings hurts when it doesn’t go according to our plan. But when we realize that Jesus has a plan – and that it’s a good plan - then we just might be able to see something beautiful in it. In this message, Pastor John looks at Jesus’ plan and how some choose to follow His plan and be honored, or their own plan and face condemnation.

Author Philip Yancey said, “The only thing harder than forgiveness is the alternative.” In this message on forgiveness from Jesus’ parable of the unforgiving servant, we learn some important principles on forgiveness.

The Christian life is harder than the non-Christian life because people will hurt you and you don't get to turn around and treat them the same way. Instead, followers of Jesus are to forgive and reconcile. In this message, Pastor John walks us through the steps to get to the place of forgiveness and reconciliation.

The followers of Jesus are facing persecution, martyrdom, and attack every day. How will we respond? In this message, the death of Stephen and his vision of the risen Jesus show us how to withstand persecution and forgive those who have wronged us over and over and over.

In our very pluralistic society, we could have conversations with people and ask, "What's your God like?" There are many ways we could describe our God, but one of the central features of God's nature and identity is to forgive sin. In this message, Pastor John looks at how each and every one of us can know the freedom of forgiveness.

In Matthew's account of Jesus' suffering and crucifixion, he described in detail the shame against Jesus' person, and the pain inflicted on Jesus' body. In this message, Pastor John illustrates the many shameful insults hurled at the perfect Son of God and provides a warning of how we might, at some times, insult God even today. But God will forgive your insults against His Son if you repent and "kiss the Son."

Forgiveness is something that we all learn and experience very early in life. Children learn to forgive playground friends, parents forgive children (and children need to forgive parents). In this fourth message on love, Pastor John talks about the value of love that lets it go.