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As we begin the series on Ezra, Nehemiah, and Esther, Johnny takes us through the beginning of Ezra, and the history surrounding the Israelite’s exile in Babylon and Persia.

In this passage, we see Paul and Barnabas called to be missionaries to the Gentile Church. We see Paul preaching in the synagogue at Antioch in Galatia, and we learn about the importance of listening to God’s calling.

On the 2nd Sunday of Easter, CCV begins a series using the Lectionary Year C readings, focusing on The Acts of the Apostles. In Acts 5, Peter and the Apostles are arrested for preaching Jesus. But when the Angel of the Lord sets them free and calls them to preach the gospel in the Temple […]

Easter Sermon: In a culture of an increasing hopelessness, the Christian hope, grounded in the death and resurrection of Jesus Christ offers a real hope–Jesus did rise bodily from the dead; and a living hope with ongoing implications for lives. The Christian living hope is upside-down, forward-back, and inside-out.

In Luke 20: 19-26, we hear Jesus say “Render to Caesar what is Caesar’s, and to God what is God’s.” Johnny explains the history behind those testing Jesus, the meaning of Jesus’ statement, and what this means about how we live our lives.

This week, Johnny takes us through two stories, one as Jesus enters Jericho, and the other as Jesus leaves. Johnny discusses the faith of the blind beggar, the only one who sees Jesus as the Messiah, and Zacchaeus the chief tax collector who, like everyone there, has a deep need for salvation in Jesus.

In Luke 12, Jesus addresses our fears, calling us to not fear man, but instead to fear God, and not to worry, because God will provide for us. Johnny addresses our modern fears and anxieties, and shows what it means to fear God.

In Luke 10, we read a story of Mary and Martha, who are friends of Jesus. We see how Mary decides to sit at Jesus’ feet and learn from him, how Jesus commends her for this decision, and learn from Johnny how to apply this to our decisions today.

Simon, the Pharisee, invites Jesus to a dinner party. He fails to offer Jesus the customary greetings and honors. But a woman of the city, a known “sinner,” who joins the poor in the room has come to honor Jesus–she begins weeping, then wiping his feet with her hair, kissing them and anointing them with […]

(Unfortunately the normal audio recording process was not available this week) This week, we read about two of Jesus’s healings, one the servant of a centurion and the other a widow’s son. In covering these two stories, Johnny shows us how the stories are not so much about the healings as they are about the […]

This week, we read in Luke 6 about Jesus’ confrontations with the Pharisees on the Sabbath. Johnny talks about the significance of the Sabbath in First Century Judaism, what it meant for Jesus to claim Lordship over the Sabbath, and what the Sabbath means for our own rest today.

This week, we hear the story of Jesus revealing himself to Peter through the miraculous nets overflowing with fish. Johnny talks about what it meant for Peter and the other disciples to abandon that catch, as well as their whole lives as fishermen, to follow Jesus and become fishers of men.