"John 4" Tagged Sermons

The Second Sign: Healing the Son

This message explores Jesus’ second sign, which also takes place at Cana in Galilee, a healing of a noble official’s son, who was sick unto death. (John 4:43-54) Sermon Outline “Go,” Jesus replied, “your son will live.” The man took Jesus at his word and departed. (John 4:50) I. The Problem of Familiarity (vv. 43–45) The Samaritans entered into who Jesus was because they carried fewer assumptions. The outsiders found what the insiders missed. Familiarity can produce blindness that masquerades…

Living Water

This message explores Jesus’ conversation with the Samaritan woman at the well, followed by the confession of the Samaritans that Jesus is “the Savior of the world.” (John 4:1-42) Sermon Outline “Jesus answered, ‘Everyone who drinks this water will be thirsty again, but whoever drinks the water I give them will never thirst. Indeed, the water I give them will become in them a spring of water welling up to eternal life.’” (John 4:13-14) Jesus Crosses Dividing Lines Socio-ethnic: Jews/Samaritans…

The Hunger for Love

All of us want to feel loved, and like we belong somewhere with someone. We want this within intimate relationships and within a sense of finding community. We will explore this hunger for love as it relates to human love and divine love. Key Passage: John 4:1-43 Sermon OutlinE “And I pray that you, being rooted and established in love, may have power, together with all the Lord’s holy people, to grasp how wide and long and high and deep…