I Am the Door | John 10:1-10

Today marks the beginning of the Eastertide season, which is the period from Easter culminating in Pentecost Sunday; when we’ll celebrate the coming of the Holy Spirit. Last week we celebrated the resurrection of our Lord from the dead and bolstered our resolve to live with resurrection hope that our Lord is indeed making all…

If you’ve been a part of TCC for any period of time, you know we orient our worship according to the Christian calendar.  Today is the 1st Sunday in Advent, which marks the beginning of the Christian year.  I was raised in a Christian home and the only thing I knew about the Christian calendar…

Notes

Mark and I been using this Eastertide season to look at the “I am” statements found in John’s Gospel. But in particular (especially since Easter), we’ve been seeking to look at these statements through the lens of Christ’s resurrection. In other words, in light of the empty tomb, in light of the stone that was…

This Fall, we are walking through First Peter. We have experienced onlytwo sermons yet have already seen how rich and vibrant this epistle is.Peter has many important things to say about what it means to be aChristian living in a difficult world. Peter addresses his letter to “elect exiles”(which is his term for “Christians”) and…

We’re using this first part of the year to look at the signs and statements of Jesus found in John’s Gospel. As Mark noted last week, we’re doing so in order to see how each of these signs/miracles and each of these “I am” statements reveal something about Jesus as the full manifestation of God’sglory—not…