Happy Father’s Day! Today’s worship service honors both earthly dads and our Heavenly Father — the perfect model of love, identity, and purpose.

Join us this Memorial Day weekend as we reflect on the powerful theme of remembering.

In today’s message, we explore how Scripture repeatedly calls us to remember:
📜 God’s redemptive acts throughout history
🛡️ His faithfulness to do it again
❤️ Who we once were before Christ and who we are now

In today’s message, we reflect on the powerful teaching of Jesus in John 5:16–23. As the Jewish leaders confront Jesus for healing on the Sabbath, He reveals profound truths about His identity and mission:
🌿 He’s not just a teacher or prophet — He is the Son of God, working in perfect unity with the Father.
🌿 He’s come not just to heal bodies but to heal souls and conquer sin.
🌿 He’s been entrusted with the authority to give life and judge the world.

Join us this Memorial Day weekend as we reflect on the powerful theme of remembering.

In today’s message, we explore how Scripture repeatedly calls us to remember:
📜 God’s redemptive acts throughout history
🛡️ His faithfulness to do it again
❤️ Who we once were before Christ and who we are now

In today’s message, we confront a powerful and personal battlefield: the mind.

We’re diving into 2 Corinthians 10:1–6 where the Apostle Paul urges believers to recognize the spiritual war around (and within) us — and the divine power we have in Christ to demolish strongholds, take every thought captive, and refuse to fight like the world does.

Welcome to our Mother’s Day Worship Service!

Today’s message is more than a celebration of moms — it’s a call to all of us to examine our hearts and confront one of the most common, yet subtle, struggles in our lives: discontentment.

Drawing from Philippians 4:11–13, we reflect on the Apostle Paul’s “secret” of contentment — not in circumstances, but in Christ. In a culture that constantly tells us to want more, today we ask:

What does it mean to be content — truly content — in every situation?

🎯 Whether you’re a mom, a dad, single, married, wealthy, or struggling — this message invites you to pause, shift your perspective, and find lasting peace in Jesus.

👀 We also reflect on how discontentment can creep in unnoticed, often disguised as ambition or comparison, and how Scripture helps us detangle from it.

📖 Key Passages:

• Philippians 4:11–13

• Hebrews 13:5–6

• 1 Timothy 6:6–10

• Hebrews 12:1

• Personal reflections from Respectable Sins by Jerry Bridges

In this message, we dive into John 5:1–15 — the story of Jesus healing the man at the pool of Bethesda, who had been an invalid for 38 years.

Listen as Pastor Joel unpacks:
✨ How Jesus shows His deep knowledge, compassion, and power
✨ Why this healing challenges legalistic mindsets
✨ The connection between physical healing, sin, and the fall

Whether you’re waiting on healing, seeking change, or feeling stuck, today’s message reminds you that Jesus meets you right where you are and offers restoration.

Scripture References: John 5:1–15, Hebrews 4:15–16, Deuteronomy 2:13–15, Numbers 13 & 32

🙏 Join us in praying for serenity to accept what we cannot change, courage to change what we can, and wisdom to know the difference.

The Empty Tomb

20 Early on the first day of the week, while it was still dark, Mary Magdalene went to the tomb and saw that the stone had been removed from the entrance. ² So she came running to Simon Peter and the other disciple, the one Jesus loved, and said, “They have taken the Lord out of the tomb, and we don’t know where they have put him!”

³ So Peter and the other disciple started for the tomb. ⁴ Both were running, but the other disciple outran Peter and reached the tomb first. ⁵ He bent over and looked in at the strips of linen lying there but did not go in.⁶ Then Simon Peter came along behind him and went straight into the tomb. He saw the strips of linen lying there, ⁷ as well as the cloth that had been wrapped around Jesus’ head. The cloth was still lying in its place, separate from the linen. ⁸ Finally the other disciple, who had reached the tomb first, also went inside. He saw and believed. ⁹ (They still did not understand from Scripture that Jesus had to rise from the dead.) ¹⁰ Then the disciples went back to where they were staying.

Jesus Appears to Mary Magdalene

¹¹ Now Mary stood outside the tomb crying. As she wept, she bent over to look into the tomb ¹² and saw two angels in white, seated where Jesus’ body had been, one at the head and the other at the foot.

¹³ They asked her, “Woman, why are you crying?”

“They have taken my Lord away,” she said, “and I don’t know where they have put him.”¹⁴ At this, she turned around and saw Jesus standing there, but she did not realize that it was Jesus.

¹⁵ He asked her, “Woman, why are you crying? Who is it you are looking for?”

Thinking he was the gardener, she said, “Sir, if you have carried him away, tell me where you have put him, and I will get him.”

¹⁶ Jesus said to her, “Mary.”

She turned toward him and cried out in Aramaic, “Rabboni!” (which means “Teacher”).

¹⁷ Jesus said, “Do not hold on to me, for I have not yet ascended to the Father. Go instead to my brothers and tell them, ‘I am ascending to my Father and your Father, to my God and your God.’”

¹⁸ Mary Magdalene went to the disciples with the news: “I have seen the Lord!” And she told them that he had said these things to her.

John 4:43-54

43 And after the two days, He departed from there for Galilee. 44 For Jesus Himself testified that a prophet has no honor in his own country. 45 So when He came to Galilee, the Galileans received Him, only because they had seen all the things that He did in Jerusalem at the feast; for they themselves also went to the feast.

46 Therefore He came again to Cana of Galilee, where He had made the water into wine. And there was a royal official whose son was sick at Capernaum. 47 When he heard that Jesus had come from Judea into Galilee, he went to Him and began asking Him to come down and heal his son; for he was at the point of death. 48 Then Jesus said to him, “Unless you people see signs and wonders, you simply will not believe.” 49 The royal official *said to Him, “Sir, come down before my child dies.” 50 Jesus *said to him, “Go; your son is alive.” The man believed the word that Jesus spoke to him and went home. 51 And as he was now going down, his slaves met him, saying that his son was alive. 52 So he inquired of them the hour when he began to get better. Then they said to him, “Yesterday at the seventh hour the fever left him.” 53 So the father knew that it was at that hour in which Jesus said to him, “Your son is alive”; and he himself believed, and his entire household. 54 This is again a second sign that Jesus performed when He had come from Judea into Galilee.

John 4:43-54

43 And after the two days, He departed from there for Galilee. 44 For Jesus Himself testified that a prophet has no honor in his own country. 45 So when He came to Galilee, the Galileans received Him, only because they had seen all the things that He did in Jerusalem at the feast; for they themselves also went to the feast.

46 Therefore He came again to Cana of Galilee, where He had made the water into wine. And there was a royal official whose son was sick at Capernaum. 47 When he heard that Jesus had come from Judea into Galilee, he went to Him and began asking Him to come down and heal his son; for he was at the point of death. 48 Then Jesus said to him, “Unless you people see signs and wonders, you simply will not believe.” 49 The royal official *said to Him, “Sir, come down before my child dies.” 50 Jesus *said to him, “Go; your son is alive.” The man believed the word that Jesus spoke to him and went home. 51 And as he was now going down, his slaves met him, saying that his son was alive. 52 So he inquired of them the hour when he began to get better. Then they said to him, “Yesterday at the seventh hour the fever left him.” 53 So the father knew that it was at that hour in which Jesus said to him, “Your son is alive”; and he himself believed, and his entire household. 54 This is again a second sign that Jesus performed when He had come from Judea into Galilee.

Luke 7:36-50

36 When one of the Pharisees invited Jesus to have dinner with him, he went to the Pharisee’s house and reclined at the table. 37 A woman in that town who lived a sinful life learned that Jesus was eating at the Pharisee’s house, so she came there with an alabaster jar of perfume. 38 As she stood behind him at his feet weeping, she began to wet his feet with her tears. Then she wiped them with her hair, kissed them and poured perfume on them.

39 When the Pharisee who had invited him saw this, he said to himself, “If this man were a prophet, he would know who is touching him and what kind of woman she is—that she is a sinner.”

40 Jesus answered him, “Simon, I have something to tell you.”

“Tell me, teacher,” he said.

41 “Two people owed money to a certain moneylender. One owed him five hundred denarii,[a] and the other fifty. 42 Neither of them had the money to pay him back, so he forgave the debts of both. Now which of them will love him more?”

43 Simon replied, “I suppose the one who had the bigger debt forgiven.”

“You have judged correctly,” Jesus said.

44 Then he turned toward the woman and said to Simon, “Do you see this woman? I came into your house. You did not give me any water for my feet, but she wet my feet with her tears and wiped them with her hair. 45 You did not give me a kiss, but this woman, from the time I entered, has not stopped kissing my feet. 46 You did not put oil on my head, but she has poured perfume on my feet.47 Therefore, I tell you, her many sins have been forgiven—as her great love has shown. But whoever has been forgiven little loves little.”

48 Then Jesus said to her, “Your sins are forgiven.”

49 The other guests began to say among themselves, “Who is this who even forgives sins?”

50 Jesus said to the woman, “Your faith has saved you; go in peace.”

John 4:1-15

Now Jesus learned that the Pharisees had heard that he was gaining and baptizing more disciples than John— 2 although in fact it was not Jesus who baptized, but his disciples. 3 So he left Judea and went back once more to Galilee.

4 Now he had to go through Samaria. 5 So he came to a town in Samaria called Sychar, near the plot of ground Jacob had given to his son Joseph. 6 Jacob’s well was there, and Jesus, tired as he was from the journey, sat down by the well. It was about noon.

7 When a Samaritan woman came to draw water, Jesus said to her, “Will you give me a drink?” 8 (His disciples had gone into the town to buy food.)

9 The Samaritan woman said to him, “You are a Jew and I am a Samaritan woman. How can you ask me for a drink?” (For Jews do not associate with Samaritans.[a])

10 Jesus answered her, “If you knew the gift of God and who it is that asks you for a drink, you would have asked him and he would have given you living water.”

11 “Sir,” the woman said, “you have nothing to draw with and the well is deep. Where can you get this living water? 12 Are you greater than our father Jacob, who gave us the well and drank from it himself, as did also his sons and his livestock?”

13 Jesus answered, “Everyone who drinks this water will be thirsty again, 14 but whoever drinks the water I give them will never thirst. Indeed, the water I give them will become in them a spring of waterwelling up to eternal life.”

15 The woman said to him, “Sir, give me this water so that I won’t get thirsty and have to keep coming here to draw water.”

John 3:31-36

31 The one who comes from above is above all; the one who is from the earth belongs to the earth, and speaks as one from the earth. The one who comes from heaven is above all. 32 He testifies to what he has seen and heard, but no one accepts his testimony. 33 Whoever has accepted it has certified that God is truthful. 34 For the one whom God has sent speaks the words of God, for God[or he] gives the Spirit without limit. 35 The Father loves the Son and has placed everything in his hands. 36 Whoever believes in the Son has eternal life, but whoever rejects the Son will not see life, for God’s wrath remains on them.

John 3:16-18

16 For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believesin him shall not perish but have eternal life. 17 For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but to save the world through him. 18 Whoever believes in him is not condemned, but whoever does not believe stands condemned already because they have not believed in the name of God’s one and only Son.

In this famous passage, we see how Jesus reacts when ministry is turned into merchandising and the poor are exploited in the house of God.  It’s not just a chance to evaluate our churches and our own lives, but we will also discover another prophecy that Jesus fulfilled in an unexpected way.

In this famous passage, we see how Jesus reacts when ministry is turned into merchandising and the poor are exploited in the house of God.  It’s not just a chance to evaluate our churches and our own lives, but we will also discover another prophecy that Jesus fulfilled in an unexpected way.

After quite a few weeks in John, chapter 1, we finish with a final encounter of Jesus with one of his disciples.

Plus, Joel reviews the names of Jesu in this first chapter.

John the Baptist faithfully ministered in the wilderness, knowing he was called to prepare the way for the coming Messiah. He wanted the hearts of the people to be ready to receive what Jesus had to offer.

“Look, the Lamb of God, who takes away the sin of the world,” John declared upon seeing Jesus. He affirmed that Jesus was God’s Chosen One on whom God poured His Spirit as prophesied in Isaiah. Truly, many prophecied are fulfilled in Jesus, making it knows that He is our Savior promised long ago.

John the Baptist faithfully ministered in the wilderness, knowing he was called to prepare the way for the coming Messiah. He wanted the hearts of the people to be ready to receive what Jesus had to offer.

“Look, the Lamb of God, who takes away the sin of the world,” John declared upon seeing Jesus. He affirmed that Jesus was God’s Chosen One on whom God poured His Spirit as prophesied in Isaiah. Truly, many prophecied are fulfilled in Jesus, making it knows that He is our Savior promised long ago.

The birth of Jesus means that the divine becomes human, living among us, filled with grace and truth. He understood what it was like to be tempted, feel pain, experience suffering and even death. The Word became flesh!

The phrase “grace upon grace” or “grace in the place of grace” emphasizes the gift we have in Jesus who is our way to salvation. May we strive to live like Jesus, full of grace and truth!