Reframing Death
Pastor Jim Fikkert
Jesus hears of His friend’s illness and takes His time getting there. By the time that Jesus gets there, Lazarus is dead. After spending some time consoling His friends, declaring His authority over death, and mourning, Jesus calls Lazarus out of the grave. This sign foreshadows Jesus resurrection and calls us, who are dead in […]
Reframing Outrage
Pastor Andrew Latulippe
Jesus continues to use the metaphor of shepherd and sheep to describe to the people who He is. He does this so that He can reveal to them things beyond their ability to understand including: sovereignty, trinity, and perseverance.
Reframing Shepherding
Pastor Jim Fikkert
Jesus says: I am the great shepherd. In this, He describes a close relationship with His people in which He calls them to Himself, protects them, and leads them. As the great shepherd, Jesus is claiming His absolute authority over all aspects of belonging.
Reframing Freedom
Pastor Jim Fikkert
Jesus has a difficult conversation with the Jewish people about what makes them the people of God. They are His people because they have the truth, not because of their bloodline. He wants them to know this, so that they do not stress the wrong thing and find themselves in bondage to a religious system. […]
Reframing Enlightenment
Pastor Andrew Latulippe
Jesus makes the claim that He is the light of the world. In typical Jesus fashion, He is presenting eternal truths in human terms. Light may be one of the more successful metaphors for God, because it reveals clearly the idea that it is only through Him that we can make sense of anything else.
Reframing Forgiveness
Pastor Jim Fikkert
The story of the woman caught in adultery is one that is well know to both those in the church and outside of it. There is a question as to whether or not it belongs in the Bible. We address that as well as the what this story of conviction and forgiveness is trying to […]
Reframing Proof
Pastor Jim Fikkert
We all want proof; we want to be sure that the things that we believe are true. The struggle for us is that Jesus does not give it to us in the way we desire. This is because He is proving more than just His existence, He is proving His absolute worthiness (and our dependence […]
Reframing Provision
Pastor Jim Fikkert
Jesus makes some vivid claims about who He is and what He has come to do. In that, He also makes some bold claims about us. If He is the answer, the provision, the true bread, then we are merely recipients of His grace. As recipients of the great gift of salvation, this life becomes […]
Reframing Power
Pastor Jim Fikkert
John slips the story of Jesus walking on water into the narrative of the feeding of the 5,000. He does this to remind us that Jesus both cares about our smallest needs, but is also in control of the greatest powers. He is not bound by the same things we are, including time and chaos. […]
Reframing Need
Pastor Jim Fikkert
We all have needs, we were designed to. When God created the world, He created us to need food, rest, and purpose. When sin came into the world, we went out in an attempt to find all of these things without Him. In the feeding of the 5,000, Jesus brings us back to the source […]
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