John 11-17:45: Encounters With Jesus: Living in a City without Walls. Death is a reality we all face throughout life, and one day personally. Society struggles to find an answer to it, but here Jesus declares his authority even over the grave.

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In healing a man born blind, Jesus reshapes our understanding of suffering, reveals the urgency of God's redemptive work, and shows that true sight - faith - often leads us into testing that grows us in discipleship.

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Pastor Sam Lago. John 9: Encounters With Jesus: Responding to the Light.

In healing a man born blind, Jesus reshapes our understanding of suffering, reveals the urgency of God's redemptive work, and shows that true sight - faith - often leads us into testing that grows us in discipleship.

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Music: Achaidh Cheide - Celtic by Kevin MacLeod is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 license. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0.

John 5:1-18: Encounters With Jesus: Who is the Healer?

John reveals to us the touch of the one person who can heal humanity. Here, Jesus seeks out someone in the deepest need, and by the end of the story, his life is transformed. It reveals to us how the touch of the healer works in our lives today, freeing us from being stuck in a rut, revealing one who can ask us to do the impossible, but whose command to obey him must be obeyed in the present.

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Music: Achaidh Cheide - Celtic by Kevin MacLeod is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 license. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0.

John 4:43:54: Encounters With Jesus: Double Vision. Life is hard. Many things happen to us that really challenge our faith. How can we trust God through suffering? Jesus shows us through the encounter with the Royal Official that there is always more than meets the eye in our suffering.

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John 4:1-29: Encounters With Jesus: Reaching an Outsider. All people long for more in life. Jesus addresses that directly and personally in this moving story of his love, which reaches a social and religious outsider, overcoming all barriers to put her in contact with the source of life's deepest satisfaction.

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John 3:1-21: Encounters With Jesus: Jesus challenges religion. Jesus' Encounter with Nicodemus reveals how the Kingdom of God confronts 'religion gone wrong'. Salvation can only be experienced through the sovereign work of God's Spirit and is for everyone who receives Jesus in true humility.

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Music: Achaidh Cheide - Celtic by Kevin MacLeod is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 license. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0.

John 1:35-51: Encounters With Jesus: The Skeptic. When talking to someone skeptical about Christianity, see how Jesus handled such situations. He reaches out to people through friendships and reveals who he is by showing what he knows about us.

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John 1:19-34: Encounters With Jesus: Great Expectations. What is the logic behind the universe? John points us to Jesus, who claims he can bring meaning to our lives.

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Music: Achaidh Cheide - Celtic by Kevin MacLeod is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 license. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0.