As followers of Jesus, when it comes to healthy sexuality, how do we know the truth, live the truth and carry the truth with grace in a society where many are offended by Christian beliefs?

In today’s passage, we'll see how an ancient Jewish festival celebrating God's provision and the anticipation of the Holy Spirit connects to our lives today. By examining three aspects of this story, we'll learn how to journey towards lasting fulfillment through surrendering to Jesus, embracing his teachings, and experiencing the Holy Spirit.

Jesus makes it obvious throughout this chapter and in this passage that only he can fulfill our deepest longings and that temporary solutions are only that: temporary. But why do we keep seeking for long term satisfaction in short term solutions? If He is the bread of life, why is it so much easier to want other things?

Two of Jesus’ most well-known miracles probe into the deeper questions of our lives. How do we get real food, the kind that satisfies not just our stomachs, but our souls? And how do we get lasting satisfaction, the kind that doesn’t disappear by the next morning?

Our society has a lot to say about mental health. What is really going on in our world, what does the Bible have to say, and how can we as followers of Jesus respond in helpful ways?

We all need help in various ways, but often we don’t want anyone to tell us what to do. In today’s passage, Jesus identifies himself as the singular answer to life’s ultimate questions. How will we respond to his claims?

We all need some kind of healing, whether physical, emotional or spiritual. But how do we get it? The strategies we try often don’t work, or at least they don’t work long-term. In this story of Jesus healing a disabled man, we see three significant truths about finding healing, and we get a taste of God’s long term plans to make everything new. 

In the Gospel accounts, Jesus is generous in displaying the power of God over the natural world through signs and wonders. Often we can become obsessed with seeing the miraculous or we long for miracles for our own benefit. In our passage today, we will see that Jesus uses signs and wonders to encourage us toward a proper response and that is faith.