First Naples Podcast

Hebrews begins by telling us that Jesus is the exact, exalted, and exclusive Word of God and that no other voice should be louder in our lives than His.

At the end of the Psalm, David calls us to meditate on God’s goodness despite the chaos and His mercy that will eternally sustain us.

David teaches us that we can becalm in life when we let go of the shadows and look to our Shepherd.

“If you don’t learn to metabolize stress well, you will be vulnerable for an emotional escape.”We will only ask the LORD to lead us when we see that His leadership is better than the lies that we believe about ourselves.

The first step to being calm is to consider who your shepherd is: He is powerful and personal, sustaining and satisfying.

In John 11, we see that in the face of death, we can turn to and trust in Jesus because He has forever defeated death for us.

Trust in JesusJohn 9:1-11

In John 6, we learn that Jesus knows our biggest need, uses our smallest gift, and satisfies our deepest hunger.

In John 5, we learn that Jesus sees people we often look past and has the power to heal our brokenness.

In John 4, there is a contrast between superficial and saving faith. Superficial faith is a faith that Jesus does not believe in. Saving faith is a faith that believes in Jesus.

This first miracle tells us a lot about Jesus and why He came: He came to give abundant joy now and eternal joy forever. John 2 teaches us we can have joy despite our disasters, joy because of our dependence, and joy out of His death. 

John deliberately tells the Jesus story through the lens of 8 miracles with the last miracle being the resurrection of Jesus from the dead. John is calling us to believe in miracles, but trust in Jesus.

Live For Him2 Peter 1:3-15
“helping people love Jesus to live for Him every day.”

“Helping people love Jesus to live for Him every day. Jesus teaches us that to follow Him we must deny ourselves and to live for Him we must die to the world."

Our mission is to help people love Jesus to live for Him every day. In John 1, we learn how we can help people love Jesus by pointing and bringing people to Jesus and leaving the rest to Him.