Refuge Church (Utah)

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<p>Pastor Brian continues our verse-by-verse study through the Gospel according to John. Here in John 3:22–30, we witness our last substantive encounter with John the Baptist and learn that the best life is one lived for Christ's increase.<br><br>Pastor Brian instructed you to go through a series of questions to evaluate your life. Be sure to check your answers with someone who knows you well (your wife, best friend, etc.). Here are those questions:<br><br>1. Why do I exist? <br><br>2. In which areas has God particularly gifted me? In which areas has he not? (Asking questions like “What do I like to do?” can help you get at this one)<br><br>3. Do I tend more towards apathetic pride (squandering God’s gifts) or Babel-building pride (misappropriating God’s gifts to build a kingdom for my own glory)?<br><br>4. Is there a particular area of sin that needs to be repented of that would keep me from living for Christ's increase?<br><br>5. Are there habits or disciplines that are not in place in my life that I will need to live for Christ’s increase? What obstacles are keeping me from walking in these things?</p>

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<p>Pastor Brian preaches the resurrection of Jesus from Revelation 1:17-18 on Easter Sunday, 2017, the vindication and exaltation of the Serpent-crushing Seed of the Woman, the one with the keys of Death and plunders Hell.</p>

<p>Pastor Brian preaches the cross on Good Friday, 2017, the cataclysm that proved eucatastrophic—the dark that turned back the dark, the death that trampled down death, the Son who breaks the Serpent's back.</p>

<p>Pastor Brian continues our verse-by-verse study through the Gospel of John, closing out Jesus' conversation with Nicodemus in John 3:16-21.</p>

<p>Pastor Brian continues our verse-by-verse study through John's Gospel with John 3:16-18, a section containing the most famous verse in the entire Bible.</p>

<p>Pastor Brian continues our sentence-by-sentence study through John's Gospel with part two of John 3:1-15. In this passage, Jesus shockingly compares himself to a snake, illuminating a curious text from Numbers 21 in the process and flinging open the door of our understanding of the cross.</p>

<p>Pastor Brian continues our verse-by-verse study through the Gospel According to John with John 3:1-15, a section we will be in for two weeks. This week, John gives us a theology of the New Birth as Jesus converses with Nicodemus the Pharisee.</p>

<p>Pastor Brian continues our verse-by-verse study through the Gospel according to John with John 2:23-25, where Jesus reveals his godlike knowledge of the human heart and the unsettling reality that there is a kind of faith that is not faith.</p>

<p>Pastor Brian continues our verse-by-verse study through the Gospel of John with John 2:12-22. In this section, we find out what it takes to make the God who is slow to anger and abounding in steadfast love really, really mad, and why that matters for us all.</p>

<p>Pastor Brian teaches a second time through John 2:1-11, asking "How do we get this New Covenant wine of gladness into our cups?"</p>

<p>Pastor Brian continues our verse-by-verse study through John's Gospel with John 2:1-11, where Jesus performs the first of seven signs in this book—turning water into wine.</p>

<p>Pastor Brian continues our verse-by-verse study through the Gospel of John with John 1:35-51, where John unveils seven facets of Jesus' glory.</p>

<p>Pastor Brian continues our verse-by-verse study through the Gospel of John in John 1:19-34, where we meet John the Baptist, an altogether strange man with an important message.</p>

<p>On the 44th anniversary of the Roe v. Wade decision, Pastor Brian preaches John 1:14 from the perspective of those who live in a country where a mother can end the life of her unborn child for any reason whatsoever.</p>

<p>Pastor Brian continues our verse-by-verse study through the Gospel of John with John 1:14-18, where the Word becomes flesh and dwells among us as the true and better Tent of Meeting, Tabernacle, Temple, High Priest, and sacrificial Lamb.</p>

<p>Pastor Brian continues our sentence by sentence study through the Gospel of John with John 1:4-13, a passage that contains one of the most overlooked, yet joy-pregnant sentences in the whole book.<br><br>Friends, you can stop being an exhausted light-pretender.</p>

<p>Pastor Brian kicks off our verse-by-verse study through John's Gospel with John 1:1-3, where we meet the very eternity-dwelling Word of God. <br><br>In this sermon, the Apostle John may drive a knife through the heart of your Jesus. Not the real one, don't worry. See, some of us have a tiny, trivial, insignificant, cute, tame vision of Jesus, and here's the merciful truth: It won’t survive John’s Gospel. Not even the first three verses.</p>

<p>Welcome to Refuge Church! We're glad you're here (digitally, that is). Watch this short video to find out a bit about who we are and what we're all about. But make sure to join us in person!</p>