Posts with the tag “knowing-jesus-series”

Knowing Jesus personally means more than what he can do for you. Explore John 4 and what real faith looks like when life falls apart. Start here.  Read More

The woman at the well found living water that satisfied her soul. Discover what true satisfaction in Jesus looks like — and how to find it. Start here.  Read More

Joy in Jesus is not a feeling you manufacture. Pastor John Starke unpacks John 3 to show why (and how to rest in what Jesus has already done). Start here.  Read More

What does "born again" really mean? Jesus told a morally elite man he needed new life, not a fresh start. Explore it at Apostles Uptown.  Read More

From the Sermon delivered on March 29, 2026 | Jesus Cleanses the Temple When good things quietly crowd God out of our lives, intimacy with God doesn't die dramatically — it just slowly goes cold. That's the real problem Jesus addresses when he walks into the temple in John 2: not outright wickedness, but displacement. Not obvious idolatry, but legitimate things occupying illegitimate places.Pastor...  Read More

From the Sermon delivered on March 15, 2026 | Follow Me Knowing Jesus — really knowing him — doesn't always feel the way you thought it would. If you came to faith with certain hopes attached, and those hopes have gone quiet or gone sideways, you are not alone in that. In John 1:43–51, a skeptic named Nathaniel encounters Jesus for the first time and raises a question that many people in this city...  Read More

From the Sermon delivered on March 8, 2026 | Come and See There's a particular kind of loneliness that doesn't always show up on our radars: it’s the loneliness of knowing a lot about someone and still feeling like you don't really know them at all. Knowing Jesus personally isn't about accumulating the right theology or showing up to the right services. According to the Gospel of John, it's someth...  Read More

From the Sermon delivered on February 22, 2026 | The God Who Speaks For Himself There's a particular kind of loneliness that Manhattan specializes in. You can be surrounded by eight million people on the subway, in your building, on the sidewalk outside your door — and still feel profoundly unknown. Known by no one. Seen by no one. Just another face moving through the city.Most of us have learned ...  Read More

From the Sermon delivered on February 15, 2026 | Propitiation Propitiation meaning, at its simplest, is this: Jesus Christ became our high priest, took the full weight of human guilt before God, and resolved it — not managed it, not minimized it, but removed it entirely. Most of us have never used that word out loud, but if you have ever carried guilt that self-awareness could not fix, that time h...  Read More