Born Again

Pastor Daniel Goulding · Mar 18, 2024

Drawing on the bronze serpent in Numbers 21 and Jesus' explanation of it in John 3, Pastor Daniel argues that God's redemptive plan has never been required to fit neatly inside human logic. Just as the Israelites were healed by simply looking at a bronze snake on a pole — an act that made no rational sense — so every person today is invited to be born again by looking to Jesus in faith. Intellectual assent alone is insufficient; true belief is an active, weight-bearing trust that surrenders the whole life to Christ.

Pastor Bill Bush · Oct 10, 2022

In Ezekiel 8–11, God exposes that Israel's crisis was never primarily about geography, politics, or circumstances — it was always a heart problem. The people in Jerusalem believed their location and religious activity made them righteous, while the exiles were the problem. God reveals the opposite: He will scatter, gather, and give His people a new heart and a new spirit. This promise finds its ultimate fulfillment in Jesus, whose death and resurrection — foreshadowed by the bronze serpent Moses lifted in the wilderness — is the only way any person receives a new heart, the Holy Spirit, and true life.

Pastor Bill Bush · Dec 25, 2018

Pastor Jeff argues that what people are truly searching for — peace, contentment, joy, and life that endures through dark circumstances — cannot be found by chasing the things that seem right to us. Drawing on Jesus' conversation with Nicodemus in John 3 and the Old Testament story of the bronze snake in Numbers 21, he shows that all of us are 'snake-bitten' by sin and separated from the life God intends. Just as the Israelites were healed by looking in faith at the snake on the pole, we are born again and given eternal life by looking in faith to Jesus, who took our sin upon Himself on the cross.