Finding Hope and Renewal in Living Water

1. "It's really been a blessing to me and a joy to me to watch you and our community rise up and see an incredible, incredible, overwhelming need and help. And then to see that, know that we are in bad shape and that there are people in worse shape and want to share out of our bounty that we have been given to share with others. That has also been just an incredible, incredible thing." [13:45] (29 seconds) (Download raw clip | Download cropped clip)


2. "The sprint is now over, and the marathon is now beginning, and so there is still much to do, but today, right now, we come to worship. We come, and we are here to worship God and give thanks to our Lord and Savior. He's still on the throne. He's still our Savior. He still provides. God is our refuge and strength, a very present help in time of trouble, and we have been reminded this week, I have been reminded that he is a very present help right now to us, and so I call upon him, and I call upon us together here as we come to worship the eternal God, the giver of living water, the one who comes to bring us hope and life." [20:38] (39 seconds) (Download raw clip | Download cropped clip)


3. "A conundrum. A conundrum is defined this way. It is a riddle whose answer is or involves a pun or an unexpected twist. An unexpected twist, I like that. Something you don't expect. It also, a conundrum is a logical postulate, something that you hypothesize, something that you put out there and you make a statement. And there is not a resolution to. A conundrum." [59:25] (37 seconds) (Download raw clip | Download cropped clip)


4. "Let me give you a third conundrum. I just read it from John chapter 4. A Samaritan woman drew some water for Jesus to drink. He was tired and thirsty. And he made a comparison between two kinds of water. Water like this. And I bet that was good well water. Good, sweet, well water. And you know, when you are hot and thirsty, there is nothing better than cold water. It is so good. And I imagine that's what Jesus had. And I suspect that is what she would give to him, that water. The thing about that water, and the same thing about this is, is that we drink it, but in a little while later, we need more. And then we will need more. And we will need more." [01:07:50] (61 seconds) (Download raw clip | Download cropped clip)


5. "Jesus says, if you know what I can give to you where you can fill your need, where you can fill your need, where you can fill your need, where you can fill find purpose and hope and meaning again, then you will take it. And just as that lady wanted living water, I'm convinced there is a world that still is searching desperately. They're looking for it in money. They're looking for it in things. They're looking for it in power. They're looking for it in prestige. And ultimately, it comes up empty, like needing another bottle of water. Jesus says, here. Because in Jesus, we can find a peace and a contentment that passes all understanding." [01:12:04] (53 seconds) (Download raw clip | Download cropped clip)


6. "The event that we have experienced over the last 10 days, I heard a description this week, and it makes sense to me because I've looked from above, and I've asked some questions, and many of you have verified it. This has become a landscape-altering event. The way the rivers ran, the islands that were in the river, homes, it is landscape-altering because of the force and the power of the water. You see, when Jesus comes into our lives, he gives us a landscape-altering event because he changes our focus. He changes our desire. He changes where we want to be and who we want to be with. It changes our desire for our purpose and meaning of what we want to do and where we want to go." [01:14:03] (50 seconds) (Download raw clip | Download cropped clip)


7. "You see, there is also another peace that comes with it. It is peace that comes with eternity, because we know that during this week, while we were trying to deal with the devastation here, that we are on the verge of war in the Middle East, and that we are on the verge of war politically in our country. We know that devastation runs so deep, and people are looking so desperately. And it is a reminder to us that we are not citizens. We are not citizens. We are not citizens of this world, but we are passing through. We are passing through to a home that has been promised to us." [01:15:58] (50 seconds) (Download raw clip | Download cropped clip)


8. "Today I invite you and me to drink again from the promise of hope that we have in Jesus Christ. Yes, we've seen the destructive power of sin. We've known it. And if you can imagine that power of sin that we saw in the rumblings of that water that came down. But Jesus said, no, that's not the final answer. And that you may try to seek to find all kinds of answers to that anxiety that's growing inside your heart, searching for meaning and purpose. And there will be a lot of ways that we'll try to satisfy that thirst. But Jesus wants to give to you the peace that passes all understanding to quench that thirst. And he's inviting each one of us to come, receive, and drink from the water of life, Jesus himself, and to drink freely. It's really not a conundrum. Jesus gives us an answer. And may we respond." [01:20:04] (79 seconds) (Download raw clip | Download cropped clip)