What does it mean that the Good Shepherd knows us, calls us, and that we hear his voice? Chad Halliburton takes us through John 10 and the intimacy offered to us in Jesus.

Most of us have a relationship with Karma we've never fully examined. What goes around comes around.... you reap what you sow... the universe keeps score? Somewhere underneath it all, even for those of us who would never use the "K" word, we believe suffering needs someone to blame, and blessings need to be earned. In John 9, Jesus walks up to a man who has been born blind and rejects the old framework of "good things happen to good people, and bad things happen to bad people". This week we trace the karma system through this passage, and ask what it looks like when Jesus tears up the ledger entirely. John 9: 1-41 Branches Church San Clemente, CA branchesoc.com

The Bread You Didn't Know You Needed | John 6 | Gospel of John, Week 7 There's a kind of hunger you don't know you have — until something feeds it. In John 6, Jesus feeds five thousand people with five loaves and two fish. The crowd loves it. They love it so much they try to make him king. And Jesus walks into the hills alone, because that's not why he came. When they find him the next morning, he tells them something they didn't want to hear: You're not looking for me. You're looking for another meal. Then he says he is the bread. That whoever eats his flesh and drinks his blood will live forever. The crowd calls it a hard saying. Many of his followers turn around and leave. He lets them go — then turns to the twelve and asks: Do you want to go too? Peter's answer isn't triumphant. It's cornered: Lord, to whom would we go? That's not the language of someone who finally figured it out. It's the language of someone who has already been changed at a level below comprehension. This week we sit with one of the most demanding chapters in John's Gospel — and the strange invitation underneath it: stop performing self-sufficiency long enough to receive what you actually need. Branches Church · San Clemente, CA

In John 4, Jesus meets a spiritually thirsty outsider and reveals that the deeper longing of every human soul can only be satisfied in Him. This message explores shame, false identity, true worship, and how Jesus becomes the way back to God for all who are searching for living water.

John 3:16 is the most recognized verse in the Bible. It's also one of the most misread. Stripped of its context, it gets flattened into a slogan. But Jesus gets to verse 16 through a strange midnight conversation and an even stranger story from the wilderness — and both of them change everything about what the verse actually means. In this message, we slow down and read John 3 the way it was meant to be read: a late night visit from a powerful religious leader who can't quite see what's standing in front of him, a bizarre image from Numbers 21 involving bronze serpents and poison, and a word about salvation that sounds far more like medicine than law. Jesus didn't come to change your legal status. He came to heal what's killing you.

A wild prophet stands in the Jordan and points: "Behold, the Lamb of God." Why would he call a man a lamb? This sermon traces Water → Lamb → New Exodus - how Jesus carries the weight of the world, transforms it, and leads us into a new kind of freedom.

A world-class violinist played one of the greatest pieces of music ever written in a Washington D.C. metro station. 1,097 people walked past. Seven stopped. John's prologue is, among other things, a diagnosis of exactly that failure — and an invitation to look up. Week 2 of The Gospel According to John.

The Gospel of John opens before time, before atoms, before the first photon of light — and it ends on a beach at dawn with a quiet question: do you love me? In this first message of our series, we explore what makes John unlike any other gospel, why his eyewitness account can be trusted, and what he means when he says these signs were written so you might believe and have life. Wherever you are today — this book was written for you.