Immanuel Community Church

In Jesus’ death and resurrection, God enters our pain, reveals himself personally to us, and invites us to believe and find new life in him even in the midst of our unresolved questions.

By willingly submitting to an unfair trial and accepting a guilty verdict He did not deserve, Jesus’ meekness exposes and shatters our desperate need for self-preservation, freeing us to a life of self-giving love towards others.

SUMMARY: When we face failure, guilt, or betrayal, it’s easy to deny God or lose hope. But the story of Peter and Judas shows us that God’s grace runs deeper than our greatest failure, and we can choose to respond with faith and hope in His love—or sink into our own despair.

In his darkest hour, Jesus’ heart was turned toward us, praying that we would be protected, set apart as holy, and brought into the glory that he shares with the Father.

After the resurrection, Jesus returned to the Father, but he continues to speak to us through his Spirit and offers us a lasting peace and joy in the face of suffering because he has overcome the world and secured the victory for us.

The Spirit convicts the world of its sinful and hostile posture toward God through the witness of the church. It is an unwelcome message that will provoke the same resistance and hatred Jesus himself faced.

The hallmark of a true follower of Jesus is the fruit of love that grows from abiding in him.

In His parting words to the disciples, Jesus promised them that he would never leave them as orphans but that his advocacy for them would continue through the work of the Holy Spirit. 

In a culture that tries to maximize output with minimum input and avoid the costly way of real spiritual growth, Philippians 2 calls us to actively live out our salvation, for it is God who is already at work within us.