John 1:1-5
January 24, 2021
preached by Pastor Ryan Bouton
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Time of Reflection Quotations

“I believe in Christianity as I believe that the Sun has risen, not only because I see it, but because by it I see everything else.”

~C. S. Lewis, “Is Theology Poetry?”

“He was before His own flesh; He created His own mother. He chose her in whom He should be conceived, He created her of whom He should be created. Why do you marvel? It is God of whom I am speaking to you: The Word was God.”

~St. Augustine, Sermon 69 on the New Testament

“The human mind, stuffed as it is with presumptuous rashness, dares to imagine a God suited to its own capacity; as it labors under dullness, no, is sunk in the grossest ignorance, it substitutes vanity and an empty phantom in the place of God.”

~John Calvin, The Institutes of the Christian Religion

“Christ was sent not to mend wounded people or wake sleepy people or advise confused people or inspire bored people or spur on lazy people or educate ignorant people, but to raise dead people.”

~Dane C. Ortlund, Gentle and Lowly: The Heart of Christ for Sinners and Sufferers

Sermon Passage

John 1:1-5 (ESV)

¹ In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. ² He was in the beginning with God. ³ All things were made through him, and without him was not any thing made that was made. ⁴ In him was life, and the life was the light of men. ⁵ The light shines in the darkness, and the darkness has not overcome it.