Lectionary sermons on the Gospel of John. Links to biblical exegesis. Also children's sermons, hymn lists, and hymn stories coordinated with the lectionary readings.
Sermons for the Gospel of John
Sermons for John 1
John 1:1-18 Do You Like Beginnings? (Molin)
John 1:1-18 Alter Call (Molin)
John 1:1-18 What Child Is This? (McLarty)
John 1:1-14 Christmas According to John (Wigmore)
John 1:14 God Has a Word for You (Gerhardy)
John 1:6-8, 19-28 God's Doorman (Hoffacker)
John 1:6-8, 19-28 A Negative Gospel (Anders)
John 1:6-8, 19-28 Straight Paths in a Crooked World (Molin)
John 1:19-28 Are You The Messiah? (McLarty)
John 1:29-42 Confessions of an Amateur Preacher (Hyde)
John 1:29-42 Called And Chosen (Strayhorn)
John 1:29-42 Come and See (Strayhorn)
John 1:29-34 Lamb of God (McLarty)
John 1:35-51 Come and See (London)
John 1:43-51 God Keeps Knocking (Hoffacker)
John 1:43-51 Your Best Life Now (Butler)
John 1:43-51 Ho-Hum Jesus (Molin)
John 1:43-51 God's Dream Team (McLarty)
Sermons for John 2
John 2:1-10 Party Hearty (Entrekin)
John 2:1-11 His Hour (Hyde)
John 2:1-11 Cana Continues (Hoffacker)
John 2:1-11 Who Moved My Cheese? (McLarty)
John 2:1-11 Humoring the Wine (Brettell)
John 2:13-22 Endangered Worship (Anders)
John 2:13-22 Spring Cleaning (McLarty)
John 2:13-22 Zeal for Thy House (McLarty)
John 2:13-22 God Steps Out of the Box (Wigmore)
John 2:13-22, Spring Cleaning (London)
Sermons for John 3
John 3:1-17 The Gospel at Night (Hyde)
John 3:1-17 Losing Your Religion (Howard)
John 3:1-17 The Beauty Steals Inward (Hoffacker)
John 3:1-17 Nick at Night (Wigmore)
John 3:1-17 & Exodus 3:1-6 The Cure for Our Pride (Hoffacker)
John 3:1-17 Nick at Nite (McLarty)
John 3:14-21 Bronze Serpent or Exalted Savior? (McLarty)
John 3:14-21 The Gospel in Miniature (Kegel)
John 3:14-21 The Night Visitor (Molin)
John 3:14-21; Numbers 21:4-9 On Leaving It to the Snake (Hyde)
John 3:14-21; Numbers 21:4-9 Lift High the Cross (Brettell)
Sermons for John 4
John 4:5-42 The Big Surprise (Hoffacker)
John 4:5-42 A Gospel for Samaritans (and the Whole World) (Kegel)
John 4:5-42 I Confess, My Heart Was Hard (Butler)
John 4:5-42 The Woman at the Well (McLarty)
Sermons for John 5
John 5:1-9 Do You Want to Be Made Well? (McLarty)
John 5:1-9 Getting Unstuck (Wagner)
Sermons for John 6
John 6 Funeral Sermon: A Life Lived Intensively (Hoffacker)
See also our Funeral Homilies web page
John 6:1-13 Jesus Feeds the Thousands - a response to Katrina (Hazelrig)
John 6:1-21 Disqualification (Hoffacker)
John 6:1-21 Subtraction and Multiplication (Hoffacker)
John 6:1-21 Andrew, the Guide to Christ (Brettell)
John 6:24-35 The Bread Also Rises (London)
John 6:25-35 Life-Giving Bread (Wagner)
John 6:35, 41-51 Food from Home (Hoffacker)
John 6:35, 41-51 Hungry People (Donovan)
John 6:51-58 The Main Course (Stevenson)
John 6:51-58, Shocking! (London)
John 6:56-69 The Flesh God Has Married (Hoffacker)
Sermons for John 7
John 7:37-39 Are You Thirsty? (Stevenson)
Sermons for John 8
John 8:31-36 The Truth Will Make You Free (Schoonover)
John 8:31-36 Knowing God Personally (Haferman)
John 8:31-36 Reformation Day (Haferman)
John 8:31-36 Quo Vadis, Domine? (Kadel)
John 8:31-36 Reformation: Major Transition (Robb)
John 8:31-36 Life-Changing Discoveries (Selbo)
John 8:31-36 The Truth Will Make You Free (Donovan)
Sermons for John 9
John 9:1-12 I Confess, I Failed to See (Butler)
John 9:1-12 Seeing Clearly (Wagner)
John 9:1-41 Sermon In A Minute (Molin)
John 9:1-41 Sight for Blind Eyes (Leininger)
John 9:1-41 Man Born Blind (Wigmore)
John 9:1-41 Spiritual Blindness (Bedingfield)
John 9:1-41 The Blind Man (McLarty)
Sermons for John 10
John 10 Funeral sermon: A Salty Saint (Hoffacker)
See also our Funeral Homilies web page
John 10:1-10 The Voice of the Shepherd (Strayhorn)
John 10:1-10 What Door Will You Choose? (Wagner)
John 10:11-18 I Am (McLarty)
John 10:11-18 Good Shepherds and Hired Hands (McLarty)
John 10:11-18 Listen to the Shepherd (Hoffacker)
John 10:22-30 Are You Jesus' Little Lamb? (Kegel)
John 10:22-30 Response to Virginia Tech Shootings (Guernsey)
John 10:22-30, I Know Ewe (London)
Sermons for John 11
John 11 Funeral homily: Jesus Meets Us Here (Hoffacker)
See also our Funeral Homilies web page
John 11:1-37 Waiting and Weeping (Anders)
John 11:1-45 Who Gets the Last Word? (Hoffacker)
John 11:1-45 Lazarus, Come Out (Wigmore)
John 11:1-41 Deconstruction (Bedingfield)
John 11:1-41 The Raising of Lazarus (McLarty)
John 11:32-45 A Voice You Can Be Sure Of (Wagner)
John 11:32-44 The Final Word (London)
John 11:38-44 Life in Place of Death (Gerhardy)
John 11:38-44 More Powerful than Death (Gerhardy)
Sermons for John 12
John 12:1-8 Freely, Freely (Hyde)
John 12:1-8 Holy Extravagance (McLarty)
John 12:1-8 Give God the Best (Kegel)
John 12:3 Not Counting the Cost (Gerhardy)
John 12:12-16 Sometimes You've Got to Shout (Leininger)
John 12:20-33 A Six-Volt Battery in a Twelve-Volt World (McLarty)
John 12:20-33 The Sprouting of the Unexpected Good Seed (Hoffacker)
John 12:20-33 Jeremiah 31:31-34 The New In the Old (Hyde)
John 12:20-36a We Wish To See Jesus (McLarty)
John 12:20-33 Onlookers or Followers (Robb)
Sermons for John 13
John 13:1-17 The Christian Calling (Leininger)
John 13:1-15 What Are You Going to Do with Judas? (McLarty)
John 13:1-17 True Love (Wagner)
John 13:1-17 A New Commandment (McLarty)
John 13:31-35 The Mark of Love (Kegel)
John 13:31-35 Family Talk (Hyde)
John 13:34-35 To Love as Jesus Loves (Gerhardy)
John 13:1-7, 34-35 A Further Humbling (Hoffacker)
Sermons for John 14
John 14 Funeral sermon: The Start of Something New (Hoffacker)
See also our Funeral Homilies web page
John 14:1-8 Let Not Your Heart Be Troubled (Howard)
John 14:1-14 I Go To Prepare a Place for You (Strayhorn)
John 14:1-14 Speaking of Death (Molin)
John 14:1-14 I Am the Way, the Truth, and the Life (Wigmore)
John 14:1-27 Don't Be Afraid (McLarty)
John 14:8-17 Promises, Promises (Hyde)
John 14:15-21 If You Love Me . . . (Strayhorn)
John 14:15-21 What Difference Does It Make? (Strayhorn)
John 14:21-27 Fearful - a response to 9/11 (Hyde)
John 14:23-29 The Home Inside Us (Hoffacker)
John 14:23-29 Christ in Our Home (Kegel)
John 14:27 Peace I Give to You (Gerhardy)
Sermons for John 15
John 15:1-6 Stay Connected! (McLarty)
John 15:1-8 The True Vine (Anders)
John 15:1-8 The Vine and the Branches (McLarty)
John 15:1-8 Cut to the Quick (London)
John 15:4b-5 Branches on the Vine (Gerhardy)
John 15:9-17 Fruit of the Vine (Wagner)
John 15:9-17 Jesus' Friend (Leininger)
John 15:26-27; 16:4b-15
Sermons for John 16
John 16:12-15 To Tell the Truth (Wagner)
John 16:12-15 He Will Guide You (Kegel)
Sermons for John 17
John 17:1-11 So That We May Be One in Christ (Strayhorn)
John 17:6-19 Jesus' Prayer for You (Canada)
John 17:6-19 In a Different World (Wagner)
John 17:6-19 The Story Is Enough (Kegel)
John 17:11-19 Aliens Anonymous (Wigmore)
John 17:20-26 One (Hyde)
John 17:20-26 What Jesus is Praying For (Hoffacker)
Sermons for John 18
John 18:1 – 19:42 A Moral Portrait of Jesus (Hoffacker)
John 18:33-37 & Revelation 1:4b-8 The Alpha and the Omega (Leininger)
John 18:33-38 The Truth (Hyde)
John 18:28-38 What Is Truth (McLarty)
John 18:33-37 Royalty Stoops (Anders)
Sermons for John 19
John 19:28-30 Everything Is Complete! (Gerhardy)
John 19:30 What "It" Is (Hyde)
John 19:30 Dying into God (Hoffacker)
Sermons for John 20
John 20:1-18 Escaped Prisoners (Hoffacker)
John 20:1-18 Passion, Proof, and Purpose (Molin)
John 20:1-18 Easter Joy (Kegel)
John 20:1-18 What I Learned at Sam's (Amon)
John 20:1-18 When Is Easter This Year? (McLarty)
John 20:1-18 The First Sunday after the First Full Moon (Hyde)
John 20:1-18 Easter Sunrise (Donovan)
John 20:1-18 Called by Name (Butler)
John 20:1-18 In the Bulb There Is a Flower (Kegel)
John 20:1-18 Life Beyond Life (Entrekin)
John 20:1-18 The New Eyes of Easter (Wigmore)
John 20:1-18 Called by Name (Bedingfield)
John 20:19-23 The Breath of God (Bedingfield)
John 20:19-31 Other Resurrections (Hoffacker)
John 20:19-31 What the Wounds Reveal (Hoffacker)
John 20:19-31 Honest Doubt, Honest Faith (Hoffacker)
John 20:19-31 Thomas (Sylvester)
John 20:19-31 Elated... Deflated (Molin)
John 20:19-31 The Doubting Thomas in Us All (Wigmore)
John 20:19-31 Your Brother, Thomas (McLarty)
John 20:19-31 Breaking the Chains of Fear (Hoffacker)
Sermons for John 21
John 21:1-14 Do You Enjoy Your Work? (Kegel)
John 21:1-14 Come Break the Fast (McLarty)
John 21:1-17 An Installation Sermon (Donovan)
John 21:1-19 Mixed Metaphors (Anders)
John 21:1-19 Rehabiliation by God (Brettell)
John 21:1-19 Living the Promise (McLarty)