Day 1: "A Grand Opening" John 1:1-18 | Gospel of John in 40 Days

Pastor Mike Drop

Lutheran Church of Hope

Christianity, Religion & Spirituality

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🗓️ 17 February 2021

⏱️ 11 minutes

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Join us on Day 1 of 40 as we read through the book of John together. Today we start with John 1:1-18. Pastor Mike Drop is hosted by Mike Housholder, Senior Pastor of Lutheran Church of Hope, with Emily Langpaul, Executive Minister at Lutheran Church of Hope. Episodes drop every Tuesday morning. You can subscribe to your podcatcher of choice (Apple, Spotify, Google) for automatic updates, or click subscribe to full videos on YouTube. Get all the latest updates at PastorMikeDrop.com.

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0:00.0	Welcome to day one of our 40-day tour through the gospel of John on the Pastor Mike Drop
0:14.9	podcast during the season of Lent. I'm honored that you are taking this tour here, and I cannot wait to dive in. So open your
0:23.1	Bibles to John Chapter 1, verse 1. And as you do, I want to begin with a story. I grew up in Chicago,
0:29.1	and like a lot of my friends in Chicago, became a huge Chicago Bears fan. When we moved to Iowa,
0:35.2	some of my friends here knew how big of a fan I was. And one year, when the
0:39.3	Bears were surprisingly good, that doesn't happen a lot. They made the Super Bowl, the Bears did.
0:45.1	And when they qualified for the Super Bowl, my friends pooled their money together. One of them
0:48.9	knew somebody who knew somebody who had access to tickets. And they got three tickets. They said,
0:55.1	one for you, Mike, and one each for your two sons. And we want you to go to Miami to Super Bowl 41 and enjoy the
1:02.7	Bears in the Super Bowl because they said, we don't think that this could probably happen again
1:07.4	in your lifetime. So we went. But when we got there, it was completely blown away
1:14.7	by the experience. From the moment we walked from the parking lot to the stadium in Miami,
1:19.6	there wasn't even concrete to walk on because they had rolled out artificial green carpets and
1:26.1	turf all over the place to walk on and there were tents all over
1:29.9	the place with Super Bowl experiences and different fun things that you could do and then there's
1:36.2	REO Speedwagon giving a free concert over on one side of the stadium and LL Cool J doing the same
1:42.6	thing on another and a medley of country singers over in another
1:45.8	side of the stadium. When we got into the stadium and got to our seats, we looked down on the field
1:50.7	and Cirque de Soleil is putting on a performance. And then the teams are introduced and the fireworks
1:57.0	go off and the place is going wild. And when we got in, they had all this swag, something we all get.
2:04.7	Swag stands for a free Super Bowl football and a seat cushion and colored signs to hold up during Prince's halftime show.
2:14.1	It was glorious.
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