By Jacob Hantla on Mar 9, 2026
Opening Prayer and Introduction God, that is just a true statement: when you are glorified, it is for our good. And I pray that you would be glorified tonight in the teaching of your word and the hearing of your word, that we would not go away unaffected. God, I pray...
By Jacob Hantla on Mar 3, 2026
Goal for tonight We’re going to do a couple Ask Pastor Jake. And the reason why is because this first question I got by about three different people—three different handwriting—over the last couple months. And then the next one you guys gave, like I think seven,...
By Jacob Hantla on Feb 24, 2026
Topics and timestamps 0:03 — Welcome, purpose of the Q&A, and opening prayer 1:52 — Salvation: natural revelation, “without excuse,” the unreached, and missions 20:12 — Can you lose salvation? Assurance, perseverance, and friends who walk away 42:18 — Hebrews 6,...
By Jacob Hantla on Feb 24, 2026
Opening Illustration: Redwood Trees Redwood trees can grow to be over 300 ft tall—bigger than three 10-story buildings stacked on top of each other. They can live longer than 2,000 years. Their bark is often a foot thick. These are big, big trees. A tree that big must...
By Jacob Hantla on Feb 24, 2026
Download: The verse cards we used for the posterboards, and that the students can use for memory and meditation, can be downloaded here. New Breakout Session We are now going to have a new kind of breakout session—something that we’ve never done before. And...
By Jacob Hantla on Feb 24, 2026
Why Like-mindedness Matters I want you to think about two people. These are hypothetical people who hold completely opposite worldviews. They look at things in opposite ways, right? They don’t agree on who God is. They see things differently when it comes to who man...
By Jacob Hantla on Feb 24, 2026
Winter Camp 2026 — Session 1: Wisdom for Godly Friendships (Proverbs) Opening Exhortation & Prayer Did you guys catch that last song? It was a prayer. It’s sort of obvious when we think about it, but that was a prayer. That was awesome. We are all praying to God...
By Jacob Hantla on Feb 18, 2026
The most important friendship: friendship with Jesus Tonight though, in anticipation of camp, I want to spend time together talking about the most important friendship you can possibly have. And the answer might sound silly. It might sound churchy if I say the most...
By Jacob Hantla on Jan 25, 2026
Introduction and the Question Today, the question that was asked—there were quite a few, and I’m going to try to go fast—but this one made me think, “Why was it asked?” The question was: If God returns and there are young kids who believe in Jesus, will they go...
By Jacob Hantla on Jan 21, 2026
00:00:00 Introduction and Winter Camp Announcement So good to have you back. That song is an incredible intro to today’s sermon, particularly the line, “dressed in His righteousness alone, faultless to stand before the throne.” I want you to keep that in mind. So...
By Jacob Hantla on Nov 30, 2025
Should I Serve on the Worship Team? The first question is: I have a desire to serve by playing piano and glorifying God within the church, but I don’t know if I’m ready to serve in something so important. So, basically, it’s a question of: I think I...
By Jacob Hantla on Nov 24, 2025
Welcome and Announcements Welcome back. It’s good to have you here. A few announcements, then we’re going to jump into a little Ask Pastor Jake, and then today we’re going to break. We’ll be done early in here to break and do a breakout session...
By Jacob Hantla on Nov 17, 2025
Question: Do I Have to Pray the Sinner’s Prayer to Be Saved? We’ve been getting lots of good questions. This one is a pretty important question. I got it from two different ways, but the question itself is, do I have to pray the sinner’s prayer to be saved? If I...
By Jacob Hantla on Nov 3, 2025
Introduction & Framing the Question This is the question that you guys stuffed the boxes with. I don’t know if you all worked together, but there were a lot of questions in this regard. So, we’re going to spend some time on it. Can Pete and some...
By Jacob Hantla on Oct 29, 2025
Introduction and Overview to the Person of Jesus Breakout Group There are handouts—you’re going to need these. We’re handing these out, and you’ll take them to your discussion groups. You’ll be opening the Bible together and going through what we’re going to learn...
By Jacob Hantla on Oct 19, 2025
Introduction: Approaching a Holy God If you’ve ever been on a Bible reading plan, we’re going to actually spend some time in the part of that Bible reading plan where maybe you guys have fallen off. We’re starting at the end of Exodus and going...
By Jacob Hantla on Oct 5, 2025
Introduction & New Tradition Everything we just sang about God is true because of who He is. Today, we’re going to spend a little time on chapter three of Fundamentals of the Faith, which covers who God is. Before that, we’ll do Ask Pastor Jake, but first, we’re...
By Jacob Hantla on Sep 29, 2025
Q&A: Why Did God Make Pigeons? We are starting again with Q&A. We’re going to get through that Q&A box. Thank you for your awesome questions. We’re going to get to a really important one. The first question that was asked—the one that was next up—was,...
By Jacob Hantla on Sep 21, 2025
Q&A: Does God Care About Me? I realized last week I did a very poor job of talking efficiently through our Q&A. You guys left a ton of questions that are still left unanswered, so I’m going to try to do something new to help me be efficient and get through the...
By Jacob Hantla on Sep 18, 2025
Intro & Review of Last Lesson We had some really good questions last week. I’m going to do my best to cover all of them. If you remember, two weeks ago we talked about what God’s word teaches about itself. The first point was that God’s word is...
