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 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 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 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 2, 2025
Opening: Jesus, We Adore You What a grace it is for us to be able to say, “Jesus, we adore you.” If that is true, that is not natural. If that is true in you—if you actually love the Lord, if you adore Christ, if you love Christ and you want God more than anything...
By Jacob Hantla on Aug 24, 2025
Opening – The Heart of the Gospel Just think about it. We were just praising God, declaring him. And that same God took on flesh so that we could be reconciled to him. Guys, I know that you have heard that message, many of you your whole life, and it sounds like...
By Jacob Hantla on Jun 7, 2025
Introduction: The Last Summer Camp Session Welcome to the last session of summer camp. Some of you even got dressed up for it—thank you, seniors. This is a special night. Last summer camp sermon ever. I’ll try not to let you down. We’re going to be opening our Bibles,...
By Josh Kellso on Jun 7, 2025
Heavenly Father, we thank you once again for Christ, and that we could declare and sing with confidence that Christ is ours forevermore. That is a gift beyond any gift that we could ever receive. It’s a reality beyond anything we could ever hope for, and we know that...
By Josh Kellso on Jun 6, 2025
Introduction: The Path to Wisdom Praise God. All right, go ahead and open up your notebook and turn to session two. The title of this session is “Becoming a Fool: The Path to Wisdom.” We’ve been talking about how we walk, making the most of the time. What I want to do...
By Jacob Hantla on Jun 5, 2025
Singing with Confidence—and the Difference Faith Makes We sang some really cool songs, some glorious songs, and we sang them with confidence that some of you might not have, right? A confidence that we’ve been saved—a confidence in what God has done for you. And a...
By Grace Bible on May 18, 2025
