By Jacob Hantla on Apr 13, 2025
Introduction: The Love Displayed on the Cross They had just driven the spikes through his hands and feet. Blood ran down his face from a crown of thorns they shoved onto his head and splashed into the puddles in the mud below him. Soldiers mocked and spit at him,...
By Jacob Hantla on Mar 30, 2025
Introduction: Why We Need to Understand Forgiveness Let’s get started. We are going to be not in Matthew chapter 5 today, but actually in Matthew 18. We’re going to take a little break to help us understand what we have to know to make sense of...
By Jacob Hantla on Mar 23, 2025
The Natural Desire for Retaliation I want you to think for a minute about the pleasure that people take in retaliation. Study after study—I was doing some reading in journals this week—show that humans are hardwired to like revenge. Neuroimaging experiments found that...
By David Brittain on Mar 16, 2025
Introduction Thank you guys for participating in our “let’s see” Scrolls. Let’s see if anybody knew my subtle hint or my subtle plans that I didn’t tell you about with the “let’s see” Scrolls. Does anybody over here have an idea of what my agenda was? Because I know I...
By Alex Deshields on Mar 9, 2025
Introduction and Scripture Reading Well, let’s open our Bibles to 1 Corinthians 9. We’re going to be starting in verse 19 today. The intent was originally to get all the way through verse 27, but I don’t think I’ll be able to do that. We’ll...
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By Jacob Hantla on Feb 9, 2025
Introduction Who here is looking forward to Camp? It looks like a lot of you are. I am very much looking forward to camp, and this is a great precursor for it because we are going to have a ton of fun at camp. We’re also going to be learning a lot from God’s Word....
By Jacob Hantla on Feb 2, 2025
All right, guys, take a seat. Good singing. That is the perfect song, the perfect plea that Jesus’ Sermon on the Mount should bring us to. We cannot obtain the righteousness that we need for heaven by keeping God’s rules. It’s only Jesus’...
By Jacob Hantla on Jan 19, 2025
And let’s pray. God, that is our prayer—that you would be glorified. Christ, I pray that you would be glorified as we listen to your words that you preached when you were here. The Father’s words ring out in my ears when you, Jesus, were transfigured: “This is my...
By Jacob Hantla on Jan 12, 2025
By Jacob Hantla on Dec 8, 2024
So tonight we are going to continue in Jesus’s Sermon on the Mount. We are breaking up Jesus’s sentences that came one after another, and we are taking two or three sentences and doing one week on them. I want to remind you, though, that the audience sitting there...
By Jacob Hantla on Dec 4, 2024
Introduction I love the refrain of that song: “The strength to follow Your commands could never come from me.” As we’re going to see today, the strength to follow what God commands truly cannot come from ourselves. We’re continuing in Jesus’s Sermon on the...
By Jacob Hantla on Nov 24, 2024
Introduction and Updates So today we are going to be doing a Q&A. You guys have dropped a ton of really good questions in the box. We hope to cover at least a few of them. We have a lot queued up. If you have questions that come up, if something’s been on...
By Jacob Hantla on Nov 12, 2024
Introduction All right, thank you, Chris. Thank you, band. I love worshiping together through song, especially looking back to how we started this year with Chris teaching us—maybe reminding some of us, but for some, learning for the first time—what worship is and...
By Jacob Hantla on Nov 3, 2024
Introduction: The High Standard of Righteousness So, open up your Bibles to Matthew 5, starting at verse 21. If you remember, this is what we studied last week, and we’ll cover the entire section this time. I want to remind you that in Matthew 5:20, right before this,...
By Jacob Hantla on Oct 28, 2024
Introduction Today, we’re going to apply what we’ve been learning about reading the Bible by returning to God’s Word together. We’ll be back in Matthew, picking up where we left off. Turn to Matthew 5, starting in verse 21. Before we dive in, I want you to anticipate...
