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
By Jacob Hantla on May 11, 2025
Introduced by Smedly Yates Well, Jacob Hantla is preaching this morning and he needs no introduction. He is our student ministries pastor among many of the pastoral responsibilities that he carries. But I want, this morning, in introducing something of a graduation...
By Jacob Hantla on May 4, 2025
Introduction: The Importance of This Message Open your Bibles to First Timothy chapter 4. First Timothy chapter 4. For the end of the year, I think this is a really important message that you need. If you are a Christian, or if you want to be a Christian, if...
By Grace Bible on Apr 27, 2025
Opening Prayer Pray with me. Lord, we have this time set apart that we could serve you through listening to your word preached, through singing songs to you, through interacting with each other. Lord, we acknowledge it’s a lofty goal that creatures would do...
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...
