Summer Camp Session 2: Becoming a Fool The Path to Wisdom

By 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...

Summer Camp Session 1: Walking in Wisdom

By 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...

Walking in the Light or Living a Lie?

By 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...

Train Yourself for Godliness

By 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...

Free to Evangelize Part 2

By 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...

Love Like the Father (not like the world)

By 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,...

Freed to Forgive from the Heart

By 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...

Trading Your Rights for Love

By 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...

A Welcome Home

By 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...

Free to Evangelize

By 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...

Let’s Have Fun!

By 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....

Just Tell the Truth

By 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’...

Adultery of Divorce

By 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...