Bourbon United Pentecostal Church

What does it mean to truly focus on the fallen? In Acts 20, we encounter a young man named Eutychus who drifts into a deep sleep while seated in a window and ultimately falls to his death from the third floor. On the surface, it reads like a dramatic interruption to an evening service. But when we dig into the original Greek, something far more profound emerges. His sleep is described as a spiritu...

What does it truly mean to be a witness? Acts 1:8 gives us a mandate that goes far deeper than we might first realize. When we receive the Holy Ghost, we are not just given a feeling or an experience to keep to ourselves. We are given dunamis, a Greek word meaning the power to make a difference, to influence others, to change situations. This is the same root word from which we get our word dynami...

What if the most radical thing we could do for our faith was to stop treating it like a checklist and start treating it like a deep, unquenchable thirst? This message from Joe Lake on Sunday, October 25th 2026 takes an unexpected and fascinating look at the founding of Alcoholics Anonymous and uses it as a mirror to reflect something profound about the early church. Those first believers were not...

What happens when we believe God's promise but grow tired of waiting for it? The story of Abraham and Sarah in Genesis gives us one of the most honest and relatable portraits of faith under pressure that Scripture has to offer. We explore the moment when impatience overtook trust, and a well-intentioned decision produced consequences that no one anticipated. The birth of Ishmael was not a random m...

What does it truly mean to keep the gospel marching forward in our lives and in our communities? This lesson from Assistant Pastor Dillon Meadway on Sunday, October 11th 2026, draws from Acts chapter 4, where Peter and John stood boldly before the most powerful religious authorities of their day and refused to be silenced. The central truth they declared was simple but earth-shaking: they could no...

There comes a moment in every believer's life when standing in the middle is no longer an option. This message from Pastor Matt Cottrill on Sunday, October 11th 2026, takes us to one of the most dramatic confrontations in all of Scripture, where the prophet Elijah faces a nation that had not abandoned God entirely but had simply made room for other things alongside him. The haunting question posed...

What does it mean to hold the line when everything around us is pressing in? This message from Matt Harvey on Wednesday, September 20th 2026 draws a striking parallel between the infantry lines of historical warfare and the spiritual battles we face every day. Just as a single gap in a military formation could collapse an entire army, a single unguarded compromise in our spiritual lives can open a...

What does it mean to find water in the desert? This message from Pastor Matt Cottrill on Sunday, September 27th 2026 takes us deep into one of the most intimate and unexpected encounters in the book of Acts, where a powerful Ethiopian official, a man who had everything the world could offer, finds himself traveling a lonely desert road, hungry for something no amount of wealth or influence could p...

What does it look like to hold on when everything in us is screaming to let go? This message from Georgeon Pedigo on Sunday, September 27th 2026 takes us on a journey through one of the most striking passages in the book of Acts, where Paul, facing beatings, imprisonment, and an uncertain future, declares that none of these things move him. That kind of unshakeable faith can feel foreign to us, es...

John Faulkner's message from Wednesday, September 23rd 2026

What do we do with the greatest news the world has ever heard? That question sits at the heart of this powerful message by Pastor Matt Cottrill on Sunday, September 20th 2026 about the Great Commission and our personal responsibility to share the gospel. We are challenged to consider a striking image: a driver who narrowly escapes a collapsed bridge, stands at the edge in grateful relief, and then...

What does it mean to truly deconstruct something? In wider culture, deconstruction has become a buzzword for dismantling beliefs, institutions, and inherited traditions. But this message from Assistant Pastor Dillon Meadway on Sunday, September 20th 2026 flips that idea on its head and asks a more urgent question: what if the thing we most need to take apart is not our faith, but our flesh? Drawin...

Pastor Matt Cottrill's message from Wednesday, September 16th 2026

What does it mean to truly influence someone? Bishop Mark Cottrill's message from Sunday, September 13th 2026 answers that question. In a world obsessed with social media metrics, follower counts, and viral moments, we are challenged to consider a far more powerful and lasting kind of influence — spiritual influence. There is a profound difference between a social influencer, who shapes what peopl...

What does it mean to leave something behind that truly matters? Pastor Matt Cottrill's message from Sunday, September 13th, 2026 takes us deep into one of the Bible's most overlooked figures, Methuselah, a man remembered almost entirely for his age. Genesis 5 records his 969 years of life and then simply says he died. No great speeches, no celebrated victories, just a life lived between two extrao...

What does it mean to truly possess the promises God has given us? This message by Dylan Cottrill on Sunday, September 9th 2026 takes us back to the very beginning, to a garden where everything was in place, the soil rich with potential, the environment perfectly prepared, yet something was missing: someone to work the ground. Drawing from Genesis chapter 2, we are reminded that God provides the pr...

Gene Smith's message from Wednesday September 2nd 2026

Pastor Matt Cottrill's lesson from our first session on Sunday, August 30th 2026

Jon Hudson's message from our final revival service on Sunday, August 30th 2026

Jon Hudson's message from our third night of revival on Friday, August 28th 2026

Jon Hudson's message from our second night of revival on Thursday, August 27th 2026

Jon Hudson’s message from our first night of revival on Wednesday, August 26th 2026

Youth Led Service from Sunday, August 23rd 2026

Trace Schuh's message from Wednesday, August 19th 2026