Whitehall Baptist Church

JOHN 2:13-25 | LESSONS IN JERUSALEM ILLUSTRATION : My high school basketball team My Junior year, our high school had one of the best teams in the history of our school There were 9 seniors on the team who had played together for years. So when my senior year came along there was an expectation that…

JOHN 2:1-11 | GLORIFYING OBEDIENCE ILLUSTRATION : There are some Christmas presents that you receive as a kid that you never forget. One of those for me was the year I received a magician set. I remember it came in a big black box and inside it there were a variety of items for various magic tricks.…

JOHN 1:40-51 | I WANT THAT ILLUSTRATION : When we go to the store with my kids there is a common statement the comes from the lips of my kids: I want that. They see the toys or the treats or the gum and they want it. And the truth is, very little changes as we get older. In your teen years it’s “I want…

JOHN 1:29-34 | THIS IS MY PURPOSE ME ILLUSTRATION : Things are created with a purpose. A basketball is created with a purpose A guitar is created with a purpose A pen is created with a purpose Now you can use these things that were created for other purposes than what they were created for. You can kick…

JOHN 1:24-28 | BAPTISM ISN’T ENOUGH ILLUSTRATION : Have you ever been confused before? If you’re married here today, you understand what that feels like. If you aren’t married… just you wait. When I was a senior in high school I had to take a math credit. I didn’t want to take calculus… the teacher that…

TEXT: ROMANS 1:19-25 | ARE YOU WORSHIPPING THE CREATOR ILLUSTRATION : We are not gardeners. But in an attempt to play pretend, this year I build raised bed garden boxes and put a fence around it to keep the animals out in an attempt to possibly grow and produce some fruit and vegetables. As we were filling…

JOHN 1:15-18 | OVERCOME BY JESUS ILLUSTRATION : I loved basketball in high school It was my passion. I had the privilege of playing on my high school basketball team as the starting point guard at Owen Valley High School in Spencer, IN We were the Patriots, and growing up in a small town, Friday nights…

JOHN 1:14 b | FULL OF GRACE AND TRUTH ILLUSTRATION : Just a couple weeks back we had wrapped up with family camp, but before we headed out the kids wanted to take one final walk up into the mountains to show us some things. There was just one problem, we had to cross the creek to get there. Now I have…

JOHN 1:14 b | BEHOLD THE GLORY ILLUSTRATION : Have you ever been uncomfortable? Hopefully not this morning! There are some places where I just naturally feel uncomfortable. Airplanes The back seat of a car A few years back I knew that I was going to be going hunting with Rick Price. I had bought a tent…

JOHN 1:14 a | JESUS UNDERSTANDS And the Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us, (and we beheld his glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father,) full of grace and truth. ILLUSTRATION : When Tressa and I got married, we went on our honeymoon to Orlando, FL. And the reason that we went there…

1 KINGS 17:8-16 | WHAT TO DO WHEN YOU DON’T KNOW WHAT TO DO READ V.8-12 ILLUSTRATION : I am a man… and I am therefore by nature, a fixer. When I was growing up, my dad seemed to always have the answers for what to do. To this day, I regularly will call my dad and ask him, what should I do about this?…

JOHN 1:10-13 | A GOSPEL SUMMARY ILLUSTRATION : When I was a senior in high school in my final term of the year, I needed just a few more credits to finish school As is sometimes the case for high school seniors in their final term, I was ready to turn off my brain and just be done. So when that final…

JOHN 1:6-9 | SENT AS A WITNESS PART 2 EXPLANATION : Last week we began our look at John the Baptist who John the disciple and writer of this Gospel introduced us to. And there was one thing he wanted us to know about John the Baptist, and that is that he was a WITNESS We saw last week that John was commissioned…

JOHN 1:6-9 | SENT AS A WITNESS EXPLANATION : Last time, we saw as John, Jesus’s disciple began his book pointing our attention to Jesus Christ. He directed our hearts toward the reality that Jesus is truly God Jesus is eternal, creator, and the life. While the bulk of John’s book is spent directing our…

Text: 2 Timothy 1:3-5 | THE POWER OF A MOTHER’S FAITH INTRO EXPLANATION : Paul has reached the end of his life as he records 2 Timothy from a jail cell. The letter he is writing is intended for the one who the book is named after, a young man named Timothy. Timothy had begun to travel with Paul in Acts…

JOHN 1:1-5 | AN INTRODUCTION TO JESUS ILLUSTRATION : Introductions to people. I’m so nervous about talking to the person that I forget the most important part of the conversation… their name! EXPLANATION : The Gospel of John is one of the most fascinating books in all of the Bible. There is a unique…

TEXT: JOHN 20:24-29 | BLESSED ARE THEY THAT BELIEVE ME INTRODUCTION: HOW DO I STRUGGLE WITH THIS? How many of you in this room would say you are naturally a more skeptical person? Who would admit that you are more gullible and fall for things easily? Some of you are so skeptical you are refusing to raise…

TEXT: ROMAND 5:6-9 | CHRIST DIED FOR THE UNGODLY INTRO ILLUSTRATION : Nico and his brothers were climbing a mountain in New Zealand. He had met his family there during a school break, so he didn’t have all of his normal gear with him, but with the trekking poles and a warm jacket, he believed he would…

TEXT: REVELATION 19:20 | FROM ARMAGEDDON TO ETERNITY INTRO EXPLANATION : Last night we finished out service with the return of Christ at the Battle of Armageddon. We saw as this one-sided will be won with the spoken word of Jesus Christ. This battle will take place during that final 45 day period that…