Heritage Sermons

Exodus 1-15 | Exodus: The Story of How We Come to Know God | Trent Hunter It seems there are a growing number of what are coming to be called, “de-conversion stories”—stories of how a person who identified as a Christian came to identify themselves, in one way or another, apart from Christ. These stories should sober us up to look out for our own soul and the souls of our brother and sisters. Thes...

Ephesians 2:1-7 | Friendship | Drew Hunter

The third session from Heritage Bible Church's 2020 Men's Retreat.

The second session from Heritage Bible Church's 2020 Men's Retreat.

The first session from Heritage Bible Church's 2020 Men's Retreat.

Genesis 50 | The Blessing | Trent Hunter Bones are a bad sign. Inside our bones is a factory of life, the marrow inside producing our white and red blood cells. But when we die, our bones are the last part of us to hang around. But with the eyes of faith, we see more than death in our bones, but the object of God’s determination to bless us with life everlasting.

Genesis 49 | The Blessing | Trent Hunter Surely this isn’t it. We have come to salvation in Christ, we have received the Spirit, we are members of a great church. But surely this isn’t it. In Genesis chapter 49 we have a string of blessings on the sons of Jacob; blessings filled with difficult to understand references, even for many scholars. Nevertheless, in this chapter, the last chapter of Jaco...

Genesis 48 | The Blessing | Trent Hunter The things we say in our last conscious moments might be meaningless. Perhaps we’re on a lot of medication. Or perhaps our mind has been eroded by some terrible disease. Otherwise, the things we say in our last years and days and moments are revealing. They reveal the place and posture of our faith. Jacob’s words at the end of his life sure did. And they ar...

Genesis 46-47 | The Blessing | Trent Hunter How do we know that our pain is actually a part of God’s plan? How do we know that so many of the hardships we know here aren’t some grand mistake in God’s attempt to get salvation done? Is he well meaning, but incapable or incompetent? Chapters 46–47 of Genesis were written to answer this question for Israel on the other side of her deliverance from Egy...

Genesis 45 | The Blessing | Trent Hunter There are some passages of Scripture atop which we can see a long way in every direction of the story. There are some passages of Scripture atop which we can see a long way in every direction of our lives. Genesis 45 is one of those passages. Bringing together so many of the themes and promises we’ve uncovered to this point, Genesis 45 is an emotional and m...

Genesis 44 | The Blessing | Trent Hunter Is deep change really possible for us? There are days when we’re all too comfortable with our sin. But there are other days when we properly hate our sin and when we want to be changed. And more than changed, we want to be radically different—transformed. It’s likely the case that if we want to be changed ourselves, those closest to us want us to change as...

Genesis 43 | The Blessing | Trent Hunter With this sermon we’re back in the book of Genesis, picking up where we left off with Genesis 43. From here through chapter 45 we will follow Joseph’s brothers back and forth between Canaan and Egypt. Joseph won’t reveal himself for a few chapters yet. In the meantime, we find strained and at times confusing interactions between the brothers and Joseph. Wha...

Hebrews 4:14–16 | The Incarnation and You | Dan Cruver  The previous sermon examined how in Hebrews 10 God decisively addressed our guilty past (vv. 1-4) through the incarnation of His Son (vv. 5-10). As wonderful as that is, Hebrews 10:1-10 doesn’t directly address our present and future need. Hebrews 4:14-16 answers this question: how does the incarnation address our need when we face tempt...

Hebrews 10:1–10 | The Incarnation and You | Dan Cruver Hebrews 10:1-10 exhorts is to turn our gaze from looking inward to looking outward. This turn from inward to outward is the only way—the God-ordained way—to live a life of freedom from internal guilt and a consciousness of sin. The writer turns our gaze outward to the Son who came into the world as one who was made like us “in every respect” (...

Genesis 42 | The Blessing | Trent Hunter Guilt doesn’t go away with time. We may put it out of our minds, but in a moment the weight of that guilt can be brought back to the surface. The problem of guilt and what to do with it shapes our lives and our world, from the smallest decisions we make, to entire political systems and agendas. The Bible is straightforward about this basic human problem. It...

Genesis 41 | The Blessing | Trent Hunter Every person bows the knee to something; that something or someone who is the most important, the most powerful, most worthy. In this sermon we find the ancient world’s most prominent civilization bowing to a man named Joseph. Only days before he was in prison, where for thirteen years he waited. God will make his suffering servant king and savior, and the...

Genesis 40 | The Blessing | Trent Hunter A fear of forgottenness hangs over each of our lives. Imagine getting a midnight order to move to another land, never to see your family again. A sense of forgottenness would be a problem for you at that moment. If we wonder how hard-wired this fear is, consider how hard we try to be noticed, to be liked, to be popular, and how much we make of celebrities t...

Genesis 39 | The Blessing | Trent Hunter Have you ever had a hard time believing that the Lord is with you? You’re not alone. The first thing to get in order is the matter of your salvation. Do you know the Lord? But if you do know him and wonder about his presence in light of your circumstances, then you’ll take some comfort in the story we find in Genesis 39. It’s a familiar story to many, the s...

John 17 | The Seeking and Keeping God | Abe Stratton (Part 2) What really matters is often invisible. We tend to forget the cosmic plans of God because we see only the mundane details of everyday life. In Jesus’ conversation with the Samaritan woman (John 4) and His priestly prayer to the Father (John 17) we catch glimpses of the eternal purposes of God which He is pursuing and which He will accom...

John 4:1–26 | The Seeking and Keeping God | Abe Stratton (Part 1) What really matters is often invisible. We tend to forget the cosmic plans of God because we see only the mundane details of everyday life. In Jesus’ conversation with the Samaritan woman (John 4) and His priestly prayer to the Father (John 17) we catch glimpses of the eternal purposes of God which He is pursuing and which He will a...

Genesis 38 | The Blessing | Trent Hunter Can the hardest hearts be changed? We’ll get an answer to that question from an unlikely passage, Genesis 38. This is the most sexually explicit passage in the book of Genesis. It’s also one of the darkest passages. But there is encouragement here for God’s work in our lives, and in our church.

Genesis 37 | The Blessing | Trent Hunter In this sermon, we will hear God make good on the promises he planted despite a descent into the pit.

Genesis 35-36 | The Blessing | Trent Hunter The lsat sermon closed out with Jacob and the family stuck. They were stuck in their sin and stuck in sin’s consequences. This sermon opens with the encouraging and hope-giving words, “Arise!” The Lord has not left his people even when they have forgotten him. In fact, he has come to get his people and to bring them home. It will mean radical transformat...

Genesis 34 | The Blessing | Trent Hunter This sermon brings us to one of the Bible’s most disgusting and humiliating stories, a story of rape and revenge. Why is this story here? What does it teach us about ourselves, about God, and about the only way out of this mess of ours?

Genesis 32-33| The Blessing | Trent Hunter What must we do to be saved? There is one answer to that question that is both harder and easier than we might think. With this sermon we come to the climax of God’s transforming work in Jacob as he readies him for the land of promise.