Save The Cowboy

Some fun feels good while it is happening. Type 2 fun hurts while you are in it, and you smile every time you look back on it. A message from guest preacher Shea Hall at Save the Cowboy, while Kevin was away. Shea preaches out of a 40-mile, four-day backcountry hunt, everything he needed carried on his back, in mountain lion country. Type 2 fun pushes you beyond your comfort zone, it is better wit...

The church is not where you go on Sundays. It is not a building, an organization, or a denomination. Kevin preaches on what the church really is, and what your part in it is. Kevin Weatherby finishes the five week series No Apologies, on how to defend your faith, built on 1 Peter 3:15-16. Week five starts with a different question: what is a cowboy? An ideology and a profession. Courage, honor, re...

You are either saved or you are not. Hell is going to be full of good people, and Kevin tells the hard truth about salvation the way the old hellfire and brimstone preachers used to tell it. Kevin Weatherby rides into week four of No Apologies, a five week series on how to defend your faith, built on 1 Peter 3:15-16. Week four takes on the one thing you cannot defend until you understand it: salva...

If God is good, why does He let a good man get crushed? Kevin takes the question that reaches every house sooner or later, and he does not talk around it. Kevin Weatherby rides into week three of No Apologies, a five week series on how to defend your faith, built on 1 Peter 3:15-16. Before you ask why God allows suffering, ask what God wants. He could have anything He wanted, and what He wants is...

Science says billions of years. Your Bible says about six thousand. Pete said always be ready to explain it, so here is what you do when the two do not line up. Kevin Weatherby rides into week two of No Apologies, a five week series on how to defend your faith, built on 1 Peter 3:15-16. This week takes the three hardest questions people ask about God and science. Does God exist, and the answer is...

Somebody at the sale barn tells you the Bible has been rewritten so many times you can't trust a word of it. Pete said always be ready to explain it, so here is what you say back. Kevin Weatherby opens No Apologies, a five week series on how to defend your faith, built on 1 Peter 3:15-16. Week one takes the three things people throw at the Book itself. In 1947 they found the Dead Sea Scrolls in a...

Paul never met this church. A preacher named Epaphras rode all the way from Colossae to Rome to ask the greatest church starter there ever was what to do about the mess back home. What Paul sent back was three colossal warnings. Kevin Weatherby preaches Colossians 2, where a young Gentile church sits on the main trade route between Laodicea and Hierapolis with every philosophy in the known world h...

Last week the warden pulled up just to watch. This week you find out how that ride went, and why the ride is not the part that got remembered. That is week three of Jesus' Own Man. Kevin Weatherby closes the series in 2 Corinthians 5, where Paul says a sincere heart beats a spectacular ministry every time. From the radio call that chilled his blood, O-1 to Mr. Weatherby, to a bronc ride headed str...

"Weatherby to 65. Shots fired, shots fired." Some calls are dangerous the minute they come in. That is week two of Jesus' Own Man. Kevin Weatherby rides Luke 10, where Jesus sends seventy-two ordinary folks out two by two as lambs among wolves, with no supplies and a message that fits in a shirt pocket: the Kingdom of God is near you now. From the day his dad heard gunshots over a prison radio to...

In Rome, a legate was called Caesar's own man. He carried Caesar's power and authority into every room he walked into. That is week one of Jesus' Own Man. Kevin Weatherby opens the series in Zechariah 3, where a high priest stands in front of God in filthy clothes and gets handed a clean uniform he never earned. From seven years working inside a penitentiary to the day he held a loaded .357 on a m...

Bucked off, breath knocked out, and trampled... when you did nothing wrong. A cowboy church sermon on how to get back on. Kevin Weatherby closes out the First Time? series with the first time life knocks you flat when you did everything right: the Big Lake barrel racing wreck, the world championship that got away, and the bronc riding that same day. Seven tips a cowboy uses to get back on. In this...

You keep waiting to feel ready. The hard call, the fresh start, the leap of faith. A cowboy church sermon for the working man who's figured out ready never comes. Kevin Weatherby picks the First Time? series back up at the ranch: being ready is an emotion, being equipped is a leap of faith. From Romans 8:28 to Ephesians 4:11-12, this is about the God who wasted none of your story and has been prep...

When life backs you up to the edge of what you can't do, the trial was never the cliff itself. It's the choice you make standing at the edge of it. A cowboy church sermon for working men who have been there. Kevin Weatherby opens the First Time? series with the trials that corner a man, and the God who meets him in them. From the prophet Elijah, worn down to nothing right after the biggest win of...

You don't have to have it all figured out to come to Jesus. Week 3 closes the Come to Me series on the easy yoke, and the plain truth that green isn't your problem, green is your ticket in. From Matthew 11:28-30, Kevin lands the series on what your first day with Jesus actually looks like: walking in green, knowing nothing, and getting taken in anyway. He tells his own first morning green on the S...

Jesus says, "Come to me." And we say, "But I can't..." Jesus' whole invitation is three words, no qualifications, no fine print. So why do we keep making it hard? Week 2 of Come to Me rides through the parable of the Great Big BBQ in Luke 14, where every empty chair at the supper had a good-sounding excuse behind it: I bought some land, I bought five teams of oxen, I just got married. Kevin picks...

You can get worn smooth out. Tired down to the rivets. And the first three words out of Jesus' mouth in Matthew 11 are the ones most folks skip right past on the way to the famous part: "Come to me." This week Kevin opens a brand new series, Come to Me (Week 1 of 3), and rides straight into the loads we keep packing on our own backs, loads God always meant to carry. In this message: Why the first...

A Father's Day message from guest preacher Shea Hall at Save the Cowboy, while Kevin was away. In this message: What it really means that being a dad is "amazing" The roles a godly man is called to carry Putting everything behind the cross and following Him Read the Bible in plain cowboy talk, the Simplified Cowboy Version: simplifiedcowboyversion.com Ride with the Long X Ranch Cowboys: lxranch.or...

We've been ten weeks riding through the whole story of God, and this is where the trail comes out: not at a tombstone, but at a wedding and a city. Kevin opens in 1 Thessalonians 4 — the Lord coming down with a shout, the trumpet of God sounding the gather, and the dead in Christ rising first — then rides on into Revelation, where two books get opened: the book of everything you've ever done, and...

Paul calls it a mystery — but a mystery in the Bible ain't a riddle you solve. It's a secret God kept until it was time to let it out. Ten years ago Kevin spent ten days in a communist country bringing home his two boys, Jake and Jace Ray — and that adoption is the closest picture there is of the secret God finally told in Ephesians 3: outsiders brought all the way in, full family, full rights, fu...

Picture a cowboy riding away from you — tall in the saddle, but his shoulders are down and his jaw is set, the weight of the world on him. He’s leaving the place where his dream died. That’s two men on the road to Emmaus, three days after the cross… and the risen Jesus rides up alongside them, and they don’t know it’s Him. In Week 8 of The Story of God, Kevin W...

Four of the most important men in the Bible never met each other. They lived in different cities. They wrote in different centuries. Some warned kings, some were dragged into exile, and some stood in palace courts. But when you line up their testimonies side by side, every single one of them is describing the same Man. "But he was pierced for our rebellion, crushed for our sins. He was beaten so w...

God made a promise to King David that his bloodline would sit on the throne of Israel forever. That promise was called the Davidic Covenant — and for 325 years, it was tested by 20 kings, hostile nations, and one wicked queen who came within one baby of ending it entirely. In this message, Pastor Kevin Weatherby walks through all 20 kings of the southern kingdom of Judah — their strengths, their f...

From God’s view, the Northern Kingdom of Israel isn’t just a history lesson—it’s 200 years of calf‑worshiping pukes proving what happens when a nation builds its own religion and rides off from the real God. In Part 5 of “The Story of God,” we zoom out and trace the trail from Solomon’s drift and the split of the kingdom, to Jeroboam’s golden calves at Bethel and Dan, to 19 kings in 9 dynasties wh...

Israel didn’t just wake up one day with a bad king; they fired God as their King and asked to be “like all the other nations” instead. In Week 4 of “The Story of God,” we ride through the lives of Saul, David, and Solomon to see what God looks for in a man and what destroys a kingdom from the inside out. Saul starts humble and obedient, then forgets who got him there—impatience, half‑obedience, an...

From God’s view, Exodus to Judges is not a kids’ story—it’s a rescue mission, a round pen, and a long ride with a God who refuses to give up on His people. In Part 3 of “The Story of God,” we zoom out and trace the trail from: Egypt – God rides into enemy country to steal His kids back from demons pretending to be gods. Sinai – God moves into camp and lays down standards of character and integrity...