Whitehall Baptist Church

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…

TEXT: REVELATION 11:3-6 | THE TRIBULATION PART 2 INTRO EXPLANATION : Last time, we began our dive into the time following the rapture of the church. We walked through the tribulation period and saw the rise of the antichrist and the judgment of God poured out on the earth in the form of 7 Seal Judgments,…

TEXT: DANIEL 9:27 | THE TRIBULATION PART 1 INTRO Today’s message will be a different message In our last service we took a look at the rapture of the bride of Christ, the church. It will be the single most world impacting event since the death of Christ on the cross. In these next two services, I want…

TEXT: ACTS 1:9-11 | ARE YOU READY FOR THE RAPTURE And when he had spoken these things, while they beheld, he was taken up; and a cloud received him out of their sight. And while they looked stedfastly toward heaven as he went up, behold, two men stood by them in white apparel; Which also said, Ye men…

TEXT: GALATIANS 6:17-18 | MARKS OF A CHRISTIAN INTRO ILLUSTRATION : If you were to go to my families home in Indiana, to the house I grew up in and you pulled down the gravel drive to the front porch, you would have not question who house it was. Hanging above the steps just below the porch overhang…