Audio - Bethel Worship Center

Every journey includes both destinations and unexpected detours. In this message, we follow Jesus' travels to discover how He intentionally met people where they were, used every stop for a purpose, and called His followers to do the same. Learn how God's Word serves as our roadmap, the Holy Spirit guides our steps, and even life's detours can become opportunities to bring hope, peace, and the lov...

Pack your bags and join us for Summer Road Trip, a journey through the life and teachings of Jesus. Each week, we'll explore key moments from His ministry— from the preparation to the arrival in Jerusalem. Along the way, we'll discover practical lessons for navigating faith, relationships, purpose, and everyday challenges. Whether you're new to following Jesus or have been walking with Him for yea...

God is good. God’s goodness isn’t dependent on our circumstances. His goodness is seen in His character, His closeness, His faithfulness, and ultimately through Jesus.

In this podcast episode Pastor Javin and Matt dive deeper into the first half of our Summer Reading series. This year’s Summer Reading series gleans from Mark Batterson’s book A Million Little Miracles. In this episode Matt and Javin talk about how big God is and how close God is. They discuss how too often we take things for granted and how we need to live in wonder. The conversation even goes in...

The God of all creation is close to his creation. He is closer than you realize and you are loved by him more than you ever dreamed.

The month of June this year will be our Summer Reading Series. This year we will glean from Mark Batterson’s book A Million Little Miracles. We’ll take what Batterson shares in his book, weigh it against the word of God, and explore together how high God is, close God is, and good God is. We’ll see that our gratitude should be in him, and the more we know these things about him, the stronger our f...

Let's dive into the talk around UFO's and aliens. How are we shaping our understanding of what's being discussed? How we focusing more on what our algorithm shows us or what the word of God says?

In this podcast episode Pastor Javin and Matt dive deeper into our Job series. They dig more into the historical aspects of Job and the timing of the book, discussing how we can trust this writing as being inspired by God. How do we know Satan had a conversation with God? They also talk about the relationship between Job and his friends, even though that relationship was volatile. They end by divi...

We come to the end of the book of Job where we see the deliverance that God will bring. God begins to speak to Job, but He doesn’t necessarily give Job exactly what he was looking for. Job wanted answers to his questions but instead God gave his his presence. We should rest in the revelation of who God is more than we seek explanations from God.

In this podcast episode Pastor Javin, Matt and Caleb dive deeper into our Doubter’s Anonymous series. Their conversation focuses on how the questions we typically ask really aren’t new, but God is still patient with us in our questions. There comes a point where we have to surrender our understanding to faith in him. We talk more about how our faith boils down to the resurrection of Jesus. We also...

This week we explore the conversations that Job had with his friends. We often want to be able to provide answers and insights. We often want answers. What we need is empathy from others and with others. What we need is presence. Presence is better than answers and the ultimate presence of God's presence brings peace.

The book of Job is one of the oldest books in our Scripture and the story within is incredibly interesting. Starting on Mother’s Day we will begin to explore this writing to see what God teaches us about faith in suffering. We’ll see Job’s journey of devastation, debate and deliverance and his faith in all of it. This week we’re introduced to the book of Job where we’ll take a look at this writing...

Doubt is normal but James tells us to believe and no doubt. So what are some practical steps to not allow ourselves to be overtaken by doubt?

Can Christians really be the cause of someone’s doubt? You hear it often, “well if that’s what being a Christian is, then I don’t want to have anything to do with that.” So can they? Sure. Should they be. Absolutely not. And that not has a responsibility to be understood by all sides. Yes, christians are to represent Christ, but christians are not the source of christian faith - Christ is.

In this message we take a brief journey through Scripture that shows the history of Christian faith to see how doubt is nothing new. Doubt has been around from the beginning. We spend the bulk of our focus on one of Christ’s disciples who is unfairly named because he has understandable questions. The bottom line we see in all of it is that faith isn't centered on all that can be explained. It's ce...

In this podcast episode Pastor Javin and Matt dive deeper into our Bold Witness series. Their conversation focuses on what it looks like to be a witness of Christ and the gospel. Matt shares from his law background what it means to be a witness, and what kind of witness we would be when we share the gospel. Not to be outdone on court room information, Pastor Javin shares a time of being a witness...

The kingdom of God has spread through the world ever since Jesus’ resurrection through imperfect, incomplete, struggling people. The one thing they had in common was that they knew the resurrection was real, they trusted Jesus and they invited others into that.

What is Easter to you? Is it about the resurrection or the rituals that you do? Even more so, what do you carry around with you every day of your life? What burdens, struggles, pain, etc do you carry? The good news of the resurrection means that we can have new life in Christ, and it means that every need of the human condition is now met because of what Christ did on the cross and through his res...

In this podcast episode Pastor Javin and Matt dive deeper into weeks 9-11 to wrap up our By Faith series. They discuss more about Joshua and what happened around Jericho, as well as Rahab, looking at more details about Jericho and about the scarlet cord. Then they looked at the briefly mentioned names in Hebrews 11 as well as the ones that didn’t have things go the way they may have hoped, but the...

We had a special guest this Sunday from Hope Center Ministries, who we send financial support to on a monthly basis, to share how God is working through their ministry. We heard stories of how God has been transforming lives. Pastor Javin encouraged us that God can use your story to be a seed that transforms someone's life.

Throughout the letter to the Hebrews, the author has been encouraging his readers and listeners to stay connected to each other. The life of faith that we live is not a life we live on our own, alone. Faith is meant to be lived out in community.

In this episode, Ben and Noel Jakiela share how God has worked in their life and in their marriage. Pastor Javin sat down with them to talk more in detail about what God has done. They share how God helped them to see things in each other's life, be vulnerable with one another and grow closer to him as a family.

The author of Hebrews takes a turn in their approach on how they describe what faith looks like. They move from specific examples of those who saw God move in miraculous ways, to examples of those who had similar faith but didn’t see God move in similar ways. What we can learn from all of them is that the baton has been passed to us and we have a leg of this race to run. By faith we can believe th...

Some of the last descriptive examples of faith from the author of Hebrews in chapter 11 are about Joshua, Jericho and a woman named Rahab. What we see from these historical accounts is that we can have a faith that works with God for his glory, and that knows every outcome is in his hands.

In this podcast episode Pastor Javin and Matt dive deeper into weeks 7-8 of our By Faith series. They discuss more what we can learn from Moses’ parents in regards to parenting by faith, releasing them by faith, investing in their spiritual life and continuing to pray over them. We even talk a little bit about our desire to control and the purpose we do things with our kids, like homeschooling. Th...