Berean of Kodiak

Send us Fan Mail To learn more about our church or get connected please check out our website www.kodiakberean.com. You can also reach out to us at admin@kodiakberean.com or call at (907)-486-4847. God bless! Send us a text

Send us Fan Mail Romans is widely considered to be Paul’s greatest letter, his magnum opus if you will. In no other place does Paul so clearly lay out the Gospel and its implications for life. Within Romans, Romans 8 is widely considered to be this letter’s greatest chapter, in fact, many pastors (including myself) consider Romans 8 to be the greatest chapter in all of Scripture. Why? Because in i...

Send us Fan Mail Today as we open up God’s Word we are going to be finishing the book of 2 Timothy. As we do we are going to see how Paul ministers to the body in a gospel community while on mission. Paul rarely served for very long at any location but he knew that the length of service at any one place wasn’t as important as how that service was done. As we leave today it is my hope that we would...

Send us Fan Mail "He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain what he cannot lose." This quote is attributed to Jim Elliot, but could just have easily been uttered by the Apostle Paul. When we have given our lives to  Jesus we have eternal live which we cannot lose, we eagerly look forward to the crown of righteousness that is ours in Christ Jesus. This truth should propel us to...

Send us Fan Mail This morning we conclude a 2 part sermon we started last week. This morning we will focus on how the Word of God is able to transform us and make us ready for every good work. My hope is that as we finish this morning your love for the Word of God would be increased and that we all would continually feast on the Word letting it infiltrate every aspect of your life, guiding and dir...

Send us Fan Mail Happy Mothers day! It is a privilege and a joy to get to serve alongside so many wonderful moms in our church. Today we will be diving in to 2 Timothy 3 and unpacking how those around us influence us, especially those in positions of leadership in our lives. I am struck particularly by how Paul states to Timothy "from childhood you have been acquainted with the sacred writing...

Send us Fan Mail Pastors and elders have the great privilege of getting to help shepherd the flock of God. This is one of the most wonderful and joy-inducing roles a person can take on, but it is heavy responsibility. The enemy wants nothing more than to see the church fail; therefore, ensnaring church leaders in sin is one of his highest priorities. Paul knows this, and is writing to help Timothy...

Send us Fan Mail Are you a forgetful person? I know that I am! I am constantly forgetting where I put things, people's names, and even what I am actively doing. In today's text Paul exhorts Timothy to "remember Jesus Christ." Paul is not exhorting Timothy to remember Jesus in the objective sense, but rather remember Him in a relational sense. We are regularly tempted to forget...

Send us Fan Mail This  text is a call to action, a call to guard the gospel, invest the gospel, and entrust the gospel to the next generation. All of us who are in Christ are called to this work, we are called to make, mature and mobilize disciples to the glory of God in kodiak and around the world. This morning as we talk through this idea of entrusting the gospel to the next generation I want yo...

Send us Fan Mail Gospel-centered friendship is one of the sweetest gifts we can give one another in the body of Christ. But what is Gospel-centered friendship? How is it different than world friendship? How can I participate in this sort of friendship? How can I participate in this sort of friendship? As we unpack the beauty of how Onesiphorus blessed his friend Paul, we will see how we can bless...

Send us Fan Mail This morning we will open up the book of 2 Timothy and I cannot wait for you to feel the weight of this little book. This book is small, but it punches about its weight class. Their morning we will talk through what a bold and unashamed faith looks like and how we might live it. My prayer is that as we walk through this book, Jesus would saturate our lives to overflowing, that He...

Send us Fan Mail Good morning and happy Easter! I am so excited to worship with you on this resurrection Sunday. This morning as we worship our risen savior it is my hope that the Lord would stir you up and fill you to overflowing with the Holy Spirit. This morning from John 20 we are going to explore how following Jesus requires both rational and relational faith. To simply believe that He is the...

Send us Fan Mail Today we will be diving in to the heart of the book of Hebrews. Hebrews is one of the most theologically sophisticated books in the bible, but don't let that throw you, this book packs a punch. This was likely a sermon delivered to a Jewish congregation, and is meant to show us how Jesus is better than everything else, and since he is better lets fix our eyes on Him, followin...

Send us Fan Mail be bringing the Word and I am genuinely excited to hear from him. Pray for him as he opens up this last section of 1 Timothy. I believe God is going to encourage, convict and edify us through His Word this morning. I also wanted to invite you over the next 14 days leading up to Easter to join me on a spiritual journey of prayer and fasting. This is meant to be a time of spiritual...

Send us Fan Mail To take part in the 14 days of prayer and fasting please checkout our sister podcast "spiritual reset" on your podcasting app. “Just turn it off and turn it back on again.”  - Roy from the I.T. Crowd I am so glad you are reading this. I believe God is going to use this study to grow us individually and as a church. What are we doing? We are taking the next 2 weeks to pra...

Send us Fan Mail The love of money is a root of all kinds of evil, this verse from 1 Timothy 6 is often misquoted and used out of context. Today we are going to unpack the corrosive effects of the love of money as well as the life-giving effects of complete contentedness in Christ. God has blessed us richly with riches beyond what most in the world could even dream, yet most of us don't think...

Send us Fan Mail  Timothy 5:17-6:2 helps us understand how followers of Jesus are to relate to authority. In a world where we are encouraged to disparage, doubt, and even rebel against those in authority over us, the bible has a radically different take. We are called to trust God by submitting to imperfect leaders and even honoring them. This is more than begrudging submission it is supporting ou...

Send us Fan Mail One of the most compelling things about our faith is its emphasis on compassion and care for those in need. But why do we  emphasize this? Because at the core of our faith is Jesus, who saw us in our need and had compassion on us…showing us grace and mercy. So as followers of Jesus we do the same, having compassion for those in need, showing mercy, and extending grace to those who...

Send us Fan Mail How can we grow in godliness? So many Christians through the ages have struggled with this question. Some have pushed the idea that we grow in godliness through severe self discipline. This approach to sanctification leads to self righteousness not godliness. Others believe in a passive “let go and let God” approach to sanctification. This doesn't work either, it created pass...

Send us Fan Mail Have you been affected positively by a Christian leader? For many of us the answer is yes. At some point in our life an older believer poured into us, encouraged us, and helped us get unstuck.  Sadly the inverse is also true, many of you have been negatively affected by a Christian leader at some point, whether it was through intentional malice, ignorant boorishness,  or silent pa...

Send us Fan Mail Today we are diving into 1 Timothy 2:8-15. This passage is both complicated and controversial. It is my hope that as we teach through this passage, we can approach the text with open hands ready to receive the truth of Gods word. Laying down our presuppositions, and letting His word shape our thinking.  To learn more about our church or get connected please check out our website w...

Send us Fan Mail In this message Matt breaks down how prayer is essential to for a believers spiritual health and a churches spiritual flourishing. To learn more about our church or get connected please check out our website www.kodiakberean.com. You can also reach out to us at admin@kodiakberean.com or call at (907)-486-4847. God bless! Send us a text

Send us Fan Mail In this message  Matt unpacks Paul's second charge to Timothy. To fight the good fight, that is to fight to hold your faith with a good conscience.  To learn more about our church or get connected please check out our website www.kodiakberean.com. You can also reach out to us at admin@kodiakberean.com or call at (907)-486-4847. God bless! Send us a text

Send us Fan Mail Audio is rough at the beginning but gets better a few minutes in. Today we start 1 Timothy, and I am so excited to dive into this book with you all! First Timothy is all about the gospel. It explores how the gospel leads to practical and visible change in believers’ lives. It is a book aimed at correcting error and abiding in the truth. Of all the books in the Bible it might be th...

Send us Fan Mail At Berean we often say we are called to “make disciples, mature disciples, and mobilize disciples to the Glory of God.” But how do we do that practically? What does it look like in the real world. This passage in 1 Kings 19 helps us to see what discipleship looks like practically and how we all might be involved in it. It is my prayer that Berean would be a disciple making engine...