Berean of Kodiak

Send us Fan Mail Is depression and despair a sin? When a person is feeling depressed is it okay to seek physical help and therapy alongside spiritual things like prayer and the Word? There are so many questions like this that I hear on a regular basis, and while this episode in Elijah’s life does not explicitly explore all the intricacies of how we ought to interact with modern psychology it does...

Send us Fan Mail in this message on Verses 9-13 of John 1  we are going to talk through the new birth.  What does it mean to be "born again"? This was the question Nicodemus asked in John 3 and it is a question that we all must wrestle with. Because it seems clear in scripture if we want to be followers of Jesus we must be "born again." So how are we born again, This  text will...

Send us Fan Mail There is something about eyewitness testimony that is hard to ignore! Often in courtrooms eyewitness testimony is the difference between guilty and innocent verdicts. This is especially true if the witness is known for impeccable character.   This morning we are going dig into the testimony of  John the Baptist, an eyewitness of impeccable character, who openly testifies that Jesu...

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 I love training montages, nothing motivates me more to get out and try to do something hard than watching Rocky Balboa punch sides of beef and chase chickens! Even hearing the Rocky theme song makes me want to go for a run. Today we get to look into God’s training grounds for one of his most fruitful prophets. But here is what is so cool, though Elijah was fruitful and a part of s...

Send us Fan Mail Today Eli Griffin (our pastoral intern) will be bringing the message. He will teaching through the first passover. As we explore how God saved the Israelites through the substitutionary sacrifice of the passover lamb, we will see how Jesus our perfect passover lamb sacrificed himself so that we might be saved from the just wrath of God.  To learn more about our church or get conne...

Send us Fan Mail In today’s passage Jesus gives his disciples a new command. To love one another like Jesus has loved them. This might be the hardest command Jesus gives. Why? Jesus’s love for the disciples is selfless in nature, sacrificial in application, unbreakable in its security, unending in scope, unrestrained in affection, and unsearchable in its vastness.  How can we love each other like...

Send us Fan Mail Have you ever felt guilted into serving? Maybe a pastor, or a ministry leader presses you to serve, so you serve, but not from a place of joy but from a place of avoiding feeling guilty. On the flip side have you ever gotten so wrapped up in serving that your identity is subsumed by it? Instead of finding your identity in Christ alone, you find your identity in serving. Both of th...

Send us Fan Mail Today we are going to explore Galatians 5:25 - 6:5. One theme you will see repeated in this text is the danger of being "honor hungry." When we are honor hungry we get our sense of validation from how much glory we receive from others. Our life is spent in pursuit of personal honor and glory. We feel powerful and strong when we are doing better than other people, and we...

Send us Fan Mail Forgiveness is easy to understand and hard to enact. In our passage today Paul exhorts us to put away all the worldly ways of dealing with offense, and to put on a new way of dealing with hurt, a Christ honoring way of processing offense. A way that doesn't ignore or excuse hurt, a way that doesn't demand recompense or restitution, but rather a way that resembles our sav...

Send us Fan Mail At the heart of this text is the exhortation to confess to one another and pray for one another. But why confess, if Jesus has already forgiven me, and why pray for others of God is sovereign all things? What good can interpersonal confession and prayer do? This morning we will seek to answer these questions and more as we unpack James 5. Confession is an antiseptic for the soul a...

Send us Fan Mail We are all called to live every day ready for Jesus to return, like a watchman waiting on a wall. But as we wait it is easy to grow comfortable, drowsy and even to "fall asleep" on duty. That is why in this passage Paul is exhorting us to come alongside one another helping to strengthen one another so that we might live ready. Paul tells us we do this by instructing the...

Send us Fan Mail This Sunday Matt Breaks down what radical acceptance looks like in the body of Christ.  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 Over the last 50 years our culture has slowly forgotten how to live in community.  Over the last 5 years the atomization of people has only accelerated with more than 50% of adults saying they feel lonely, alone, or disconnected. Most of us crave deep connection to others but do not know how to cultivate it. That is what this series is all about, teaching our church to be a thrivi...

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 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 the impact of confidence in the Lord on our lives. Many of us don't realize just how transformative the love of Jesus is for us, how it can not only affect our eternity, but transform our today. It is my sincere hope that as we walk through this passage we learn how to live confident bold lives for Jesus. To learn more about our church or get con...

Send us Fan Mail This morning Eli will be diving into deep issues like assurance, confidence, and walking faithfully in the Lord.  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 Do you ever struggle to believe God that that God will really forgive your sins? Does your heart regularly condemn you? All of us find ourselves from time to time questioning whether we are truly forgivable, whether we went to far for Gods grace to cover. 1 John is a letter meant fro strugglers like me and you and today as we unpack 1 John 3:19-20 we will learn how to reassure our...

Send us Fan Mail Forgiveness is easy to understand and hard to enact. This is because it requires heart change, and our hearts are stubborn. In this message Curtis unpacks how we can forgive by the power of the Spirit.  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....

Send us Fan Mail As we finish the book of Jonah we will focus in on how God uses the vine, the worm and the wind to show Jonah his hard heart and invite Jonah to change. Jonah was stuck in a way of thinking that was destroying him from the inside out, causing him to devolve into anger and depression, ultimately resenting God. This will always happen when we see God’s commands as bad news to be obe...

Send us Fan Mail As we begin to unpack the stunning and surprising conclusion to Jonah. Last week we saw a repentant King, and a relenting God this week we will see a resenting prophet. Jonah resents that Gods mercy and grace was being given to those he despised. And through a vine, worm and wind God exposes Jonah’s wicked heart and shows Jonah his compassionate heart. Jonah fell into the same mis...

Send us Fan Mail Jonah 3 is a story of repentance. Repentance always starts with faith, the Ninevites believed God’s word spoken through Jonah.  More than this faith causes sorrow over sin. We see this in the Ninevites mourning over their sin and putting on sackcloth. True repentance doesn't just lead to sorrow over sin, but to a turning from sin and a turning to God. This is exactly what the...

Send us Fan Mail As we continue our series in Jonah we have finally reached the the most famous part of the story of Jonah (him being swallowed by a fish). But, this section of scripture is about way more than a fish…its about grace. At its core grace is the idea that the un-obligated gives to the undeserving. Anything short of that is not biblical grace. In Jonah 2 we see God’s grace on full disp...

Send us Fan Mail As we continue our series in Jonah we will be talking about fear. This section of Jonah is what theologians call an inclusio, it starts with fear, talks about fear in the middle and ends with fear. Whats interesting about it is that at each juncture they seem to be afraid of something different. As first the sailors are afraid of losing their lives, later they are afraid of Yahweh...