Emmanuel Baptist Church's Podcast

Using another story from the life of Elisha in 2 Kings 6, Pastor Paul gave an overarching view of spiritual warfare. What are our battles? How can we win the battles? What are the certainties of spiritual warfare? What are our victories? Listen in and find the answers to all those questions.

This week Pastor Paul continued in the Old Testament using the story of Elisha and his servant, Gehazi, to talk about faith, greed and money. Why was Gehazi's punishment so severe? Listen in to find out.

What is the key to your relationship with God? Pastor Paul shared the answer to that question in the latest sermon in the Faith series. From 2 Kings 5, he shared the story of Naaman, what his biggest problem was and what God did about it.

This week Pastor Paul used the story of Elijah and the Widow of Zarapheth to teach about faith. During that time, there was a great shortage in Israel due to lack of rain for 3 1/2 years. Yet God used Elijah to care for the widow and her son and ultimately she came to saving faith. Listen in to see how God worked mightily during a nationwide shortage and learn how we can employ the spiritual princ...

Today Dr. Barrett Duke, Executive Director of the MT Southern Baptist Convention, shared with us 5 characteristics of a Lord's Prayer kind of person. The Lord's Prayer isn't as much of an incantation to be spoken, but more of a template of the heart of a person who prayer.

This week we hosted Dr. Rick Hedger from the Missouri Baptist Convention. Using Matthew 9:35-38, Dr. Hedger shared what mattered to Jesus and why that should matter to us.

This week Pastor Trey finished the series, Contending for the Faith, from Jude. He gave us 6 practical ways we can contend for the faith in an ungodly world. We ended the service with a special guest, Pastor Vlad from Ukraine. Vlad has long been a partner with Emmanuel and has served in the Russia / Ukraine war as a chaplain, has ministered to refugees and escorted them to safety, and worked with...

This week Pastor Jeff continued in the Jude series and shared from vs 14-16 about the Lord's return and what to expect.

In part 3, Pastor Paul talked about the arrogance of those who attack the faith and what the characteristics of blasphemers are. 

Continuing in Jude, Pastor Paul taught how God's justice and love go together perfectly and using 3 examples of destruction, he shared what Jesus taught about hell.

This week Pastor Paul began a 5-week series, Contending for the Faith, from the book of Jude. He taught that we have to fight for our faith from both outsiders and insiders. Who are these insiders and how can we identify them? Listen in to find out.

This week Pastor Paul used the story of Nehemiah and taught about the kind of faith a patriot has and how to rebuilding significant things.

Using the story of Elijah in 1 Kings 18, Pastor Paul shared 10 axioms from the story that should be memorized and recalled by every believer and taught to the kids in our lives. This kind of faith helps us stand strong and be unwavering in the midst of great adversity.

Pastor Paul used the story of Mordecai to speak into the lives of men about the example they should set for their children.

Pastor Paul used the stories of Ahab, Jezebal, Jehoram and Athaliah to highlight the true hero of Israel during that time period--Jehoshabeath. At great risk and peril to herself, she saved the life of her nephew and changed the trajectory of Judah. What are the takeaways for us? Listen to find out!

In this week's sermon, Pastor Paul provided application to last week's sermon. How do you teach your children to walk by faith and what are some simple things to facilitate that? 

Continuing in the Faith Family series, Pastor Paul preached this week on the need to teach history to the next generation. What is most important to teach? And how should we teach it? Listen in to find the answer to those questions.

In this faith sermon, Pastor Trey talked about the things that cause us to wander in our faith and what Jesus has to say to bring us backk.

In this sermon, Pastor Paul talked about grief and used the story of Ruth and Naomi. He contrasted the responses of these two women and shared why Ruth's response was redeeming whereas Naomi experienced great spiritual warfare in grief.

In a world that is ever increasing in its quest for beauty and places value on people based on physical beauty, how can we stand apart? And what should we spend our time on instead? Pastor Paul shared 5 supernatural beauty treatments of faith and practical steps to change our focus.

Our Student Ministry Pastor, Trey Haidle, preached this week from John 21 and used the story of Peter to teach about a restoring faith. Peter's shame and failures could have prevented him from having impact in the kingdom but they did not. Yet Judas' did. What was the difference? Listen to find out!

This week was Compassion Sunday at Emmanuel. Pastor Steve and Julie shared about their experience in Ecuador, the planting and building of the church we sponsored. Pastor Michael and Christina shared their testimony about sponsoring children with Compassion over the past 15 years and Pastor Paul shared a sermon on the value of a child. What did Jesus say about children? Listen to find out! 

In this Easter Sermon, Pastor Paul continued in the Faith series and shared with us who Jesus said He was and what that means for us in the world today.

Continuing in the Faith series, Pastor Paul shared several faith failures that happened during Passion Week. From groups of people to individuals, heh related how these faith failures continue today and what it looks like in our lives.

Continuing in the Faith series, Pastor Paul continued in Exodus using the Passover as an example of what our faith should look like. What does the Passover represent? What does the Feast of Unleavened Bread represent? And what does Egypt represent? Listen to find out!