Faith Sermons and Studies

Join Larry Utsch as he talks about the triumphal entry of Jesus from Matthew 21.

Do you like to pick up heavy things? I like to pick up heavy things. For the past 6 months or so I have been lifting weights 3x a week. And I enjoy lifting kettle bells. I like kettle bell swings, and overhead presses. My favorite is the snatch, where you pick up the weight off the ground and snatch it up into the air. But when it comes to kettelbells, or lifting weights, or lifting heavy things i...

People today have an obsession for freedom and feeling free. They idolize the feeling of having no restraints, being able to do anything, and feel like life is beyond limits. As such, people choose things, certain things that might contribute to the feeling of being limitless, having no restraints, and completely beyond restriction. Can you think of some things people do today in order to be free?...

I don’t know if you work on cars. I’ve done some things on cars before. I don't really consider myself a mechanic but I do have kind of an inquisitive mind so I like to try to figure things out. And I've figured many things out on our vehicle before in the past but there are some things I cannot do. I certainly cannot change an engine. I've never taken apart a transmission or some of t...

Have you ever had a good luck charm? Maybe you don’t have something exactly you carry to give you good luck, some people do. When I was a kid, it was common to have a lucky rabbits food on a key chain—something that you carried around which was thought to give good luck. Maybe you don’t have a luck charm exactly, but you do something that is kind of a ritual or tradition thought to make things go...

All throughout history men have searched for their next leader. Nations, are looking for a ruler. Kingdoms, searching for a king. Corporations, looking for a CEO. Schools looking for a principal. Churches looking for a pastor. There isn’t a realm of the world that you can go to that doesn’t have some sort of leader or leader figure. You can go to the remotest tribes in the jungles of Africa and fi...

Have you ever wanted something, wanted something so very badly, that it just consumed you? Maybe it was a good thing, something God wanted you to do or have, but you were asking God and asking God for it and it just didn’t happen, or hadn’t happened yet? Maybe it was healing from the cancer. Perhaps it was relief from the burden of debt. Maybe it was for a family member to change the direction of...

Guest speaker David Levy finishes a weekend of evangelism training with a sermon on the compassion Jesus had for the lost and how we can develop this in our own lives.

The tale is nearly old as time itself. The saga has continued in almost every country and nation. It has been experienced by nearly every ethnicity and people group. The annals of history are filled with records of the same happenings over and over and over again. It has taken place under varying set of circumstances, by varying individuals, and in a multitude of time periods and locations, yet th...

I've heard it said that one of the best places to hide is in plain sight. I don't know if you've ever experienced that, but you can get away with an awful lot if you have that type of mentality. "I'm going to hide in plain sight." Sometimes it's harder to see things that are right in front of you, right under your nose, than to spot things that aren't as in open s...

We’re going to be in Jeremiah 2 this morning; Jeremiah chapter two, looking at a verse that is near and dear to my heart, and we’re continuing our series when God gets left behind.  We looked at when God gets left behind in our hearts, when God gets left behind in our worship, and today we’ll be looking at when God gets left behind in our pursuits, and next week, when God gets left behind in our s...

Have you ever been struggling, and tried to hide it? Maybe you had a physical injury or health problem, and you kind of acted like things were normal--you didn’t really want anyone to know. Or perhaps you had a financial burden--a bill that was crushing you, but you pretended like things were normal. Or thing were really hard at work, maybe you even wondered if you were going to get laid off, but...

Recently I’ve been on a journey. It’s a journey of health an fitness. For the past 4 months or so I’ve been trying to eat healthier and work out regularly. I started lifting kettlebells 3x a week and have been doing that faithfully for about 4 months. I also decided to do a running streak of at least a mile a day, every day. Today will be day 85--yes I do intend to go for a run today. And I’ve los...

Today I’d like to share something kind of personal about me. Though it probably won’t surprise you, you may not have realized what I am about to tell you about me. I have a unique hobby of sorts that I enjoy doing. I like growing my beard. In fact, I’ve had some sort of facial hair almost as long as I can remember. In nearly 15 years of marriage, my wife has never seen me without some sort of faci...

Join us for our Sunday school series on church revitalization, as we finish talking through the 9 Marks of a Healthy Church and end our series by talking about a physical pathway for churches to move forward.

I don’t know if you’ve ever been into bodybuilding but it’s quite an interesting sport. I’ve never been into bodybuilding, though I do lift with kettlebells several times a week. But I remember when I was 12 or 13 or so my dad started teaching me how to workout. My dad was pretty fit back in the day; he had some pretty solid muscle and he used to go to the gym and workout with some guys, and he kn...

Are you a conspiracy theorist? There are some of those in the world today. I don’t know if you are a conspiracy theorist, but there are many conspiracy theories going on around the world. Conspiracy theories are usually an attempt to explain those unique oddities in our world that don’t quite make sense. Unexplained happenings that just don’t seem to make sense. Some individuals allow their imagin...

Have you ever heard the phrase “seeing is believing?” Sometimes we say this phrase, or we highlight the reality that in order to believe something, you have to be able to see it with your own eyes. And we have this idea that in order to believe something, or to really appreciate it, you have to be able to see it for yourself. A picture alone won’t really do it justice. Think of something like the...

Join us for our Sunday school series on church revitalization, as we talk through the 9 Marks of a Healthy Church.

Join us for our Sunday school series on church revitalization, as we talk through the 9 Marks of a Healthy Church.

Do you have trust issues? Anyone here have trust issues? Sometimes people have trust issues. They just find it difficult to trust somebody. Anybody like that here today? There are several types of reasons people may have trust issues. Oftentimes people have trust issues due to a past experience. Maybe you got burned by someone whom you depended on for something, or you relied on someone and they l...

Tune in to our Sunday school series on the topic of church revitalization. This week we talk about pathway towards revitalization and start a discussion on a spiritual pathway.

Structure is important. If buildings or other things are build on the right structure, they will turn out well. But if they are not, they could collapse or not last. Many of you know I spend a few short years in the construction industry. We were a general contractors so I got to see a lot of different trades and I was on some pretty important buildings from very early on until the end. One buildi...

Have you ever made a compromise? I’m sure you have—there are lots of things that we make compromises over or make compromises for. The word compromise has Latin roots, and a direct translation from the Latin is that a compromise is a consent to arbitration or to promise together. Basically, a compromise is finding something that both parties can agree on. There are many ways that we do this. ‌‌ So...

Listen to our Sunday School series on revitalization as we talk about place and purpose in revitalization.