Faith Sermons and Studies

There’s two types of people: Those that are people persons and those that aren’t. Those that are people persons are wired that way. And those that are not, can’t wait for the conversation to end. Neither is better, though God is a relational God. Me personally, I enjoy being around people. I love to spend time together with family. But my wife enjoys quiet time alone on a Saturday. We give each ot...

Every person who walks the earth has two dates with destiny. The first date is the physical death and the second is the appointed one with the Almighty. One of these days we will be standing in judgement. Have you ever wondered what that will be like to stand in God’s courtroom? You’ll see how one sinner fared in his trial. Zechariah 3:1-7 Then he showed me Joshua the high priest standing before t...

On this Easter message, guest preacher Chuck Amundson, presents some patterns of the 3 Days in the Old Testament as we celebrate Christ’s resurrection on the third day.

Matthew 21: 1-14 Now when they drew near Jerusalem, and came to [a]Bethphage, at the Mount of Olives, then Jesus sent two disciples, 2 saying to them, “Go into the village opposite you, and immediately you will find a donkey tied, and a colt with her. Loose them and bring them to Me. 3 And if anyone says anything to you, you shall say, ‘The Lord has need of them,’ and immediately he will send them...

My brothers and sisters and I grew up on cartoons on Saturday morning and I’ve enjoyed introducing these to my kids. They love the Road Runner, but one of my favorites is the never-ending saga between Bugs Bunny and hunter Elmer Fudd. Bugs Bunny is able to constantly escape due to distractions like the disguise of the Bugs or his over-zealousness. Satan is also a master of distractions or disguise...

Think about something that is both taxing and rewarding. It could be difficult to accomplish, but in the end is difficult, yet rewarding. I’m going to focus on ministry. Serving God and following Him can be incredibly difficult at times yet also incredible rewarding. Here in 2 Timothy 4:9-15 near the end of his life, it would easy for Paul to have thrown in the towel so to speak. As he reflects ne...

How many of you remember growing up and hearing something like this from your parents? You better find something to do, I’ll find something for you to do. You knew that you were on the short end of the stick. You needed to find something productive to do and fast. I’m glad our Heavenly Father is different from our earthly parents. Our ways of doing things are different from His ways. God in his wi...

Exodus Chapter 18:13-23 My wife and I enjoy watching HD TV shows that redo houses like Flip or Flop which shows how couples try to remodel a house and resell it. There’s certain factors that determine if the house is going to make a profit or lose money, a flop. Normally if there’s a good structure to the house, it can be profitable, but if it doesn’t have structure, it will be a flop. Similarly a...

I’m going to give you a sermon of hope and a sermon on the reality of what goes on in the world. Whoever controls our minds controls our heart. Satan has figured out that he can insert lies and deceit. He encourages us to believe his lies and then he devours us whole. In our day and age it’s called indoctrination. We send people to get degrees and they come out with minds full of deprived ideas. G...

Known as the Bible Memory Man, Tom presents the genealogy of Jesus by memory from Matthew chapter 1 and had recently been on Fox as part of the team that presented the entire New Testament from memory.

It’s easy for us to get off track in life. It’s easy to fall asleep at the wheel. The Bible is full of people who did just that Adam and Eve got off track and banished from the Garden of Eden. All of civilizations got off track and God flooded the world. Abraham and Moses got off track at times. In fact, the entire Old Testament is the story of God’s people who got off track. We even see it in the...

What are some of the next steps that God wants us to take in our spiritual lives? We’ve talked about the difference between trying and training? How many have tried and failed vs how many have trained and finished? If I trained and committed to run a marathon, could I finish a marathon? Yes. The Bible tells us that we are to train: stop trying and start training. Two of the disciplines of the Chri...

Last week we talked about having a plan and starting a plan. Everyone has to start somewhere. In order to be a teacher you have to have a teaching opportunity. You need to allocate time to develop and follow though with your goals. This week I want to give you some of the equipment. I want to start with an illustration. I suffer with some of this myself. Have you ever felt like when you’re in your...

Why do I need Spiritual Disciplines in my life? If the end times are coming, what should I be doing? What spiritual disciplines should I have? We are told that we should grow in number. Jesus told us to go make disciples in all nations in The Great Commission of Matthew 28:19-20. We could offer free benefits to get people to church, but then the only reason they are coming is to consume or benefit...

“They were the best of times and the worst of times.” Doesn’t that fit the world today? We hope you don’t get so caught up in this world that we miss that the time is near. Jesus was basically asked: What time is it? What’s it going to look like? When are you coming again? What in the world is going on? How many of you know all the prophecies that have been fulfilled regarding Israel? My goal toda...

When Noah was building the boat, he had workers helping him. The offer of salvation was available to everyone, but when it was time to get on the boat, who got on the boat? Nobody except Noah and his family. When Jesus Christ returns there’s going to be a 7 year judgement on the earth called the Tribulation. It’s a future event. It will be a period of judgement on man for his sin and Israel to pur...

We can get so distracted by what’s going on in the world that we could put our trust somehow that replace a leader would solve all our problems. The Bible does not teach that the world will be better and better as man rebels against God, but worse. Historic Babylon is gives an example of what happens when man rejects the most high God. In Revelation 17, we are introduced to a great harlot and ten...

When we are standing in the presence of God, He is not going to ask you what church you attended, but who did you trust? Would you be ready to meet Jesus in the air? There’s not one prophecy in the Bible that needs so be fulfilled for the Rapture to occur. Would you be Raptured or would you be left behind? If you think the Rapture is just made up, then today I wish to show you that Jesus himself s...

What gives us as Christians hope? The communion shows his death until he comes. It’s good news for us as how many religions are doing that in their own way or their own names. God allows man to do what man thinks is wise when he is foolish, but still allows him to perform for God’s intention. As in Genesis 50:20: “As for you, you meant evil against me, but God meant it for good…” God meant for goo...

Last week we saw the characteristics of the end times and all of them are happening now. We are seeing the building up and the crescendo of the end times. Let’s begin to walk down this road in the study of eschatology or the study of end times. What’s the timeline? There’s two events that get confused all the time: the Rapture and the Second Coming. Both of those events are intermixed in our conte...

Jesus’ disciples ask Jesus in Matthew 24-25 of the Olivet Discourse: What are the signs of your coming and what is it going to be like in the end of age? Jesus likens the time to like in the Days of Noah. The question is: Are we in the Days of Noah? In many ways we are in the days of Noah leading up to the flood. If we are talking about the outpouring of judgement, we are not in the days of Noah....

When we remember September 11 we do want to remember too that there are family members that are still dealing with those events today. It is also a microcosm for what will come in the future. Remember when all the churches were full after 9-11 and then we realized that the end had not come yet and everything should get back to normal. Then came COVID and we thought it was the end, but now churches...

All scripture is given by inspiration from God. It’s good for doctrine—teaching and instruction and correction. What are some of the false teachings that are going to be as we get closer to the end times? We know that as we get closer, there will be more false teachers. We need to know what the Bible says so that we can recognize false teachers.

How do we contend for the faith? Jude is the half-brother of Jesus. He’s also the brother of James, a half-brother of Jesus. But more than that he’s a servant. He’s talking to us as fellow believers more than as a half-brother of Jesus. More than wanting to talk about our common salvation, we want to contend for our faith. He explains who we are to contend against. There are those that are out the...

We’ve been talking about error that was already creeping in at his time. What they were doing in the congregation. These are the easy three that can be recognized. He’s going to point of 3 tactics that come from false teachers.