Fuel For Life

God uses the few simple words that Jonah speaks to bring about great repentance and salvation to an entire city. God doesn’t need your eloquence to accomplish His desires. Rather, He lovingly invites you to lend your voice to His simple message and to join Him in His work. In this third message in our Jonah series, Pastor Bogdan reminds us that God speaks to Jonah a second time commanding him to g...

When Jonah literally hits rock bottom, God rescues him and redirects his thoughts and actions. Pastor Bogdan will remind us through this sermon on Jonah, that God can hear your prayer, save you, and create space for you to listen to and obey him, even when you are at your lowest point.  God is at work to save, even before those fleeing from Him are aware of him.  Let's get ready to find hope...

Living at peace with governing authorities is practiced by living at peace with one another. Most leaders shy away from controversial topics in the church. Under the right circumstances, though, a dialogue within the church on a sensitive subject can help worshippers grow in faith and friendship.  Romans 13:1–7 has a storied legacy of use in political rhetoric. The very fact that such broad interp...

As we navigate the increasingly polarizing topic of faith and politics, we take guidance from Jesus as he himself tackled a time of religious and political upheaval. What were the politics of Jesus’ time? How did Jesus interact with governing authorities? When we have fellow believers on opposing sides of the party line, how can we maintain Christian unity? This two-week series will stimulate fait...

After three long years of drought, without any rain in Israel, the time had come for God to defeat the demonic spirits working through Ahab and Jezebel. In today's message, we are going to learn what the passive Ahab spirit and the controlling Jezebel spirit look like and how we can avoid falling prey to such demonic activity.  Let's get ready to find hope in Jesus, by listening to this...

Studying the life of Elijah, we see that God will sometimes send you into a season of separation for preparation. In this message, we will observe how Elijah meets a very poor widow and her son. The Word of the Lord comes to Elijah, and if he thought he was through with testing from God, he goes from being cut off to being cut down to now, going to a place that means to melt. We will see in this m...

In this new sermon series based on the life of the prophet Elijah, we will see and learn a model for Christian living. Elijah’s life is filled with incredible stories of faith and passion, yet he was just a regular person—a human being just like us. God’s Word encourages us that if we practice humble obedience the way Elijah did, God can use us in incredible ways, too.  The big idea in this first...

Jochebed was the mother of three famous people in the Bible. She was the mother of Moses, the deliverer of Israel. She was the mother of Aaron, the first high priest of Israel. She was the mother of Miriam, a prophetess, poet, and singer in Israel. Aaron, Moses & Miriam were all three siblings. Jochebed’s name means “honor or glory of God,” and she certainly honored God with her life and with...

Where in life are you now facing a choice between God's way and the wrong way? This is exactly the predicament that Solomon finds himself in. When Solomon first ascended to Israel's throne, God appeared to him at Gibeon and gave him the opportunity of a lifetime. The king could ask for anything he wanted, and God would give it to him. Wisely, Solomon chose wisdom.   But it's not eno...

In this message, Pastor Bogdan Kipko focuses on what wisdom looks like when it is on full display. What happens when wisdom reigns? We believe that when you get wiser, everyone wins. In this text, the occasion of Solomon’s famous demonstration of discernment is a legal case involving two prostitutes living in the same house who both claim a particular newborn child as their own. The identity of th...

In this brand new sermon series, based on the rise and fall of King Solomon, Pastor Bogdan takes a deep dive into the personality, prestige, power, and wisdom of King Solomon. When he ascended to the throne, he sought after God, and God gave him the opportunity to ask for whatever he wanted. Solomon humbly acknowledged his inability to rule well and unselfishly asked God for the wisdom he would ne...

In this Easter Sunday message, Pastor Bogdan Kipko makes an indisputable case that Jesus turns graves into gardens. If you confess with your mouth that Jesus is Lord and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, God reverses the condemnation that you once were under and offers you His salvation. This is good news for us!  People who don’t confess Christ as their Lord are more often...

The wonderful news about Good Friday is that God took a barbaric instrument of death that was feared and reviled throughout the Roman-ruled world and transformed it into a symbol of hope and life for all who place their hope in Christ. In the same way, all who place their hope in Christ are transformed from enemies of God into children of God and co-heirs with Christ.  Let's get ready to find...

When one receives prescription glasses, they are only helpful if the prescription is correct. If not, your ability to see will be limited. In the same way, if we are not viewing life through Jesus’ finished work, if we aren’t viewing life through the work of Jesus, namely his life, death, burial, resurrection, ascension, and imminent return,—and instead through our own “goodness” or politics, or p...

God saves, and Satan seduces. This isn't something that has happened, this is something that always happens. In this message, Pastor Bogdan expounds on temptation: Man’s disobedience in which sin enters the world. Who does Satan speak to? The Woman. Why? Because those that are most vulnerable amongst us, are those that Satan preys on, and that is women and children. We see from the text that...

God creates and Satan counterfeits. This has been the same exact story, since the dawn of creation. The more valuable something is, the more likely it is to be counterfeited.  The Bible teaches that all of mankind, irrespective of age, race, or sex are made in the image of God and are thus inherently filled with dignity value, and worth. The Bible teaches that man is called to have dominion over t...

The book of Genesis tells the story of God creating and bringing order and function into the earth, the rebellion of humanity against divine authority, and God’s unfolding plan to restore creation and humankind to his original purposes through His son Jesus Christ.  We see from the first pages of Scripture that creation is closely linked with consecration. God set apart the heavens and the earth,...

In this final message on the book of Ruth, Pastor Bogdan talks about how God loves to take our seemingly dire circumstances and redeem them for our joy and His glory. We see that much of what we think is a coincidence in our life, is actually God's visible and providential hand moving in our midst. Just like Boaz was able to redeem Ruth and provide for her a better life through his financial...

In this third chapter of Ruth, Pastor Bogdan challenges the church to take calculated risks, which is essential when you step out in faith, trusting the sovereignty of God. Throughout Scripture, it becomes clear that the greater the risk, the greater may be God’s gracious reward. From this text, we see that Ruth risks but ultimately she trusts Boaz who trusts God whom Boaz loves very much.  The sa...

In this second sermon in the book of Ruth, Pastor Bogdan reminds us that Yahweh’s wings stretch over Ruth and Naomi in ways they could not have orchestrated. We must trust that Yahweh’s wings of refuge will cover us and we must seek to be a refuge to those in need. The sovereignty of our great God is clearly seen in the story of Ruth.  He guided her every step of the way to become His child and fu...

In this message, pastor Bogdan Kipko reminds us that the desire for peace is something God has planted within all of our hearts, but there is much more to peace than an absence of conflict. Through the gospel, we learn about God’s heart for peace in his creation. God’s peace is about the complete restoration of our souls rather than the removal of all obstacles; he calls us to partner with him in...

In this third message of 2023, pastor Bogdan Kipko reminds us that it's not too late to use the momentum of the New Year to continue strong in our resolution to follow Jesus! Jesus grew and developed physically and spiritually before he began his earthly ministry, taking time to study, listen, and learn. The gospel shows us that in order to grow spiritually, we must first learn to listen and...

In this second message of 2023, pastor Bogdan Kipko encourages us to fire up our prayer life in the new year.  Oswald Chambers said this about prayer: Prayer is not a preparation for work, it IS work. Prayer is not a preparation for the battle, it IS the battle. Prayer is two-fold: definite asking and definite waiting to receive.  The big idea in this message is that Paul prays that the Colossian...

In this first message of 2023, pastor Bogdan Kipko kicks off the New Year with an encouraging message to rally us as believers to trust God who is our firm foundation. This message addresses the anxieties and excitement of the new year by reinforcing a central truth: while our world constantly changes, its creator does not. James’s word about God’s unchanging nature not only reassures us of our fi...

In this message, pastor Bogdan Kipko concludes the Christmas Sermon series by drawing our attention to the greatest story ever told in all human history. The good news of Christmas is not that we get good advice but rather that we get delivered to us, good news. We no longer have to worry about the future, because we know the One who holds that future. If we believe in Jesus Christ as our Lord and...