Pastor Sherman Burkhead

It's not about how you dress, it's not about the style of the building, its not about the instruments used in worship, it is about what you believe. Listen to this special presentation.

If there is anything we are waiting for is for Jesus to come back and make all things right. But how are we to wait? We don't know when Christ will return. It could be tomorrow it could be 100 years from now. So how does God expect for us to live as Christ followers as we wait for that great and glorious day? Listen to part 4

Just as sure as our lives change is the fact that we will face difficult times in life. With out question we will all suffer, we will all struggle, we will all have our times of deep pain. How do we wait on God in these times? The answer is both challenging to our understanding of God but it is also comforting as Christ is God in the flesh choosing to suffer with us and for us. Listen to part 3

If there is one thing we can count on is the fact that life changes. But how do we make decisions when we face change? How to we react when life changes? Do we walk in our own strength or do we Wait on God? Listen to Part 2

For most of us the word "WAIT" is simply a four letter word. We hate to wait! We hate to wait for fast food, we hate to wait on hold on the phone, we hate to wait on our tax returns, and we hate to wait for our spouses to get ready. But waiting is simply a part of life. And waiting is an important part of the Christian life. In fact God often times makes us wait for our own good. He uses waiting t...

Can we ever really know if we are saved? The issue of being assured of our salvation seems like it should be simple. But for some reason it is not. One the one hand there are those who believe that a person can never be certain because they can loose their salvation at any moment because we all continue to sin. On the other there are those who believe that being saved is nothing more than saying s...

“Unless you have forgiven others, you read your own death-warrant when you repeat the Lord’s Prayer.” ~Charles Spurgeon In light of the overwhelming grace that God as given us the natural response to that is to forgive others. For the Christian "forgiving others" is not a suggestion, and it is not optional. It is a clear and direct command from God. Listen to Part 3

What does God's grace, beyond the gift of eternal life, have to do with our life here and now? This is an important question, but it is not important for the reason you may think. This question is important because in asking it, the question may reveal the true condition our heart. Listen to Part 2 Grace to Live

Our understanding of grace is directly affected by our understanding of who God is, and who we are in the light of that. Unless we have an accurate picture of God and humanity we will never have an accurate picture of Grace. Listen to Part 1 This message features content from David A Gundersen's article "Bought with a price. You can read that article here https://davidagundersen.com/2008/02/12/bou...

One of the most pervasive lies in Christian culture is the statement "I don't need the church". Now it is is true that you do not need to belong to a church to be saved, but it is not God's plan for us do life without the local body of Christ. As D.A. Carson puts it "It would have been inconceivable in the first century to call yourself a Christian but not join a church." Listen to Part 4

Guest Speaker Dr. David Larson.

How many times have you said it? "I'm a good person." I know I have said it, and I have believed it. But is it really true? Am I good person that occasionally does bad things? Or is it something else? Are people by nature good or wicked? It seams everyone has an opinion on this subject. But what does the Bible say about it? Listen to part 2.

About a decade ago a study was conducted that reveled something quite shocking about the faith of adolescents and young adults in America. The study revealed that the youth and young adults were open faith, but the faith they adopted was not Biblical Christianity. And what is more this belief system has become the dominant system of belief in America and is found in every denomination of Christian...

All of our hopes and dreams and wishes come to nothing if Christ is not our central hope. Listen to Hope is Born.

Sometimes following God is uncomfortable, and difficult, and stressful, and dangerous. Sometimes when we follow God we don't get to see the fruit of our work. But that ok. We serve a big God with big plans who works in the long term. These are some of the lessons we learned from the life of the man who raised the Son of God. Listen to Part 3.

During the 400 silent years where there were no new prophets or revelations, God still spoke to his people. The truth is God speaks to and will continue to speak to those who earnestly seek him. God may be silent to the world, but He still speaks to his people, particularly those who are devoted and obedient to Him. This week we look at the story of Simeon and Anna and what their lives can teach u...

Grateful people are light, hopeful and life giving. Ungrateful people are self-absorbed, grumpy, and life consuming. The truth is ingratitude not only affects you, it affects everyone around you. Listen to part 3.

Ignatius of Antioch believed that the first sin Adam and Eve committed was not rebellion, or pride or greed, it was instead ingratitude. Ingratitude takes our heart and mind off of God and his goodness and it causes us to be self centered and self absorbed. Ingratitude is quite possibly the root cause of all sin. Listen to part 2.

Your level of gratitude or lack of gratitude is a sign of your spiritual health. In fact you can tell three things about someone based on whether or not they walk in gratitude toward God. These are; #1 Where your heart is, #2 The quality of your devotional life, and #3 How important the Gospel is to you. Listen to Part 1.

The life of worship involves all three body, mind and spirit. Listen to the final part of "A Call to Worship"

When we see God as worthy enough we will sing to him with all our heart and praise him with all that we have and love him even when the music or the song isn't the style or genre that we prefer. We need to value God enough to learn to love the songs and the music that connects other people to him. Remember worship isn't about us. It is about God. Listen to Part 2

In Revelation Chapter 4 we see an amazing picture of what worship is like in heaven. It reminds of how big and important worship is for those who follow Christ. But at the heart of it what is worship? What makes a song a worship song? What and act or activity worshipful? Listen to Part 1 as we explore the question "What makes worship, worship?"

The solution to a self centered world ensnared in postmodern philosophy is the uncompromising, faithful proclamation of the only authoritative source of truth which is the infallible, inerrant word of God. It is the proclamation of the word of God combined with the work of the Holy Spirit that opens the eyes of a blind world to see real objective truth. Listen to Part 7

There is a purpose to it all. The purpose of sound doctrine, the purpose of you living in right action, the purpose of you standing out in the world, the purpose of godliness, the purpose of self-control, the purpose of fleeing from sin, the purpose of the church being the Pillar of truth in a world that is running away from real objective truth is to help others to come to their senses and actual...

"His divine power has given us everything we need for a godly life through our knowledge of him who called us by his own glory and goodness." (2 Peter 1:3) If your are a Christ follower and you are not living the life God is calling you to live it is not because you don't have what you need to live that way. God has given us EVERYTHING we need for life and Godliness. The issue is actually somethin...