Renew Bible Church Podcast

RE: Series | Renewing Your Approach | Jason Black   This Sunday marks week three of our summer RE: series! Get ready as Jason dives into "RE:NEWING YOUR APPROACH."   As followers of Christ, we're all called to share our faith. But have you ever wondered what it truly means to be an apologist or an evangelist? This Sunday, Jason might just challenge your preconceived notions. He'll be equipping us...

RE: Series | Renewing Your Soul | Pastor Jon Adams This Sunday is week two of our summer RE: series. Pastor Jon will be sharing a message entitled "RE:NEWING YOUR SOUL" Our souls are what grows closer to Jesus Christ in our sanctification. Pastor Jon is going to be talking about how we can renovate our souls through the many discipleship opportunities available to us. He'll also share some exiting...

RE: Series | Renew Your Attitude | Pastor Gabe VanderStel   Exodus 15-17 This Sunday, we're going to take a brief departure from our series in Ecclesiastes and embark on a short study we're calling the "RE: Series." On each of the next three weeks, we'll focus on a dynamic of Renew and what makes this church, and especially our church family, so special and unique in the way we serve the Lord.

Seasons - Ecclesiastes | Scheme Of A Thing | Pastor Chris Heller Ecclesiastes 7:19-29 “I searched with wisdom the scheme of things.”  It’s as if Solomon knew there was an enemy behind the evil he saw under the sun, and he desperately desired to uncover his schemes. In this Sunday’s sermon, we will look to expose those schemes and consider what steps we can take to not fall for the traps of the evi...

Seasons - Ecclesiastes | House Of Mourning | Pastor Chris Heller   Ecclesiastes 7:1-18 This week, Solomon urges us to reflect on our lives by considering the day of our death. What will we be known for? What kind of spiritual legacy will we leave?   Join us this week as we reflect on the importance of a personal mission statement.

Seasons - Ecclesiastes | Like a Shadow | Pastor Chris Heller   Ecclesiastes 6 Have you ever noticed the closer an object is to a light source, the bigger the shadow that is cast will be? The size and angle of the shadow is directly related to its proximity to the light source. In fact, an object cannot cast a shadow without a light source.   Shadows play a fascinating role in our everyday lives, a...

Seasons - Ecclesiastes | When Goods Increase | Pastor Chris Heller   Ecclesiastes 5:8-20 This Sunday, we will return to the book of Ecclesiastes and gain wisdom on how to view our money.   Join us this week in our "SEASONS" series as we learn the secret of how to GET along with little, and how to live graciously with much.

Made New | Pastor Jon Adams   In 2 Corinthians 5:17 we read, “Therefore if anyone is in Christ, this person is a new creation; the old things passed away; behold, new things have come.” At Renew, we like to use a phrase based on this scripture on Baptism Sundays: “I have been made new.”  But what does that mean?   In his devotional, Pastor Jon unpacks how, once we have accepted Christ into our hea...

Seasons | Let My Words Be Few | Pastor Chris Heller   Ecclesiastes 5:1-7 We’ve all said something we regret. Why the regret? Because we know our words are powerful. They can both wound and heal.     In the season of life you find yourself in, have you been more careless or more careful with your words? Are they an encouragement or discouragement to others?   Join us this Sunday as we are challenge...

Seasons | Lot inLife | Pastor Chris Heller   Ecclesiastes 3:16-4:16 Have you ever noticed that certain people seem to have more difficulty in life than others? Tragedy, disease, and challenging circumstances keep happening to them until you wonder how much more they can bear. Or, as we go through our own seasons of life, we might be tempted to question, “why am I in this season and ‘they’re’ not?”...

Seasons | Time Is Seasonal | Pastor Chris Heller   Ecclesiastes 3:1-15 We've come to that famous passage in our Ecclesiastes studies that nearly everyone has heard of at one time or another. A certain familiar tune might even be running through your mind. "To every thing -- turn, turn, turn -- there is a season -- turn, turn, turn . . ."   By now, we all recognize that life is a series of seasons....

Seasons | All My Toil | Pastor Chris Heller   Ecclesiastes 2:12-26 Join us this Sunday as we continue in chapter 2 of Ecclesiastes. Last week, we saw how Solomon chose to pursue every earthly pleasure and discovered the emptiness of selfish indulgence vs. living a life of giving generosity to others.   This week, he debates the futility of working to merely accumulate wealth and possessions, knowi...

Seasons | Enjoy Yourself | Pastor Chris Heller   Ecclesiastes 2:1-11 Join us this Sunday as we continue our study of Ecclesiastes, a book of wisdom about how to navigate the seasons that come and go in our lives.   This week, Solomon will test his heart by indulging in every form of pleasure available to see whether there is any satisfaction to be found in them. What he discovers will provide insi...

Seasons | Chasing The Wind | Pastor Chris Heller Ecclesiastes 1:12-18 We’re so excited for week two, this Sunday, in our Ecclesiastes series entitled “Seasons.” We all find ourselves in different seasons of life, and we often don't understand how we got there or what we should do while going through a difficult one. This series is helping us learn how we can best trust God and walk in the fear of...

Seasons | Ecclesiastes | Pastor Chris Heller   Join us this Sunday for the opening of our spring/summer series, "Seasons", a study in the book of Ecclesiastes. This series will help us recognize how we might be wasting our energy in futile pursuits and point us to the things that bring us purpose and meaning. It should be a study with a lot of practical application, and even some fun as well.

Vision Sunday | Pastor Chris Heller   This Sunday is Vision Sunday, where we’ll be unpacking new and exciting plans for the future at Renew. We’ll be sharing info about all our summer camps, as well as news for kids, youth, and adult ministries this summer. We’ll also talk about plans for our current campus, including strategies to manage our seating and parking lot capabilities.   You’ll hear abo...

Gospel Of Mark | Nobody | Pastor Chris Heller   The last few weeks have been heavy as we’ve watched Jesus cry out to God in Gethsemane, stand before the Jewish Sanhedrin and Pilate, endure a Roman scourging, and submit to his horrific crucifixion and death on the cross. But, praise God, the story doesn't end there! After three days in the tomb, Jesus conquered death and arose from the grave! Becau...

Gospel of Mark | The Death of the Son of God | Pastor Jon Adams   Mark 15:20-41 Mark’s gospel has been a book of action as we’ve traveled with Jesus from his earliest moments of ministry to his final week. But, as Mark brings his gospel to a close, he slows the pace and we get an almost hour-by-hour account of what Jesus experienced.    We’ve watched Jesus cry out to God in Gethsemane, stand befor...

This Is Who He Is - Gospel of Mark | Not Guilty | Pastor Chris Heller   Mark 15:1-15 Last week, Jesus was betrayed by a kiss, arrested, beaten, and falsely accused.    Join us this week as our innocent Savior is brought before Pilate to be publicly declared innocent or guilty. Driven by fear, we will witness Pilate allowing the crowds to actually decide. Fortunately, God the Father has a very diff...

This Is Who He Is - Gospel of Mark | Lest I Forget | Pastor Chris Heller Mark 14:32-72 Have you ever been betrayed? It's not a pleasant feeling, especially when carried out by someone you were close to. You have some idea what it was like for Jesus that night in Gethsemane. But he knew there was even greater agony coming than just the pain of a betrayal. He knew it would lead to his very death.  ...

This Is Who He Is - Gospel of Mark | Fall Away | Pastor Chris Heller   Mark 14:10-31 Why does it feel we are seeing more and more people “falling away” from the faith? This Sunday, as we follow Jesus into an upper room to take the last Passover meal with His disciples, we find this is not a new phenomenon.     During this first communion, which we will commemorate as a church this week, Jesus says...

This Is Who He Is - Gospel of Mark | Alabaster Worship | Pastor Chris Heller   Mark 14:1-11 Do you know those times in our lives when we find ourselves broken and empty?  All our words seem to fall short and we have nothing really new to say. In despair, we simply throw up our broken hearts and empty hands to the Lord, with tears flowing down our face and without a care of what people might say. ...

This Is Who He Is - Gospel of Mark | Stay Awake | Pastor Chris Heller   This Sunday we'll return to our Gospel of Mark series where, over the next few weeks leading up to Easter, we'll focus on the final events in Jesus' ministry that culminate in His death and resurrection.   This week, we'll be looking at Mark chapter 13, where Jesus warns his disciples of the things to come. His message is one...

Gospel Of Mark | Real Or Rendered | Pastor Jon Adams What does real devotion to God look like? That’s the question our text raises this week in the Gospel of Mark (Mark 12:35-42). In Jesus’ final clash with religious leaders before his arrest, we’ll see him lay out what devotion to God really looks like. He’ll give us two examples to consider—one familiar, and one that’s totally unexpected.  Join...

Gospel Of Mark | It's A Trap | Pastor Chris Heller   This week in our Gospel of Mark sermon series, we'll be looking at Mark 12:13-34, where Jesus continues to be questioned by the pharisees, sadducees, and scribes in an effort to catch him in a trap. But once again, his answers diffuse their arguments and bring them to silence. Join us as we watch how Jesus responds to their questioning and gain...