Stonebrook Church, Ames, Iowa, Sermons

  Summary: God has given spiritual gifts to all believers empowering them to serve one another and build up the church. Just as the human body is made up of many different parts, yet is one body, so God has given a wide diversity of gifts, yet all united around Him to do His will. God gives gifts as He wills and Biblical history shows that the gifts of healing and miracles have not been present in...

  Introduction We Christians like to us the word, “saved.” “I’m saved.” “I have salvation.” My story of salvation began on a warm, August evening when I was a 19-year old engineering student at ISU. Salvation means to be delivered. Rescued.  What happens at “salvation?” Last week Matt clearly talked about eternal life. Salvation. Finding forgiveness and a right standing with God through Jesus Chri...

Prologue We are in week three of a series on The Holy Spirit. In the first message, Pastor Paul gave an excellent overview of who The Holy Spirit it is, and what He does.  In the second, Pastor Dave gave a very good Biblical history of the promised Holy Spirit, and the arrival of the Spirit in the church at Pentecost.   Our series is arranged roughly in the order we experience His presence and wor...

  INTRODUCTION About 12 years ago, my good friend and fellow pastor Pat Sokoll moved to Iowa City to start a new church. Pat is simply one of the wisest men I’ve ever known. He has so much insight into people and problems and the things of God, that, honestly, I found it almost annoying that he could be so RIGHT so many times. (I mean that in a very complimentary way.) When he moved, I realized th...

Introduction This the second of a three week series on the Christian life and the reality of the spiritual war we are in that we are calling “Wartime Lifestyle”, a phrase coined (I think) by John Piper that has been very helpful to me as in making decisions about how to think about life and how to spend my time and money.  It is an intentionally jarring phrase.  If you resolve that you will live a...

The scriptures are a sure source, and they are a sufficient source, of God’s revelation to us. That is, we have everything we need in order to know God and His will for us in The Bible.

Intro  When we kicked off this series, I said I hope we can learn that our daily “mundane” and “secular” tasks can glorify God and expand His kingdom in real and practical ways. And I’m hoping that as a result of this series, we’ll learn to be encouraged that our daily work matters to Him and will count for something eternal.  And most of all, because of that, we’ll become equipped to live every m...

Intro  Good morning!  I suppose most of you know me, but for those that don’t, my name is Matt Heerema and I usually serve as one of the music leaders here at Stonebrook.   I’m on staff here with the church help with that role as well as a few other things, and I also own a business here in Ames that provides graphic design and digital communications consulting. I have a couple employees there, an...