Temple Students

In the third week of our recap series we take a closer look at the main character of the whole story: Jesus. This is who god had promised to send all the way back in Genesis 3:15. In this message you will hear about Jesus' perfect life, His saving death, and His powerful resurrection and how these apply to us. 

This week is the second in our 4 week recap of our teaching series from the past two years. Listen in as Alex teaches on the Promise of the Gospel. Together we will look at God's promise in Genesis 3:15 and then follow that promise as it unravels throughout the rest of the Old Testament. In the message we will learn how God is a loving Father who always keeps His promises.

As we start the new year, Nick Lewis walks us through the need for the gospel as we recap the last 2 years of our OT and NT sermon series. We look back to the creation of the world, seeing how God made all things good and made man for relationship with Him. Everything was perfect until man sinned and everything around us was tainted by the affect of evil. This shows our desperation and need for a...

What is the end of all things that the beginning of eternity? Well, in the grand finale of our 2 year teaching series through the entire Bible Alex teaches about what to expect when everything as we know it is remade. The new creation will be a place where God will live with His people forever, like He has always wanted. Join us as we put a bow on our teaching through the New Testament. 

In this next message, Alex continues to teach through Revelation by looking into the throne room of God. John gives us a glorious description of the glory of the Father an the worth of Jesus in these verses. Join us to learn what God has for us.

As we come to the end of our New Testament series, we look to the book of Revelation to see what we can learn from the vision that John gets from Jesus. In this message, Alex leads a guided teaching and lets small group teach each other about the seven churches that John writes to in chapters 2 and 3. This is a different message than normal, but if you pay attention there are plenty of things to l...

In the final message from our 2025 Fall Retreat, we ask the question: what now? What do we do now that we are leaving camp. All of us have experienced leaving a camp or retreat and getting home only to be discouraged because we lost that feeling we had at camp. God desires a daily relationship with us, and we can have that at camp and also when we are home. In this message, Alex teaches from Hebre...

In the third message from our 2025 Fall Retreat, Nick teaches us about how Jesus is our perfect sacrifice. He also helps us understand what that means for our everyday lives. Join us as we continue studying through Hebrews, learning that Jesus is Better.

In the second message from our 2025 Fall Retreat, Jess covers Hebrews 4:14-16 and tells us what it means that Jesus is our Great High Priest.

This is the first of four messages from our 2025 Fall Retreat. The theme for the retreat is "Jesus is Better". We will be focusing on how Jesus is better than all the other things in this world that compete for our love and attention. In this first message, Alex starts us off by telling us that Jesus is our God and king. This means that He deserves our obedience and love.

Where do we get the power to live for God? This is the crucial question that will be answered in this message from the book of 2 Peter. Listen in as we continue our series teaching through the New Testament.

In this message, Alex will walk through a passage in 1 Peter to show how our identity in Christ shapes our lifestyle and that lifestyle can have an influence on those around us.

In the sermon this week, we will learn about how God trains Christians to live for Him, through His grace. Paul shows us that grace trains us. to live a certain way, it gives us hope for a future with God, and it makes us new people.

As Christians, we are new creations. The old is gone and the new has come. In this message, Alex will teach from Colossians 3 and show us that this change in our lives should change the way that we live. New creations live in a new way.

All people want two things: joy and peace. In this message Jess will teach from Phillipians and show us that God is the source of all true joy and peace. She will also help us understand how we can have these things in our lives.

Listen in as Ben Brannon continues our teaching series through the New Testament by covering Ephesians 4. In this message he will answer the questions: How does God want us to relate to other Christians and what does He want to accomplish through those relationships?

As we make our way through the New Testament join us as Alex teaches about how we should live our Christian lives. He will explain what Paul means when he tells us to give ourselves as living sacrifices to God and how we are to do that.

Listen in to hear Jess use Romans 6 to explain what "sanctification" means and why it is important for Christians to understand.

In this message, Alex will walk through what Paul tells us about transformation in the Christian life. God does this gradually through the Holy Spirit that He gives to every believer at salvation.

As we work our way through the New Testament, we come to Paul's 1st letter to the Corinthian church. In the passage, Paul tells Christians that one day, they will get new bodies. On that day, death's defeat will finally be realized. Until then we are called to be steadfast, immovable, always abounding in the work of the Lord (1 Cor. 15:58).

This episode is a continuation of our 1 Thessalonians message (which was not recorded). In this message, Alex will be teaching on 1 Thessalonians 5:16-24 and 2 Thessalonians 1:11-12, looking at what our relationship should be like with God and then Paul's prayer for these believers and finally what our purpose is as Christians.

As we continue looking at the early church, Nick Lewis walks us through Paul's letter to the Galatians. In this message we will learn about the importance of being saved by faith alone and not works. Join us as we see what it means to have freedom in our lives as we live by faith.

This week as we continue to walk through the time period of the early church, Nick Lewis walks us through the story of the Jerusalem Council. We see where all the believers come together in Jerusalem to debate whether or not we are saved by faith alone or by Jesus+Works. Follow along as we find the answer to how we receive our salvation and as we learn about the importance of unity between believe...