The Pastor Brad Podcast

In this sermon we're focusing on ways to grow in our faith, as we enter the new year, by exploring five specific practices that can help us cultivate and strengthen it.

For weeks, we've explored how Jesus came from eternity to redeem humanity. From the beginning, God had a plan, evident throughout the Old Testament. At the perfect time, that plan culminated with Jesus' birth, embodying God's purpose. This sermon examines how this unfolded and the profound significance of that moment.

From the start, God’s plan was to redeem humanity from sin through Jesus Christ. This plan restores our relationship with God, offering forgiveness, freedom, and eternal life. This week, we’ll explore how His redemptive plan impacts our identity, purpose, and daily lives.

Last week, we explored the eternal person of Jesus Christ highlighting his divine nature. This week, we shift our focus from understanding the eternal Jesus to his role in the grand story of redemption.

As we begin our Christmas series, we'll explore Jesus' journey from Heaven to Earth, focusing on His existence before His birth. Understanding who Jesus was in eternity is key to grasping the full significance of His birth and life. The incarnation—God becoming flesh—only makes sense when we recognize the eternal nature of Jesus. In this sermon, we'll take a journey through Scripture to discover h...

Studies show that we live in a self centered world, one where we are more interested in our image and advancement. Christ, on the other hand, calls His church to be servants. How do we live as servants when everyone around us prefers to be served. In this sermon we are going to take a look at how we need to open our eyes and see the people around us so that we might minister to them and shine the...

Sin has a way of blinding us to the truth of God and it is something that we need to deal with if we intend to live righteously. In this sermon we are going to look the Bible's advice concerning what we let into our lives and how we can set our sights on God instead.

The enemy makes every effort to blind people or keep them in darkness so that they cannot see the truth. How do we keep from being blinded? In this sermon we are taking a look at three strategies that the devil employs to put a veil over our eyes and how Jesus came to give sight to the blind.

Pastor Brad takes a deep dive into the ungodly climate of our culture and how we desperately need God to move in our churches today. Discover what it looks like when the culture rejects God and how the church should respond in that kind of atmosphere.

Did you know that there is freedom in Christ? What does that freedom look like? What are we freed from? Pastor Brad takes a look at these and more questions as we unpack the freedom we have been granted in Christ.

In this follow up message about dealing with the trying and difficult times that we face in life life, Pastor Brad takes a look into the hope that we have in the promises found in the scripture. If tough times are inevitable then for the Christian so is God's help.

Pastor Brad challenges men and fathers to rise up to the challenge of Christ-like leadership in their home and community. Fathers really do play an important role to their kids health and well-being and are the most influential in raising up children in the faith.

Pastor Brad opens up this new series about dealing with difficult times by setting a Biblical perspective of what we can expect in this life. To some extent it is a sobering reminder that we are not promised escape. To another extent it is an encouraging reminder that we are not alone. Find out what God teaches us about life's sour times.

One of the most important things that you can do in life is to choose Jesus. Join Pastor Brad as he shares about what it means to pursue Christ and how you can begin your journey focusing your life on Him.

Marita shares a message of hope through the examples of great men of faith in the scripture.

Pastor Brad preaches a message to mom's about the role that mom's play in raising up Godly children.

Pastor Brad unpacks Jesus' parable about the sower. We'll take a deeper look into the four soils that Jesus depicted and how we can properly prepare the soil of our hearts to receive what God is wanting to do in us.

When it comes to how you live, what really counts? This is the question that this new series is looking to answer and today we are looking into what King Solomon said were the foolish pursuits. In the book of Ecclesiastes, Solomon details how he looked for the answer to the meaning of life in all of the things that humans pursue and how in the end he felt like they were the same as chasing after t...

How do you let your light shine? How to you deal with the things that extinguish the light that Christ has put in you?

What happens when Jesus makes himself known you? What example do we have in scripture of of how Jesus transformed people through encounter and revelation? In this sermon Paxton discusses how the lives ofthe apostles were changed forever in the days after Jesus' resurrection

When we think about Resurrection Sunday and the entire Easter season, we rarely think about Lazarus and the events that took place in Bethany. Yet it is Jesus' raising Lazarus from the dead that kicks off the events leading to Christ's crucifixion. What made this moment so pivotal?