The Pentecostal Church Normal IL

Pastor Josh Linton, Sunday October 23, 2022 Join us in this message as we discover truth and what it means to choose joy. If you enjoy this message, please consider leaving a rating and a review on iTunes or where ever you choose to podcast. Know someone that could use this same encouragement? We truly appreciate when you share The Church messages with your family and friends. For more from The Ch...

Have you ever found yourself stuck in a thought pattern? Your consumed by something and no matter how hard you try you can't get your mind off of it? Maybe you've tried to renew your mind by your own ability? Or found yourself wondering, why should I change my thoughts? Why can't I just live for God and continue to be who I was before I became a believer?  Maybe you're like many of us who hav...

Pastor Josh Linton, Sunday October 9, 2022 If you enjoy this message, please consider leaving a rating and a review on iTunes or where ever you choose to podcast. Know someone that could use this same encouragement? We truly appreciate when you share The Church messages with your family and friends. For more from The Church, follow us on: Instagram:  The Church Facebook: The Church Website: T...

Pastor Josh Linton, Sunday October 2, 2022 Has communion become a tradition to you? Perhaps it's become common; a simple task you walk through. Maybe you've forgotten the depth of what it means, the power it possesses, or the reason we observe it? In today's message we talk about communion and our necessity to remember. We dive in to see, at our worst Jesus paid the price to cover our sin. We expl...

Pastor Josh Linton, Sunday September 25, 2022 The definition of doubt means to hesitate; to waiver.  Our culture today is full of doubt. Every where we look it's as though everything is being questioned.  What does this mean for Christians? How do you stand firm in your  faith when everything is being called into question?  The Word of God is truth. Truth stands frim. God is so...

Pastor Josh Linton, Sunday September 18, 2022 Is there a sin too great for the blood of Jesus? The answer is NO . The Blood of Jesus redeems us. It's the memory of man that fools us. Blood cannot be replicated in the natural. There is life in the blood. Science proves it. Just the same there is life in the blood of Jesus. His blood cannot be replicated in the spiritual.  Although we try to re...

Bro Seio Chihara, Sunday September 11, 2022 Praise is a choice.  Trials and tribulations come to all of us. We all experience fear, and anxiety at varying degrees. When we do we come to the realization there is no escape by our power, but by God's and His alone.  In Acts 16:27-33 we learn about a time when Paul and Silas were in prison. In these verses we find they mustered the ability t...

Pastor Josh Linton, Sunday September 5, 2022 We're all given a measure of faith, and it's meant to be shared. However we've relegated it to something private. We've bought into a lie that says it's about us, but faith goes beyond us and is about so much more. It's about others, and allowing God to use our life to draw them to Him.  In this journey of learning to walk in faith, we can't stop w...

Pastor Josh Linton, Sunday August 28, 2022 Have you lost your battle cry? A battle cry is a word or phrase that's shouted in solidarity.  As believers we all should have a battle cry. Ours is to seek and save, to love those who believe differently.  This cry has never changed. God never changes. It's us, we're the one who's changed. God's waiting for us to place our confidence back in Hi...

Pastor Josh Linton, Sunday August 21 Have you ever asked yourself, "Am I holding back in my relationship with God?" In today's message we're focusing in on standing firm with all resolve when it comes to our faith. We're doing this by doing what Paul instructs us to do in the book of Ephesians when he tells us to put on the full armor of God. Whether we acknowledge it or not we face spiritual batt...

Pastor Josh Linton, Sunday August 14, 2022 Today we are considering two questions:  What's holding us back? What is the thing that prevents us from moving forward? Hebrews 12:1-2 tells us, "Therefore, since we are surrounded by such a huge crowd of witnesses to the life of faith, let us strip off every weight that slows us down, especially the sin that so easily trips us up..." We all carry w...

Pastor Josh Linton, Sunday August 7, 2022 When was the last time we opened our Bible? When was the last time we asked God, "What do you want from my life?" When was the last time we stopped to consider, "Is my church life like my gym life?"  Do I have a membership, but never use it?  Join us in this sermon series as we discover the truth behind activating our faith. In this message we le...

Bro Seio Chihara & Sis Jessica Hartzold, Sunday July 31, 2022 Join us as we discover truth about faith and what it does when we choose to activate it.  If you enjoy this message, please consider leaving a rating and a review on iTunes or where ever you choose to podcast. Know someone that could use this same encouragement? We truly appreciate when you share The Church messages with your f...

Today we focus in learning how to honor God through the lens of praise and worship.  Praise and worship are forms of communication with God. Keeping this in mind, and thinking in these terms, How do you speak? We have the ability to communicate but too often we withhold.  In today's message we discover 4 principles of praise and worship, and why they are necessary in our daily walk with...

Pastor Josh Linton, Sunday July 17, 2022 Join us in today's message as we discover truth about how to be anchored in the storm. If you enjoy this message, please consider leaving a rating and a review on iTunes or where ever you choose to podcast. Know someone that could use this same encouragement? We truly appreciate when you share The Church messages with your family and friends. For more from...

Pastor Josh Linton, Sunday July 10, 2022 Naaman was a powerful man in his own mind. He was a great general who had a great problem. He was a leper, and his leprosy was slowly marching him to death. We may not have leprosy, but we do have a lot in common with this man. Rather than leprosy marching us to a slow death, we have sin. Just like Naaman needed a cleansing, so do we.   An Israelite se...

Pastor Josh Linton, Sunday July 3, 2022 Today we declare independence in the name of Jesus.  We declare independence from bondage and sin. What do you want to be free from today? Join us as we dive in to learn about the freedom that's found in Jesus Name. If you enjoy this message, please consider leaving a rating and a review on iTunes or where ever you choose to podcast. Know someone that c...

Pastor Josh Linton, Sunday June 26, 2022 Jesus said, there are somethings you can't put a price on, our soul being one of them.  Are we putting our soul up for sale? If we were to consider the decisions we make, we would be shocked to find we are.  Join us in this message as we learn we are a soul with a body. Let's discover together that we are redeemed, and the value we place on our so...

Bro Seio Chihara, Sunday June 26, 2022 Join us as we receive this message about the Prodigal Son. If you enjoy this message, please consider leaving a rating and a review on iTunes or where ever you choose to podcast. Know someone that could use this same encouragement? We truly appreciate when you share The Church messages with your family and friends. For more from The Church, follow us on: Inst...

Pastor Josh Linton, Sunday June 19, 2022 Today maybe Father's Day, but this message is for everyone! Join us as we dive in to learn how we are forged by the Father. If you enjoy this message, please consider leaving a rating and a review on iTunes or where ever you choose to podcast. Know someone that could use this same encouragement? We truly appreciate when you share The Church messages with yo...

Pastor Josh Linton, Sunday June 12, 2022 Why did God give us the gift of free will? He doesn't want robots, he desires followers with a genuine love for their Creator.  Joshua tells us, "Choose you this day whom you will serve."  Every choice we make has a consequence associated with it. The problem we face today is that we have moved so far from scripture that we no longer know what we'...

Pastor Josh Linton, Sunday June 5, 2022 It seems today that no one wants to talk about speaking in Tongues as though it's become taboo. No one wants to know about it, study it, or seek out true understanding.  We live in an instant world where often when we don't get something as quickly as we expect, we disregard and move on to the next thing. The disciples were given a promise, and they wer...

Pastor Josh Linton, Sunday May 29, 2022 Do you struggle with faith? Perhaps you struggle with wisdom to know? We're continuing our series focusing on renewing our mind. We're looking to move away from this culture's anthem declaring, "Do what brings you joy," toward God's truth found in Romans 12:2 , "And be not conformed to this world: but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind, that ye m...

Pastor Josh Linton, Sunday May 22, 2022 Scripture mentions the word rejoice 257 times.  The first record of the word is found in Exodus 18:9 where we learn of Jethro rejoicing over the Israelites being freed from bondage. When was the last time you rejoiced over someone else's triumph? Have we lost our ability to rejoice altogether? We're called to rejoice in the Lord always. He is our Jehova...

Pastor Josh Linton, Sunday May 16, 2022 What do you do that brings you joy? A lot of people are asking this question. Many of us are on the search to find joy in life.  Our culture has taken on a mentality that says, "You do you." You do you, and you find your own joy however, this anthem isn't going to lead a person to true joy, the joy that God desires us to experience which is the true joy...