Totally Composed: The Sermons of Dan Kent

Sunday July 5, 2026 • Dan Kent The concluding chapters of Revelation provide a vision of what it means to flourish. This vision is of a holy city, one that is built around the presence of God. There we discover the ultimate foundation of human flourishing, the meaning of all life.  More Resources: https://whchurch.org/sermon/foundations-of-true-flourishing/ BOOKS: https:// bit.ly/3KSJAnp YOUTUBE:...

Sunday June 28, 2026 Dan Kent invites us to see three grand themes that are woven throughout Revelation and are brought together at the end of this grand book. These themes are the "two ways" pattern repeated throughout Scripture, the fact that the path of God is a person and that the destination of the path is communal. More Resources: https://whchurch.org/sermon/arrival/ BOOKS: https:// bit.ly/3...

Sunday May 10, 2026 At the heart of Christian unity sits a lifestyle of confession. We cannot connect with one another meaningfully if we are pretending to be someone we are not. Dan Kent shows us what biblical confession is, what it is not, and then points us toward practical steps to move into honest confession.  More Resources: https://whchurch.org/sermon/the-end-of-the-charade/ BOOKS: https://...

Sunday April 26, 2026 In a world that promotes judgment, division and isolation, Dan Kent looks at Paul's command to "bear with each other." Living in love does not mean only embracing those who are easy to love. Real love calls us to embrace those who require patient endurance. In this way, we reflect the love of the cross.  More Resources: https://whchurch.org/sermon/disarming-the-algorithm/ BOO...

Sunday, March 22, 2026 Dan Kent draws our attention to the words "my people" in Revelation 18:4. When we enter relationship with the Father through Jesus, we are also entering into a collective which is traditionally called the Church. Dan identifies two obstacles to loving the church. The first is hypocrisy. The second obstacle to loving the church is diversity that results in division. Dan provi...

Sunday, February 22, 2026 In this sermon, Dan Kent traces his own love for the Bible from his first encounter with the Book of Ecclesiastes, all the way up to the end of Revelation. He traces the theme of futility and meaninglessness in the scripture, and shows how God rescues us from life's absurdities. If you listen to this sermon, you might feel liberation from bondages you didn't even know wer...

Sunday, December 28, 2025 This first sermon in the "Love Does" series highlights the action of trust. Dan Kent explores the way that God trusts, the call to be trustworthy in our relationship with God and how to grow in our trust of one another. This challenge to the worldly pattern of distrust invites us to manifest love in concrete and practical ways. More Resources: https://whchurch.org/sermon/...

Sunday December 7, 2025 In this sermon, Dan Kent opens up the meaning of the prophesy from Hosea 11:1 about Jesus being called out of Egypt. He shows the unique way this verse was fulfilled in Matthew 2:13-15. He also focuses on God's delight in his people, and how that delight uniquely fulfills us. More Resources: https://whchurch.org/sermon/the-delight-of-the-lord/ BOOKS: https:// bit.ly/3KSJAnp...

November 9, 2025  This sermon on the first of two beasts in Revelation 13 addresses what it means to trust God's faithfulness in tough times and the reality of hardship. Dan Kent contrasts this with a sanitized God, who, many assume, cannot deal with the world's evil or the spiritual warfare that is being waged. More Resources: https://whchurch.org/sermon/be-alert-and-sober-minded/ BOOKS: https://...

September 28, 2025   Dan Kent introduces the problem of pride and how it is rooted in hierarchical systems where we measure ourselves against others. We are unable to love others when we are constantly evaluating them and ourselves. We must opt out of this system and learn to see all as equals, all equally loved. More Resources: https://whchurch.org/sermon/love-is-not-proud/ BOOKS: https:// bit.ly...

August 31, 2025 In this closeout sermon for the Testify! series, Dan Kent surveys the key points of Revelation 10 and 11 and highlights how the testimony of the church is crucial to what God is doing in the world. He then challenges us to practice the call to Testify! More Resources: https://whchurch.org/sermon/provoking-the-beast/ BOOKS: https:// bit.ly/3KSJAnp YOUTUBE: https://www.youtube.com/@A...

July 21, 2025 God calls us to the way of generosity and Dan Kent shows how this call is much larger than a set of rules for how we use our money. It's about recognizing the story of the world versus the story of God. More Resources: https://whchurch.org/sermon/the-way-of-generosity/ BOOKS: https:// bit.ly/3KSJAnp YOUTUBE: https://www.youtube.com/@AuthorDanKent SURPRISING GOD PODCAST: https:// spot...

July 1, 2025 In this sermon, Dan Kent challenges us to enter into the way of empathy, which he says is crucial to our ability to connect with others by sharing in their feelings. It is a way exemplified by Jesus as he entered into the common human condition so that he might know what we experience from the inside. More Resources: https://whchurch.org/sermon/the-way-of-empathy/ BOOKS: https:// bit....

June 10, 2025 Our world surrounds us with despair and darkness, and we long for a place of hope. Dan ties this reality into Revelation 8 and 9, where the trumpet judgments bring destruction to the earth. He looks for and finds hope in the midst of the destruction, showing us how we can find hope even at the crescendo of chaos. More Resources: https://whchurch.org/sermon/crescendo-of-hope/ BOOKS: h...

May 7, 2025 This sermon by Dan Kent helps us understand the meaning of repentance and why it is so crucial to our walk with Jesus. In it, we discover how we misunderstand what repentance is and see how repentance is a path to true freedom. More Resources: https://whchurch.org/sermon/light-chasers/ BOOKS: https:// bit.ly/3KSJAnp YOUTUBE: https://www.youtube.com/@AuthorDanKent SURPRISING GOD PODCAST...

March 25, 2025 We need spiritual disciplines which will shape us so that we can live in love toward ourselves. Fasting is such a discipline because it detoxes our dependence upon food and other pleasures, enabling us to receive what is actually fulfilling and whole. More Resources: https://whchurch.org/sermon/inner-exodus/ BOOKS: https:// bit.ly/3KSJAnp YOUTUBE: https://www.youtube.com/@AuthorDanK...

February 10, 2025 In this sermon, Dan Kent helps us understand the meaning of the proclamation "salvation belongs to our God." While we might assume salvation is about personal sin and guilt, Dan demonstrates that it is much more extensive than that. He shows us that salvation is centered around God's work to establish the rightful King of all creation. More Resources: https://whchurch.org/sermon/...

December 8, 2024 This sermon examines the story of Anna when she met the child Jesus in the temple. Dan Kent highlights how she waited for the Messiah for decades and the importance of waiting on God to act in our lives and release his gifts through us.   More Resources: https://whchurch.org/sermon/waiting-with-anna/ BOOKS: https:// bit.ly/3KSJAnp YOUTUBE: https://www.youtube.com/@AuthorDanKent SU...

November 25, 2024 At the start of the Book of Revelation the angel tells John: "Do not be afraid." Then the angel proceeds to affront John with a terrifying series of visions. How could John NOT be afraid? What's going on here? Dan talks about how having different objectives at our centers makes us more or less vulnerable to fear.   More Resources: https://whchurch.org/sermon/crowns-not-crutches/...

September 2, 2024 Why does Paul tell us to "Let your gentleness be evident to all"? How does showing gentleness empower us, make us immune to propaganda, and give us spiritual stability? Join Dan as he engages this powerful fruit of the Spirit.   More Resources: https://whchurch.org/sermon/let-your-gentleness-show/ BOOKS: https:// bit.ly/3KSJAnp YOUTUBE: https://www.youtube.com/@AuthorDanKent SURP...

June 14, 2024 What if we don't like heaven? Why does worship in heaven seem so torturous? In this sermon on Revelation chapter 4, Dan looks at the symbolism of the throne room and discusses allegiance as the heart of worship.   More Resources: https://whchurch.org/sermon/the-heart-of-worship/ BOOKS: https:// bit.ly/3KSJAnp YOUTUBE: https://www.youtube.com/@AuthorDanKent SURPRISING GOD PODCAST: htt...

March 25, 2024 How did the crowds go from laying down Palm Branches and calling Jesus king to screaming "Crucify Him!" in just a few short days? The answer to this question, I believe, affects us all.   More Resources: https://whchurch.org/sermon/the-problem-with-palm-sunday/ BOOKS: https:// bit.ly/3KSJAnp YOUTUBE: https://www.youtube.com/@AuthorDanKent SURPRISING GOD PODCAST: https:// spoti.fi/3L...

January 23, 2024 In this sermon Dan speculates on the "love" Jesus claimed the Ephesians had "forsaken" in Revelation 2:4. After praising their orthodoxy, Jesus criticizes their lack of love. Dan argues that, perhaps, they defended orthodoxy at the cost of love. That is, they loved ideology over people.   More Resources: https://whchurch.org/sermon/sheep-among-wolves/ BOOKS: https:// bit.ly/3KSJAn...

December 18, 2023 In this sermon Dan show how God's DELIGHT in us grounds God's grace for us. Not only that, DELIGHT grounds agape love. God invites us to live into his delight for us, and to then learn to show delight in God, ourselves, and each other.   More Resources: https://whchurch.org/sermon/the-gift-of-gods-grace/ BOOKS: https:// bit.ly/3KSJAnp YOUTUBE: https://www.youtube.com/@AuthorDanKe...

October 23, 2023 If you are a follower of Jesus, God considers you a priest. Did you know that? If not, consider this your ordination and your orientation into the most meaningful vocation possible.   More Resources: https://whchurch.org/sermon/rolling-stones/ BOOKS: https:// bit.ly/3KSJAnp YOUTUBE: https://www.youtube.com/@AuthorDanKent SURPRISING GOD PODCAST: https:// spoti.fi/3LVxImd WEBSITE: h...