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Join us this week as we kick off our summer sermon series, continuing from the last two summers with part three in our look at The Gospel of John. Today we look at false belief and true freedom as expressed in John chapter 8 verses 30-36.

In the final week of our Building Together series, we look at what the New Testament teaches about church growth. Should a local church care about growing? Should we aim to reach more people, make more disciples, and expand the work of ministry? From Acts 2, Matthew 28, and other New Testament passages, we see that the early church was constantly growing because it was committed to the mission Jes...

Join us again this week as we continue our sermon series about building our church together. You can visit Walnut Creek Church - Altoona online at wcaltoona.org

Join us this week for a brand new sermon mini-series on what it means to build a church together, starting with Matthew 28 verses 16-20. Nearly ten years ago, a small team left downtown Des Moines to plant Walnut Creek Church in Altoona. What began with a handful of families meeting in a renovated 150-year-old building has grown into a thriving church committed to making disciples of Jesus Christ....

Join us this week as we finish our sermon series in Genesis, looking at chapters 46-50. After nearly four years and 64 sermons through the book of Genesis, we arrive at the final chapters of Scripture’s first book. Genesis 45–50 brings Joseph’s story to its conclusion and ties together the major themes that have run throughout Genesis from the very beginning: God’s promises, God’s blessing, God’s...

Join us again this week as we continue our sermon series in Genesis with chapter 45 verses 1-28. After twenty years of betrayal, deception, separation, and suffering, Joseph finally reveals his identity to his brothers. What follows is one of the most emotional and beautiful moments in all of Scripture. In Genesis 45, we see Joseph choose forgiveness over revenge, reconciliation over bitterness, a...

Join us again this week as we continue our sermon series in Genesis with chapter 44 verses 1-34. Genesis 44 brings Joseph’s final and most important test. Twenty years after selling their brother into slavery, Joseph recreates the circumstances of their greatest sin to find out whether his brothers are still the same men, or whether God has transformed them. What follows is one of the most powerfu...

Join us again this week as we continue our sermon series in Genesis with chapter 43 verses 1-34. What would you do if God asked you to give up the thing you care about most? In Genesis 43, Jacob faces an impossible choice: Hold onto Benjamin or risk losing everything. Trust God or cling to control. At the same time, something powerful is happening beneath the surface. Judah begins to change. The b...

Join us this week as we pick up our Genesis sermon series where we left off, continuing with chapter 42 verses 1-38. What happens when hidden sin finally comes to the surface? In Genesis 42, Joseph’s brothers come face to face with the guilt they've avoided for 20 years. They thought they could bury it and move on from it, but God had other plans. We'll examine why Joseph tests his brothers, the m...

Join us again this week for the final sermon of our Easter series, where we continue with Mark chapter 16 verses 1-8.

Join us again this week as we continue our Easter sermon series with Mark chapter 14 verses 22-25. Why was Jesus so distressed in the Garden of Gethsemane? On the night before the cross, Jesus faces the cup of God’s wrath. Here we'll discuss the two vows (Jesus’ faithfulness vs. Peter’s failure), the two cups (blessing vs. wrath), and the two sources of power (Spirit vs. flesh). If you want to fol...

Join us this week as we begin our new Easter sermon series with Mark chapter 14 verses 1 through 11. As we approach Easter, one question rises above all others: What do you believe about Jesus? In Mark 14, we see three radically different responses to Jesus that still define how people relate to Him today. The chief priests hate Jesus and plot His death A woman in Bethany pours out extravagant lov...

Join us again this week as we continue our sermon series in Genesis with chapter 41 verses 1-57. We look at Joseph's interpretations of Pharaoh's dreams and how that points to God's sovereignty over everything.

Join us again this week as we continue our sermon series in Genesis with Chapter 40 verses 1-23. What does faith actually look like when life falls apart? In Genesis 40, Joseph is in prison. He has been betrayed, falsely accused, and forgotten. This is the lowest point of his life. And yet this is where his faith shines the brightest. Joseph shows us that true faith is not proven in comfort, but i...

Join us again this week as we continue our sermon series on Genesis with chapter 39 verses 1-23. Chapter 39 brings us back to Joseph after the dark events of Genesis 37 and the detour into Judah’s life in Genesis 38. The chapter intentionally invites us to compare the two brothers. Both are away from the promised land, both are surrounded by a godless culture, and both face sexual temptation—=, bu...

Join us again this week as we continue our sermon series in Genesis with chapter 38 verses 1-30. This is one of the strangest interruptions in the Joseph story. You finish Genesis 37 with Joseph sold into slavery and then suddenly the Bible detours into a dark, uncomfortable chapter about Judah and Tamar. And the question is unavoidable: Why is this here? This chapter is messy. Sexual sin, hypocri...

Join us again this week as we continue our sermon series on Genesis with Chapter 37 verses 1-36. In Genesis 37 we see a brutal betrayal of Joseph by his brothers, as well as their deception of their father Jacob, continuing a pattern that has been passed down in Joseph's family of lies and deception. We also look at the suffering and future redemption of Joseph and how that points to Christ and th...

Join us this week for another sermon in our series on Genesis, continuing with chapter 36 verses 1-43. Genesis 36 is a genealogy that at first glance, may seem like a list of hard-to-pronounce names. But this chapter tells a dramatic and sobering story about the legacy of Esau. Esau has everything the world could offer—land, wealth, descendants, power, fame. His people become an established kingdo...

Join us again this week as we continue our sermon series in Genesis with chapter 35, verses 1-29. After the horrific events of Genesis 34, God calls Jacob to return to Bethel, which is a call to worship, repent, and renew his faith. In Genesis 35, we witness Jacob leading his family in repentance, burying idols, and building an altar to God.

Join us for another chapter in our Genesis sermon series, continuing with Genesis chapter 34. verses 1-31. This chapter is one of the darkest chapters in the Bible. When Jacob’s daughter Dinah is raped, her brothers Simeon and Levi retaliate with deceit and mass murder. There’s no mention of God. No redemption arc. Just a painful unraveling of a family that has strayed from God’s presence. We'll l...

Join us again this week as we continue our sermon series in Genesis with Chapter 33 verses 1-20. Jacob has spent 20 years running from the consequences of his deception. But when he finally faces Esau, the brother he betrayed, something unexpected happens: grace. It shows that even when we’re haunted by our past, God meets us with mercy, and calls us to be vessels of grace in real-life relationshi...

Join us this week as we continue our sermon series of Genesis with Chapter 32, verses 1-55. Jacob’s whole life has been a struggle against Esau, Laban, Isaac, even himself. But in Genesis 32, it all builds to a single, mysterious, nighttime encounter where he wrestles with God. As he returns home, Jacob is haunted by Esau’s face along with his guilt, his fear, and his unresolved past. But in the e...

Join us this week as we continue our sermon series in Genesis with chapter 31 verses 1-55. As Jacob flees Laban and begins the long journey back to Canaan, a fierce conflict emerges over possessions. Who owns the family? Who owns the flocks? Who controls the future? This chapter is ancient family drama that gives us a mirror for our hearts. Do we believe our stuff is ours, or God’s? Do we cling to...

Join us again this week as we continue where we left off with our sermon series on Genesis with Chapter 30 verses 25-34. We look at the story of Jacob and his relationship with Laban. After 20 years of hard labor, Jacob was finally ready to go home, but Laban had other plans. What unfolds next is a story of deception, endurance, divine blessing, and spiritual transformation. Through an odd breedin...

Join us as we finish our Christmas sermon series on the eve of our savior's birth. We'll look at Luke chapter 2 verses 1-11 and the reason we celebrate the birth of Jesus, and what it means for our lives and for eternity. Most of our Christmas traditions are suprisingly new. Elf on the Shelf, advent calendars, pajamas, trees, etc. But the true Christmas story is ancient. In Luke 2, the angels anno...