Waypoint Podcast

This week, Pastor Matthew continued with our Hebrews 11 faith series with verses 23 – 27. The way forward for Moses, his family, and the whole Israelite nation was faith in God. Faith that He would fulfill His promises, and ultimately faith in who He is. Similarly, we move forward in our culture by faith and not fear. Our obedience in faith today affects people tomorrow. If you belong to Jesus, yo...

This week, Pastor Luke continued on with our Hebrews 11 series with verses 17-19 and the story of Abraham. Abraham is a huge character throughout the narrative of Scripture, and Pastor Luke used his story to make three primary points about testing and growing in faith: 1. God tests His people God works more like a crock-pot than a microwave. The testing of God is good and necessary for us to becom...

This week, Pastor Luke continued on with our faith series with the person and story of Enoch, found in Hebrews 11: 5-6. We first read about Enoch in Genesis 5: 22-24 which says that Enoch walked with God, and that God took him. The goal for all followers of Jesus should be to walk with God all the days of our lives, as Enoch did. Enoch’s faith was practical, tangible, hopeful, and honest. He was a...

*We experienced a power outage during our time of worship, therefore the audio is lower quality than usual.* This week Tyler Schenzel continued on with our Hebrews 11 faith series. Faith is the organ that allows us to see the supernatural things of God. Successful faith is not about us and how much of it we have, but rather who we put our faith in. It is not the amount or stability of our faith, b...

This week, Pastor Jermaine introduced our series on Hebrews 11, a series on faith. We believe that the author of Hebrews is writing to Jewish converts who are enduring hardship. Many of the Christian believers were walking away, while others were being imprisoned for their faith. The author wrote the letter to encourage the church, asking them to consider the cost of radical devotion. He urged the...

Pastor Alex David wraps up our series on the Holy Spirit, sharing about the power that we receive to be witnesses for Jesus in all the earth. We move through four steps in this process: 1) Denial 2) Devotion 3) Display 4) Declaration Ultimately, we want to live and walk in surrender to the Father's will, living in humility and holiness - and we continue to be filled over and over again by the Holy...

This week, pastor Matthew continued on with week four of our Holy Spirit series with a sermon titled living life full of the Holy Spirit. If we are followers of Jesus, we have an obligation to live by the Spirit. The Spirit makes us new and gives us new desires. The Spirit prompts us to love God with all of our heart, mind, soul, and strength. We need to yield to the Spirit and obey Him. We have t...

Pastor Matthew continued with week 3 of our Holy Spirit series, this week on hearing the voice of God. God has been speaking since the creation of the world and has never stopped. We need to hear His voice to know His heart. In our culture we often place doing before being, and it should not be this way. We need to focus on who we are becoming, because if we have an intimate relationship with Jesu...

This week, Pastor Kristen shared a Mother’s Day message about living a lifestyle of worship. Worship doesn’t fit into any particular box, time or place and instead should be expressed as a lifestyle. Worship should and can be done out of reverence and relationship with the Father, anytime and anywhere as Biblically worship is simply obedience to Christ. The more we get to know God, the more we des...

This week, Pastor Matthew continued on with our series on the Holy Spirit. As followers of Jesus, we should be listening to and hearing from God regularly. Jesus longs to speak to us, and the way in which we hear the voice of God is through the Holy Spirit. The Holy Spirit is divine, He is a person and a part of the trinity. What is true about each person of the Godhead is true about them all. We...

This week was Justice Sunday and Kerri Taylor, the executive director of Unbound Houston, shared with us about human trafficking; its definition, what Unbound does, what we can do about it, and how to pray. Following Jesus should not be boring, and there are many ways that we can join with Unbound in action and with prayer. The prayer points shared included: Prayer for legislation and legislators....

This week, Pastor Matthew introduced our new series on the Holy Spirit. Following Jesus faithfully means that we must prioritize the thing that matter most; sitting at His feet, hearing His voice and learning His heart. We need to recognize how He speaks and he best place to start is by asking Him to open our ears. They key is not just to hear the Lord, but to obey Him. Pastor Matthew made two pri...

This week Tyler Schenzel finished up our 1 Corinthians series with Chapter 16. Paul talks about four distinct topics within this short chapter; money, his travel plans, standing firm in the faith and his final greetings. Tyler spoke about the various things that get in the way of living on mission such as our jobs, relationships, phones, hobbies and desire for comfort amongst others. We need to be...

This Easter Sunday Pastor Matthew preached a message of resurrection out of 1 Corinthians 15. The resurrection is what changed everything, it is the anchor of our faith and the thing upon which everything hinges. It launched the church, Christianity and the Kingdom of God. When Jesus died everybody assumed that He would do what every dead person does – stay dead. Nobody expected no body, which is...

This morning, Pastor Jermaine continued on with our 1 Corinthians series with Chapter 15:35 to end of Chapter 15. This section of 1 Corinthians is all about the resurrection. The Corinthians had let false teachings come into their churches and they were doubting the resurrection of Jesus and of the body. Paul passionately addresses these concerns, using the resurrection as the link between the pre...

This week Pastor Matthew continued on with our 1 Corinthians series with Chapter 14. Within Chapter 14 Paul expands on the problem of church disorder within the Corinthian church by outlining it in the context of two specific gifts; tongues and prophecy. At its core, his message is about using the gifts within the context of love for the building up of the body. He helps to ask and answer the ques...

This morning, Pastor Luke continued on with our 1 Corinthians series with chapters 12 and 13. Within these chapters Paul lists and clarifies the spiritual gifts. He tells the church in Corinth that the gifts are for each person for the purpose of building up the body and ultimately impacting the world. There are four primary views about spiritual gifts within the world today: Cessationist: the gif...

This week, Bec Isaacson continued on with our 1 Corinthians series with Chapter 11. In this Chapter Paul tackles two very distinct issues, head coverings and the Lord's Supper. The thread that ties both of these two very different topics together is order in the church. Paul was ultimately for order and unity, and against distraction and disrespect. Commentators routinely recognize that the first...

This week, Pastor Jermaine continued on with our 1 Corinthians series with Chapter 10. In this Chapter Paul uses the story of Israel as a warning to the church in Corinth. He encourages them to be self-disciplined, to flee sexual immorality and to and to do everything in their power to obtain the prize by loving God and one another. Our freedom in Christ is a great privilege, but one that comes al...

This week, Pastor Matthew continued on with our 1 Corinthians series with Chapters 8 and 9. In this section of the book, Paul talks about food sacrificed to idols. In the city of Corinth, people worshiped pagan gods by sacrificing animals within their temples, and eating the meat afterwards as a meal. There were often leftovers, and these were sold to the general public within their markets. This...

This week Pastor Luke continued on with our 1 Corinthians series with Chapter 7: talking about marriage, sex, and singleness. The big point is that both sex and sinlessness is a gift. Point One: Sex is a gift. Paul is giving a renewed vision for sex inside of marriage to the Corinthian church. Historically, sex has been viewed as two opposite extremes, either animalistic and sinful, or angelic and...

This morning, Pastor Luke continued on with our 1 Corinthians series with chapters 5 and 6 and the topic of sexuality within the church. It’s important for us to remember that Corinth was an extremely sexual city. Prostitution and the worship of Aphrodite (the goddess of love, fertility and sexuality) were rampant and set the tone for the culture itself. The church in Corinth was celebrating their...

This week was Vision Sunday, and Pastor Matthew shared about the past, present, and future of Waypoint Church. 2020 was an interesting year for everybody. It was a year shaped by covid, racial tensions, divisions and political uproar. The church at large suffered through great pain; with people divided, leaving the church, being un-kind to one another, and acting out in crazy ways. However, it is...

This week, Pastor Matthew continued on with our 1 Corinthians series with Chapters 3 and 4. He spoke about power, and the counter-cultural nature of the Gospel. The Corinthian church was full of human wisdom. Their jealousy, divisions and quarreling were proof of their worldliness and immaturity. In his letter to them, Paul calls them to the alternative way of living by the spirit. A way that was...

This week, Pastor Jermaine continued on with our 1 Corinthians series, this week focusing on Chapters 1 and 2. The church in Corinth was experiencing huge amounts of division amongst themselves and against Paul. They were fighting over different teachers and ranking them against one another. They were forming clicks and dividing over them, quarreling amongst one another in the name of wisdom. Unfo...