Waypoint Podcast

This week, Pastor Matthew continued with our Galatians series with a sermon out of chapter 4: 1-7. People have the potential to be enslaved to many different types of influences – both physical and spiritual. Pastor Matthew made three primary points on this topic: 1. We are enslaved to elemental spirits These elemental spirits govern the way things are done within our society and culture. They rep...

This week, Pastor Matthew continued with our Galatians series with a sermon out of Chapter 3. This chapter is all about God wanting our hearts. Pastor Matthew made three primary points: 1. You receive the Holy Spirit through faith in Christ. They didn’t earn nor manipulate it, it was solely through their faith. Too many of us are trying to live a life with Christ without the power of the Holy Spir...

This week Pastor Jermaine continued with our series on Galations with a message out of Chapter 2, verses 15-21. Justified by Faith. Pastor begins the message by setting up the scene: the Jewish teachers had come into Galatia and began teaching old Jewish law to the church. In this passage, Paul comes in to tell the church of Galatia that Jesus has done it all and there is nothing we could do to ad...

This week, Pastor Jermaine continued with our Galatians series with a message out of Chapter 2 titled “guess who’s coming to dinner.” After Paul had left the region of Galatia, other people had come into the region to teach and spread false doctrine. This false teaching included the command to be circumcised. Within this passage, Paul calls out Peter because he refuses to eat with Gentiles in fron...

This week, Pastor Luke preached the second sermon in our Galatian series with a message titled ‘keeping the main thing the main thing’ out of Chapter 1: 6-10. Paul opens the book of Galatians very differently than all his other letters. In this book, he opens with shock and astonishment; not pleased with how the Galatians have been keeping hold of the faith. They had not kept the main thing the ma...

This week, Pastor Luke launched our nine week Summer series on the book of Galatians. Paul wrote the book of Galatians: 1. Paul the missionary Paul had a radical conversion through an encounter with Jesus Himself. Paul was tri-cultural; a Jew, a Greek, and a Roman, and this influenced the way he went about his ministry. He operated in all three cultures, which made him perfect for the job of plant...

This morning, Pastor Matthew preached a sermon with the title “2022: the light has come.” The church is God’s plan A and there is no plan B because God is the only one who can transform the hearts of men and women. Transformed hearts are the only thing that will make a true difference. The hope for this world lies in the hearts of men and women who have been transformed by the Lordship of King Jes...

This morning, Bec Isaacson led us in the second of a two-part sermon series titled “how to live with the rich” that talks about the Christian, Biblical response to the global poor. This week was all about examining the goal of poverty alleviation, and how we can apply that theory to our practical lives. The narrative and summary from last week’s message was: 1. We are very rich. 2. We can not serv...

This morning, Bec Isaacson led us in the first of a two-part sermon series titled “how to live with the rich” that talks about the Christian, Biblical response to the global poor. This week was all about who is rich and who is poor, and what the Bible has to say. Bec broke the message down into three sections: 1. We are very rich. It is more than likely that by global standards, we are very rich i...

This morning, Amanda Anderson shared a message on the topic of “life.” Because God brings life to every situation, we should strive to do the same. The very presence of God is connected to life, and when we disconnect ourselves from Him – it ultimately ends in destruction for ourselves and those around us. Therefore, we need to look to God to determine what is best, choosing to do life God’s way....

This week, Pastor Alex led us in a message titled “Search me. Know me” out of Psalm 139. License is permission to do something; especially formal permission from a government or authority. If we are committing to God, we give Him a legal authority into our lives. This means asking the Lord to search us, lead us, and know us at the deepest levels. Inside all of us there is a desire for control and...

This week was Easter Sunday, and Pastor Jermaine led us in the last message of our “Get up and walk” series with a sermon out of John 11: 1-44 This passage details the story of Lazarus. When Jesus received the news that Lazarus was sick, He stayed where He was for two more days. This did not make sense to those around Him, because during this time Lazarus died. What they didn’t know was that Jesus...

This week, Pastor Luke continued on with our “Get up and walk” series with a sermon out of John 10: 7-18. The theme of this passage is that Jesus is our shepherd. The job of a shepherd is to provide security, peace, guidance, and safety for their flock, which is exactly what a life following Jesus leads us into. He is the gate, and He leads us into the life and life to the full that is spoken of i...

This week, Pastor Matthew continued on with our “Get up and walk” sermon series with a message out of John 10: 22-30. The big idea of his message was that we are God's sheep. He expanded on this idea with seven primary points: His sheep believe He’s the Messiah. His sheep believe His works. Jesus’s works confirmed who He was, and we see this thred all throughout John’s narrative. Similarly, His sh...

This week, Pastor Jermaine continued on with our “Get up and walk” series, focusing on John 9. In this passage, Jesus heals a blind man on the Sabbath, which greatly upsets the Pharisees. Just like the Pharisees, we are often prone to be more concerned with other people’s sins than our own. Likewise, we can care more about the sin itself than the person. One of the great joys of this passage is th...

This week, Pastor Matthew continued on with our “Get up and walk” series with a sermon out of John 8:12-59. This passage is set within a tense situation. Jesus is in the temple, but it reads more accurately as set within a courtroom. The one on trial within this passage was not Jesus, it was those who opposed Him. Their words and attitudes showed that they did not know the Father, and thus did not...

This morning, Pastor Luke continued on with our “Get up and walk” sermon series with a message titled “Refreshed and Refreshing” out of John 7:37-38. These verses are set within the context of the feast of tabernacles. During this feast, the people set up booths and tables after the harvest where they read Scripture, shared food together, and celebrated and remembered with one another what God had...

This week, Pastor Luke continued on with our “Get up and walk” series with a message out of John 6. Within this chapter, Jesus feeds the 5,000 and then makes four clarifying statements. Each of these statements begin with the words “truly, truly” which emphasizes their importance. What the people saw was the compassion of Jesus, but what they really needed was His clarity. 1. Jesus clarifies their...

This week, Pastor Matthew began a new sermon series called “get up and walk” out of John 5-11. Jesus didn’t replace the Jewish laws and customs, He fulfilled them. In doing so He offers us a new way of living in which we can get up and walk out of our sin, our unforgiveness, our hopelessness, and our former lives. The Gospels all show us what happens when the true King comes to earth. He didn’t co...

This week was World Mandate Sunday, and the last of our “2022: The Light has come” series out of Isaiah 60. Pastor Matthew preached with a focus on verses 1-11. If we want to change our nation, we have to pray. It is time for us as the church to arise, and shine and share the Gospel. If we want to live without regrets, we need to give it all to Jesus. There is going to be darkness, and until Jesus...

This week, Pastor Jermaine continued with our “2022: The light has come” series with a sermon about the responsibility of being called to be a light. He shared five points: 1. Intimacy We are called to remain in Jesus, to abide in Him. It’s an intimate knowing, which comes from proximity to Him. We reflect the light of the Lord, which is why we must remain close to Him. Pursuit of God through His...

This week, Pastor Matthew continued with our series “2022: The light has come,” out of Isaiah 60. When we step into the light, we become the agent of the world that allows the people around us to see Jesus more clearly. However, as we step into the light, it’s super important that we reflect the right light. If we reflect the right light, the world will see Jesus clearer and clearer as we become m...

This week, Pastor Matthew launched our “2022: The Light Has Come” series out of Isaiah 60. In our culture, we are so used to being individuals that we forget our individual decisions affect the community of believers, and the world around us. Our sin and disobedience doesn’t just hurt and cause death to us, but to those around us – wide ranging implications. In the same way, our obedience and righ...

This week, Pastor Luke shared a sermon on Matthew 6:24-25 with the title: “the danger of caring too much about the wrong things and too little about the right things.” In this passage, Jesus repeats the powerful and potent words of “do not worry.” Anxiety, worry, and fear are great dangers in our day and age – they cause depression, suicide, and a range of serious mental and physical health issues...

This week, Pastor Luke continued on with our Christmas series “The History Channel” with part three; covering the time period from 1800 to modern day. SECULAR Queen Victoria popularized Christmas in the 1800’s, and Charles Dickens wrote ‘the Christmas Carol’ in 1843. This invented ‘the spirit of Christmas’ and humanitarian efforts as the center of Christmas; effectively muddying the waters of the...