Whitehall Baptist Church

JOHN 7:14-24 | TESTS IN THE TEMPLE ILLUSTRATION : My wife and I cook two very different ways. Tressa is the type of cook that measures everything when she cooks She pulls out the teaspoons and the tablespoons She uses the measuring cups for how much of each seasonings to use. And her food always turns…

JOHN 7:2 | THE FEAST OF TABERNACLES ILLUSTRATION : Tressa and I had just gotten married and we were traveling back from Indiana and we stopped in Minnesota to visit some of Tressa family. And it just so happened to land at the same time as a major event taking place: the Minnesota State Fair. Now, I…

JOHN 7:1-13 | DOING THINGS GOD’S WAY EXPLANATION : Around 6 or 7 months had passed by from the end of John 6 and the beginning of chapter 7. We know because chapter 6:4 points to the Passover in the spring, and John 7:2 , tells us they were preparing for the feast of tabernacles which took place in the…

JOHN 6:60-71 | WHAT WILL YOU DO WITH THE MESSAGE? ILLUSTRATION : Last week I shared of how I grew up listening to a lot of different preachers. And when you grow up going to church, you find that there are a lot of different responses to messages that were preached. I’ve seen people cry in response to…

JOHN 6:25-58 | COME, SEE, AND BELIEVE ILLUSTRATION : Do you have a favorite preacher to listen to? Maybe for some of you that seems random… but maybe some of you have a favorite to listen to. When I was a teenager, my favorite preachers to listen to were screamers There was one preacher who was an evangelist…

JOHN 6:27-34 | CONFIDENTLY WRONG ILLUSTRATION : Have you ever been confidently wrong? My mind goes back to the school days when public humiliation was encouraged by the teachers. Maybe you remember public humiliation Math flash card competitions Classroom spelling bees The worst: Public Reading You don’t…

JOHN 6:22-26 | SEEKING FOR JESUS ME ILLUSTRATION : I had to be under 10 years old when I got it. I don’t honestly remember where it came form or who got it for me. All I know if for a few weeks I carried a real, genuine, rabbit’s foot in my pocket. I remember it had a little chain that came off of it,…

JOHN 6:16-21 | IT IS I ILLUSTRATION : As a child, I had the blessing of having a mom who drove a school bus. For nearly the entirety of my school years, from early grade school all the way until I got my license and could drive myself to school, my mom was the school bus driver. There were definitely…

JOHN 6:11-13 | GOD’S GLORY IN THE FRAGMENTS ILLUSTRATION : I have been blessed with a father in law who is gifted in doing a lot of different things. Similarly to my dad, they both have the ability to figure things out and usually have an answer on how to fix whatever the issue is. When me father in…

JOHN 6:5-11 | ARE YOU WILLING? ILLUSTRATION : Tressa and Jaxon were going out on a date, just the two of them. Our kids love to go on mommy and daddy dates. I love those opportunities to spend that focused time with our kids… we don’t do it enough. Jaxon is learning to be a little gentleman and was looking…

TEXT: JOHN 6:1-7 | HE ALREADY KNOWS EXPLANATION : We’ve reached one of the most familiar stories in the Gospels. In fact, the event we are about to walk through is the only miracle that is recorded in all four Gospels: Matthew, Mark, Luke, and here in John Jesus finished the evidentiary claims and defenses…

TEXT: 2 SAMUEL 23:11-12 | A FATHER WHO STANDS ILLUSTRATION : If you could be any superhero, who would it be? I’ve grown up in a time where superhero movies were a major emphasis in our society. You could be Batman, who by day is a rich business owner, but then uses his money to acquire some of the coolest…

JOHN 5:31-47 | THE CASE IS CLOSED ILLUSTRATION : It was probably around 10 years ago now, I had received a summons for jury duty. I had never been on a jury before, so I was actually kind of looking forward to the event. I drove the hour plus drive all the way to Virginia City, and I got there a little…

TEXT: 2 CORINTHIANS 9:10-15 | THE MISSIONS MOTIVATION ILLUSTRATION : When you play sports, you get to sit through a lot of motivational speeches. Sometimes it was before a big game Other times it was at halftime after we hadn’t played so well. I can remember coaches getting angry and throwing things…

2 CORINTHIANS 9:5-8 | GETTERS, GOERS, AND GIVERS EXPLANATION : Last time we discussed how Paul had written to the churches at Corinth and challenged them because they said they love God, they said they were stirred to help the churches in Judea. But a year had passed and they had not kept their promise…

1 SAMUEL 1:1-2 | A DEDICATED MOTHER INTRODUCTION : Happy Mother’s Day I am thankful for the mother’s in my life. I’m grateful for my wife, who God has given me who is an incredible mother. My kids don’t even know how lucky they are to have the mother they have. To watch her as we raise our kids together…