Whitehall Baptist Church

MATTHEW 22:37-40 | SERVE OTHERS, REACH PEOPLE ILLUSTRATION : Have you ever tried to learn to do something that didn’t come naturally? Learning to talk to people To some people this comes naturally. My mom has never met a stranger... I determined that I wanted to grow in this area and I became very intentional…

TEXT: MATTHEW 22:37-38 | LOVE GOD ILLUSTRATION : A couple weeks back our kids came how with a puzzle that had been loaned to them. We pulled out the card table for this great opportunity for some family time. And then I looked at the side of the box and it said 1000 pieces. We began to work through the…

Text: 2 TIMOTHY 4:6-8 | FINISH YOUR COURSE ILLUSTRATION: Dinner at Roy’s The pea pods The appetizer: Shrimp Skewers The Main Course: Lobster tail and Ribeye I ate the whole thing, there was nothing left. I finished my course! EXPLANATION: Paul was now being held in the Mamertine Prison It wasn’t like…

GENESIS 3:15 | ADAM AND EVE’S PERSPECTIVE ON CHRISTMAS ILLUSTRATION : I love Christmas I love everything about Christmas The lights The tree The gifts The get-togethers The songs I even like the claymations of the guy in the red suit and red hat. Many of my favorite memories surround this time of the…

JOHN 3:22-30 | THE CURE TO COMPARISON ILLUSTRATION : I married the queen of comparison. When it comes to shopping, she has never made an impulse purchase. For her the decision to buy something is scientific. She instinctively knows where every clearance rack is. I don’t know that she has ever paid full…

JOHN 3:16-21 | HINDSIGHT IS 20 /20 ILLUSTRATION : They say that hindsight is 20/20. You’ve probably heard someone say that before. Tressa and I had the blessing of getting away for about a week a few months back. And as part of our trip, I did something I don’t normally do… I scheduled our flight back…

JOHN 3:9-15 | REFUSE TO BELIEVE ILLUSTRATION : Have you ever refused to believe something? Tressa broke up with me the month before our senior year of college. But I refused to believe it. She made a decision I refused to participate in. For the first month of our Senior year, I was miserable. But finally,…

JOHN 3:1-8 | THE WIND OF THE SPIRIT ILLUSTRATION : Growing up I was fascinated with the wind. In particular, I was fascinated with tornados. I have shared before of my dreams to either be a NBA basketball player, a country music singer, or a Tornado chaser. When I was in 3rd grade we were given the assignment…

JOHN 2:13-25 | LESSONS IN JERUSALEM ILLUSTRATION : My high school basketball team My Junior year, our high school had one of the best teams in the history of our school There were 9 seniors on the team who had played together for years. So when my senior year came along there was an expectation that…

JOHN 2:1-11 | GLORIFYING OBEDIENCE ILLUSTRATION : There are some Christmas presents that you receive as a kid that you never forget. One of those for me was the year I received a magician set. I remember it came in a big black box and inside it there were a variety of items for various magic tricks.…

JOHN 1:40-51 | I WANT THAT ILLUSTRATION : When we go to the store with my kids there is a common statement the comes from the lips of my kids: I want that. They see the toys or the treats or the gum and they want it. And the truth is, very little changes as we get older. In your teen years it’s “I want…

JOHN 1:29-34 | THIS IS MY PURPOSE ME ILLUSTRATION : Things are created with a purpose. A basketball is created with a purpose A guitar is created with a purpose A pen is created with a purpose Now you can use these things that were created for other purposes than what they were created for. You can kick…

JOHN 1:24-28 | BAPTISM ISN’T ENOUGH ILLUSTRATION : Have you ever been confused before? If you’re married here today, you understand what that feels like. If you aren’t married… just you wait. When I was a senior in high school I had to take a math credit. I didn’t want to take calculus… the teacher that…

TEXT: ROMANS 1:19-25 | ARE YOU WORSHIPPING THE CREATOR ILLUSTRATION : We are not gardeners. But in an attempt to play pretend, this year I build raised bed garden boxes and put a fence around it to keep the animals out in an attempt to possibly grow and produce some fruit and vegetables. As we were filling…

JOHN 1:15-18 | OVERCOME BY JESUS ILLUSTRATION : I loved basketball in high school It was my passion. I had the privilege of playing on my high school basketball team as the starting point guard at Owen Valley High School in Spencer, IN We were the Patriots, and growing up in a small town, Friday nights…

JOHN 1:14 b | FULL OF GRACE AND TRUTH ILLUSTRATION : Just a couple weeks back we had wrapped up with family camp, but before we headed out the kids wanted to take one final walk up into the mountains to show us some things. There was just one problem, we had to cross the creek to get there. Now I have…

JOHN 1:14 b | BEHOLD THE GLORY ILLUSTRATION : Have you ever been uncomfortable? Hopefully not this morning! There are some places where I just naturally feel uncomfortable. Airplanes The back seat of a car A few years back I knew that I was going to be going hunting with Rick Price. I had bought a tent…

JOHN 1:14 a | JESUS UNDERSTANDS And the Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us, (and we beheld his glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father,) full of grace and truth. ILLUSTRATION : When Tressa and I got married, we went on our honeymoon to Orlando, FL. And the reason that we went there…

1 KINGS 17:8-16 | WHAT TO DO WHEN YOU DON’T KNOW WHAT TO DO READ V.8-12 ILLUSTRATION : I am a man… and I am therefore by nature, a fixer. When I was growing up, my dad seemed to always have the answers for what to do. To this day, I regularly will call my dad and ask him, what should I do about this?…

JOHN 1:10-13 | A GOSPEL SUMMARY ILLUSTRATION : When I was a senior in high school in my final term of the year, I needed just a few more credits to finish school As is sometimes the case for high school seniors in their final term, I was ready to turn off my brain and just be done. So when that final…