Whitehall Baptist Church

JOHN 1:6-9 | SENT AS A WITNESS PART 2 EXPLANATION : Last week we began our look at John the Baptist who John the disciple and writer of this Gospel introduced us to. And there was one thing he wanted us to know about John the Baptist, and that is that he was a WITNESS We saw last week that John was commissioned…

JOHN 1:6-9 | SENT AS A WITNESS EXPLANATION : Last time, we saw as John, Jesus’s disciple began his book pointing our attention to Jesus Christ. He directed our hearts toward the reality that Jesus is truly God Jesus is eternal, creator, and the life. While the bulk of John’s book is spent directing our…

Text: 2 Timothy 1:3-5 | THE POWER OF A MOTHER’S FAITH INTRO EXPLANATION : Paul has reached the end of his life as he records 2 Timothy from a jail cell. The letter he is writing is intended for the one who the book is named after, a young man named Timothy. Timothy had begun to travel with Paul in Acts…

JOHN 1:1-5 | AN INTRODUCTION TO JESUS ILLUSTRATION : Introductions to people. I’m so nervous about talking to the person that I forget the most important part of the conversation… their name! EXPLANATION : The Gospel of John is one of the most fascinating books in all of the Bible. There is a unique…

TEXT: JOHN 20:24-29 | BLESSED ARE THEY THAT BELIEVE ME INTRODUCTION: HOW DO I STRUGGLE WITH THIS? How many of you in this room would say you are naturally a more skeptical person? Who would admit that you are more gullible and fall for things easily? Some of you are so skeptical you are refusing to raise…

TEXT: ROMAND 5:6-9 | CHRIST DIED FOR THE UNGODLY INTRO ILLUSTRATION : Nico and his brothers were climbing a mountain in New Zealand. He had met his family there during a school break, so he didn’t have all of his normal gear with him, but with the trekking poles and a warm jacket, he believed he would…

TEXT: REVELATION 19:20 | FROM ARMAGEDDON TO ETERNITY INTRO EXPLANATION : Last night we finished out service with the return of Christ at the Battle of Armageddon. We saw as this one-sided will be won with the spoken word of Jesus Christ. This battle will take place during that final 45 day period that…

TEXT: REVELATION 11:3-6 | THE TRIBULATION PART 2 INTRO EXPLANATION : Last time, we began our dive into the time following the rapture of the church. We walked through the tribulation period and saw the rise of the antichrist and the judgment of God poured out on the earth in the form of 7 Seal Judgments,…

TEXT: DANIEL 9:27 | THE TRIBULATION PART 1 INTRO Today’s message will be a different message In our last service we took a look at the rapture of the bride of Christ, the church. It will be the single most world impacting event since the death of Christ on the cross. In these next two services, I want…

TEXT: ACTS 1:9-11 | ARE YOU READY FOR THE RAPTURE And when he had spoken these things, while they beheld, he was taken up; and a cloud received him out of their sight. And while they looked stedfastly toward heaven as he went up, behold, two men stood by them in white apparel; Which also said, Ye men…

TEXT: GALATIANS 6:17-18 | MARKS OF A CHRISTIAN INTRO ILLUSTRATION : If you were to go to my families home in Indiana, to the house I grew up in and you pulled down the gravel drive to the front porch, you would have not question who house it was. Hanging above the steps just below the porch overhang…

TEXT: GALATIANS 6:11-16 | SUMMARIZED AND SIMPLIFIED INTRO ILLUSTRATION : I’ll never forget sitting down with an older gentlemen from the church I grew up in named Don. He had taken me and another young preacher boy from our church out for dinner at McDonalds and he wanted to impart some counsel to us.…

TEXT: GALATIANS 6:9-10 | DON’T QUIT INTRO ILLUSTRATION : The pancake breakfast at the first Saturday basketball practice of the year. As a first timer on the junior varsity squad, I was ready to quit! EXPLANATION : Paul is coming to the end of his letter to the Galatian churches. Following these two…

TEXT: GALATIANS 6:7-8 | SOWING AND REAPING INTRO ILLUSTRATION : Have you ever been truly surprised? Every time I walk into our house Tressa is surprised. I can tell her that I’m coming home and she still will be completely shocked when I turn the corner in our house. I pride myself on not being easily…

TEXT : GALATIANS 6:6 | DUTIES IN THE CHURCH INTRO Let him that is taught in the word communicate unto him that teacheth in all good things. ILLUSTRATION : Have you ever had to have an uncomfortable conversation about something? Or maybe just felt awkward talking about something? APPLICATION : The first…

TEXT: GALATIANS 6:2-5 | BEARING BURDENS Bear ye one another’s burdens, and so fulfil the law of Christ. For if a man think himself to be something, when he is nothing, he deceiveth himself. But let every man prove his own work, and then shall he have rejoicing in himself alone, and not in another. For…

TEXT: GALATIANS 6:1 | BIBLICAL RESTORATION INTRO ILLUSTRATION : EXPLANATION : It’s been a few weeks since we were last in the book of Galatians When we last found ourselves there, we were wrapping up chapter 5 and Paul’s teaching and challenge on the fruit of the Spirit vs the works of the flesh. As…

TEXT: GENESIS 37:5 | DON’T LOSE YOUR VISION ME INTRODUCTION: HOW DO I STRUGGLE WITH THIS? Every year as a teenager, before the start of football and basketball season, a trip to the doctor was required. I would walk in and they would grab the height and weight measurements for which you would stretch…

TEXT: 2 TIMOTHY 2:2 | DISCIPLE : MAKE MATURE MULTIPLY ME INTRODUCTION: HOW DO I STRUGGLE WITH THIS? I hate it when I forget things. I’m finding that the older I’m getting the easier it is to forget about stuff. I’ve reached that point where I find myself staring into the fridge because I forgot what…

TEXT: JOSHUA 14:6-14 | INTENTIONAL PURSUIT OF GOD EXPLANATION : 45 years before, Caleb and Joshua had returned from searching out the promised land and they delivered the news that while the giants were big, their God was bigger! It was Caleb who boldly proclaimed in Numbers 13:30 And Caleb stilled the…

TEXT: MATTHEW 2:1-11 | THE COST OF THE JOURNEY ME INTRODUCTION: HOW DO I STRUGGLE WITH THIS? God puts opposites together so many times. And that is true for Tressa and I. I am the spender in our family. How many of you are like me and you enjoy life, and having fun, and buying things? And I married a…