Pleasant View Baptist Church - Bettendorf

Pastor Ed kicks off our verse by verse journey through the book of Esther by giving us some historical background and context for the setting while also outlining the overarching application we'll be focusing on in this series: Everyone has a story God is writing the story of your life The last chapter of your life has not been written yet Join us as we explore Esther 1:1-22 with the sermon A...

Joel Nelson from Converge North Central joins us to deliver a shortened message looking at the life of Leah. A lot of people look Jacob's favoritism towards his life Rachel in contrast to Leah, but Joel challenges us to look a little deeper, a little further into the story to see a better picture of how God cared for her.

Gerad Hall follows up on his sermon about " Avoiding the Double-Minded Life " with another message from the life of Samson. Disappointment is rampant in the experience of everyone and Gerad proposes a way forward for the Christ believer: how to think rightly about disappointment and how to avoid becoming its servant. Be encouraged to orient your life appropriately around God!

Pleasant View welcomes Gerad Hall to the pulpit as he takes us to Judges 14. We explore the life of Samson and the downfall his duplicitous life. Let your "yes" mean "yes" and your "no" mean "no" as we learn how to avoid living a double-minded life.

In the first part of Pastor's Ed's sermon series on Anger, we learned about where Anger comes from and this sermon addresses how we can tame that powerful emotion. This sermon series takes some inspiration from Dr. Gary Chapman's book on Anger.

With inspiration from Dr. Gary Chapman's Anger: Taming A Powerful Emotion, we take a look at the emotion of Anger as Pastor Ed preaches the sermon "Where Does Anger Come From?".

Its Father's Day in the US and Pastor Ed comes to the congregation with a message explaining "Why Marriage Works"

PVBC wraps up our study of the book of Galatians with an overview of the book. 

PVBC wraps up our walk through of the book of Galatians as Pastor Ed looks to Galatians 6:11 - 18 and shares that "Freedom Brings Christ Followers to Boast in the Cross Alone". The next lesson will wrap up the sermon series with an overview of Galatians.

PVBC returns to the book of Galatians for this Sunday before Memorial Day. Pastor Ed kicks off the first part of Galatians chapter 6 as he tells us how "Freedom Brings Responsibility to Care for One Another".

Darlene Line from Chosen People Ministries steps up to the pulpit at Pleasant View Baptist Church this week. Watch at: https://youtu.be/t6t4HG39B90

A Mother's Day Sermon - This Mother's Day Pastor Ed takes us to 1 Samuel and the story of Samuel's mother, Hannah.

Pastor Ed brings us a message from John 17: 13-21, "Jesus Desire for Christian Unity". This brief message was delivered on Pleasant View's annual Serve Sunday, when the congregation gathers for a shortened sermon before going out to volunteer and serve to local community.

"Freedom Comes by Consistently Walking in the Power of the Holy Spirit" that the message from this entry in the "Liberating Freedom" sermon series that walks us through the book of Galatians. This message takes us to Galatians 5:1-25.

We take time to listen to a special message from Pastor Ed that takes us to I Thessalonians 1:1 - 10 and helps us understand the distinguishing marks of "The Church That Pleases God "Watch at: https://youtu.be/jVEaBwyFdec File Downloads: https://dq5pwpg1q8ru0.cloudfront.net/2024/04/22/14/56/13/483e7104-1552-4c98-ad58-1174b9b0faeb/The%20Church%20That%20Pleases%20God%20PVBC%20sermon.%202024%20docx.p...

After a few weeks focusing on Palm Sunday and Easter, and having the chance to hear from some Converge missionaries, we are reopening the book of Galatians as Pastor Ed explores Galatians 4: 8 - 31 with warnings about the risk of "Moving from Freedom in Christ back to Spiritual Bondage".Watch at: https://youtu.be/9wwRf-9ah00 File Downloads: https://dq5pwpg1q8ru0.cloudfront.net/2024/04/17/16/07/19/...

Missionaries to Moldova - We are excited to welcome Roman and Emily Citac, Converge missionaries to Moldova, to the pulpit to share a message with the congregation of Pleasant View.

Easter Sermon 2024 - Some describe it as the Super Bowl Sunday of Christianity, the day that the Christ displayed His awesome power over death and rose from the grave after being buried for three days. On this Resurrection Sunday (also known as Easter Sunday), we gather to celebrate His victory and the opportunity of us to spend eternity with our savior. Pastor Ed takes us to I Corinthians 1-4 and...

We continue to survey the Gleanings of a Former Legalist during our Liberating Freedom sermon series. Watch at: https://youtu.be/SJ0NIPNRCeI File Downloads: https://dq5pwpg1q8ru0.cloudfront.net/2024/03/21/10/37/55/e56b6325-a168-4332-a474-5efa4c8a9a4b/The%20Gleanings%20of%20a%20Former%20Legalist%20Part%20Two%20sermon%20.pdf

It's time to pause our scripture by scripture walk through Galatians and take a couple of weeks to explore the Bible and how it relates to this book. Pastor Ed explores part one of "The Gleanings of a Former Legalist" from our Liberating Freedom sermon series. Watch at: https://youtu.be/qKUsydFlUeo File Downloads: https://dq5pwpg1q8ru0.cloudfront.net/2024/03/12/00/33/50/0dbc2bf2-cb86-44bb-a853-ae6...

Opening up our Bibles to the fourth chapter of Galatians, we join Pastor Ed for the sermon "Moving from Bondage to Freedom in Christ" which looks at Galatians 4:1 - 7.Watch at: https://youtu.be/aM9GVAU5oJk File Downloads: https://dq5pwpg1q8ru0.cloudfront.net/2024/03/05/12/07/07/fe104159-8d00-47d0-a3ba-3cd1ca6eaa52/Moving%20from%20Bondage%20to%20Freedom%20in%20Christ%20sermon%20docx.pdf

This week we learn about "The Purpose of the Covenant" as the sermon series "Liberating Free" continues taking us through the book of Galatians. Be ready to open up your Bibles to Galatians Galatians 3:15 - 29Watch at: https://youtu.be/a32G8z2s-2k File Downloads: https://dq5pwpg1q8ru0.cloudfront.net/2024/03/05/12/07/11/924b981b-993d-4cef-810e-49f530f87a3a/The%20Purpose%20of%20the%20Covenant%20serm...

We place a pause on our tour of Galatians to visit the book of Romans where Pastor Ed lays out "The New Testament Believer's Response and Responsibility to the Old Testament Law". Be ready to open your Bible to Romans 4.Watch at: https://youtu.be/6aaVkQawvIk File Downloads: https://dq5pwpg1q8ru0.cloudfront.net/2024/02/19/14/25/57/e8355128-0ba9-4b97-a01b-948ec2df0855/The%20New%20Testament%20Believe...

Our study of Galatians continues as Pastor Ed Hedding returns to the pulpit to deliver a message on Galatians 3:10 - 14, its the sermon "Salvation is by Faith Alone".Watch at: https://youtu.be/ogm2_Oic8zo File Downloads: https://dq5pwpg1q8ru0.cloudfront.net/2024/02/12/17/43/08/7a1ca092-a2df-4dce-afc2-1033955b3afb/Salvation%20is%20by%20Faith%20Alone%20sermon%20.pdf

Church elder Aaron Barfels continues his guest sermons in our series in the book of Galatians, it's "Christ Crucified - Why It Matters."Watch at: https://youtu.be/0g4Y89yxxeQ