Each of us is called to be a disciple and make disciples. God has given us the home as a primary place to live out this command. This week we look at how to make disciples in our homes.By Rev. Shay Osborne

If you attend church, you might assume it's obvious that you follow Jesus. But what if someone challenged you to prove it? What would you say or do? Is there enough evidence to prove to yourself and others that you are a follower of Jesus?By Rev. Jerry Witte

I would imagine for some of us, maybe a lot of us, this is a new idea, so much emphasis on this one thing: making disciples. We might wonder, why, Why does Jesus need me to make His followers? I mean He made the first batch without me, and they did pretty good, so why now does He need me? Here’s the answer. He doesn’t need you. He lets you.…

Today is 4 weeks of 10. Last week we looked at the disciplines, the habits that help us grow in the Lord. And we were thinking about how we grow in the Lord because that’s our definition of a disciple: A disciple is someone growing in their relationship with Jesus and helping others to do the same. I hope you thought about your plan this week. We d…

Today is the 3rd in a series of 10 messages where we are seeking to understand the task Jesus left us with, the thing we are supposed to do until we die, or He returns: make disciples. We finished last week with a working definition of a disciple. A disciple is someone growing in their relationship with Jesus and helping others do the same. We can’…

Last week we began a 10-week series on discipleship. Three takeaways from that: 1) Jesus has called you to be a disciple, 2) Jesus has called you to make disciples; 3) We want to be a disciple-making church. The word disciple seems pretty big to Jesus. Do we know what a disciple is? I think about the only place we hear that word is when we hear 'di…

What would you like Jesus to find you doing, when He returns? Worshiping at church? Serving food at a homeless shelter? Praying and reading your Bible? On a mission trip? I think I’d feel pretty good with any of those, but what are the odds of Jesus returning while I am doing one of those things? Well, while I do hope He returns when I am doing one…

The night before Jesus showed us just how great God’s love for us is, before He was crucified for your sins and my sins; He was in the Upper Room with the disciples where He purposely did something to shape our lives and every relationship in it. Did it work? Is it shaping your life and relationships? I’m sure more than a few of us are kind of scra…

Dr. Hahn interviews our mission partners in Zimbabwe, Jeff and Tammy Scorziell.By Dr. Randall T. Hahn

Do we believe God has a purpose for us being here in America? Are we living like it? It seems God would have us to believe, have us to live like He has us in 2024 America on purpose. This idea can be applied to more than the nation we live in. It can be, should be applied to the family we are in, the school or job we are in, or really any situation…

You were a good mother, a bad mother, or an absent mother. You never got to be a mother. Your mother has recently passed. Whatever is our experience with that word, that position, that person; honoring is your healing. Honoring is your path. Honoring is your hope. Honoring is God's way for you.By Dr. Randall T. Hahn

Today, I want us to look at an event in the Bible where, in the midst of massive crowds, an individual meets someone who forever changed his life. We find it in Luke Chapter 19.By Rev. Mike Osborne

Today is the culmination of the last three weeks coming out of Easter. And we are going to address one of the most significant aspects of missions at our church. And that is partnerships. When possible, we develop partnerships for a variety of reasons, and we base our partnerships on Relationships, trust and common purpose or goal. Both overseas an…

I need (or we need as a church) to have a strategy. Not trying to sound business like or corporate, but there are a lot of needs and people out there and there is a limit on time, people and resources it would be impossible try and do everything. And somewhere along the way I am trusting that God has a plan.…

Already two weeks past Easter, but you remember we ended our Easter service asking the question, 'How does someone who possesses the good news that Jesus is alive, that I have been saved from sin, death, and hell; live?' What is the appropriate response to this good news? Last week we heard Jesus say, 'I am alive, go tell, go share.' And today we w…

Last week we celebrated the good news that Jesus is alive. Because He is alive, we can live eternally loved, forgiven, adopted by God, heaven as our home. That is incredible news, nothing more significant to our lives. What do we do with it? Jesus wants us to share it. It’s one thing to share my good news, but a whole other kind of joy and exciteme…

Good news! Good News! Good News! Jesus is alive, so we can live and live eternally! That’s not only good news, that’s the best, most important news there is. Sadly, it is not enjoyed by all. It’s not good news if one doesn’t believe it. It’s not good news if one is not aware of how bad the news was. I have done a lot of Easter messages on the belie…

The Last Supper is clearly the most special supper of all time, so special they brought Leonardo da Vinci in to paint it. It is a holy moment. It is a moment so deep in theology, in prophecy, in promise. And in the bigness and specialness of this moment, we can miss the humanness of this moment. Friends, sharing a meal, saying good-bye, and absolut…

I’ve always been intrigued by the layout of the gospel of John. We have 4 Gospels in the Bible that tell the story of the birth, life, death, and resurrection of Jesus. John does that in 21 chapters, and 5 of those chapters, chapters 13-17, are about what went on in the Upper Room that Thursday night before He was crucified. That means 24% of John …

Our giving, your giving means something to Jesus. It is not the actual amount, but that amount compared to what you have. There’s no command here to give everything you have.By Dr. Randall T. Hahn

What do you hear or see when you hear the word 'repent'? I think of a preacher, sweating, red in the face, yelling from a pulpit, 'Repent you heathen!' Repent sounds harsh, confrontational; and well, we should hear some of that in that word, but Jesus also has this word surrounded by good news. One is not usually announcing good news screaming and …

Today is the second to last in our series on marriage. We all know money matters. Money is big. It is big in our thoughts, our conversations, our work. And it is big every day. Most of us have a thought or a conversation about money way more than we do God. We think, talk, touch money every day. That’s true as an individual and true in marriage. In…

Fighting and disagreeing is such a great opportunity to do exactly what God has called us to do in a marriage, to submit and serve. Oh, sure we can do those things when we are not fighting, but that’s not really the challenge, or the growth, or the evidence that I actually am growing in Christlikeness, that I actually am filled with the Spirit. No,…

So far in this series we have said that marriage matters because it’s God’s design and because it gives us a unique opportunity to practice being like Jesus and experience how He loves us. We have said that kids matter because they are a valuable gift from the Lord and we have a valuable assignment to point them back to Him. And today is intimacy. …

Today is our third message in our marriage series with the first two saying, 'Marriage matters'. Now we can’t talk about marriage and not talk about kids. There is not a command that every individual must have a child, but there is a command given to humanity and marriage. A purpose of marriage is kids. A great purpose that costs a lot, and where t…

As we close the 21 days of prayer, I would like encourage us continue to pursue some spiritual disciplines. Now some you may wonder what exactly is a spiritual discipline? It isn't a term use very often. Well one definition is 'behaviors that help our spiritual growth and enable us to grow to spiritual maturity'. Spiritual disciplines should not be…

Why do we honor marriage? Because God is going to judge those who live outside His design. We could stop there, but why is God so big on His design. Last week we saw science struggle to say God’s design, God’s way works, but it did say it. It is worth making it work. So, live inside God’s design for love, sex, and marriage. But what if I told you t…

Last week I told you I would be doing 6 different sermon series this year, but a unifying theme: preparing to live in a culture that is increasingly anti-Christian, or maybe more positively said: being faithful to God in every environment. We do this by relying on the gospel, living the gospel, sharing the gospel, no matter the cost. As I tried to …

The American Christian has enjoyed an unprecedented life of ease. Out of all the followers of Christ over the last 2000 years, I am not sure what percentage of those would be 19th, 20th, 21st century Americans. Let’s say 15%. In that other 85%, it has been hard to be a Christian. There has been a great cost to following Christ, which He warned in L…

Some of us may be feeling that way today, like we are trying really hard to please God by doing things (coming to church and reading our bible and giving here and there) and we are about to beef up our efforts with our new year resolutions tonight, we are going to promise to read more, come to church more often, and we are trying and trying and it …

Today I am concluding 4 messages on meeting Jesus in the Christmas story told in the Bible by Matthew. We have met a Jesus who is the promised Messiah, the fulfillment all the prophecies. We’ve met a Jesus who is the Savior of our sins, and oh what a Savior! We have met a Jesus that is the very Son of God. And today we meet Him as our King.…

Mary and Joseph, if we can get past seeing them frozen in our manger scenes, they’re just two people, a young mom and dad, looking at a new baby. No doubt they see so much. Shepherds come in and later foreign dignitaries. Who are all these people and why are they coming to see their baby? That would certainly add to the big dreams and ideas. But th…

Do you need to be saved? We may feel bad or guilty over a certain sin, but that just highlights all the sins we don’t feel bad about. So even we who believe can have a shallow appreciation of what Jesus being our Savior means. Why am I thinking about understanding and appreciating Jesus as Savior? We have begun a Christmas series, and we are lookin…

Christmas is a people time: family, friends and even new family and new friends. We go to gatherings, events, parties, to be with people, even some we don’t like. With all this meeting at Christmas, wouldn’t it be travesty if we didn’t meet Jesus. If Christmas is about anything, it is about meeting God in Jesus. This Jesus out of whom is going to c…

Did you thank God this week for a kingdom that cannot be shaken? Interesting question when we look back over a week where we have given much thanks for things that can be shaken, can be lost. Nothing wrong with enjoying the temporary, but so much more important that our heart’s desire is the eternal. Either way, I am guessing a lot of us have heart…

Giving thanks may be the most important discipline of the Christian life. It is a discipline. We tend to think of it as a feeling that comes from getting or having good things. But biblical giving of thanks is a choice in all things; a daily choice that enables us to see God, love life and people. A daily choice that gives strength, hope, and the a…

Dr. Hance Dilbeck, President of Guidestone is our guest speaker as we go into several days of hosting the SBCV Annual Homecoming.By Dr. Hance Dilbeck, Jr.

Today we come to our 4th message on the life of Joseph, of course is a part of our study of Genesis. We have seen that Joseph’s life is a special life. It should make us want to watch, ask questions, learn. He has a profound ability to hold onto God regardless of his circumstances. He seems to enjoy a great relationship with the Lord, and the Lord …

More times than I can count I have wondered what God is doing. Funny thing, I don’t usually wonder that when things are going well. Shouldn’t we always want to know what God is doing? But we tend to be most concerned when we aren’t happy, when things are not going well. And we especially wonder that when we have been good, been praying, because the…

The Bible gives to us several provocative, sensual, steamy stories: David and Bathsheba, Samson and Delilah, and our story today Joseph and Potiphar’s wife. The first two stories give us lessons from failure. Joseph though, from success. Filled with sexual tension, possibly even wondering if God’s way even matters, we see with incredible clarity a …

Caring for the poor is very much a part of God’s heart, the heart of the Jewish faith, the heart of the Christian faith. Jesus makes it part of what it means to come follow Him. Now, there are lots of things that it means to follow Him, but helping the poor is one of only two things that is uniquely attached like this to what it means to follow Jes…

God doesn't cause people to sin. God doesn't make people sin. God isn't a bad God, but people sin of their own choosing, but Godis bigger than they are. And God is able to take even sinful people and things, and He, through providence, is able to work that out for His glory and our good.By Rev. Shay Osborne

Even when we know the blessing of trusting in God, we can slide right back to trusting in ourselves. As a matter of fact, we all do it, all the time. Self-sufficiency is our default mode when the alarm goes off every morning. In chapter 32 Jacob is returning home and in awe of what God has done for him and particularly now in God sending him home, …

It is all God’s grace. I have said that over and over through the lives of Abraham and now Isaac as God gives great promises and blessings. As we saw last week, even when Abraham and Isaac fail, God still comes through. It is His goodness, not ours. His grace, not our deservedness. He is faithful even when we are not. Which means at some point we m…

Our study today in Genesis brings us to one of the great promises of God: I will be with You. I hope we can understand what that means in Genesis 26, throughout the Bible, and what it means for us here today. So, turn to Genesis 26.By Dr. Randall T. Hahn

Last week we learned that God is comfortable with our discomfort. It can be a way of testing our faith, our obedience. And today we will see that God does test. God tested Abraham and is going to test you; you, me, all of us. It is not a multiple-choice, or true/false test. We’re not going to guess our way to a right answer. As a matter of fact, pr…

In Genesis 12 and 15 Abram is called Abram, but when we read the passage in Romans 4, he’s called Abraham. Why the name change? Also, from Romans 4, Paul describes Abraham as never wavering in his faith, so what is going on when he jumps the gun and has a child with Hagar. Good questions in which the answers have some real value to our faith walk t…

If God took the crucifixion of our Lord Jesus, which was the most wicked act conducted in the history of mankind and used it for His glory, the same thing is true for anything else we may go through in this world. God is sovereign and in complete control. God is able.By Rev. Rico Patterson

Rev. Jordan West, our Young Adults Pastor continues in Genesis 17 as we look at circumcision and it's importance in the Bible.By Rev. Jordan West

God made the heavens all by Himself… earth… animals… trees… you… me… everything, therefore He doesn’t need fleshly help in order to accomplish His will. All He wants us to do is simply believe/trust/wait on God. This is what Abraham & Sarah needed to learn, and same thing that we need learn. God’s way is the only way.…