Thank you for all the good times. This is our last one and here is why.--- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/matt-hafer/messageSupport this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/matt-hafer/support

A sermon from Luke 17 --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/matt-hafer/messageSupport this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/matt-hafer/support

A way to live your life that is….different --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/matt-hafer/messageSupport this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/matt-hafer/support

Christmas is busy, it’s obligation after obligation, but what do we do to help that?--- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/matt-hafer/messageSupport this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/matt-hafer/support

I am on year 18 of ministry and I have learned a whole lot of what to do and what not to do. I’ve given hundreds of sermons and I’ve listen to hundreds and hundreds more there’s a few things I’ve learned.--- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/matt-hafer/messageSupport this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/sh…

Have you heard the phrase “Let’s go Brandon”? You can Google it, be careful though. Is it OK to say? Does it matter if we say it in a church service or at work? When is it OK to disagree with people an even bigger question is, how to disagree with people?--- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/matt-hafer/messageSupport …

Thanksgiving is overrated…or is it? What is it for and what is it not for?--- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/matt-hafer/messageSupport this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/matt-hafer/support

Allen Clark is pastor who got semi famous this past year for saying some pretty incredibly outrageous things from the pulpit. Why did this happen how do we prevent it and what is our duty when preaching the word of God?--- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/matt-hafer/messageSupport this podcast: https://podcasters.spo…

Sin, it’s the worst isn’t it? What do we do with our own and how do we channel that energy into helping other people --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/matt-hafer/messageSupport this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/matt-hafer/support

God has a grace that makes no sense sometimes --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/matt-hafer/messageSupport this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/matt-hafer/support

A sermon from 2 Timothy 2:1-13 --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/matt-hafer/messageSupport this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/matt-hafer/support

Life is not always awesome and sometimes, it hurts.--- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/matt-hafer/messageSupport this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/matt-hafer/support

Church numbers. Offering, attendance, what do they mean? What do we do with them?--- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/matt-hafer/messageSupport this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/matt-hafer/support

Mark 2:1-12 is a scripture that isn't about what you think it's about --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/matt-hafer/messageSupport this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/matt-hafer/support

What we won’t be about around here--- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/matt-hafer/messageSupport this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/matt-hafer/support

After over 9 months away, we are back.--- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/matt-hafer/messageSupport this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/matt-hafer/support

Capitol building, Trump, Biden, Jesus, Paul, Wonder Woman 84 and YOU--- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/matt-hafer/messageSupport this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/matt-hafer/support

Suffering is guaranteed for both the Christian and the non-Christian. It can’t be avoided, but, what do we do with it?--- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/matt-hafer/messageSupport this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/matt-hafer/support

A recent sermon on being Created. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/matt-hafer/messageSupport this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/matt-hafer/support

What is Christmas?--- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/matt-hafer/messageSupport this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/matt-hafer/support

What is the gospel? Why is sin so key to it?--- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/matt-hafer/messageSupport this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/matt-hafer/support

So many celebrity mega church church leaders have been in the news for all the wrong reasons the past few years. It hurts to see, but why does it happen? What can we learn?--- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/matt-hafer/messageSupport this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/matt-hafer/support…

I am not very woke. It isn’t that I don’t want to be, it’s that the Bible doesn’t lead me to be. But, why? And what leads me there?--- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/matt-hafer/messageSupport this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/matt-hafer/support

Do you feel anxious? Do you hate talking about it? Are you saved and yet still, lost? --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/matt-hafer/messageSupport this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/matt-hafer/support

We all have value. No matter how depressed, anxious, failing or lonely you feel. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/matt-hafer/messageSupport this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/matt-hafer/support

I have been through a lot of changes in my theology over the years one of these things is my views on Calvinism, and the whole concept of “Am good or not?”This brings me to today’s topic of are we good? And if we are what does that mean?--- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/matt-hafer/messageSupport this podcast: http…

I woke up at 1:30 AM the night of the election in 2020 not being able to sleep and completely grieved over so many things as a follower of Jesus in America. I am not saying you have to feel the way I do at all but this is where my hearts that right now and I had to capture it today.--- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/sho…

Do you long for a time that’s not this one? Maybe a time that was simple and there was less hates and there was less divide? The bad news for you is that time never did exist we have always been divided we have always had heat we have always had disagreements at most turns. So with that said if you are not feeling like you were made for the social …

Many of us grow up in the church and we know that God loves us that we’re not supposed to judge and we have this basic understanding of the Bible is probably true, and that’s good isn’t it? Maybe just maybe God wants so much more for us in our growth today we talk a bit about politics today we talk a bit about social justice we talk a whole lot abo…

We all have dreams we all have ideas of what the world would look like if we accomplished those dreams. But is that what we need is getting more money, more fame, being better looking the ultimate goal? If you leave the church is more people more money better services better lights all those things is that the goal?--- Send in a voice message: http…

I have these conversations with people I just met all the time and man its fun, up until they find out I am a pastor and then...it gets weird. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/matt-hafer/messageSupport this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/matt-hafer/support…

Two old rich white men verbally assaulted each other and embarrassed a nation on a Tuesday night in September 2020. What is more surprising, that it happened or that we were surprised that it happened?--- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/matt-hafer/messageSupport this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/…

Read Matthew 4, its not just a fun Halloween story to tell your buddies, it is a real historical event and its happening to use every single day. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/matt-hafer/messageSupport this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/matt-hafer/support…

Politics, religion, sports, movies.We take sides and destroy the opposition.Why?And even better, how do we stop?--- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/matt-hafer/messageSupport this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/matt-hafer/support

There is one thing a believer can do that is like playing with a lit stick of dynamite. This right here is it. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/matt-hafer/messageSupport this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/matt-hafer/support

Men hate to talk about their weakness, which is in fact a HUGE weakness.Guys, lets chat about how to take care of us. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/matt-hafer/messageSupport this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/matt-hafer/support

We all have idols we worship and this one is our biggest. (at least that's my OPINION.) --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/matt-hafer/messageSupport this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/matt-hafer/support

Church at the moment has a big old divide politically and socially. Is that bad?What is "woke"?--- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/matt-hafer/messageSupport this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/matt-hafer/support

I have this clipboard and COVID time ruined. It hurts.I have people in my life I love that are hurting. It hurts.Life can be one big OUCH. So what do we do?--- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/matt-hafer/messageSupport this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/matt-hafer/support…

Romantic comedies where the geek gets the girl.Iron Man kills Thanos.Ronald Reagan strikes down the commies.We love heroes, but why?--- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/matt-hafer/messageSupport this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/matt-hafer/support

Politics are Satanic and divide, we in the church need to get to know people and meet them where they are.Experience stuff. Discuss stuff. Love people. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/matt-hafer/messageSupport this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/matt-hafer/support…

I once quit full-time ministry and got a regular job. I got to choose what church to attend and volunteer for what I wanted to volunteer for, it was healing and it was awesome.And, It taught me to love the church. Here is my story. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/matt-hafer/messageSupport this podcast: https://p…

Racism. Politics. The "haves" and the "have-nots" Are we just animals getting what we get with an ever changing system of morals or is there something much, much more?--- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/matt-hafer/messageSupport this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/matt-hafer/support…

The Gospel, what is it?What does the Old Testament tell us?--- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/matt-hafer/messageSupport this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/matt-hafer/support

This is the hardest thing I have ever recorded or said publicly. It is not flattering for me as a leader, a Christian, a dad or a husband. I pray it is a big help to others whether you are planting a church, considering planting a church or just trying to keep what is important the main thing. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify…

I am not sure there is a more controversial word in the english language than "REPENT". It gives us an uneasy feeling. Is it a bad thing though?Is it a burden or is it a gift?--- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/matt-hafer/messageSupport this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/matt-hafer/support…

Monday we posted a bonus episode that contained a sermon and it blew up pretty big, at least to our show's standards and seeing this decided to post a sermon that deals with suffering which could not be more relevant to the times we are in right now. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/matt-hafer/messageSupport this…

A couple weeks ago I spoke on racism at our church and someone said "hey, you should put that up on the podcast" so, I said "okie dokie" Here it is. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/matt-hafer/messageSupport this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/matt-hafer/support…

Crappy cars and Psalm 139 have a whole lot to teach us.--- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/matt-hafer/messageSupport this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/matt-hafer/support

I apologize before you listen to this episode. I am sure I will offend many and confuse most. This episode has no real show notes, its just my story and my experiences. I am sorry for all involved, but, it is time for a change. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/matt-hafer/messageSupport this podcast: https://podca…