God is holy. God is righteous. God is just. And God will not bless the prayer of the one who will not turn from his sins. God will not allow you to enjoy your sin and enjoy an unhindered prayer. Listen now to this message as we consider six hindrances to prayer and how to guard against them. Passage: Psalm 66:16-20, Isaiah 59:2 By: Kevin A. Pierpont https://archive.org/download/03-christmas-151227-john-1-15-18/05-Fresh-Start-160131-Psa66-16-20.mp3 Download MP3...
Feb 01, 2016
Too often believers have weak prayer lives because they have weak faith . But graciously God gives us examples of how to pray that inform and shape our faith and our praying. Listen now to this message as we explore these truths from Luke 11. Passage: Luke 11:1-12 By: Kevin A. Pierpont https://archive.org/download/03-christmas-151227-john-1-15-18/04-Fresh-Start-160124-Luke11-1-12.mp3 Download MP3...
Jan 25, 2016
God has given His children the privilege of prayer . Prayer is also a spiritual necessity. So the Bible commands believers to pray and then gives a multitude of example to follow. Listen now to this message from Luke 18. Passage: Luke 18:1-8 By: Kevin A. Pierpont https://archive.org/download/03-christmas-151227-john-1-15-18/03-Fresh-Start-160117-Luke18-1-8.mp3 Download MP3...
Jan 18, 2016
How can you guard yourself against false teaching ? How can you be properly equipped to live the life God has for you? God has given us the Bible so that we might be trained and equipped. God is speaking to us from His Word and if we’re going to be prepared to recognize false teaching and equipped to live, we need to read the Bible, we need to be trained by the Word. Listen now to this message from 1 Timothy 4:6. Passage: 1 Timothy 4:6 By: Kevin A. Pierpont https://archive.org/download/03-christ...
Jan 10, 2016
Many of us see each new year is an opportunity for a fresh start . But whether you make New Year resolutions or seriously commit yourself to change, I encouraging you to make the spiritual discipline of Bible reading a priority in the new year. The following sermon will encourage you to seek the joy of Bible reading in the year ahead. Listen now to this message from 2 Timothy 3:16-17. Passage: 2 Timothy 3:16-17 By: Kevin A. Pierpont https://archive.org/download/03-christmas-151227-john-1-15-18/0...
Jan 03, 2016
Jesus Christ makes God known . Jesus Christ reveals the father. Jesus: Son of God. Do you know the Son of God? Have you believed in the son of God for the forgiveness of your sins? No greater opportunity awaits you in this life than the opportunity that is yours in Jesus Christ to be forgiven your sins, saved, accepted, adopted into God’s family, and given eternal life. Listen now to this message as we learn these wonderful truths from John 1:15-18. Passage: John 1:15-18 By: Kevin A. Pierpont ht...
Dec 27, 2015
Much of the world that celebrates Christmas does not celebrate Christmas for the reasons we see in John 1. Many do not celebrate the Christ of Christmas. If Christians are going to celebrate Christmas John chapter 1 gives us a solid foundation for our celebrating. In fact we have reason to celebrate the birth of Christ every day. Listen now to this message from John 1:14. Passage: John 1:1-13 By: Kevin A. Pierpont https://archive.org/download/03-christmas-151227-john-1-15-18/02-Christmas-151220-...
Dec 20, 2015
Christmas. It’s a season for rejoicing and for celebrating. Many of us celebrate Christmas with lights, decorations, time with family and friends and gift-giving. We gather at Christmas to celebrate. Hopefully, we’re celebrating that Jesus came, God in human flesh. But not everyone celebrates Jesus at Christmas. Some receive the Christmas holiday but they don’t receive the Christ of Christmas. The passage before us calls us to go beyond celebrating to believing in and receiving Christ. And to th...
Dec 13, 2015
What does God want from you ? He wants your devotion, your all, your heart, your life. And though this sounds like a lot of giving up of yourself, that is just what God knows is for your good. He will never fail to equip you with everything good if you will keep your life centered on Jesus who is better than all. What God wants is you. We consider this as we examine Hebrews 13:15-25. Listen now. Passage: Hebrews 13:15-25 By: Kevin A. Pierpont https://archive.org/download/hebrews2014-2015/049-201...
Dec 07, 2015
The book of Hebrews is a call to not give your life to anyone or anything else but to Christ. Hebrews calls you to seek to serve Christ and honor Him with your whole life. We consider this truth as we examine Hebrews 13:8-14. Listen now to this message. Passage: Hebrews 13:8-14 By: Kevin A. Pierpont https://archive.org/download/hebrews2014-2015/048-2015-11-29-Heb-13-8-14.mp3 Download MP3...
Nov 29, 2015
With faith fixed on Christ , believers are to remember and listen to their leaders who teach them the Bible, they are to follow their Godly example and imitate their growing faith. This is the instruction to consider as we examine Hebrews 13:7. Listen now to this message. Passage: Hebrews 13:7 By: Kevin A. Pierpont https://archive.org/download/hebrews2014-2015/047-2015-11-22-Heb-13-7.mp3 Download MP3...
Nov 22, 2015
Believers in Jesus are to be devoted to their spouse . Love your marriage. Love your spouse. Honor God. Guard yourself against pornography and even romantic media that will set you up for discontentment with your spouse or your future spouse. Living by faith in Jesus who is better than all means honoring God’s creation of marriage and loving your spouse. Even the spouse you don’t know yet, single people. Singles, honor God’s gift of marriage and prepare yourself and keep yourself for the spouse ...
Nov 16, 2015
God’s people are to have a love for one another that moves beyond feelings, because as any two people can tell you who’ve spent a lot of time together it’s not always automatic that you feel love for one another. That’s why God’s Word commands us to love one another. We will need to choose to love, even when we don’t feel like it. Listen now as we examine these truths in Hebrews 13:1-3. Passage: Hebrews 13:1-3 By: Kevin A. Pierpont https://archive.org/download/hebrews2014-2015/045-2015-11-08-Heb...
Nov 08, 2015
Those who have trusted in Jesus Christ should praise God that He is a speaking God. He has spoken to us through His Son. He is speaking to us from His Word, the Bible. Listen now as we consider these wonderful truths in Hebrews 12:18-29. Passage: Hebrews 12:18-29 By: Kevin A. Pierpont https://archive.org/download/hebrews2014-2015/044-2015-11-01-Heb-12-18-29.mp3 Download MP3...
Nov 01, 2015
Believers are to work hard for peace with others, and for holiness before God. These are essential to living the Christian life. The Christian life is hard. So we will need a faith that endures. And for our faith to endure we will also need the help of our fellow believers in the church. Listen now as we examine the truths in Hebrews 12:12-17. Passage: Hebrews 12:12-17 By: Kevin A. Pierpont https://archive.org/download/hebrews2014-2015/043-2015-10-25-Heb-12-12-17.mp3 Download MP3...
Oct 25, 2015
Hebrews chapter 12 is a description of what it will take to live the Christian life, a life of faith in the Lord Jesus Christ, a life of enduring faith. Listen along as we examine the truths of Hebrews 12:1-11. Passage: Hebrews 12:1-11 By: Kevin A. Pierpont https://archive.org/download/hebrews2014-2015/042-20151018-Heb-12-1-11.mp3 Download MP3...
Oct 18, 2015
Faith believes that God does the impossible. And by faith God helps you endure the impossible. Listen along as we discover these encouraging truths of Hebrews 11:30-40. Passage: Hebrews 11:30-40 By: Kevin A. Pierpont https://archive.org/download/hebrews2014-2015/041-20151011-Heb-11-30-40.mp3 Download MP3...
Oct 12, 2015
Faith is not the absence of the temptation to fear , but faith in the Lord Jesus Christ means that we make conscious choices to honor and obey God no matter what the apparent outcome or consequences. Listen now as we examine the truths of Hebrews 11:20-29. Passage: Hebrews 11:20-29 By: Kevin A. Pierpont https://archive.org/download/hebrews2014-2015/040-20151004-Heb-11-20-29.mp3 Download MP3...
Oct 04, 2015
The examples of Sarah and Abraham teach us clearly what it looks like to live by faith. Sarah trusted God and had faith in her promise keeping, life giving, God. And Abraham trusted God and had faith in His promise keeping and life giving God. Listen now as we consider these examples seen in Hebrews 11:8-19. Passage: Hebrews 11:8-19 By: Kevin A. Pierpont https://archive.org/download/hebrews2014-2015/039-20150927-Heb-11-8-19.mp3 Download MP3...
Sep 27, 2015
How does God intend for us to hold fast as we live the Christian life? Hebrews chapter 11 holds the answer. And the answer is faith. By faith is how God intends for us to live the Christian life. And faith is the repeated theme of chapter 11. Listen now as we consider the truths of Hebrews 11:1-7. Passage: Hebrews 11:1-7 By: Kevin A. Pierpont https://archive.org/download/hebrews2014-2015/038-20150920-Heb-11-1-7.mp3 Download MP3...
Sep 20, 2015
How wonderful the good news of the Gospel . How wonderful that Jesus is better than all. And this truth should change everything for us. Listen now as we consider these wonderful truths of Hebrews 10:26-39. Passage: Hebrews 10:26-39 By: Kevin A. Pierpont https://archive.org/download/hebrews2014-2015/037-20150913-Heb-10-26-39.mp3 Download MP3...
Sep 13, 2015
How wonderful the good news of the Gospel . How wonderful that Jesus is better. And this wonderful truth should change everything for us. Listen now as we consider the wonderful truths of Hebrews 10:19-25. Passage: Hebrews 10:19-25 By: Kevin A. Pierpont https://archive.org/download/hebrews2014-2015/036-20150906-Heb-10-19-25.mp3 Download MP3...
Sep 06, 2015
The Lord Jesus Christ is the Great High Priest because by the sacrifice of Himself He forgives sin and remembers our sins and lawless deeds no more, choosing never to hold our sins against us if our faith is in Him. Listen along as we consider this rich passage in Hebrews 10:1-18. Passage: Hebrews 10:1-18 By: Kevin A. Pierpont https://archive.org/download/hebrews2014-2015/035-20150830-Heb-10-1-18.mp3 Download MP3...
Aug 30, 2015
By His death Jesus is the better priest of the better covenant . Listen along as we study Hebrews 9:15-28 to discover why this is true. Passage: Hebrews 9:15-28 By: Kevin A. Pierpont https://archive.org/download/hebrews2014-2015/034-20150823-Heb-9-15-28.mp3 Download MP3
Aug 23, 2015
We all have something to feel guilty about and no one has the ability to clear their own conscience. This would be a disheartening truth were it not for the truth of the Gospel of the Lord Jesus Christ who brings peace — not only peace with God but peace with ourselves. Listen along as we look at Hebrews 9:1-14. Passage: Hebrews 9:1-14 By: Kevin A. Pierpont https://archive.org/download/hebrews2014-2015/033-20150802-Heb-9-1-14pt2.mp3 Download MP3...
Aug 02, 2015
The message of that wonderful old hymn, Nothing But the Blood , is clear just as God’s Word is clear — only the shed blood of Christ can wash away my sin. Nothing else. “Naught of good that I have done”, says a line from that hymn, reminding us that no amount of good works can earn forgiveness of sin. “Nothing but the blood of Jesus.” Listen along as we look at Hebrews 9:1-14. Passage: Hebrews 9:1-14 By: Kevin A. Pierpont https://archive.org/download/hebrews2014-2015/032-20150726-Heb-9-1-14.mp3 ...
Jul 26, 2015
We can praise God for the better covenant and the better promises, kept by the one who is better than all, the Lord Jesus Christ. Listen along as we look at Hebrews 8:6-13. Passage: Hebrews 8:6-13 By: Kevin A. Pierpont https://archive.org/download/hebrews2014-2015/031-20150705-Heb-8-6-13.mp3 Download MP3...
Jul 05, 2015
What is the priority for believers living in a culture that continues to rapidly shift from God’s design and standard for marriage and the home? God gives us direction in His Word. Follow along in this study from Matthew 22:34-40. Passage: Matthew 22:34-40 By: Kevin A. Pierpont https://archive.org/download/03-christmas-151227-john-1-15-18/20150628-Mat-22-34-40.mp3 Download MP3...
Jun 28, 2015
Jesus is our only hope and our all because He is better than all and everything. Follow along as we learn from the great truths of Hebrews 8:1-5 that we can look to Jesus, we can trust in Him, believe in Him and look to Him as our only hope because He is alive and ministering from the true tabernacle, the heavenly tabernacle. Passage: Hebrews 8:1-5 By: Kevin A. Pierpont https://archive.org/download/hebrews2014-2015/030-20150621-Heb-8-1-5.mp3 Download MP3...
Jun 22, 2015
We need not trust in ourselves , our own abilities, to make us right with God. God’s Word calls us to trust in the Lord Jesus Christ because He is our only hope for being right with God. Listen now to this message from Hebrews 7:20-28 as we explore this truth. Passage: Hebrews 7:20-28 By: Kevin A. Pierpont https://archive.org/download/hebrews2014-2015/029-20150614-Heb-7-20-28.mp3 Download MP3...
Jun 15, 2015
