Woodburn Baptist Church: Sermons (audio)

The disciples face a hungry crowd and Jesus says, Feed them." It's an impossible situation. It'd take a miracle. And that's when miracles happen. It starts when you show up in frustration and ends when Jesus shows up in power.

The world needs a miracle. This country needs a miracle. I need a miracle, and so do you. Is Jesus still in the miracle working business? You better believe it!

Guest Preacher: Jason Dunbar James 5:13-16

Close your eyes. Picture heaven. If what you see is winged babies with harps on fluffy clouds, come back to the Bible. Our final home won't be off in the clouds. Heaven comes down to a renewed earth. God makes his eternal home with us.

You've heard of the great battle of Armageddon, but have you actually read what the Bible says about it? The armies of the world come together. But there's no war. They're fighting CHRIST. He flattens them with a single word from his mouth. And it's over.

Guest Preacher: Mac Cockrell

In the end what matters is faithfulness to Christ. Faithfulness unto death. So pray as if they're already coming for you. Read the Bible like they're about to tear it out of your hands. You'll never live for Jesus until you realize he's worth dying for.

Revelation begins with 7 report cards given to each of 7 local churches. Each church continues to bear Jesus' light in the world, even the lukewarm one, even the dead one. What kind of report card would Jesus issue to our church?

The final book of the Bible is meant to show you Jesus. If you read Revelation and come away more impressed by the Antichrist than the Christ , you read it wrong. Let's read Revelation together and look for Jesus, starting Sunday!

Guest Preacher: Matthew Betts

Luke 9:23-27

The preacher's gonna talk about money on Sunday. Why? Because money issues are heart issues. It's a rival god. And anything you can't talk about assumes even more controlling power in your life.

No matter how cool you are, your kids are going to think you're weird. Luckily, your job isn't to be the cool dad or the fun mom. Your job is to gradually transfer their dependence away from yourself, so they grow to depend solely upon God.

Heaven knows, our church has a 156-year history and many reasons to celebrate. And heaven knows, there is one single unchanging thing to celebrate most: when the lost gets found.

All of your questions won't be answered up front. Your life will still be messy, especially at first. Changes happen along the way. Following Jesus doesn't start with your perfection. It starts with his promise and a simple invitation. Follow him.

Say you came to faith as a child and your faith never grows. What happens when you take your itty-bitty God out into the great big world? Sooner or later your childish concept of God is going to get flattened. It's a necessary thing when your God is too small.

Some of us help the faith of others. Some of us hurt the faith of others. Some people who give up on Jesus never tried him in the first place. On their way to meeting him, they met us instead, and they turned away.

Sarah laughs at God. Moses says, " You've got the wrong guy." Gideon needs a sign. David cried and complains. Thomas doubts. And that's how you know that you 've found your people. Gods people. People of faith.

At church the unspoken rule is that you must keep doubts to yourself. Bury your questions. But when you bury questions and doubts alive, they haunt your faith forever.

How do you keep the faith when faith has a way of getting mucked up with doubt and disappointment? And why does nobody talk about this?