Woodburn Baptist Church: Sermons (audio)

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?

Death ain't no joke. It's the one undisputed fact of life. Death wins every time. You die then you're dead. There's no coming back. Or so we thought. Easter changes everything!

When Jesus was on trial, Pilate offered the crowd a prisoner exchange. Jesus or Barabbas? One man lives, the other man dies. The choice was already made by Jesus himself, to die in the place of the guilty one.

A tourist went missing in Iceland. After hours of looking, the search party found her...IN THE SEARCH PARTY. She didn't realize she was the one they were looking for. Can a person be lost without even knowing it?

Blink and you will miss him, but there's a naked man that runs through Gethsemane as Jesus is arrested. Who is he? Why does the Bible include him? What does his desperate escape say about the cost of following Jesus?

He wasn't a traitor when he first followed Jesus, healed the sick, and cast out demons in his name. Jesus said there was a traitor among the 12 and nobody suspected Judas. How does a follower of Jesus become a servant of the devil? Could it happen to you?

You can do ordinary things every day. But when you have the chance to do something extraordinary for Jesus, don't let that moment pass you by. The common-sense crowd will criticize. The lukewarm crowd will try to quench your fire. Let nothing stop you.

Proverbs 6 gives a list of the 7 things God hates. Lying and murder are there, but what's at the top of the list? Looking down on other people.  If your attitude toward people is wrong, you can't be right with God.

So there's a rich man, who loves his wealth, drops dead, and his poor naked soul enters eternity. When Jesus tells the story, he calls the man a fool, and it makes you wonder: What make a person rich? and Who's Jesus calling a fool?

The Farmer-Guest Preacher Jason Dunbar

Most New Year's resolutions are  abandoned by the second Friday of January. We want change. We hope to change. But we never change. What's our problem? Why can't we make changes that stick?

Does faith seem easy for others but not for you? They have faith that burns like a fire while you are rubbing two sticks together with barely a spark?  But even a spark of faith is enough when you put your faith in Jesus.

When Life and Death Collide

One of the devil's biggest lies is, "You will never change." In Christ,  you're a new creation, full of freedom and possibility, but the devil tells you otherwise. So step out of the rut. God's about to do a new thing in your life!

Something must change, if 2023 is going to be different. You must change. The world says, "Be true to yourself." But what if being true to yourself is the worst thing you could possible do? Is there a better way? You bet.

Do This First

The Most Terrible Christmas Song Ever

Your prayers have no expiration date. Every prayer is answered in God's own time. He even answers the prayers you've prayed and forgotten. He'll still be answering some of your prayers after you're gone. So pray. Trust. And be amazed at God's faithfulness.

When I read the story of the Christmas shepherds, the passage raises a hundred questions. In this Sunday's message, I am going to ask all 100 of them. 

The Messiah was promised throughout the Old Testament, then it took 400 years before Jesus came. Why does God do things so slowly? He dwells  in eternity; time can't constrain him. Yet he's never late. Trust him even if you wait.