Wawasee Bible Sermon Audio

Part 1 - SERIES: Bookends The first chapters of Genesis and the final chapters of Revelation form strikingly parallel bookends to God’s Story. In this series we’re comparing the two, seeing how God began everything and how he’ll ensure that his original intentions will come to fruition in the end. This week we look at creation, and God’s plan to go from Creation to New Creation. All of it begs the question, “How big is your God?” If he’s big enough to speak the universe into existence, and if he’s big enough to ensure everything will go as he’s planned in the end, is he big enough for you to trust in the day to day chaos and struggle of your own life?

Easter 2022 | Eyes Opened On the afternoon of his resurrection Jesus took a walk with a couple of his disciples. But it wasn't until they made it to their destination that they recognized who he was. On their 2+ hour journey, Jesus explained to them how all of the Old Testament points to him. Then, finally, their eyes were opened and they realized who he was. In the same way Jesus encounters us to prove who he is and open our eyes!

Part 3 - SERIES: Famous Last Words Famous Last Words | Part 3: Jesus's Famous Surrender We're in a short series looking at some of Jesus's final words before his death on the cross. This week we see his famous surrender when he said, "Father, into your hands I commit my spirit," just before he breathed his last. Pastor Dave leads us to see that like Jesus we can run to the Father and put our life in his hands, no matter the circumstances. And we should remember that just like Jesus, after surrender comes resurrection and new life.

Part 2 - SERIES: Famous Last Words Famous Last Words | Part 2: Jesus’s Famous Pardon A person's last words matter, and are often some of their most remembered words. It's no different with Jesus. In this short series we're looking at some of his famous last words. In Scripture there are 7 phrases recorded that Jesus uttered from the cross. This week we look at 4 of them and will see that God’s forgiveness is costly, but given freely and completely to any who would turn to Jesus in faith.

Part 1 - SERIES: Famous Last Words A person's last words matter, and are often some of their most remembered words. It's no different with Jesus. In this short series we're looking at some of his famous last words. This week Tom Speicher leads us through Jesus's prayer the night before he was crucified in John 17. We see him pray for himself, pray for the apostles, and pray for us—his church.

Part 10 - SERIES: Grounded We believe that God commands everyone everywhere to believe the gospel by turning to Him in repentance and receiving the Lord Jesus Christ. We believe that God will raise the dead bodily and judge the world, assigning the unbeliever to condemnation and eternal conscious punishment and the believer to eternal blessedness and joy with the Lord in the new heaven and the new earth, to the praise of His glorious grace. Amen.

Part 9 - SERIES: Grounded We believe in the personal, bodily and glorious return of our Lord Jesus Christ. The coming of Christ, at a time known only to God, demands constant expectancy and, as our blessed hope, motivates the believer to godly living, sacrificial service and energetic mission.

Part 8 - SERIES: Grounded We believe that God's justifying grace must not be separated from His sanctifying power and purpose. God commands us to love Him supremely and others sacrificially, and to live out our faith with care for one another, compassion toward the poor and justice for the oppressed. With God’s Word, the Spirit’s power, and fervent prayer in Christ’s name, we are to combat the spiritual forces of evil. In obedience to Christ’s commission, we are to make disciples among all people, always bearing witness to the gospel in word and deed.

Part 7 - SERIES: Grounded We believe that the true church comprises all who have been justified by God's grace through faith alone in Christ alone. They are united by the Holy Spirit in the body of Christ, of which He is the Head. The true church is manifest in local churches, whose membership should be composed only of believers. The Lord Jesus mandated two ordinances, baptism and the Lord’s Supper, which visibly and tangibly express the gospel. Though they are not the means of salvation, when celebrated by the church in genuine faith, these ordinances confirm and nourish the believer.

Part 6 - SERIES: Grounded We believe that the Holy Spirit, in all that He does, glorifies the Lord Jesus Christ. He convicts the world of its guilt. He regenerates sinners, and in Him they are baptized into union with Christ and adopted as heirs in the family of God. He also indwells, illuminates, guides, equips and empowers believers for Christ-like living and service.

Part 5 - SERIES: Grounded We believe that Jesus Christ, as our representative and substitute, shed His blood on the cross as the perfect, all-sufficient sacrifice for our sins. His atoning death and victorious resurrection constitute the only ground for salvation. Pastor Josh teaches through the Day of Atonement from Leviticus 16.

Part 4 - SERIES: Grounded Grounded | Part 4: Grounded in Christ We believe that Jesus Christ is God incarnate, fully God and fully man, one Person in two natures. Jesus—Israel's promised Messiah—was conceived through the Holy Spirit and born of the virgin Mary. He lived a sinless life, was crucified under Pontius Pilate, arose bodily from the dead, ascended into heaven and sits at the right hand of God the Father as our High Priest and Advocate.

Part 3 - SERIES Grounded Grounded | Part 3: Grounded in Despair We believe that God created Adam and Eve in His image, but they sinned when tempted by Satan. In union with Adam, human beings are sinners by nature and by choice, alienated from God, and under His wrath. Only through God’s saving work in Jesus Christ can we be rescued, reconciled and renewed.

Part 2 - SERIES: Grounded We believe that God has spoken in the Scriptures, both Old and New Testaments, through the words of human authors. As the verbally inspired Word of God, the Bible is without error in the original writings, the complete revelation of His will for salvation, and the ultimate authority by which every realm of human knowledge and endeavor should be judged. Therefore, it is to be believed in all that it teaches, obeyed in all that it requires, and trusted in all that it promises.

Part 1 - SERIES: Grounded Grounded in God There's a number of things in life we can take for granted. In the same way, we can take for granted some of the essentials of our faith and spiritual lives. In this 10-week series we're using our Statement of Faith as a guide as we dig deeper into the essentials of what we believe and why they matter to everyday life. We begin by looking at who God is.

Jesus the Benefactor

A Whole Heart & A Willing Mind

Part 5 - SERIES: Generous God's generosity includes his forgiveness, and God is the most generous forgiver of all time. Forgiveness is an act of generosity that's free to the recipient, but always costly to the giver. Because God has so generously forgiven us, we must learn to forgive each other. Pastor Josh walks through 3 things forgiveness is NOT and 3 things forgiveness IS that he learned from another pastor, and have proved to be helpful.

Christmas Eve 2021 "She will bear a son, and you shall call his name Jesus, for he will save his people from their sins." Jesus was born to save you, heal you, rescue you, and preserve you from your sins and their affects.

Blue Christmas 2021 Blue Christmas is a special service for anyone struggling with loss or loneliness during the holidays. This year Pastor Josh leads us in a devotional, acknowledging the hard things in life, while trusting that God can and will use them to create beauty in the future, much like the knots in a tree.