Sermons by Pastor Brad Belcher

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There are many churches that have become ineffective in their ministry as they have lost their vision and mission. But the main thing is to keep the main thing the main thing. The main thing by God’s grace is to make disciples who make disciples for the glory of God. Our Mission is to make disciples. Our Motive is love. God’s chosen Method of disciplemaking is through the church. It’s time to get into the game.
We need to do all we can to help our children find a godly spouse. We can help our children look for Christ-like character qualities in a future mate. As parents we can honor God as we raise our children, ​doing all we can to help them prepare ​for what God has for them. ​
​God will surely test our faith from time to time. But He alone is worthy of our worship as He is the provider of all that we need. We need to make ourselves available to His loving work in our lives, laying everything on the altar as we eagerly comply with His call on our lives.
We don’t need to fear our circumstances, our future or other people. Rather, we need to fear God and God alone with a reverential awe. His love and compassion for us will dispel our fears. We can know with certainty that He will hear our cries, lift us up, and open our eyes to see​ Him for all that He is to us.​
There are so many around us who just don’t realize what is at stake for them with regard to the moral decisions that they are making apart from God. How we respond to God is a matter of life and death. As God is in the process of saving us from the destructive power of sin through our faith in Christ, we need to do all that we can to help others know that He is our rescue.
God is in the process of revealing Himself to us. He has chosen us for His divine purposes and reassured us with His promises. But there are those around us who are in grave danger of facing eternal consequences from a Holy and just God. We need to earnestly pray for those who are in harm’s way.
God has committed Himself to us through Christ. Jesus demonstrated His commitment to us through laying down His life for us so that we may live. He is now calling us into a holy commitment to Him where He is purposing to adopt us, bless us, multiply us and make us a new creation. ​In light of His commitment to us, how should we ​demonstrate our commitment to Him?
All of us are seduced by moral compromise when we don’t trust God for our deliverance. But we desperately need to count the cost of our catastrophic moral failures as a people. For us to find our way through all of this we need to do all we can to rest on God’s promises while seeking to abide in His presence no matter what.
Where there is doubt there is skepticism, weakness and hesitation. But in His presence, there is truth, comfort, protection and reward. By God’s grace we are justified before God through our belief. We can believe God because He has demonstrated His commitment ​to us in no uncertain terms.
All of us have loved ones who are being held hostage by evil forces. We need to develop and implement strategies to rescue our loved ones. By God’s grace we do have someone who is willing to intercede on our behalf in the midst of our battles. He will meet us right where we are. He is the ultimate source of our blessing and victory in life. He is worthy of our devotion, submission and dependence as we endeavor to be all things to all people that ​some may be saved.
Conflicts can arise over almost anything. But by God’s grace, we can overcome conflict by passionately pursuing peace with others, by turning away from being impulsive and selfish people, by seeking God’s honor through the pursuit of peace and by faithfully walking with God.​
Even as God uses sovereign circumstances to guide us in new directions we can still trust God with what is true. We don’t need to speculate about our future or manipulate our circumstances. Unfortunately, when we don’t trust God with the truth we end up risking everything. When we misrepresent the truth we put our families, our resources, our relationships, our future, and our testimony at risk. Instead, we need to do all we can to faithfully call on the name of the LORD with integrity knowing that ​all we have is from Him.​
We need to listen to God’s call on our lives making sure we are where He wants us to be. As we listen to His voice and follow His leading, He promises to direct our paths, bless us, and build us up in our faith. We need to do all we can to be a blessing to everyone around us, faithfully living under His clear direction. God is the one who will make us a blessing to others. He is the one who will protect us. He is the one who will lift us up to use us in a mighty way for His ultimate glory.
We all know what it means to rebel against God. We rebel against God when we go our own direction, when we disobey His commandments, when we don’t seek His guidance, when we seek our own self-interests and when we merely seek our own security. The reality is that God will always see through our rebellion. He knows how rebellious we could be and He can make things even more difficult for us in our rebellion. But I am thankful as we follow Christ that in the end God will always have His way with us to the praise of the glory of His grace.
Our ongoing rebellion against God has brought about national separation, corrupt political leadership, family division and cultural strife. God continues to overcome these conflicts by drawing people to Himself from every nation, tribe and tongue through the Lamb of God who takes away the sin of the world.
The resurrection of Christ is central to the gospel message. After the resurrection, Jesus appeared to many people. It makes no sense to say that Jesus rose from the dead if there is no resurrection of the dead. But Christ has been raised from the dead.
Surely goodness and mercy shall follow me all the days of my life, and I shall dwell in the house of the Lord forever.
What legacy will you leave with your family as you lead? If you do not lead your family, you and your family will suffer. If you do not lead, don’t expect anyone to follow. With Christ’s help, we should do all we can to leave a legacy of hard work, sobriety, sexual purity, training in righteousness, Godly discipline, and a life ​completely surrendered to God.
Our recovery after the storm begins with worship. We can begin again under God’s favor. We can begin again under God’s blessing. We can begin again under God’s promises.
Our Heavenly Father has warned us about the wrath to come. But at the same time, He has offered His divine protection and provision in the midst of the storms we face. By God's grace He offers His immediate care for us in the midst of every storm. We need to simply enter into His gracious protection where He promises to shelter us and lift us above every circumstance. He will remember us as He leads us to a new beginning after the storm.