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2019-01-13: The Minor Prophets — Joel: Rend Your Heart

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Sermon Audio: Joel: Rend Your Heart
Speaker: Pastor Val Watkins
Scripture Text: Joel 1-3
Duration: 22:37
Size: 11.0 MB

The Minor Prophets
Joel: Rend Your Heart
Joel 1-3

You have this picture of a realization (or revelation), a turn around (repentance), and a restoration (a returning to God).

This realization can only come through the fresh revelation of God’s will.

The Israelites will never, ever, experience again, the true blessings of God, for their lives, until they realized their mistake and turn around.

His goal is repentance, not destruction. That’s why God is relentless in proclaiming the same message over and over again, through His prophets.

We see the INTENT of God’s judgement. God desires our repentance.

It really doesn’t matter what you do, if there is no change of heart, there is no repentance.

True repentance takes place because there is a turning to God–a revelation of God’s glory, His holiness.

That’s why daily time with God is important. Our worship of God is crucial. Close encounters with God bring repentance.

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2019-01-06: The Minor Prophets — Hosea: Relentless Love

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Sermon Audio: Hosea: Relentless Love
Speaker: Pastor Val Watkins
Scripture Text: Hosea 1-14
Duration: 20:55
Size: 10.2 MB

The Minor Prophets
Hosea: Relentless Love
Hosea 1-14

Hosea, a young preacher, is led by God to meet and woo and win a young woman by the name of Gomer.

Even though she has left the home, she has not left his heart.

But if you’re tempted to sit in judgment on Gomer, I remind you that that’s the way you and I have acted all of our lives.

God would not love you more than He loves you right now. It is the love that you would feel if you stand beneath the cross and see Jesus died for you.

Do you know how much He loves you? Are you in love with Him?

You come close, so close until you see your reflection around the pupil of His eye.

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2018-11-18: All In — Alabaster Jar, 30 Pieces of Silver, and the Cross

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Sermon Audio: All In — Alabaster Jar, 30 Pieces of Silver, and the Cross
Speaker: Pastor Val Watkins
Scripture Text: Matthew 26:6-16,36-46
Duration: 19:49
Size: 9.66 MB

All In
Alabaster Jar, 30 Pieces of Silver, and the Cross
Matthew 26:6-16,36-46

So I’ve given you pictures of what it looks like to go all in with God, to push all your chips to the middle of the table and say, God I belong to you.

It is understanding that it doesn’t start with what you can do for God, it starts with what God has done for you.

She wasn’t just pouring perfume on Jesus, She was giving her life to Jesus. She was offering her life to Jesus.

So when we give these gifts, of our tithes and offerings I hope you see it as an alabaster jay of perfume.

Jesus is alluding to the cup of wrath, sometimes it is called the cup of sorrow in the Old Testament.

Are you grateful today? Are you grateful today that He took our place, that He drank the cup that we deserve?

I don’t know what God is demanding or asking or prompting of you, but He gave everything, and that means we should be willing to give ourselves back to Him.

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2018-11-11: All In — Caleb

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Sermon Audio: All In — Caleb
Speaker: Pastor Val Watkins
Scripture Text: Joshua 14:6-14
Duration: 40:32
Size: 20.0 MB

All In
Caleb
Joshua 14:6-14

But 45 years later, God gives them a second chance. Aren’t you glad that God gives second chances?

Really, the difference between going all in and just holding out is, it really comes down to this, are you going to let fear dictate your decisions or are you going to let faith dictate your decisions?

Just try to imagine the conviction in his voice when he said this. This is the Braveheart moment. This is the Gladiator moment.

The simple answer to why he was as vigorous at 85 as he was at 40 is because his faith never diminished.

Abraham lived much of his life in Hebron and according to this tradition, he went to Hebron and fell prostrate on the ground and prayed on those gravesites where his ancestors were buried.

Do you see the history that we are a part of? It goes back to Noah that goes to Abraham that goes to Caleb. If Caleb is not all in, they never claim that promise and they never experience the miracle that God does.