That Night the King Could Not Sleep :: November 23, 2025
Timing is everything. In so many areas of life, so much comes down to timing. What happened when. How fast something unfolded. What came first. What came last. What happened at just the right time…or at just the wrong time!…
Continue to Message...What Is Your Request? :: November 16, 2025
Queen Esther is about to do the bravest thing she has ever done. Queen Esther is about to embark on what might be, for her, a suicide mission. She is going to take her life into her own hands and…
Continue to Message...Who Knows? :: November 9, 2025
What was troubling Mordecai? By verse 5 of chapter 4, Queen Esther wants to know. But we already know what is troubling Mordecai: The genocide of the Jews has been placed on the calendar. Pastor Matt Mitchell preaching on Esther 4:1-17. Full…
Continue to Message...Bewildered :: November 2, 2025
I’ll be right up front with you. This chapter ends on a cliffhanger. You know, one of those moments where the hero of the story and their friends are in danger, hanging from a cliff, and you don’t know what’s…
Continue to Message...Hadassah :: October 26, 2025
“Where Is God?” That’s the title of our new series on this unique book of the Bible called, “Esther.” “Where is God?” That’s a question that we have all asked from time to time, and we have all felt in…
Continue to Message...The King Gave a Banquet :: October 19, 2025
You might be wondering why we are tackling the tale of Esther today. That’s a good question, and there are a lot of reasons why I thought this was the right next book for us as a church. Pastor…
Continue to Message...Graduation Sunday’s message has important advice for the Class of 2013: Keep your cool, don’t let yourself get carried away with anger, and be a patient person who calms a quarrel. In the final full message in our Tongue of…
Read MoreThis week, Pastor Matt tackles another type of reckless words that pierce like a sword: Lies Our key verse is Proverbs 26:28.“A lying tongue hates those it hurts, and a flattering mouth works ruin.” Pastor Matt shares three practical steps…
Read MoreLast Sunday, Pastor Matt talked about the difficulties of “Bad Words” in today’s culture. This week, he looks at “Good Words” that are often under-used and under-appreciated. When these words are spoken, at the right time and in the right…
Read MoreIt is hard to preach on ‘bad words’ these days. Everyone everywhere seems to speak them, and the internet and social media have just made it worse. It is now socially acceptable to use bad words, and many people do…
Read MoreThis next installment in our series “the Tongue of the Wise,” teaches us that we should praise our moms. What occurs on Mothers’ Day is right and has biblical reasoning. Praise your mom because: God Says to, Women Need the…
Read MoreContinuing with part two of our grumbling message, Pastor Matt uses Numbers 11 to teach us some important truths about complaining. God takes grumbling and rebellious complaining seriously because God is Holy. But the problem with complaining is not just…
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- “That Night the King Could Not Sleep” [Matt's Messages] November 23, 2025
- “What Is Your Request?” [Matt's Messages] November 16, 2025
- “Who Knows?” [Matt's Messages] November 9, 2025