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“You Did Not Know Me” Sermon. Sunday, 3/29/2026.

Palm Sunday
The Ark of Titus
The Wailing Wall
The Outer Darkness
The Most Important Thing 
Scripture Title: Palm Sunday, You Did Not Know Me
Scripture Reading: Luke‬ ‭19‬:‭37‬-‭44‬ “When he came near the place where the road goes down the Mount of Olives, the whole crowd of disciples began joyfully to praise God in loud voices for all the miracles they had seen: “Blessed is the king who comes in the name of the Lord!” “Peace in heaven and glory in the highest!” Some of the Pharisees in the crowd said to Jesus, “Teacher, rebuke your disciples!” “I tell you,” he replied, “if they keep quiet, the stones will cry out.” As he approached Jerusalem and saw the city, he wept over it and said, “If you, even you, had only known on this day what would bring you peace—but now it is hidden from your eyes. The days will come upon you when your enemies will build an embankment against you and encircle you and hem you in on every side. They will dash you to the ground, you and the children within your walls. They will not leave one stone on another, because you did not recognize the time of God’s coming to you.””
Sermon Summary:
In our Bible reading today, Jesus, the son of God, was traveling into Jerusalem for the very last time before he would die on the cross for the sins of the world. His disciples began to sing and celebrate his arrival into Jerusalem. People waved palm branches as a sign that he was the Messiah. Yet many in Israel did not understand that he was the Son of God. Jesus wept at the sight of the city because He knew that their eyes were blinded to who he really was. Only his disciples fully understood who He was.
After the resurrection of Christ, that handful of disciples spread to all over the world. Today, 1/3 of the world, 7 billion people, claim Christianity as their central belief system. Christianity has spread to every continent and every island in the world. The Bible is now available in every major language group and through the internet, the truth about Jesus is available all over this world. In American culture, there is a church in every major town. In a theological study by lifeway research, 71% of Americans believe in God but 49% said Jesus was a great teacher but not God. Jesus is right before our eyes, yet there are still so many who have not recognized Him. God does not desire that anyone should perish. Christ’s desire is that every person would know Him as their Lord and Savior, be forgiven and have eternal life. Now is the time to respond by inviting Him into our hearts through prayer. Some of us are believers but we haven’t stepped out in faith. We haven’t joined the movement of Jesus and been about His work. Commit to being at His service, join a church and get involved in making Jesus known.
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“The Call of Abraham” sermon. Sunday, 3/22/2026.

Answering the Call
Journey to Salvation
Seeing Through Gods Eyes
Fellowship as a Team Sport
SermonSermon Series: Lessons in Genesis
Scripture Title: The Call of Abraham
Scripture Reading: Genesis‬ ‭12‬:‭1‬-‭5‬ ‭ “The Lord had said to Abram, “Go from your country, your people and your father’s household to the land I will show you. “I will make you into a great nation, and I will bless you; I will make your name great, and you will be a blessing. I will bless those who bless you, and whoever curses you I will curse; and all peoples on earth will be blessed through you.” So Abram went, as the Lord had told him; and Lot went with him. Abram was seventy-five years old when he set out from Harran. He took his wife Sarai, his nephew Lot, all the possessions they had accumulated and the people they had acquired in Harran, and they set out for the land of Canaan, and they arrived there.”
Sermon Summary:
God called Abraham to leave his country and his extended family and journey to a new land. He called Abraham and Sarah to form a new nation, Israel, that would be a blessing to all the people of the earth. The Bible was written and preserved through the people of Israel. Through Israel, Jesus the Messiah came to earth, died for the sins of the world on the cross, and overcame death. Israel, the descendants of Abraham, have been the conduit for the voice of God, for God’s Messiah and for Salvation.
Like Abraham, we are not just saved by Jesus for our own blessing, but we are saved in order to be a blessing to others. Christ calls some of us to teach, to serve, to visit the sick, to music, to administration. Some are called to prayer, to encourage, or to help those in trouble. Some are called to a life of ministry as preachers or missionaries. We are all called to use our skills and gifts for Christ. Jesus calls all of us to be His ambassadors to the world to invite people to leave the darkness and come into the light of Christ.
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“Human Pride” Sermon. Sunday, 3/15/2026.

Globalism
Building a Life
Tower of Babel
The only true foundation
Sermon Series: Lessons in Genesis
Scripture Title: Human Pride
Pastor Greg Wiest
Scripture Reading: Genesis‬ ‭11‬:‭1‬-‭8‬ ‭ “Now the whole world had one language and a common speech. As people moved eastward, they found a plain in Shinar and settled there. They said to each other, “Come, let’s make bricks and bake them thoroughly.” They used brick instead of stone, and tar for mortar. Then they said, “Come, let us build ourselves a city, with a tower that reaches to the heavens, so that we may make a name for ourselves; otherwise we will be scattered over the face of the whole earth.” But the Lord came down to see the city and the tower the people were building. The Lord said, “If as one people speaking the same language they have begun to do this, then nothing they plan to do will be impossible for them. Come, let us go down and confuse their language so they will not understand each other.” So the Lord scattered them from there over all the earth, and they stopped building the city.”
Sermon Summary: After the flood, everyone spoke the same language and settled in the same area on the plain of Shinar. They built a city and a tower to the heavens to make their name great. The Lord knew that with a sinful nation, a single language and a unified culture, human beings do terrible things to one another and would leave God out of the picture. They would replace God with themselves. So God gave them all different languages so that they could not communicate with one and scattered them over the earth. Humans still try to build their own towers to heaven by good works, by their own philosophies, by their own man made religions. But Christ says that he is the only gateway to heaven. In today’s world we think we can fix everything through our ingenuity and technology. We don’t think we need God. We think we are just fine all on our own. None of us are building towers of brick and mortar but we are building a life. And that life is based on what we believe to be true about the world and the reason for our existence. Some of us have a life build on material possessions. Others build a life based on achievement. Any life that we build that leaves out God is an idol to ourselves. Paul tells us in 1 Corinthians 3:11 that the only true foundation of any life is Jesus Christ. And on top of that foundation should be a life that is dedicated to the Lord It’s this kind of life that will stand the test of time, that will weather the storms that come our way, and receive that reward in heaven when Christ says, “Well done, good and faithful servant!”
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“Noah and the Flood” Sermon. Sunday, 3/8/2026.

The Ark Encounter
Noah, Preacher of Righteous
Lessons in Genesis
Sermon Series: Lessons in Genesis
Scripture Title: Noah and the Flood
Pastor Greg Wiest
Scripture Reading: Genesis‬ ‭6‬:‭9‬-‭22‬ “This is the account of Noah and his family. Noah was a righteous man, blameless among the people of his time, and he walked faithfully with God. Noah had three sons: Shem, Ham and Japheth. Now the earth was corrupt in God’s sight and was full of violence. God saw how corrupt the earth had become, for all the people on earth had corrupted their ways. So God said to Noah, “I am going to put an end to all people, for the earth is filled with violence because of them. I am surely going to destroy both them and the earth. So make yourself an ark of cypress wood; make rooms in it and coat it with pitch inside and out. This is how you are to build it: The ark is to be three hundred cubits long, fifty cubits wide and thirty cubits high. Make a roof for it, leaving below the roof an opening one cubit high all around. Put a door in the side of the ark and make lower, middle and upper decks. I am going to bring floodwaters on the earth to destroy all life under the heavens, every creature that has the breath of life in it. Everything on earth will perish. But I will establish my covenant with you, and you will enter the ark—you and your sons and your wife and your sons’ wives with you. You are to bring into the ark two of all living creatures, male and female, to keep them alive with you. Two of every kind of bird, of every kind of animal and of every kind of creature that moves along the ground will come to you to be kept alive. You are to take every kind of food that is to be eaten and store it away as food for you and for them.” Noah did everything just as God commanded him.”
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“The Days of Noah” Sermon. Sunday, 3/1/2026.

Lessons in Genesis
The fallen ones
Nephilim
sons of God
Supernatural
Sermon Series: Lessons in Genesis
Scripture Title: The Days of Noah
Pastor Greg Wiest
Scripture Reading: Genesis 6:1-8 (NIV) Wickedness in the World "When human beings began to increase in number on the earth and daughters were born to them, the sons of God saw that the daughters of humans were beautiful, and they married any of them they chose. Then the LORD said, “My Spirit will not contend with humans forever, for they are mortal; their days will be a hundred and twenty years.” The Nephilim were on the earth in those days—and also afterward—when the sons of God went to the daughters of humans and had children by them. They were the heroes of old, men of renown. The LORD saw how great the wickedness of the human race had become on the earth, and that every inclination of the thoughts of the human heart was only evil all the time. The LORD regretted that he had made human beings on the earth, and his heart was deeply troubled. So the LORD said, “I will wipe from the face of the earth the human race I have created—and with them the animals, the birds and the creatures that move along the ground—for I regret that I have made them.” But Noah found favor in the eyes of the LORD."
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“Murder” Sermon. Sunday, 2/22/2026.

Lessons in Genesis
Cain and Abel
Persecution of Christians
Northern India
Nigeria
Sermon Series: Lessons in Genesis
Scripture Title: Murder
Pastor Greg Wiest
Scripture Reading: Genesis‬ ‭4‬:‭3‬-‭16‬ ‭ “In the course of time Cain brought some of the fruits of the soil as an offering to the Lord. And Abel also brought an offering—fat portions from some of the firstborn of his flock. The Lord looked with favor on Abel and his offering, but on Cain and his offering he did not look with favor. So Cain was very angry, and his face was downcast. Then the Lord said to Cain, “Why are you angry? Why is your face downcast? If you do what is right, will you not be accepted? But if you do not do what is right, sin is crouching at your door; it desires to have you, but you must rule over it.” Now Cain said to his brother Abel, “Let’s go out to the field.” While they were in the field, Cain attacked his brother Abel and killed him. Then the Lord said to Cain, “Where is your brother Abel?” “I don’t know,” he replied. “Am I my brother’s keeper?” The Lord said, “What have you done? Listen! Your brother’s blood cries out to me from the ground. Now you are under a curse and driven from the ground, which opened its mouth to receive your brother’s blood from your hand. When you work the ground, it will no longer yield its crops for you. You will be a restless wanderer on the earth.” Cain said to the Lord, “My punishment is more than I can bear. Today you are driving me from the land, and I will be hidden from your presence; I will be a restless wanderer on the earth, and whoever finds me will kill me.” But the Lord said to him, “Not so; anyone who kills Cain will suffer vengeance seven times over.” Then the Lord put a mark on Cain so that no one who found him would kill him. So Cain went out from the Lord’s presence and lived in the land of Nod, east of Eden.”
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Ash Wednesday Service. Thursday, February 18, 2026.

King David
Repentance
King David Repentance
Scripture Reading: Psalm 51:1-12
“Have mercy on me, O God, according to your unfailing love; according to your great compassion blot out my transgressions. Wash away all my iniquity and cleanse me from my sin. For I know my transgressions, and my sin is always before me. Against you, you only, have I sinned and done what is evil in your sight; so you are right in your verdict and justified when you judge. Surely I was sinful at birth, sinful from the time my mother conceived me. Yet you desired faithfulness even in the womb; you taught me wisdom in that secret place. Cleanse me with hyssop, and I will be clean; wash me, and I will be whiter than snow. Let me hear joy and gladness; let the bones you have crushed rejoice. Hide your face from my sins and blot out all my iniquity. Create in me a pure heart, O God, and renew a steadfast spirit within me. Do not cast me from your presence or take your Holy Spirit from me. Restore to me the joy of your salvation and grant me a willing spirit, to sustain me.”
Sermon Summary:
In Psalm 51, you can see that David was completely crushed by guilt and shame. He described himself as a man full of iniquity and sin. When you have messed up and have done things you know you shouldn’t have done, you feel that physical weight upon you and that crushing sensation of the emotions in the heart. Disobedience to God has a way of putting spiritual separation between us and the Lord. It's not that God has gone away from us, but there's a kind of an invisible wall that we’ve built between us and the Lord.
And when we are guilty, when we've made a mess of our lives, when we've made serious mistakes or things that we've done to hurt other people, the only response is to throw ourselves at the mercy of God. The only way that we can make that guilt and sin and wrongdoing go away is to go before the Lord and say, "Lord, I have made a mess of things. Lord, forgive me.  Help me to turn from this mistake and this way of thinking.
The dust reminds us that we are broken finite creatures in need of God's mercy to sustain us not only for forgiveness of sin but life itself. So the act of putting ashes on your head is a dependence on God, but it's also a sign that Lord, I'm sorry and I'm repenting. And we put the sign of the cross as the a sign of where that forgiveness comes from. Through Christ's death on the cross, we're forgiven. The Christian life is based on grace, which means it anticipates that we're going to mess up and stumble. And when we do, God's ready to receive us back and forgive us, to set us back on our feet and get us going where we're supposed to go.
 

“The Fall” Sermon. Sunday, 2/15/2026.

Original Sin
Paradise Lost
Sermon Series: Lessons in Genesis
Scripture Title: The Fall
Scripture Reading: Genesis‬ ‭3‬:‭1‬-‭13‬ “Now the serpent was more crafty than any of the wild animals the Lord God had made. He said to the woman, “Did God really say, ‘You must not eat from any tree in the garden’?” The woman said to the serpent, “We may eat fruit from the trees in the garden, but God did say, ‘You must not eat fruit from the tree that is in the middle of the garden, and you must not touch it, or you will die.’ ” “You will not certainly die,” the serpent said to the woman. “For God knows that when you eat from it your eyes will be opened, and you will be like God, knowing good and evil.” When the woman saw that the fruit of the tree was good for food and pleasing to the eye, and also desirable for gaining wisdom, she took some and ate it. She also gave some to her husband, who was with her, and he ate it. Then the eyes of both of them were opened, and they realized they were naked; so they sewed fig leaves together and made coverings for themselves. Then the man and his wife heard the sound of the Lord God as he was walking in the garden in the cool of the day, and they hid from the Lord God among the trees of the garden. But the Lord God called to the man, “Where are you?” He answered, “I heard you in the garden, and I was afraid because I was naked; so I hid.” And he said, “Who told you that you were naked? Have you eaten from the tree that I commanded you not to eat from?” The man said, “The woman you put here with me—she gave me some fruit from the tree, and I ate it.” Then the Lord God said to the woman, “What is this you have done?” The woman said, “The serpent deceived me, and I ate.””
Sermon Summary:
   Our passage today is historically known as the Fall of Humankind. It’s the day when sin enters the world. It’s the day the first humans fell out of grace and out of fellowship with God. Eve believed Satan’s lie that they could be just like God. They could be in charge. The lie that humans seem to buy into is to replace God with ourselves. It’s the arrogance of saying I won’t do things God’s way. I’ll make my own framework for living. We decide to leave God out of the picture and be the master of our own lives.
   Both Adam and Eve gave into the temptation from Satan to disobey God resulting in removal from the Garden and separation from God. Spiritual and physical death entered the world. Original sin, the desire to disobey God and rebel, was passed on to all of Adam and Eve’s descendants. We are born with a fallen nature that is self centered and rebellious. We are born broken by sin. The fall of humans from grace and fellowship with God explains why the world is as it is today with warfare, struggle, deception, disease, death and broken relationships. But God has repaired what was broken through His Son Jesus Christ. Restoration and renewal are available if we’ll put our faith in Jesus and surrender to Him.
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“In the Image of God” Sermon. Sunday, 2/8/2026.

The Moral Compass
Social Justice
In fellowship with God
Sermon Series: Lessons in Genesis
Scripture Title: In The Image Of God
Pastor Greg Wiest
Scripture Reading: Genesis‬ ‭1‬:‭26‬-‭31‬ “Then God said, “Let us make mankind in our image, in our likeness, so that they may rule over the fish in the sea and the birds in the sky, over the livestock and all the wild animals, and over all the creatures that move along the ground.” So God created mankind in his own image, in the image of God he created them; male and female he created them. God blessed them and said to them, “Be fruitful and increase in number; fill the earth and subdue it. Rule over the fish in the sea and the birds in the sky and over every living creature that moves on the ground.” Then God said, “I give you every seed-bearing plant on the face of the whole earth and every tree that has fruit with seed in it. They will be yours for food. And to all the beasts of the earth and all the birds in the sky and all the creatures that move along the ground—everything that has the breath of life in it—I give every green plant for food.” And it was so. God saw all that he had made, and it was very good. And there was evening, and there was morning—the sixth day.”
Sermon Summary:
Every one of us is made in the image of God. We are unique. We have free will. We have the ability to think and reason outside of ourselves. We are moral. We have a built in moral conscience that lets us know right from wrong and good from evil. We have an internal soul that will never cease to exist. In the final resurrection, all those who have died will awake some to everlasting life with God in heaven and some to shame and everlasting contempt separated from God in Hell.
God made us in His image to be in relationship with Him. It gives God pleasure to be in fellowship with the humans He created. John 3:16 declares that “For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life.” God’s desire is that we live our lives in communion with him through faith in Jesus Christ. God created you and designed you to be in relationship with Him. He gave us purpose to be here on the earth. Every human is made in God’s image and every human is valuable and precious to God. We protect and value all human life. God created you and designed you exactly as you are supposed to be with a soul and a unique personality. Everyone matters to the Lord. And His desire is that we come into fellowship with Him through faith in His Son, Jesus Christ.
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“In the Beginning” Sermon. Sunday, 2/1/2026.

Intelligent Design
Tale of Two cities
The age of wisdom
Sermon Series: Lessons in Genesis
Scripture Title: In the Beginning
Pastor Greg Wiest
Scripture Reading: Genesis‬ ‭1‬:‭1‬-‭5‬ “In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth. Now the earth was formless and empty, darkness was over the surface of the deep, and the Spirit of God was hovering over the waters. And God said, “Let there be light,” and there was light. God saw that the light was good, and he separated the light from the darkness. God called the light “day,” and the darkness he called “night.” And there was evening, and there was morning—the first day.”
Sermon Summary:
   In Genesis Chapter 1 we are taken back to the beginning of all things in the world. God is eternal with no beginning and no end. In the beginning God created the heavens in the earth. God created everything in the universe out of nothing. With just His spoken Word, God created light and caused it to illuminate the darkness. God simply says something and it becomes a reality. God brings order from chaos. God separates light from darkness and land from the sea. He creates some creatures for the land and some for the water and some to inhabit the skies. He provides food for all the animals. God made humans in His image. After each day of creation, Genesis 1 repeats the phrase that “God saw that it was good.” After God made man in His image, Genesis concludes in verse 31, “God saw all that he made, and it was very good.”
   Genesis 1 gives us a few guiding principles for navigating through Scripture and through life itself. First, everything begins and ends with God. God is sovereign and the causation of all that happens on the earth. Second, we live and have our existence according to God’s design. Life is precious to the Lord and also to us. Every human being matters to the Lord and we should view other humans as God sees them. Third, because God is the source of everything, he deserves our worship and adoration. We are to praise God and give Him all the Glory. Lastly, God brings light to darkness. If you are in spiritual darkness, God will bring you into the light and give you eternal life if you come to faith in Christ.
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