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“A Test” Sermon from Gideon Series

The End Game.
Jim Carey's Conversion.
Living out your life.
Sermon Date: 11/03/2024
Sermon Series: GIDEON SERIES
Sermon Title: "A Test”
Pastor Greg Wiest
Scripture Reading: Judges‬ ‭6‬:‭25‬-‭32‬ ‭
“That same night the Lord said to him, “Take the second bull from your father’s herd, the one seven years old. Tear down your father’s altar to Baal and cut down the Asherah pole beside it. Then build a proper kind of altar to the Lord your God on the top of this height. Using the wood of the Asherah pole that you cut down, offer the second bull as a burnt offering.” So Gideon took ten of his servants and did as the Lord told him. But because he was afraid of his family and the townspeople, he did it at night rather than in the daytime. In the morning when the people of the town got up, there was Baal’s altar, demolished, with the Asherah pole beside it cut down and the second bull sacrificed on the newly built altar! They asked each other, “Who did this?” When they carefully investigated, they were told, “Gideon son of Joash did it.” The people of the town demanded of Joash, “Bring out your son. He must die, because he has broken down Baal’s altar and cut down the Asherah pole beside it.” But Joash replied to the hostile crowd around him, “Are you going to plead Baal’s cause? Are you trying to save him? Whoever fights for him shall be put to death by morning! If Baal really is a god, he can defend himself when someone breaks down his altar.” So because Gideon broke down Baal’s altar, they gave him the name Jerub-Baal that day, saying, “Let Baal contend with him.”” 
 
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“The Call of Gideon” sermon from Gideon Series

Lack of Confidence
Strength in weakness
Confidence in Yourself
Your Calling
Sermon Date: 10/27/2024
Sermon Series: GIDEON SERIES
Sermon Title: "The Call of Gideon”
Pastor Greg Wiest
Scripture Reading: Judges‬ ‭6‬:‭1‬1-24
“The angel of the Lord came and sat down under the oak in Ophrah that belonged to Joash the Abiezrite, where his son Gideon was threshing wheat in a winepress to keep it from the Midianites. When the angel of the Lord appeared to Gideon, he said, “The Lord is with you, mighty warrior.” “Pardon me, my Lord,” Gideon replied, “but if the Lord is with us, why has all this happened to us? Where are all his wonders that our ancestors told us about when they said, ‘Did not the Lord bring us up out of Egypt?’ But now the Lord has abandoned us and given us into the hand of Midian.” The Lord turned to him and said, “Go in the strength you have and save Israel out of Midian’s hand. Am I not sending you?” “Pardon me, my Lord,” Gideon replied, “but how can I save Israel? My clan is the weakest in Manasseh, and I am the least in my family.” The Lord answered, “I will be with you, and you will strike down all the Midianites, leaving none alive.” Gideon replied, “If now I have found favor in your eyes, give me a sign that it is really you talking to me. Please do not go away until I come back and bring my offering and set it before you.” And the Lord said, “I will wait until you return.” Gideon went inside, prepared a young goat, and from an ephah of flour he made bread without yeast. Putting the meat in a basket and its broth in a pot, he brought them out and offered them to him under the oak. The angel of God said to him, “Take the meat and the unleavened bread, place them on this rock, and pour out the broth.” And Gideon did so. Then the angel of the Lord touched the meat and the unleavened bread with the tip of the staff that was in his hand. Fire flared from the rock, consuming the meat and the bread. And the angel of the Lord disappeared. When Gideon realized that it was the angel of the Lord, he exclaimed, “Alas, Sovereign Lord! I have seen the angel of the Lord face to face!” But the Lord said to him, “Peace! Do not be afraid. You are not going to die.” So Gideon built an altar to the Lord there and called it The Lord Is Peace. To this day it stands in Ophrah of the Abiezrites.”
 
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“Oppression of Midian” sermon from Gideon Series

The generation of today.
Covenant of Noah.
A Spiritual awakening.
The Dark Knight.
Child sacrifice.
Sermon Date: 10/20/2024
Sermon Series: GIDEON SERIES
Sermon Title: "Oppression of Midian”
Pastor Greg Wiest
Scripture Reading: Judges‬ ‭6‬:‭1‬-‭10‬ ‭
“The Israelites did evil in the eyes of the Lord, and for seven years he gave them into the hands of the Midianites. Because the power of Midian was so oppressive, the Israelites prepared shelters for themselves in mountain clefts, caves and strongholds. Whenever the Israelites planted their crops, the Midianites, Amalekites and other eastern peoples invaded the country. They camped on the land and ruined the crops all the way to Gaza and did not spare a living thing for Israel, neither sheep nor cattle nor donkeys. They came up with their livestock and their tents like swarms of locusts. It was impossible to count them or their camels; they invaded the land to ravage it. Midian so impoverished the Israelites that they cried out to the Lord for help. When the Israelites cried out to the Lord because of Midian, he sent them a prophet, who said, “This is what the Lord, the God of Israel, says: I brought you up out of Egypt, out of the land of slavery. I rescued you from the hand of the Egyptians. And I delivered you from the hand of all your oppressors; I drove them out before you and gave you their land. I said to you, ‘I am the Lord your God; do not worship the gods of the Amorites, in whose land you live.’ But you have not listened to me.”” ‭‭
 
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“Stewardship Sunday” Sermon

Time management
Occupational testing
Relationships
Sermon Title: "Stewardship Sunday”
Speaker: Pastor Greg Wiest
Scripture Reading: Genesis 1:28 “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.”
Colossians 3:23 “Whatever you do, work at it with all your heart, as working for the Lord, not for human masters,”
 
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“Without Frustration” sermon

Making Peace
Teaching Your Kids
Forgiving Others
When life goes sideways, what do you do?
Sermon Date: 10/06/2024
Sermon Series: PARENTING FROM THE OLD TESTAMENT
Sermon Title: "Without Frustration”
Speaker: Pastor Greg Wiest
Scripture Reading: Ephesians 6:4 “Fathers, do not exasperate your children; instead, bring them up in the trainingand instruction of the Lord.”
 
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“Direction” sermon

Bringing up the next generation.
Priorities in Life.
Training a child in the way they should go.
Sermon Date: 9/29/2024
Sermon Series: PARENTING FROM THE OLD TESTAMENT
Sermon Title: "Direction”
Speaker: Pastor Greg Wiest
Scripture Reading: Proverbs 22:6
Start children off on the way they should go, and even when they are old they will not turn from it.
 
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“Discipline” sermon

Third in a series on Parenting From the Old Testament.
Sermon Date: 9/22/2024
Sermon Series: PARENTING FROM THE OLD TESTAMENT
Sermon Title: "Discipline”
Speaker: Pastor Greg Wiest
Scripture Reading:
 
Proverbs 13:24 
“Whoever spares the rod hates their children, but the one who loves their children is careful to discipline them.
Proverbs 29:15“A rod and a reprimand impart wisdom, but a child left undisciplined disgraces its mother.”
 
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“A Last Generation” sermon

A lesson in history that pertains today.
Sermon Date: 9/15/2024
Sermon Series: PARENTING FROM THE OLD TESTAMENT
Sermon Title: " A Last Generation”
Speaker: Pastor Greg Wiest
Scripture Reading: Judges 2:6-15 (NIV)
Disobedience and Defeat
“After Joshua had dismissed the Israelites, they went to take possession of the land, each to their own inheritance. The people served the LORD throughout the lifetime of Joshua and of the elders who outlived him and who had seen all the great things the LORD had done for Israel.
 
Joshua son of Nun, the servant of the LORD, died at the age of a hundred and ten. And they buried him in the land of his inheritance, at Timnath Heres in the hill country of Ephraim, north of Mount Gaash.
 
After that whole generation had been gathered to their ancestors, another generation grew up who knew neither the LORD nor what he had done for Israel. Then the Israelites did evil in the eyes of the LORD and served the Baals. They forsook the LORD, the God of their ancestors, who had brought them out of Egypt. They followed and worshiped various gods of the peoples around them. They aroused the LORD’s anger 13 because they forsook him and served Baal and the Ashtoreths. In his anger against Israel the LORD gave them into the hands of raiders who plundered them. He sold them into the hands of their enemies all around, whom they were no longer able to resist. Whenever Israel went out to fight, the hand of the LORD was against them to defeat them, just as he had sworn to them. They were in great distress.
 
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“Write This On Your Door Post” sermon

First in a series on Parenting From the Old Testament.
See The Big Picture - A history lesson sprinkled with nuggets of Wisdom.
Sermon Date: 9/8/2024
Sermon Series: PARENTING FROM THE OLD TESTAMENT
Sermon Title: "Write This On Your Door Post‬”
Speaker: Pastor Greg Wiest
Scripture Reading: Deuteronomy‬ ‭11‬:‭13‬-‭28‬ ‭
“So if you faithfully obey the commands I am giving you today—to love the Lord your God and to serve him with all your heart and with all your soul— then I will send rain on your land in its season, both autumn and spring rains, so that you may gather in your grain, new wine and olive oil. I will provide grass in the fields for your cattle, and you will eat and be satisfied. Be careful, or you will be enticed to turn away and worship other gods and bow down to them. Then the Lord’s anger will burn against you, and he will shut up the heavens so that it will not rain and the ground will yield no produce, and you will soon perish from the good land the Lord is giving you. Fix these words of mine in your hearts and minds; tie them as symbols on your hands and bind them on your foreheads. Teach them to your children, talking about them when you sit at home and when you walk along the road, when you lie down and when you get up. Write them on the doorframes of your houses and on your gates, so that your days and the days of your children may be many in the land the Lord swore to give your ancestors, as many as the days that the heavens are above the earth. If you carefully observe all these commands I am giving you to follow—to love the Lord your God, to walk in obedience to him and to hold fast to him— then the Lord will drive out all these nations before you, and you will dispossess nations larger and stronger than you. Every place where you set your foot will be yours: Your territory will extend from the desert to Lebanon, and from the Euphrates River to the Mediterranean Sea. No one will be able to stand against you. The Lord your God, as he promised you, will put the terror and fear of you on the whole land, wherever you go. See, I am setting before you today a blessing and a curse— the blessing if you obey the commands of the Lord your God that I am giving you today; the curse if you disobey the commands of the Lord your God and turn from the way that I command you today by following other gods, which you have not known.”
 
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“Making Christ Known” Sermon

Sermon Date: 9/1/2024
Sermon Series: COLOSSIANS
Sermon Title: "Making Christ Known”
Speaker: Pastor Greg Wiest
Scripture Reading: Colossians‬ ‭4‬:‭1‬-‭6‬
 
“Masters, provide your slaves with what is right and fair, because you know that you also have a Master in heaven. Devote yourselves to prayer, being watchful and thankful. And pray for us, too, that God may open a door for our message, so that we may proclaim the mystery of Christ, for which I am in chains. Pray that I may proclaim it clearly, as I should. Be wise in the way you act toward outsiders; make the most of every opportunity. Let your conversation be always full of grace, seasoned with salt, so that you may know how to answer everyone.”
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