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“The Mentor” Sermon. Sunday, 11/02/2025.

Mentoring others
Discipleship
Great Philosophers
Scripture Series: Days of Elijah
Scripture Title: The Mentor
Pastor Greg Wiest
Sermon Summary: God can use any person from any walk of life. Billy Graham grew up on a dairy farm. D.L. Moody started out as a shoe salesman. In our Scripture passage, God had told Elijah who he would train as God’s next prophet. Elisha’s dramatic response of burning up all his plowing equipment was his way of saying that he was fully committed to being God’s servant and he was burning all bridges to his past life. Following Jesus may mean making a radical break from your past life such as leaving behind old habits, sinful lifestyles, or friends who may keep you from walking with Jesus. Jesus wants his followers to be all in. Elisha became Elijah’s protege and trained under Elijah for several years. Mentoring and discipling others in Christ is central to the life of the church. It is how the faith and the mission of Jesus is passed from one generation to the next. Discipleship can lead others on the road to fulfillment and purpose.
Scripture Reading: 1 Kings‬ ‭19‬:‭19‬-‭21‬
“So Elijah went from there and found Elisha son of Shaphat. He was plowing with twelve yoke of oxen, and he himself was driving the twelfth pair. Elijah went up to him and threw his cloak around him. Elisha then left his oxen and ran after Elijah. “Let me kiss my father and mother goodbye,” he said, “and then I will come with you.” “Go back,” Elijah replied. “What have I done to you?” So Elisha left him and went back. He took his yoke of oxen and slaughtered them. He burned the plowing equipment to cook the meat and gave it to the people, and they ate. Then he set out to follow Elijah and became his servant.”
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“Not Alone” Sermon. Sunday, 10/26/2025.

Spiritually Flat
Still small voice
Pathway Forward
Scripture Series: Days of Elijah
Scripture Title: Not Alone
Pastor Greg Wiest
Scripture Reading: 1 Kings‬ ‭19‬:‭9‬-‭18‬ ‭ “There he went into a cave and spent the night. And the word of the Lord came to him: “What are you doing here, Elijah?” He replied, “I have been very zealous for the Lord God Almighty. The Israelites have rejected your covenant, torn down your altars, and put your prophets to death with the sword. I am the only one left, and now they are trying to kill me too.” The Lord said, “Go out and stand on the mountain in the presence of the Lord, for the Lord is about to pass by.” Then a great and powerful wind tore the mountains apart and shattered the rocks before the Lord, but the Lord was not in the wind. After the wind there was an earthquake, but the Lord was not in the earthquake. After the earthquake came a fire, but the Lord was not in the fire. And after the fire came a gentle whisper. When Elijah heard it, he pulled his cloak over his face and went out and stood at the mouth of the cave. Then a voice said to him, “What are you doing here, Elijah?” He replied, “I have been very zealous for the Lord God Almighty. The Israelites have rejected your covenant, torn down your altars, and put your prophets to death with the sword. I am the only one left, and now they are trying to kill me too.” The Lord said to him, “Go back the way you came, and go to the Desert of Damascus. When you get there, anoint Hazael king over Aram. Also, anoint Jehu son of Nimshi king over Israel, and anoint Elisha son of Shaphat from Abel Meholah to succeed you as prophet. Jehu will put to death any who escape the sword of Hazael, and Elisha will put to death any who escape the sword of Jehu. Yet I reserve seven thousand in Israel—all whose knees have not bowed down to Baal and whose mouths have not kissed him.””
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“Fear and Flight” Sermon. Sunday, 10/19/2025.

Days of Elijah
1 Kings 19:1-8
Care for the Soul
The Sabbath
Lost passion
Scripture Series: Days of Elijah
Scripture Title: Fear and Flight
Pastor Greg Wiest
Scripture Reading: 1 Kings 19:1-8 “Now Ahab told Jezebel everything Elijah had done and how he had killed all the prophets with the sword. So Jezebel sent a messenger to Elijah to say, “May the gods deal with me, be it ever so severely, if by this time tomorrow I do not make your life like that of one of them.” Elijah was afraid and ran for his life. When he came to Beersheba in Judah, he left his servant there, while he himself went a day’s journey into the wilderness. He came to a broom bush, sat down under it and prayed that he might die. “I have had enough, Lord,” he said. “Take my life; I am no better than my ancestors.” Then he lay down under the bush and fell asleep. All at once an angel touched him and said, “Get up and eat.” He looked around, and there by his head was some bread baked over hot coals, and a jar of water. He ate and drank and then lay down again. The angel of the Lord came back a second time and touched him and said, “Get up and eat, for the journey is too much for you.” So he got up and ate and drank. Strengthened by that food, he traveled forty days and forty nights until he reached Horeb, the mountain of God.”
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“Shine the Light of Christ” Sermon. Sunday, 10/12/2025.

Spiritual Lighthouses
Your inner compass
What really matters
Your mission field
Unconditional Love
Scripture Title: Shine the Light of Christ
Pastor Greg Wiest
Scripture Reading: Mathew 5:14-16 ““You are the light of the world. A town built on a hill cannot be hidden. Neither do people light a lamp and put it under a bowl. Instead they put it on its stand, and it gives light to everyone in the house. In the same way, let your light shine before others, that they may see your good deeds and glorify your Father in heaven.”
 

“The Challenge” Sermon. Sunday, 10/5/2025.

Days of Elijah
Fear and Failure
Ahab and Jezebel 
Scripture Series: Days of Elijah
Title: The Challenge
Pastor Greg Wiest
Scripture Reading: 1 Kings 18:16-40 
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“Back to Life” Sermon. Sunday, 9/28/2025.

Revival
Spiritual Death
American Culture
Pastor Greg Wiest
Scripture Series: Days of Elijah
Scripture Title: Back to Life
Scripture Reading: 1 Kings‬ ‭17‬:‭17‬-‭24‬ ‭
“Some time later the son of the woman who owned the house became ill. He grew worse and worse, and finally stopped breathing. She said to Elijah, “What do you have against me, man of God? Did you come to remind me of my sin and kill my son?” “Give me your son,” Elijah replied. He took him from her arms, carried him to the upper room where he was staying, and laid him on his bed. Then he cried out to the Lord, “Lord my God, have you brought tragedy even on this widow I am staying with, by causing her son to die?” Then he stretched himself out on the boy three times and cried out to the Lord, “Lord my God, let this boy’s life return to him!” The Lord heard Elijah’s cry, and the boy’s life returned to him, and he lived. Elijah picked up the child and carried him down from the room into the house. He gave him to his mother and said, “Look, your son is alive!” Then the woman said to Elijah, “Now I know that you are a man of God and that the word of the Lord from your mouth is the truth.””

“God's Provision” Sermon. Spiritual Refreshment. Sunday, 9/21/2025.

Developing Friendships
Words of Encouragement
Spiritual Refreshment
Pastor Greg Wiest
Scripture Series: Days of Elijah
Scripture Title: God’s Provision
Our Scripture is about running out of resources and God’s provision for those of us who are on empty. God’s resources are unlimited. If you are running on empty emotionally or you’re spiritually flat or you’re just burned out, trust God and ask Him for help and He will give you what you need to keep going. The place where we can go for refreshment immediately is God’s house. Worshipping together with brothers and sisters in Christ provides immediate spiritual refreshment and renewal. We are refreshed by the Word of God and by the worship, prayer and fellowship with our fellow believers. As we gather, God wants us to connect with friends in Christ who will be an encouragement to one another and can help refill our spiritual tanks.
Scripture Reading: 1 Kings 17:7-16
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“Elijah and God's Judgment” Sermon. Sunday, 9/14/2025.

Charlie Kirk
Freedom of speech
Living in different days
Time with nature
Turning Point
King Ahab
Speak truth into our culture
Pastor Greg Wiest
Scripture Series: Days of Elijah
Sermon Series: Elijah and God's Judgment
Sermon Summary: Just as God sent the prophet Elijah to pronounce God’s judgement against Israel for their evil and wickedness, God calls Christians to speak truth even if it goes against the current of culture. Charlie Kirk’s assassination shows us that we need to pray for our Nation and call out evil even when it’s being celebrated in our culture. Christians have to humbly be the truth tellers when all around you are lies. It may be costly and you will likely experience pushback or persecution from this world. But put your trust in the Lord. God will provide for you when you are faithful to Him.
Scripture Reading: 1 Kings 17:1-6
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“A Rotten Ruler” Sermon. Sunday, 9/7/25.

How Not to be a Leader
Wisdom and Wives
A house divided
Elijah
Solomon 
Pastor Greg Wiest
Scripture Series: Days of Elijah
Sermon Series: A Rotten Ruler
Scripture Reading: 1 Kings 16:29-34
"In the thirty-eighth year of Asa king of Judah, Ahab son of Omri became king of Israel, and he reigned in Samaria over Israel twenty-two years. Ahab son of Omri did more evil in the eyes of the Lord than any of those before him. He not only considered it trivial to commit the sins of Jeroboam son of Nebat, but he also married Jezebel daughter of Ethbaal king of the Sidonians, and began to serve Baal and worship him. He set up an altar for Baal in the temple of Baal that he built in Samaria. Ahab also made an Asherah pole and did more to arouse the anger of the Lord, the God of Israel, than did all the kings of Israel before him. In Ahab’s time, Hiel of Bethel rebuilt Jericho. He laid its foundations at the cost of his firstborn son Abiram, and he set up its gates at the cost of his youngest son Segub, in accordance with the word of the Lord spoken by Joshua son of Nun.”
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“Babylon” Sermon. Sunday, 8/31/25.

Last of 5 series on the book of Revelation
Largest spreader of False Religion on the planet.
Spiritual adultery - The great prostitute 
Unfaithful to the one true God
Mystery Babylon
Pastor Greg Wiest
Scripture Series: Apocalypse, Symbols of the End Times
Scripture Title: Babylon
Scripture Reading: Revelation 17:1-6
“One of the seven angels who had the seven bowls came and said to me, “Come, I will show you the punishment of the great prostitute, who sits by many waters. With her the kings of the earth committed adultery, and the inhabitants of the earth were intoxicated with the wine of her adulteries.” Then the angel carried me away in the Spirit into a wilderness. There I saw a woman sitting on a scarlet beast that was covered with blasphemous names and had seven heads and ten horns. The woman was dressed in purple and scarlet, and was glittering with gold, precious stones and pearls. She held a golden cup in her hand, filled with abominable things and the filth of her adulteries. The name written on her forehead was a mystery: Babylon the great, the mother of prostitutes and of the abominations of the earth. I saw that the woman was drunk with the blood of God’s holy people, the blood of those who bore testimony to Jesus. When I saw her, I was greatly astonished.”
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