Teaching by Bret Hastings

Teaching by Bret Hastings

Seeking Comfort in Christ, Part 2

2 Corinthians 1:3-7 Well, good morning, everyone, I have the joy and privilege of opening God’s word with you again and if you were not here last week, we started really a two-part message on this passage of Scripture out of 2 Corinthians and it’s a passage that reminds us of God’s character and that he is a God of all comfort. He is the source of all comfort when we are afflicted with any kind of trial. And if…

Seeking Comfort in Christ, Part 1

2 Corinthians 1:3-7 It is good to be here with you all this morning. I will be preaching this week and next week, and we’re going to be in the passage out of 2 Corinthians chapter 1. If you’d like to turn there in your copy of God’s Word. We’re going to be in this passage of Scripture for a couple weeks. We live in a society that has become very preoccupied with being at ease, with being comfortable, emotionally…

Yahweh’s Law of Love

Deuteronomy 6:4-6 As we come to our text this morning, you can turn in your Bibles to Deuteronomy chapter 6. And as we come to this very familiar passage, it actually is very helpful to interpret the our own days that we are living in. As you know, these are some very interesting days that we live in. The entire world seems to be losing its mind. The world that I grew up with, much less those of you who…

Guarded by God

Jude 24-25 If you happen to close your Bibles, you can open them back up to Jude in just a very brief introduction to the book of Jude. It was written in a time really not too dissimilar to our own time. As Reuben read it, you could probably pick out many cultural things that seem to align with the times that we are living in. The gospel had great success for decades, but then false teachers infiltrated and began…

Experiencing God

Psalm 84:1-12 Good morning everyone. I’m so glad to be able to bring the word of God to you this morning. If you want to turn there, we’re going to be in Psalm 84 and when I was a youngster, I can say that now that I’m in the fifth decade of life a long, long time ago, at least it feels like that to me. One of the things that had a significant impact on my soul as a…

The Purpose Driven Life

1 Corinthians 9:24-27 Well, it was a joy to be able to open the Word of God with you all this morning. We’re going to be in the book of 1 Corinthians, so if you want to turn there now, please do so. But by way of introduction, I want to start just with a little bit of cultural context. We all, as Americans and really as most the citizens of the world, we’re familiar with the Olympic Games. Many…

Happy Are the Persecuted

Matthew 5:10-12 For today, we are finishing up a series on the Beatitudes out of Matthew chapter 5. If you want to turn in your Bibles there, you can do that now. But it’s really been a joy for me to have this opportunity to preach and teach through the Beatitudes. It’s been convicting, but also encouraging to my own soul. And I just find our Lord’s teaching to be absolutely fascinating, brilliant. The depths of which we cannot plumb,…

Happy Are the Pure

Matthew 5:8 Well, it is a joy to be here with you this morning. It’s a joy to bring God’s Word to you this morning. It’s a privilege. But we are in the middle of a series on the Beatitudes out of Matthew chapter 5. So if you want to turn there in your copy of God’s Word, we’re going to read that in just a few moments. But here in the Sermon on the Mount, in this section on…