Save The Cowboy

Some fun feels good while it is happening. Type 2 fun hurts while you are in it, and you smile every time you look back on it. A message from guest preacher Shea Hall at Save the Cowboy, while Kevin was away.

Shea preaches out of a 40-mile, four-day backcountry hunt, everything he needed carried on his back, in mountain lion country. Type 2 fun pushes you beyond your comfort zone, it is better with others, and it is hard in the moment but meaningful afterward. Following Jesus works the same way. Because Jesus has already won, we fight from a place of victory, not toward it, and he turns our hard seasons into a testimony of his faithfulness.

In this message:

Scripture: Hebrews 6:1, Hebrews 10:24-25, Hebrews 12:11

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A sick pen for sinners, not a show ring for saints.

The church is not where you go on Sundays. It is not a building, an organization, or a denomination. Kevin preaches on what the church really is, and what your part in it is.

Kevin Weatherby finishes the five week series No Apologies, on how to defend your faith, built on 1 Peter 3:15-16. Week five starts with a different question: what is a cowboy? An ideology and a profession. Courage, honor, respect, hard work, and giving yourself to something bigger, lived out in a job you cannot see from the road. Then the real question: what is the church? Adopted sons and daughters of God, the bride of Christ, and the rulers and reigners who will spend a thousand years with him in the Millennial Kingdom. And your part in it: your faith is the ideology, your actions are the uniform that marks you as a cowboy who rides for the Man who died on a cross for your sins.

In this message:

Scripture: 1 Peter 3:15-16, Ephesians 1:5, Ephesians 5:25-27, Revelation 20:6, Matthew 28:19-20, James 2:17-18

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A sick pen for sinners, not a show ring for saints.

You are either saved or you are not. Hell is going to be full of good people, and Kevin tells the hard truth about salvation the way the old hellfire and brimstone preachers used to tell it.

Kevin Weatherby rides into week four of No Apologies, a five week series on how to defend your faith, built on 1 Peter 3:15-16. Week four takes on the one thing you cannot defend until you understand it: salvation. Most people do not understand it because they do not want it. They like their Godless life, and this world has become one big Venus fly trap. The wages of sin are death. Jesus satisfied the Law by being perfect and satisfied the justice of God by taking our punishment, so the cost of your forgiveness is the death of God. And the only way to get it is to become a new creation.

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Scripture: 1 Peter 3:15-16, John 3:19-20, James 1:14-15, Romans 6:23, 1 John 5:12, Matthew 7:21-23, 2 Corinthians 5:21, 2 Corinthians 5:17, Deuteronomy 30:19

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A sick pen for sinners, not a show ring for saints.

If God is good, why does He let a good man get crushed? Kevin takes the question that reaches every house sooner or later, and he does not talk around it.

Kevin Weatherby rides into week three of No Apologies, a five week series on how to defend your faith, built on 1 Peter 3:15-16. Before you ask why God allows suffering, ask what God wants. He could have anything He wanted, and what He wants is you, freely choosing Him. That is why evil is still loose in this world, because a choice that cannot go wrong was never a choice at all. And the suffering is not wasted, because the One who asks you to take up a cross carried His first, and the trail He rode runs through a tomb with a hole blowed wide open in the back of it.

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Scripture: 1 Peter 3:15-16, Mark 2:17, Psalm 8:3-5, Deuteronomy 30:19-20, Genesis 1:31, Romans 5:12, 2 Peter 3:9, Isaiah 53:3-5, 1 Peter 2:21, Romans 8:17-18

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A sick pen for sinners, not a show ring for saints.

Science says billions of years. Your Bible says about six thousand. Pete said always be ready to explain it, so here is what you do when the two do not line up.

Kevin Weatherby rides into week two of No Apologies, a five week series on how to defend your faith, built on 1 Peter 3:15-16. This week takes the three hardest questions people ask about God and science. Does God exist, and the answer is in the order of the place, in a calf that finds the udder without being taught, and in the plain fact that everything left alone runs down and goes back to dirt. What do you do when science and faith collide, which is a real collision and not one to talk around. And who made God, which sounds like a trap until you notice nobody made him, because only the things that began ever needed a maker.

In this message:

Scripture: Romans 1:20, Romans 1:25, Colossians 2:8, 2 Corinthians 4:18, Psalm 90:2

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A sick pen for sinners, not a show ring for saints.

Somebody at the sale barn tells you the Bible has been rewritten so many times you can't trust a word of it. Pete said always be ready to explain it, so here is what you say back.

Kevin Weatherby opens No Apologies, a five week series on how to defend your faith, built on 1 Peter 3:15-16. Week one takes the three things people throw at the Book itself. In 1947 they found the Dead Sea Scrolls in a cave near Qumran, and the copy of Isaiah in there was a thousand years older than the oldest one we had, and it said the same thing. The top skeptic scholar in the country admits in writing that most of the differences between the copies do not change a thing that matters. A document called the Muratorian Fragment already listed 22 of the 27 New Testament books as scripture in AD 180, a hundred and forty five years before anybody rode to Nicaea. And four witnesses who tell it a little different from each other are not lying, because nobody lies to make himself look bad.

In this message:

Scripture: 1 Peter 3:15-16, 1 Timothy 5:18, 2 Peter 3:15-16

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A sick pen for sinners, not a show ring for saints.

Paul never met this church. A preacher named Epaphras rode all the way from Colossae to Rome to ask the greatest church starter there ever was what to do about the mess back home. What Paul sent back was three colossal warnings.

Kevin Weatherby preaches Colossians 2, where a young Gentile church sits on the main trade route between Laodicea and Hierapolis with every philosophy in the known world hauled straight through town. Shallow roots that pull up the first time something takes a bite. New revelation that is neither new nor true. And the Jesus plus crowd, always adding a rule Jesus never said. Jesus plus anything equals nothing. Jesus plus nothing equals everything.

In this message:

Scripture: Colossians 2:2-3, 6-8, 16, 18-23, Jeremiah 6:16

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A sick pen for sinners, not a show ring for saints.

Last week the warden pulled up just to watch. This week you find out how that ride went, and why the ride is not the part that got remembered. That is week three of Jesus' Own Man.

Kevin Weatherby closes the series in 2 Corinthians 5, where Paul says a sincere heart beats a spectacular ministry every time. From the radio call that chilled his blood, O-1 to Mr. Weatherby, to a bronc ride headed straight for a ditch full of watermelon-sized river rocks with the warden and the regional director watching, this is about the three responsibilities that come with the uniform and the authority.

In this message:

Scripture: 2 Corinthians 5:12-21, Matthew 25:23

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A sick pen for sinners, not a show ring for saints.

"Weatherby to 65. Shots fired, shots fired." Some calls are dangerous the minute they come in. That is week two of Jesus' Own Man.

Kevin Weatherby rides Luke 10, where Jesus sends seventy-two ordinary folks out two by two as lambs among wolves, with no supplies and a message that fits in a shirt pocket: the Kingdom of God is near you now. From the day his dad heard gunshots over a prison radio to the morning the warden pulled up just to watch a bronc ride, this is about the dangerous mission Jesus sends His people on, and the victory He guarantees.

In this message:

Scripture: Luke 10:1-20, John 1:29, Revelation 5:5, Matthew 7:15, Ephesians 6:10-11

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A sick pen for sinners, not a show ring for saints.

In Rome, a legate was called Caesar's own man. He carried Caesar's power and authority into every room he walked into. That is week one of Jesus' Own Man.

Kevin Weatherby opens the series in Zechariah 3, where a high priest stands in front of God in filthy clothes and gets handed a clean uniform he never earned. From seven years working inside a penitentiary to the day he held a loaded .357 on a man, this is about where power and authority actually come from, and the hard difference between wearing the uniform and wearing a costume.

In this message:

Scripture: Zechariah 3, Ephesians 4:22-24

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A sick pen for sinners, not a show ring for saints.