The Faith Podcast

Tonight's Midweek Bible Study has two segments! The first is a Q&A panel with Pastor Kerrick and leaders from the Next Level Singles Ministry addressing questions about relationships, dating, holiness, healing from past wounds, and healthy Christ-centered dating.

The second segment launches "Faith 101, Part 2," exploring the biblical definition of faith as a lifestyle rather than a momentary experience.

Let's grow in our faith together. Faith is more than a moment. It is a lifestyle.

In this opening message of the "Faith and Family in the Fall" series, Pastor Kerrick Butler establishes that God has a specific path for every individual and every family, and that true greatness in the kingdom of God is achieved through servant-hearted living. 

This midweek Bible study launches the "Faith and Family in the Fall" series, establishing that faith is not merely a Sunday practice or spiritual catchphrase but a complete lifestyle that governs every area of life, including marriage, parenting, career, and mental health.

We open with a panel discussion on faith and fatherhood, emphasizing that fathers must seek prophetic insight from God concerning their children's destinies rather than relying on cultural expectations or personal ambition.

After the panel, we dive into tonight's teaching, Faith 101. In Faith 101, you will be challenged to move beyond faith terminology into an active and consistent faith lifestyle.

In this concluding message of the "How to Be Happy" series, Pastor Kerrick draws from Psalm 144:15 and the Aaronic blessing in Numbers 6 to establish that happiness, favor, and blessing are not occasional experiences for believers but a way of life. It is the life that God wants you to live. Stream this message to learn more about how to live this life.

Drawing from the Parable of the Sower in Mark chapter 4, this message examines how the condition of the heart directly impacts a believer's happiness, fruitfulness, and ability to stay on the path God has ordained.

Pastor Kerrick unpacks the four types of soil as four conditions of the heart, with particular focus on the thorny ground — where the Word grows but is crowded out by worry, the deceitfulness of riches, and desires for other things. Not all weeds are ugly. Some are pretty.

In this message, Pastor Kerrick issues a central warning about "pretty weeds" — not obviously sinful things, but good things that are simply wrong for a particular person's calling.

Using the contrasting examples of Luke and Demas, both trusted companions of the Apostle Paul, Pastor Kerrick makes the case that even anointed, productive ministers can be derailed by what is quietly growing in their hearts. Is your happiness hiding among the weeds? This is a message you need to hear, apply, and hear again!

This message is part three of a series on how to be happy, and will challenge you to embrace a counterintuitive truth: that genuine happiness is inseparable from receiving God's correction.

Drawing from Psalm 1, Psalm 144, Job 5, Proverbs 3, Hebrews 12, and John 15, Pastor Kerrick shares that God's correction is an expression of His love and is delivered primarily through His Word and the Holy Spirit. Rather than despising or detesting correction, believers are called to welcome it, knowing that it leads to direction, protection, and wholeness.

This timely and important message also confronts the tendency to follow ungodly counsel, live by anti-vision, blame others for personal failures, and identify with sin rather than with righteousness in Christ.

God cares about your happiness not only in eternity but in the present. A life aligned with God's Word produces a fruitful, joy-filled existence where prayers are answered and God is glorified.

In today's Bible Study, Pastor Kerrick shares wisdom from God's Word on how to live the happy life!

In today's message, Pastor Kerrick makes a compelling biblical case that happiness and joy are not peripheral concerns but central to God's will for every believer. Did you know that God actively desires His people to live in a state of genuine happiness and deep, enduring joy? In a world where millions are daily searching for happiness, God's Word provides the answer. Stream today's message to learn how to be happy and live a joy-filled life!

What if the hardest thing you are facing right now is actually easy? Not easy in the sense that it requires no effort, but easy in the sense that the God who holds the universe in His hands has already accounted for it.

That is the heart of the message we explore here, rooted in Matthew 11:28-30, where we are invited to come to Jesus with our weariness and heavy burdens and receive the gift of rest. Not rest as a reward we earn after exhausting ourselves, but rest as the very starting point God designed for our lives.

We dig into the powerful truth that the way of the world is hard, but the way of God is easy, and we examine how our own words, emotions, and thought patterns can make a light burden feel impossibly heavy.

When we call our challenges hard, we partner with that difficulty in a way that slows down our faith. When we keep our emotions under control, stay humble, and remain yoked closely with Jesus, we step into a flow where what He has assigned us actually fits.

This message challenges us to stop priding ourselves on how much we have survived and start believing we were called to thrive. Stream today's message, apply its principles, and share it with a friend!

In today's Bible Study, Pastor Kerrick answers questions about prayer. As he shares, we discover that prayer is not measured by its length but by the faith we release when we pray. This powerful teaching on prayer invites us into a deeper understanding of what it means to communicate with God effectively.

The study addresses real questions many of us have struggled with: How long should we pray? How do we stay focused? How do we know we're hearing God's voice and not our own thoughts?