Sunday, December 28, 2025

This first sermon in the "Love Does" series highlights the action of trust. Dan Kent explores the way that God trusts, the call to be trustworthy in our relationship with God and how to grow in our trust of one another. This challenge to the worldly pattern of distrust invites us to manifest love in concrete and practical ways.

More Resources: https://whchurch.org/sermon/love-trusts/

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Sunday December 7, 2025

In this sermon, Dan Kent opens up the meaning of the prophesy from Hosea 11:1 about Jesus being called out of Egypt. He shows the unique way this verse was fulfilled in Matthew 2:13-15. He also focuses on God's delight in his people, and how that delight uniquely fulfills us.

More Resources: https://whchurch.org/sermon/the-delight-of-the-lord/

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November 9, 2025

This sermon on the first of two beasts in Revelation 13 addresses what it means to trust God's faithfulness in tough times and the reality of hardship. Dan Kent contrasts this with a sanitized God, who, many assume, cannot deal with the world's evil or the spiritual warfare that is being waged.

More Resources: https://whchurch.org/sermon/be-alert-and-sober-minded/

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September 28, 2025

Dan Kent introduces the problem of pride and how it is rooted in hierarchical systems where we measure ourselves against others. We are unable to love others when we are constantly evaluating them and ourselves. We must opt out of this system and learn to see all as equals, all equally loved.

More Resources: https://whchurch.org/sermon/love-is-not-proud/

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August 31, 2025

In this closeout sermon for the Testify! series, Dan Kent surveys the key points of Revelation 10 and 11 and highlights how the testimony of the church is crucial to what God is doing in the world. He then challenges us to practice the call to Testify!

More Resources: https://whchurch.org/sermon/provoking-the-beast/

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July 21, 2025

God calls us to the way of generosity and Dan Kent shows how this call is much larger than a set of rules for how we use our money. It's about recognizing the story of the world versus the story of God.

More Resources: https://whchurch.org/sermon/the-way-of-generosity/

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July 1, 2025

In this sermon, Dan Kent challenges us to enter into the way of empathy, which he says is crucial to our ability to connect with others by sharing in their feelings. It is a way exemplified by Jesus as he entered into the common human condition so that he might know what we experience from the inside.

More Resources: https://whchurch.org/sermon/the-way-of-empathy/

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June 10, 2025

Our world surrounds us with despair and darkness, and we long for a place of hope. Dan ties this reality into Revelation 8 and 9, where the trumpet judgments bring destruction to the earth. He looks for and finds hope in the midst of the destruction, showing us how we can find hope even at the crescendo of chaos.

More Resources: https://whchurch.org/sermon/crescendo-of-hope/

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May 7, 2025

This sermon by Dan Kent helps us understand the meaning of repentance and why it is so crucial to our walk with Jesus. In it, we discover how we misunderstand what repentance is and see how repentance is a path to true freedom.

More Resources: https://whchurch.org/sermon/light-chasers/

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March 25, 2025

We need spiritual disciplines which will shape us so that we can live in love toward ourselves. Fasting is such a discipline because it detoxes our dependence upon food and other pleasures, enabling us to receive what is actually fulfilling and whole.

More Resources: https://whchurch.org/sermon/inner-exodus/

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