Twenty-Somethings

What is God like? How does He relate to us? How can we feel His presence and hear His voice? Listen in as Austin Hey answers these questions and more from Isaiah 7-9.

What does it look like to encounter God? What is the holiness of God? What should our response be to encountering God? How can we tell if we had a genuine encounter with God? Listen in as Caleb Eissler answers all of these questions and more from Isaiah 6.

What do we need to live a life of godliness? How has God provided? How does God deal with our pride as we follow Him? What can we learn from God's people in Isaiah? Listen in as Jay Minnick answers these questions and more in this next installment in our message series in Isaiah.

How can you know if your worship of God is true or false? What does it look like to live your whole life as an act of worship? What if going to church and reading your bible wasn't true worship? Listen in to have these questions and more answered as Caleb Eissler kicks off our spring semester message series in Isaiah by focusing on Isaiah 1.

What if suffering was a way we could showcase our hope in God? How should we respond when we are persecuted and bullied for our faith? Listen in as Andy Lee provides a wealth of counter-cultural wisdom in this next installment in our 1 Peter message series.

Slavery and wives submitting to their husbands are two of the most difficult biblical topics in our modern context. But when Peter brings them up in his pastoral letter, he does so for incredibly redemptive and instructional purposes. Listen in as Caleb Eissler helps us navigate these tough topics in 1 Peter 2:18-3:7 to see how they apply in profound ways to our lives today.

How should Christians engage in politics? How should we navigate the intense political tensions of our day? How should we represent Jesus in the public square? How can we know if we are falling into political idolatry ourselves? Listen in as Caleb Eissler answers these questions and more as we continue on in our 1 Peter message series. 

What does it mean that we have new identities in Christ? Despite all that the world might label us as, how might our outlook on our lives change if we realized that God calls us Beloved? Listen in as Stana Martin helps us see how to have resilient and hope-filled faith despite painful experiences and sins as we continue on in our 1 Peter message series this fall.

Listen in as Caleb Eissler kicks off our sermon series in the book of 1 Peter. In this message, Caleb breaks down 1 Peter 1:1-12 by looking at it from 2 primary angles: 1.) this broken world is not our home, and 2.) our heavenly home is greater than we could imagine. Within those two angles, Caleb talks about how to endure in this fallen world, how to live with hope, how to prepare for heaven, and how to live meaningfully in this life when we're not in our heavenly home yet. 

*Originally preached on Thursday, September 1st, 2022 at Pleasant Valley Baptist Church for Twenty-Somethings*

How should we respond when a pastor falls into grievous sin? Does their sin make our faith untrue? How should we handle the doubts we encounter in the aftermath? What is the role of a pastor in the first place? Listen in as Caleb Eissler answers these questions and more in the final message of our Resilient sermon series.

*Originally preached on Thursday, August 11th, 2022 at Pleasant Valley Baptist Church*