Whitehall Baptist Church

JOHN 7:14-24 | TESTS IN THE TEMPLE ILLUSTRATION : My wife and I cook two very different ways. Tressa is the type of cook that measures everything when she cooks She pulls out the teaspoons and the tablespoons She uses the measuring cups for how much of each seasonings to use. And her food always turns…

JOHN 7:2 | THE FEAST OF TABERNACLES ILLUSTRATION : Tressa and I had just gotten married and we were traveling back from Indiana and we stopped in Minnesota to visit some of Tressa family. And it just so happened to land at the same time as a major event taking place: the Minnesota State Fair. Now, I…

JOHN 7:1-13 | DOING THINGS GOD’S WAY EXPLANATION : Around 6 or 7 months had passed by from the end of John 6 and the beginning of chapter 7. We know because chapter 6:4 points to the Passover in the spring, and John 7:2 , tells us they were preparing for the feast of tabernacles which took place in the…

JOHN 6:60-71 | WHAT WILL YOU DO WITH THE MESSAGE? ILLUSTRATION : Last week I shared of how I grew up listening to a lot of different preachers. And when you grow up going to church, you find that there are a lot of different responses to messages that were preached. I’ve seen people cry in response to…

JOHN 6:25-58 | COME, SEE, AND BELIEVE ILLUSTRATION : Do you have a favorite preacher to listen to? Maybe for some of you that seems random… but maybe some of you have a favorite to listen to. When I was a teenager, my favorite preachers to listen to were screamers There was one preacher who was an evangelist…

JOHN 6:27-34 | CONFIDENTLY WRONG ILLUSTRATION : Have you ever been confidently wrong? My mind goes back to the school days when public humiliation was encouraged by the teachers. Maybe you remember public humiliation Math flash card competitions Classroom spelling bees The worst: Public Reading You don’t…

JOHN 6:22-26 | SEEKING FOR JESUS ME ILLUSTRATION : I had to be under 10 years old when I got it. I don’t honestly remember where it came form or who got it for me. All I know if for a few weeks I carried a real, genuine, rabbit’s foot in my pocket. I remember it had a little chain that came off of it,…

JOHN 6:16-21 | IT IS I ILLUSTRATION : As a child, I had the blessing of having a mom who drove a school bus. For nearly the entirety of my school years, from early grade school all the way until I got my license and could drive myself to school, my mom was the school bus driver. There were definitely…