“God will not use a man greatly until He has broken him deeply” – A. W. Tozer. Listen as Pastor Wheeler considers the “God of Second Chances” from Jonah 3. Do you need a second chance? Listen to see what God can do with failed men who yield themselves a faithful Savior.

Get the 07/08/2012 Bulletin and listen to The God of Second Chances: God’s Unchanging Mercy, Jonah 3 

The life of faith includes doubt, fear and depression.  They are not out of place in the life of a Christian anymore than weights are out of place in a gym. These experiences are the weights that break us down and await the feeding of the Word and Spirit to heal and grow.  This week Pastor Wheeler continues a look at Jonah’s prayer from the belly of the great fish to see how we breathe while in the deeps and how we get out of the deeps.

Get the 07/01/2012 Bulletin and listen to Out of the Deeps, Jonah 1:17-2:10 

Depression for the Christian is not “the dumps,” but “the Deeps.”   The Deeps is that strange place that feels a lot like hell on earth, but is that place of victory.  Jonah was literally and spiritually in the Deeps, but we can see from his experience in the belly of Sheol how God brought him through depression to gain the victory.  Pastor Wheeler looks at Jonah’s prayer to consider how we are to respond when we are in the Deeps.

Get the 06/24/2012 Bulletin and listen to The Deeps, Jonah 1:17-2:10 

The definition of fatherhood is not reflective of cultural norms or practice, it is determined by an eternal reality — the fatherhood of God.  The key to understanding how to honor and exercise human fatherhood is to know God as our Father, which art in heaven.  Listen as Pastor Wheeler examines the preface to the Lord’s prayer, considering what kind of Father we approach in prayer and how we are to come to Him as children.

Get the 06/17/2012 Bulletin and listen to Our Father, Galatians 4:4-7, Matthew 6:6-13.

Listen as guest preacher, Rev. Steve Irby examines what the Scripture teaches regarding ‘Experiencing God.’

Get the 06/10/2012 Bulletin and listen to Experiencing God, Eph 3, Phil 4, 1 Peter 1.

There is no such thing as status quo in the Christian life.  If we are not growing  in our faith we are shrinking in our faith, if we are not pressing on in Christ, we are sliding back.  The story of Jonah is our story.  We are called to arise and go, but instead we go down; down to Joppa, down into the ship, down into a deep slumber, down into the depths of the sea of spiritual apathy and rebellion.  From the story of Jonah, Pastor Wheeler examines the causes, the consequences and the cure for backsliding.

Get the 06/03/2012 Bulletin and listen to Sinking Down, Jonah 1:4-17 

Though the story of Jonah and the “great fish” is in every children’s Bible storybook, it is not simply a nice bedtime story where everything works out in the end.  The tale of Jonah’s flight from God is gripping and enigmatic.  The book ends with a question and we are left hanging — awaiting the “end of the story” with the coming of the “greater Jonah.”   Listen as Pastor Wheeler begins the exposition of the big, little book of Jonah.

Get the 05/27/2012 Bulletin and listen to Runaway Bride, Jonah 1:1-3 

Is there more to motherhood than laundry, dishes and soccer practice?  The Scripture speaks of a vision for parenthood which goes far beyond simply surviving until our children leave home.  Listen as Pastor Wheeler examines what the Scripture says in 3 John 4 about the chief end of motherhood.

Get the 05/13/2012 Bulletin and listen to The Chief End of Motherhood, 3 John 4.

Pastor Wheeler continues to examine the most minor of the minor prophets by considering Obadiah’s condemnation of the unbeliever’s pride. 

Get the 05/06/2012 Bulletin or listen to The Problems of Unbelief: Pride, Obadiah 2-4.