Steal Back Your Joy

Father’s Day 2020: Resolution

Thank you for viewing our 2020 Father’s Day sermon from lead pastor Chris Baker. 

For more inspiration and spiritual guidance for fathers from Pastor Chris, please check out the following sermons:

Strike Back

Absolute

In this week’s sermon, titled “Absolute,” Lead Pastor Chris Baker shares the story of Josiah, who was one of Judah’s best kings.

He made a very noble attempt at bringing the people of Judah and Israel back to the Lord. Jeremiah prophesied during Josiah’s reign and his words reveal that the national restoration to the Lord was very shallow at best.

Josiah was sincere, but the people by in large were not.

It’s like the kid whose mother tells him, “Sit down or I’ll spank you!” The kid sits down and then says to his mom, “I may be sitting down on the outside, but inside I’m still standing up.”
Jeremiah’s message makes it clear that while Josiah made Judah and Israel renew the covenant on the outside, inside most of them were still captivated by sin and rebellion against God.

True and lasting national repentance was Josiah’s aim, but the results were short lived.

Jeremiah shows us that sometimes hard hearts must be broken by punishment before they can be healed by God’s grace.

Listen to Pastor Chris’s full message as he goes through the entire story of 2 Chronicles 34, shares some of his personal testimony, and explains that we need to keep continuing to seek the power of the Holy Spirit if we are to become His empowered church in the days of NO ABSOLUTES.

Questions To Consider As You Listen to “Absolute”:

  • What must have gone through Josiah’s mind as he became king at 8 years old?
  • What kind of influences shaped his reign?
  • Which God of his father’s did Josiah decide to follow?
  • Could Josiah have decided to follow other things besides God?
  • Right after Josiah died, what do you think the people did?
  • Because we as a church need to be transformed.
  • Because we cannot afford to ignore His immediate presence.

Cited Bible Verses (Alphanumeric Order):

  • 2 Chronicles 33:10-17
  • 2 Chronicles 34:3-7
  • 2 Chronicles 34:35
  • 2 Kings 22:3-11
  • 2 Kings 22:23
  • 2 Kings 23:25
  • 1 Timothy 2:3-6

Thank you for viewing today’s powerful sermon. The Holy Spirit is moving, and we are grateful that you took some time to get in His presence with us today.

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Ghost Talk

In this week’s sermon, titled “Ghost Talk,” Lead Pastor Chris Baker acknowledges the Day of Pentecost and shares that he believes that we need a harvest of the Spirit of God in our lives once again.

As witnesses, we cannot afford to stop seeking to be filled with His power.

As the church, we cannot afford to remain the same – we need to be transformed.

As His children, we cannot afford to ignore His immediate presence.

We as a church need that Pentecostal power once again. The kind of power that needs to be attended to constantly, around the clock, so that it never goes out.

If the fire of the Spirit of God is going to live in our lives, it should never be allowed to go out!

The people of God that are walking in the Spirit, flowing in His gifts, cherishing His presence, and stirring up the fire He has placed within us.

Do you believe in the Holy Ghost? Are you going to make a difference in this world in these last days?

Why Do We Need The Holy Spirit?

  • Because we need the power to witness.
  • Because we as a church need to be transformed.
  • Because we cannot afford to ignore His immediate presence.

Cited Bible Verses (Alphanumeric Order):

  • Acts 1:4
  • Acts 1:8
  • Acts 2:1-4
  • 2 Chronicles 7:1
  • 1 Corinthians 2:4-5
  • 1 Corinthians 6:19
  • John 14:17
  • Leviticus 6:12
  • Leviticus 9:24
  • Luke 24:49
  • 1 Thessalonians 5:19
  • 2 Timothy 3:5

Thank you for viewing today’s powerful sermon. The Holy Spirit is moving, and we are grateful that you took some time to get in His presence with us today.

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Time To Sober Up

In this week’s sermon, Lead Pastor Chris Baker shares that we need to sober up for the biggest battle Americans are facing today – the battle for the very soul of our nation.

We see it around us every single day. And it’s time for the church to sober up.

The erosion of our society has been a slow process, but we’ve seen it accelerate rapidly in the past few years. This nation that we’ve all comes to know and love continues to erode…

and become more of a finger in the face of God.

The position we’re in today is because of what we tolerated yesterday.

The position we’ll be in tomorrow will be because of what we tolerate today.

In Daniel’s day, he saw a lot of the same. But the situation was much worse.

Four Things Our Society Is In Danger Of Losing:

  • The sense of remembrance
  • The sense of reality
  • The sense of restraint
  • The sense of respect

Cited Bible Verses:

  • 1 Corinthians 10:12
  • Daniel 4:30
  • Daniel 4:32
  • Daniel 4:37
  • Daniel 5:1
  • Daniel 5:2
  • Daniel 5:3-4
  • Daniel 5:5
  • Daniel 5:7
  • Daniel 5:13
  • Daniel 5:18-23
  • Daniel 5:25
  • Daniel 5:30-31

Presidential Quotes Cited In Today’s Message:

“Those who long enjoy such privileges that we enjoy forget in time that others have died to win them.

Freedom is never really free, it’s almost always bought with the blood of Patriots.”

– President Franklin Roosevelt
“A nation that does not remember what it was yesterday does not know what it is today, or what it is trying to do.

We are about a futile thing if we do not know where we came from or what we have been about.”

– President Woodrow Wilson

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Half and Half

In this week’s sermon, Lead Pastor Chris Baker shares his concerns about how the church is at risk of getting stuck in a “half way in, half way out” relationship with Jesus Christ.

A prevailing sin in the church today is the sin of lukewarmness.

The 7 churches mentioned in Revelation are symbolic for the churches of today.

They speak to us prophetically. They speak to us practically. They speak to us powerfully.

But the church is made up of individuals. Therefore, there is a message for each individual follower of The Lord in the story of Revelation.

Play the video above for the full sermon to hear Pastor Chris’s message. Consider what you are going to do in this season of life where are at risk of getting “lukewarm” with their faith.

Questions To Consider:

  • How is lukewarmness manifested?
  • What could possibly make your love grow cold?
  • Do you need to watch out for that “half and half” feeling in your own life?

Quoted Bible Verses:

  • Revelation 3:22
  • Matthew 18:20
  • Revelation 3:15-16
  • Mark 7:6
  • 2 Timothy 3:1, 13
  • Jeremiah 17:9
  • Matthew 15:19
  • Matthew 24:12
  • Luke 17:1
  • 2 Timothy 3:2-5
  • 2 Peter 3:3-4
  • John 14:2-3
  • Matthew 24:39b-42

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Under Pressure

In this week’s sermon, Lead Pastor Chris Baker gives us a glimpse of Paul’s problems that God told him to press through, despite being under pressure that can only be defined as “great”, as a means to bring glory to His kingdom.

A bird does not give up searching for worms today because it didn’t find any yesterday.

Understand that your purpose in Christ doesn’t end because of troubles, or because there is a missing piece in you. God brings out the best in us when faced with trouble, and we have to face the pressure, and pray!

As God is building His people, Pastor Chris figured out that strong rooted, God-fearing people are produced and built under pressure. We will never be able to understand the miracles of God without the troubles of life. The enemy of our souls would love to have us throw in the towel when things get tough.

Keep up the good fight solider!

Play the video of our drive in-style service above for the full sermon to hear Pastor Chris’s message. Don’t forget that when Jesus gets involved in your pressures that diamonds get created!

Questions To Consider:

  • What is more important than carrying the word of God, holding it dear, and allowing it to properly flow through you?
  • The Bible tells us that treasures will be displayed in earthen vessels. How do we obtain this treasure?
  • Are you a diamond in the rough?
  • How are you going to allow Jesus to display the hidden treasures in your life by pressuring you and preparing you for Him?

Quoted Bible Verses:

  • 2 Corinthians 4:7-9
  • James 1:15
  • Proverbs 16:18
  • Proverbs 8:13
  • 2 Samuel 22:7
  • Luke 18:7
  • Psalm 66:19
  • 1 John 5:14
  • John 9:31
  • Hebrews 6:19

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Here Catch This

In this week’s sermon, Lead Pastor Chris Baker shares the story of Moses in Exodus chapters 1 through 12 and shares his revelations on how the struggles of your life are actually a part of God’s plan for you.

Whenever we do something, we generally tend to do it the quickest, easiest way.

People don’t usually take the long way home on purpose. Or try to do things the hard way.

So when Pastor Chris was reading the story of Exodus, it struck him as strange as to why God does things the hard way.

There were the Israelites in Egypt, slaves for 430 years.

Oppressed. Hurting. Miserable.

God saw their misery and decided that the time had come to fulfill what had been promised generations ago… that the Israelites would go and possess a land of of their own.

Play the video above for the full sermon to hear Pastor Chris’s message. Consider what you are going to do with the “dynamite in your lap” that God has thrown to you during these trying times.

Questions To Consider:

  • Instead of softening Pharoah’s heart, what does God do?
  • Why does God do things “the hard way”?
  • Why doesn’t God solve the problem? Heal the sick? Restore the relationship?
  • Will you obey, even though life is hard right now and everything you know is flipped upside down?
  • Jesus is looking for trust and obeying from you through the most difficult times. What are you going to do with it?

Quoted Bible Verses:

  • Exodus 5:22-23
  • Exodus 6:9
  • Exodus 7:5
  • Exodus 9:15-16
  • Colossians 1:15-17
  • Psalm 61:1-2

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What Are You Full Of?

In this week’s sermon, Lead Pastor Chris Baker asks “what are you full of?” Some of us can answer that question more quickly than others.

Who do you think had the greatest thing in history to worry about?

The answer: JESUS!

Think about His mission. To minister for only three years. To die at age 33. To sacrifice for all of our sins.

The big question Pastor Chris has: How did He go through life with that kind of burden, yet it seemed that he had:

  • no worries
  • no anxieties
  • no pressure
  • no fear

Jesus had every reason to have all of these things to cause Him to climb into a great depression hole, yet He was out rocking the world with hope and peace and an incredible power in His culture.

Wherever He was, things changed radically for those who were in His midst.

Think about where we are at in our time:

  • A monster virus
  • People passing away
  • People getting laid off
  • The world’s economic collapse
  • Homes to which we have grown rather fond of.

The list goes on and on and on. If we just focus on these things, we are doomed forever. 

Play the video above for the full sermon to hear Pastor Chris’s message for you as you consider what you are full of in these trying times we live in.

Questions To Consider:

  • What did Jesus do a lot more than anything else?
  • How much time have you spent with other things than our Savior during quarantine?
  • What is the kingdom of God?
  • What are you full of as you are listening to this message?
  • What are you full of during this quarantine?

Quoted Bible Verses:

  • Luke 12:25-31
  • Luke 5:16
  • 1 Timothy 6:15
  • Philippians 1:6
  • James 4:13-15
  • Philippians 4:6-7
  • John 14:27

Other Sources Mentioned In Today’s Sermon:

  • John Bevere

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