Sermons from August 2020
James 1:12-18 – God’s Purpose vs. Your Temptation
Guest speaker Joe Ferguson preaches from James 1:12-18 on temptation and God’s purpose for your life. Joe serves as a professor of evangelism and church-planting at Northeastern Baptist College in Bennington, VT and as the associate pastor at Open Bible Baptist Church in Cambridge, NY. Island Pond Baptist Church is an SBC church in Hampstead, NH, just seconds from Derry, NH. We also have many people at our church from surrounding cities such as Chester, Sandown, Danville, Kingston, Fremont, Plaistow,…
Judges 17-18 – Homemade Religion
In this strange story in Judges 17-18, we see a man named Micah creating a homemade version of following after God. In the end, this results in a lot of trouble for him. In this sermon, Pastor Kyle shows how we often make our own homemade religion and how it ends in trouble for us as well. Homemade smoothies are good! Homemade religions are bad. Sermon Clip The message notes for the sermon can be downloaded by clicking on…
Judges 16 – Samson (part 3) – Sin and the Spirit
Up to this point, Samson has gotten away with his sinful lifestyle. In this chapter, it finally catches up with him and he pays a very big price. In this sermon, Pastor Kyle shows the danger of sin, and in particular, how it can impact your intimacy with God. Is that sin worth losing intimacy with God? Sin is appealing, but it will hurt us in the long run. Sermon Clip The message notes for the sermon can be…
Judges 14-15 – Samson (part 2) – God-Ordained Pain
Why would God use a sinful man like Samson? Multiple times in our passage it says that the “spirit of the Lord” was upon him, even when he was in fits of rage, killing other people. In this sermon, Pastor Kyle talks about how God used sinful Samson for a bigger purpose… to stir up conflict between Israel and the Philistines. This conflict started the process of breaking Israel free from captivity even when they did not want to be…
Judges 13 – Samson (part 1) – The God of the Impossible
Do you have an “impossible” situation in your life? A sin you can’t conquer? A health problem that is beyond your control? A relationship struggle that won’t get better? In this message, Pastor Kyle looks at Judges 13 and shows that nothing is impossible for God. And since nothing is impossible for him, we should not lose hope. God is a God of hope! Sermon Clip The teaching sheet for the message can be downloaded by clicking on the…