Episodes
Monday Feb 12, 2024
Fret Not: Unburdening Your Heart of Anxiety
Monday Feb 12, 2024
Monday Feb 12, 2024
In this 2/4/24 sermon, Mike Gowens takes a look at Psalm 37 and the oppressive burden of anxiety. This important chapter specifically addresses anxiety arising when injustice seems to prevail, offering Biblical counsel concerning what not to do (the negative) and what to do (the positive).
Monday Feb 05, 2024
Sin Not: Unburdening Your Conscience
Monday Feb 05, 2024
Monday Feb 05, 2024
This 1/28/24 sermon is the third in the topical series titled "Traveling Light." Elder Gowens' text is 1 John 2:1-2. In this message, Michael defines a three-fold solution to alleviate the heavy burden of guilt and shame that so many people carry in the conscience.
Monday Feb 05, 2024
I Will Build My Church
Monday Feb 05, 2024
Monday Feb 05, 2024
Pastor Gowens' 1/21/24 sermon takes a look at Matthew 16:13-20, a strategically important passage in the New Testament. It is one of two places in the four Gospels in which reference is made to "the church." Here we discover the priority the Lord Jesus places on his church, and an encouraging promise regarding its longevity.
Tuesday Jan 23, 2024
The Battle is the Lord's
Tuesday Jan 23, 2024
Tuesday Jan 23, 2024
Elder Gowens' message on 1/14/24 is taken from 2 Chronicles 20 and the encouraging story of King Jehoshaphat's response to the news of an approaching enemy. Here is an illustration of how faith in God resolves our fears.
Tuesday Jan 16, 2024
Fear Not: Unburdening Your Mind
Tuesday Jan 16, 2024
Tuesday Jan 16, 2024
The 1/7/24 sermon by Mike Gowens is based on 2 Timothy 1:7, continuing the theme of "traveling light" from the previous Sunday. Fear cripples and paralyzes a person. It is an extremely heavy burden to bear. What is the secret for releasing the burden of fear? The text offers a three-fold solution to unnecessary fear.
Monday Jan 08, 2024
Traveling Light
Monday Jan 08, 2024
Monday Jan 08, 2024
Elder Gowens' sermon on 12/31/23 is based on Matthew 11:28-29. Whether we are thinking in physical or emotional terms, human beings tend to accumulate what the Bible calls "stuff." In this message, Brother Gowens encourages the congregation to unburden their lives of unnecessary baggage and to take instead the easy yoke of following the Lord Jesus.
Sunday Dec 31, 2023
Christ the King: His Lowly Coming
Sunday Dec 31, 2023
Sunday Dec 31, 2023
This sermon by Michael Gowens from 12/24/23 is based on Isaiah 11, a prophecy of the coming King. The Messianic King, however, will not initially resemble any other king in human history. His arrival on the stage of history will be, in fact, unimpressive and unspectacular, so far as men are concerned; nevertheless, He is the penultimate King.
Sunday Dec 31, 2023
Immanuel
Sunday Dec 31, 2023
Sunday Dec 31, 2023
In this 12/17/23 message, Mike Gowens considers another of the wonderful names of Jesus. The text for this message is Matthew 1:18-23.
Wednesday Dec 20, 2023
Prince of Peace
Wednesday Dec 20, 2023
Wednesday Dec 20, 2023
On Sunday 12/10/23, Michael Gowens led the Bethel congregation in consideration of the wonderful name of Jesus, "Prince of Peace" (Is. 9:6-7). Where Jesus Christ reigns as King, peace prevails. And it prevails in two dimensions: 1) in heaven, and 2) on earth. Gowens explains this two-fold blessing of Christ's gift of peace in this message.
Monday Dec 11, 2023
The Purpose of the Gospel
Monday Dec 11, 2023
Monday Dec 11, 2023
On 12/3/23, Pastor Gowens brings the final message in the topical series "Things Most Surely Believed Among Us." Following up on the previous message, he once more addresses the utility of the gospel. Regular exposure to the preaching of the gospel will exercise a saving influence in the life of the believer.