Past Sermons - EAGLE RIDGE CHURCH OF GOD

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Obedience

4/27/2025 Session 1: Obedience & Submission (sermon notes)
5/04/25 Session 2: Obedience: A Family Affair
5/11/25 Session 3: Obedient Sacrifice (sermon notes)
5/18/25 Session 4: Mutual Submission (sermon notes)
5/25/25 Session 5: Intimate Submission

Who told you that...?

3/23/2025 Session 1: Shame Makes Its Entrance (sermon notes)
3/30/2025 Session 2: Shame Tells a Different Story (sermon notes)
4/6/2025 Session 3: The Remedy is in the Relationship (sermon notes)
4/13/2025 Session 4: Shame Meets the Cross (sermon notes)
4/20/2025 Resurrection Sunday (sermon notes)

Go Release Send

3/2/2025 Session 1: Let's go! (sermon notes)
3/9/2025 Session 2: Loosen Your Grip (sermon notes)
3/16/2025 Session 3: Send Me!

Off The Cutting Room Floor

1/12/2025 Living Sacrifice (sermon notes)
1/19/2025 Ruth (sermon notes)
1/26/2025 God is Love (sermon notes)
2/2/2025 More Than Words (sermon notes)
2/9/2025 How to Fish for People
2/16/2025 No Ordinary Joe (sermon notes)
2/23/2025 Proper Boasting for Christians (sermon notes)

Journey Through The Bible

Click here for the chronological reading guide for the year.

12/31/2023 Session 1: Why Read The Bible? (sermon notes)
1/7/2024 Session 2: The Journey Begins (sermon notes)
1/14/2024 Session 3: The Patriarchs
1/21/2024 Session 4: The Patriarchs: Joseph (sermon notes)
1/28/2024 Session 5: The Patriarchs: Job Finding a Life Coach (sermon notes)
2/4/2024 Session 6: Exodus: Moses, the Early Years (sermon notes)
2/11/2024 Session 7: Exodus: Passover
2/18/2024 Session 8: Exodus: Idolatry and Desires (sermon notes)
2/25/2024 Session 9: Leviticus: A Tale of Two Goats (sermon notes)
3/3/2024 Session 10: Leviticus: Sabbath & Jubilee
3/10/2024 Session 11: Numbers: God Provides Water & Snakes (sermon notes)
3/17/2024 Session 12: Deuteronomy: Shema Israel (sermon notes)
3/24/2024 Session 13: Palm Sunday , Deuteronomy: The Heart of the Problem (sermon notes)
3/31/2024 Session 14: Easter Sunday, Conquest: Joshua to Yeshua (sermon notes)
4/7/2024 Session 15: Judges: Gideon - The Lord is Peace
4/14/2024 Session 16: 1 Samuel: Rejoice! (sermon notes)
4/21/2024 Session 17: 1 Samuel: Saul & David
4/28/2024 Session 18: 2 Samuel: Building a House (sermon notes)
5/5/2024 Session 19: 1 Chronicles 21: Preparing to Build (sermon notes)
5/12/2024 Session 20: Psalm 22: Feelings & Faith (sermon notes)
5/19/2024 Session 21: Psalm 139: Knowing & Trusting God (sermon notes)
5/26/2024 Session 22: 1 Kings 8: Solomon's Temple (sermon notes)
6/2/2024 Session 23: Proverbs 9: A Banquet or Bread & Water (sermon notes)
6/9/2024 Session 24: Ecclesiastes 5: Everything is Hevel! (sermon notes)
6/16/2024 Session 25: 2 Kings 2: God's Prophetic Voice (sermon notes)
6/23/2024 Session 26: Amos 5: An Uncomfortable Conversation (sermon notes)
6/30/2024 Session 27: Hosea: Spiritual Growth
7/7/2024 Session 28: 2 Chronicles: Choose Wisely (sermon notes)
7/14/2024 Session 29: Uganda Mission Trip
7/21/2024 Session 30: Isaiah 30: The Difficult Path Through, Not Around
7/28/2024 Session 31: Isaiah 58: When God Stops Listening (sermon notes)
8/4/2024 Session 32: 2 Kings 22-23: How Should We Respond? (sermon notes)
8/11/2024 Session 33: Daniel 3: Even If God Doesn't or Didn't (sermon notes)
8/18/2024 Session 34: Jeremiah 29: Letter to the Exiles (sermon notes)
8/25/2024 Session 35: 2024 Baptism
9/1/2024 Session 36: Ezekiel 34: The Good Shepherd (sermon notes)
9/8/2024 Session 37: A Walk Across a Bridge
9/15/2024 Session 38: Esther Becomes Queen (sermon notes)
9/22/2024 Session 39: His Will or Mine? (sermon notes)
9/29/2024 Session 40: Nicodemus' Choices
10/6/2024 Session 41: The Sermon On The Mount: Upside Down (sermon notes)
10/13/2024 Session 42: Bread from Heaven (sermon notes)
10/20/2024 Session 43: Sending the Seventy-Two (sermon notes)
10/27/2024 Session 44: Triumphal Entry (sermon notes)
11/3/2024 Session 45: Why say goodbye? (sermon notes)
11/10/2024 Session 46: It was all pointing to this! (sermon notes)
11/17/2024 Session 47: Saul of Tarsus (sermon notes)
11/24/2024 Session 48: Spiritual Gifts (sermon notes)
12/1/2024 Session 49: The New Covenant (sermon notes)
12/8/2024 Session 50: Living in the Light (sermon notes)
12/15/2024 Session 51: Who is Jesus, Really? (sermon notes)
12/22/2024 Session 52: Jesus is Our High Priest?
12/29/2024 Session 53: Loving Rebuke (sermon notes)
1/5/2025 Session 54: The End of the Story (sermon notes)

Christmas Eve Service

The Wonder of Christmas

12/3/2023 Session 1: Hope (sermon notes)
12/10/2023 Session 2: Peace (sermon notes)
12/17/2023 Session 3: Joy (sermon notes)
12/24/2023 Session 4: His Birth (sermon notes)

How Do You Know It's God?

10/8/2023 Session 1: Allegiance (sermon notes)
10/15/2023 Session 2: Try Harder! (sermon notes)
10/22/2023 Session 3: Desire (sermon notes)
10/29/2023 Session 4: Thinking
11/5/2023 Session 5: Memories
11/12/2023 Session 6: Redemption
11/19/2023 Session 7: Enhanced Hearing
11/26/2023 Session 8: What's the Occasion?

Hit the Ground Running

9/17/2023 Session 1: Be a Bridge, Build a Bridge (sermon notes)
9/24/2023 Session 2: What's Your Next Move? (sermon notes)
10/1/2023 Session 3: The Right Questions

Summer of Love

Summer of Love - Study Guide Explanation Video

Session 1: Foundation for Fellowship (sermon notes)
Session 2: The Problem (sermon notes)
Session 3: Knowing God (sermon notes)
Session 4: Don't Be Seduced (sermon notes)
Session 5: Courage
Session 6: Your True Identity
Session 7: What's Love Got To Do With It?
Session 8: Test Before Believing!
Session 9: God is Love
Session 10: Confusion or Confidence?
Session 11: Crisis Management
Session 12: One of the Good Guys

Baptism Service 2023

Complete the Picture (Series on The Holy Spirit)

4/16/2023 Session 1: God, Jesus, and... (sermon notes)
4/23/2023 Session 2: The Draw (sermon notes)
4/30/2023 Session 3: Are you receptive? (sermon notes)
5/7/2023 Session 4: Resistant (sermon notes)
5/14/2023 Session 5: The Voice of Truth
5/21/2023 Session 6: Responsible To, Not For
5/28/2023 Session 7: The Power to...
6/4/2023 Session 8: Uniquely Empowered (sermon notes)

6/11/2023 Special Presentation: Uganda 2023

New Year 2023
1/1/2023 Looking Back to Look Forward (sermon notes)

1/8/2023 Moving in the Right Direction (sermon notes)

The Glory of Christmas
11/27/2022 Week 1: Joseph (sermon notes)
12/4/2022 Week 2: Shepherds (sermon notes)
12/11/2022 Week 3: Mary (sermon notes)
12/18/2022 Week 4: The Wise Men
12/24/2022 Week 5a: Christmas Eve Service
12/25/2022 Week 5b: Christmas Day - Being Led by God (sermon notes)

The Anger Pandemic
10/16/2022 Session 1: Fear & Other Scary Things (sermon notes)
10/23/2022 Session 2: Digging Deeper
10/30/2022 Session 3: Bitterness Takes Root (sermon notes)
11/6/2022 Session 4: Where do I start? (sermon notes)
11/13/2022 Session 5: Unity Over Anger (sermon notes)
11/20/2022 Session 6: The Remedy (sermon notes)

Core Values
9/18/2022 Session 1: Reset
9/25/2022 Session 2: Reset - part 2 (sermon notes)
10/2/2022 Session 3: Reset - part 3 (sermon notes)
10/9/2022 Session 4: Reset - part 4 "The Gospel Truth" (sermon notes)

6/12/2022 Uganda Team Report

Romans
6/19/2022 Session 1: Church Words (Reconnect: Part 2) (Sermon notes)
6/26/2022 Session 2: Insider Information (Sermon notes)
7/3/2022 Session 3: But now...
7/10/2022 Session 4: Faith of Our Fathers
7/17/2022 Session 5: Peace Be With You
7/24/2022 Session 6: Become Who You Are
7/31/2022 Session 7: The Fight Within
8/7/2022 Session 8: Flesh & Spirit
8/14/2022 Session 9: Preoccupied
8/21/2022 Session 10: Family Reunion Picnic - Unity
8/28/2022 Session 11: Do's & Don'ts of Unity
9/4/2022 Session 12: The End?

9/11/2022 Baptism Service

Guardrails
5/1/2022 Session 1: Strategically Placed (Sermon notes)
5/8/2022 Session 2: The Kingdom of Me (Sermon notes)
5/15/2022 Session 3: Life & Death (Sermon notes)
5/22/2022 Session 4: Honoring God With Our Bodies (Sermon notes)
5/29/2022 Session 5: Gender
6/5/2022 Session 6: "Not God"

Pastor Bill's Deeper Dive Challenge During this Series

Revolutionary Disciple
1/9/2022 Session 1: It's a journey with Jesus (Sermon Notes)
1/16/2022 Session 2: Remaining in Christ (Sermon Notes)
1/23/2022 Session 3: The Church Sphere ("One Another Passage" - Pastor Bill referenced at the end of the message) (Sermon Notes)
1/30/2022 Session 4: The Home Sphere (Sermon Notes)
2/6/2022 Session 5: The World Sphere (Sermon Notes)
2/13/2022 Session 6: The Spiritual Realm (Sermon Notes)

New Year
1/2/2022 Remembering Faithfulness (Sermon Notes)

Christmas Eve
12/24/2021 Christmas Eve Worship Service

12/26/2021 HOPE (Sermon Notes)

Advent 2021: Christmas Stories
11/28/2021 Session 1: Elizabeth (Sermon Notes)
12/5/2021 Session 2: Mary & Joseph (Sermon Notes)
12/12/2021 Session 3: The Shepherds (Sermon Notes)
12/19/2021 Session 4: The Wise Men

Choices
6/27/2021 Session 1: The Rich Man (Sermon Notes)
7/4/2021 Session 2: Pontius Pilate (Sermon Notes)
7/11/2021 Session 3: Nicodemus
7/18/2021 Session 4: Rahab
7/25/2021 Session 5: Mordecai vs Haman
8/1/2021 Session 6: Elijah vs Ahab & Jezebel (Sermon Notes)
8/8/2021 Session 7: John the Baptist vs Herod
8/15/2021 Session 8: Elijah and the widow of Zarephath (Sermon Notes)
8/22/2021 Session 9: Call the Midwives (Sermon Notes)
8/29/2021 Session 10: Josiah (Sermon Notes)
9/5/2021 Session 11: Judas (Sermon Notes)

Outdoor Baptism Service
6/20/2021 Baptism Service (Sermon Notes)

Hearing God's Voice
4/11/2021 Session 1: Who me? (Sermon Notes)
4/18/2021 Session 2: Signal Strength (Sermon Notes)
4/25/2021 Session 3: The Proper Mindset (Sermon Notes)
5/2/2021 Session 4: Joining the Family Business (Sermon Notes)
5/9/2021 Session 5: Abundant Life (Sermon Notes)
5/16/2021 Session 6: Hearing that transforms (Sermon Notes)
5/23/2021 Session 7: Confess & Repent (Sermon Notes)
5/30/2021 Session 8: The Slow Life
6/6/2021 Session 9: The Grounded Life
6/13/2021 Session 10: The Generous Life

2021
3/21/2021 Session 1: Understanding Jesus (Sermon Notes)
3/28/2021 Session 2: A Loving Warning
4/4/2021 Session 3: Resurrection (Sermon Notes)

Hindsight is 2020, Last Worship Service of the year

Christmas Eve Service: Carols and Bells

Baptism Service
9/13/2020 Outdoor Baptism Service

Ordinary to Extraordinary - Continued
8/2/2020 Session 6: John
8/9/2020 Session 7: Philip
8/16/2020 Session 8: Matthew & Thomas
8/23/2020 Session 9: Nathanael aka Bartholomew (Sermon Notes)
8/30/2020 Session 10: Role Models (Full Audio Sermon) (Sermon Notes)
9/6/2020 Session 11: The Traitor (Sermon Notes)

New Beginnings Sunday
7/26/2020 Special Sermon - Welcome!!

Ordinary to Extraordinary
6/21/2020 Session 1: Picking Teams
6/28/2020 Session 2: Peter
7/5/2020 Session 3: Freedom Sunday
7/12/2020 Session 4: Andrew
7/19/2020 Session 5: James

The Book of Acts (Continued)
4/19/2020 Session 20: Imploding or Spreading (Acts 15)
4/26/2020 Session 21: Addition or Multiplication (Acts 15-16)
5/3/2020 Session 22: Preparing the Soil (Acts 17)
5/10/2020 Session 24: Tough Plowing (Acts 18)
5/17/2020 Session 25: Begin with the End (Acts 18-19)
5/24/2020 Session 26: Beginning of the end... or is it? (Acts 20)
5/31/2020 Session 27: Fertilizer (Acts 21-22)
6/7/2020 Session 28: Flowers in Death Valley (Acts 24-26)
6/14/2020 Session 29: It's Rome or BUST! (Acts 27-28) (Available 6/14 @ 10:45 am)

Easter and Palm Sunday
4/5/2020 Palm Sunday: A Face in the Crowd
4/9/2020 Maunday Thursday: Worship Service
4/12/2020 Easter Sunday Service

The Book of Acts (Continued)
1/5/2020 Session 7: Call to Pray for Boldness (Acts 4:23-31) (Pastor Notes) (Bible Project Video)
1/12/2020 Session 8: Does the Punishment Fit the Crime? (Acts 5:1-16) (Pastor Notes) (Ananias & Sapphira Video)
1/19/2020 Session 9: Resistance (Acts 5:17-42) (Pastor Notes)
1/26/2020 Session 10: An Unnatural Response (Acts 6-7) (Pastor Notes)
2/2/2020 Session 11: Sown not Scattered (Acts 8:1-25) (Pastor Notes)
2/9/2020 Session 12: Comfort Zones (Acts 8:26-40)
2/16/2020 Session 13: An Unlikely Source (Acts 9:1-19) (Pastor Notes)
2/23/2020 Session 14: How did this happen? (Acts 9:20-31) (Pastor Notes)
3/1/2020 Session 15: Settling in or Keep moving? (Acts 9:32-43)
3/8/2020 Session 16: To the Ends of the Earth (Acts 10-11)
3/15/2020 Session 17: What if God Answers our Prayers? (Acts 12) (Pastor Notes)
3/22/2020 Session 18: Greater Impact (Acts 13) (Pastor Notes)
3/29/2020 Session 19: Growing Stronger (Acts 14)

Advent: Away in a Manger
12/1/2019 Session 1: Hope (Pastor Notes)
12/8/2019 Session 2: Love (Pastor Notes)
12/15/2019 Session 3: Peace (Pastor Notes)
12/22/2019 Session 4: Joy (Pastor Notes)
12/29/2019 Session 5: The Christmas PS

Thanksgiving
11/24/2019 Session 1: Being Thankful

The Book of Acts
10/13/2019 Session 1: Spirit Promised (Acts 1) (Pastor Notes)
10/20/2019 Session 2: Access to Power (Acts 2: 1-13) (Pastor Notes)
10/27/2019 Session 3: What does this mean? (Acts 2:14-41) (Pastor Notes)
11/3/2019 Session 4: Devotion (Acts 2:42-47) (Pastor Notes)
11/10/2019 Session 5: Drawn (Acts 3)
11/17/2019 Session 6: It's slippery out there (Acts 4:1-22) (Pastor Notes)

First Things First: Leading into The Book of Acts
9/15/2019 Session 1: Follow (Pastor Notes)
9/22/2019 Session 2: Changed By (Pastor Notes)
9/29/2019 Session 3: Committed to Jesus' Mission (Pastor Notes)
10/6/2019 Session 4: And Make Disciples (Pastor Notes)

Messages from my Mentor
6/9/2019 Session 1: A Position of Trust
6/16/2019 Session 2: Parents in Faith
6/23/2019 Session 3: For the Gospel
6/30/2019 Session 4: Demeanor of a Church that makes Disciples
7/7/2019 Session 5: Timothy's Assignment
7/14/2019 Session 6: Social Relationships: Firm Love
7/21/2019 Session 7: But You... (Click here for Rev. Moses Abasoola's interview/comments)
7/28/2019 Session 8: Nothing Seems to Change
8/04/2019 Session 9: The Grand Plan
8/11/2019 Session 10: Responding with the Truth
8/18/2019 Session 11: Now it's your turn
9/1/2019 Session 12: Our Final Charge

Pulpit Swap: Erin Taylor-Moss
8/25/19 What to do when you're Overwhelmed

A New Season
5/12/2019 Session 1: Remembering God's Faithfulness
5/19/2019 Session 2: Recalling Lessons Learned
5/26/2019 Session 3: A Living Testimony
6/2/2019 Session 4: Celebrate Freedom

Come to the Table
4/7/2019 Session 1: The One we waited for...
4/14/2019 Session 2: A Different Kind of King
4/21/2019 Session 3: Journey to the tomb
4/28/2019 Session 4: Experience Jesus in the Water

5/5/2019 Gideon Sunday Special Message: The Bible's Role

Discipleship Gospel
1/6/2019 Session 1: An Introduction
1/13/2019 Session 2: What's Missing?
1/20/2019 Session 3: What is it?
1/27/2019 Session 4: The Kingdom Gospel
2/3/2019 Session 5: The Christ
2/10/2019 Session 6: Death & Resurrection
2/17/2019 Session 7: Follow and Be Saved
2/24/2019 Session 8: Repent and Believe
3/3/2019 Session 9: The Power of Definition
3/10/2019 Session 10: How do we become a Gospel-centered church?
3/17/2019 Session 11: Discipleship & Evangelism
3/24/2019 Session 12: Disciple Making Movements
3/31/2019 Session 13: What do we do now?

Advent
12/2/2018 Session 1: The Dilemma of Obedience
12/9/2018 Session 2: The Dilemma of Belief
12/16/2018 Session 3: The Shepherd's Dilemma
12/23/2018 Session 4: The Dilemma of Doubt

Apprentice
10/28/2018 Session 1: "Soil People"
11/4/2018 Session 2: "Don't Unplug!"
11/11/2018 Session 3: "An Invitation to Serve"
11/18/2018 Session 4: "Growth by Multiplication"
11/25/2018 Session 5: "Faith Deficit"

Whose (Time Money Life) is it?
10/7/2018 Session 1: "Settling Ownership"
10/14/2018 Session 2: "What's My Role?"
10/21/2018 Session 3: "Don't Skip School"

Be a Bridge, Build a Bridge
9/16/2018 Session 1: "Be First"
9/23/2018 Session 2: " Time to Build"
9/30/2018 Session 3: "Core Values"

9-2-2018 Back to Work
9-10-2018 Cry Out to the Lord: Solemn Prayer Assembly

Message in a Bottle
6/17/2018 Session 1: Open it
7/2/2018 Session 3: Knowledge & Power
7/8/2018 Session 4: Desire & Determination to follow
7/15/2018 Session 5: Christ in Us
7/22/2018 session 6: Freedom in Jesus alone (To view the video for this day, click here)
7/29/2018 Session 7: Taking Jesus to the Next Level
8/5/2018 Session 8: You Are, Now Be
8/12/2018 Session 9: Who's the Boss
8/19/2018 Session 10: Continue to Follow
8/26/2018 Session 11: Evidence of Following

A Woman, Some Water and The Word - Peter Brooks
Gideon (Graduation Sunday) - Matt Chesney

Crossing the Line
4/29/2018 Session 1: From Know to Go
5/6/2018 Session 2: From Program to People
5/14/2018 Session 3: From My Plan to His Plan
5/20/2018 Session 4: Take the First Step (To view the videos for this day, click here)
5/27/2018 Pastor Bill and Gideons

Surrender to Freedom
3/4/2018 Introduction: Red Flags of Human Trafficking
3/11/2018 Session 1: "Story of Samson"
3/18/2018 Session 2: "Take Your Life Back"
3/25/2018 Session 3: "The Responsive Life"
4/1/2018 Session 4: "Surrender is the Way"
4/8/2018 Session 5: Baptism
4/22/2018: A visit from Missionary Gary Bistitan

The Good and Beautiful Community
12/31/2017 Introduction: A Lack of Resolve
1/8/2018 Session 1: "The Peculiar Community"
1/14/2018 Session 2: "The Hopeful Community"
1/21/2018 Session 3: "The Serving Community"
1/28/2018 Session 4: "The Christ Centered Community"
2/4/2018 Session 5: "The Reconciling Community"
2/11/2018 Session 6: "The Encouraging Community"
2/18/2018 Session 7: "The Generous Community"
2/25/2018 Session 8: "The Worshiping Community"

Advent
12/3/2017 "His Name is John"
12/10/2017 "Our Coming Savior"
12/17/2017 "Our Coming Savior"
12/24/2017 "Our Coming Savior"

Culture Change
10/22/2017 Intro: Be a Bridge, Build a Bridge
10/29/2017 Session 1: Real
11/12/2017 Session 2: Ready to Change
11/19/2017 Session 3: Relational
11/26/2017 Session 4: Release

Finding Your Way Back to God
9/17/2017 Session 1: Awakening to Longing
9/24/2017 Session 2: Awakening to Regret
10/1/2017 Session 3: Awakening to Help
10/8/2017 Session 4: Awakening to Love
10/15/2017 Session 5: Awakening to Life

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