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September 27, 2026 Speaker: Mike Kleven Series: Hope In the Promises #2 Bible Text: Ezekiel 10:18-19; 11:22-23; Haggai 2:3-9; John 1:9-14; Matthew 1:20-23 Message begins at 24:00

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Your search is not for something, but for Someone—Jesus has already come looking for you. The message names a wound many already know: you can get what you wanted and still feel empty. That emptiness is the heartache of exile—knowing you belong somewhere and not being able to get there.

Ezekiel watches the glory of the Lord depart the temple, pause at the east gate, and leave the city. Losing land was the visible wound. Losing Presence was the greater one. A generation later Haggai meets people who weep because the new house looks like nothing. God does not scold the tears. He says, “I am with you. My Spirit remains. I will fill this house with glory.”

John 1 and Matthew 1 announce that the promise has a face. The Word became flesh and tabernacled among us. They will call Him Immanuel—God with us. Many did not recognize their Creator. Those who received Him discovered they belonged as children of God.

September 20, 2026 Speaker: Mike Kleven Series: Hope In the Promises #1 Bible Text: Jeremiah 29:4-14; Nehemiah 9:35-37; Luke 15:1-7 Message begins at 19:05

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The only hope for coming home is on the shoulders of Jesus. The message opens Hope In the Promises with people God sent to Babylon. Jeremiah 29 tells exiles to build lives where they are and trust plans filled with hope. Nehemiah 9 shows returnees still crying, “We are slaves.” Luke 15 reveals how God keeps the promise: Jesus finds the lost sheep and carries them home

September 13, 2026 Speaker: Gary Sandmann Director, Feed My Lambs Intl. Message begins at 25:50

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September 6, 2026 Speaker: Mike Kleven Series: Choices Along The Line #7 Bible Text: Jeremiah 38:1-20; 39:4-7, 15-18 Message begins at 22.10

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When what God intends is under attack, don’t look for a way out. Look for your part in His plan. The message opens in a place people know: the moment you see something going wrong and calculate the cost of stepping in. Fear never calls itself cowardice. It calls itself prudence.

In Jeremiah 38, Jerusalem is out of bread. Officials treat the prophet’s word as a threat, and they lower Jeremiah into a cistern with no water—only mud. King Zedekiah sits in the Benjamin Gate, the place a king does justice, and he will not stop it. Refusal is a choice. Then a Cushite palace servant named Ebed-Melech walks to the gate, honors the office, refuses to cover the sin, and pulls Jeremiah up with old rags so the ropes will not cut him.

He does not save the city. He takes two sized steps: one sentence in the right place, and one lift done with care. Jeremiah 39 records God’s word to a man who was afraid and still trusted: you will not be given into the hands of those you fear. The city still falls. The word is not silenced.

August 30, 2026 Speaker: Mike Kleven Series: Choices Along The Line #6 Bible Text: Jeremiah 32, 36, 43, 45 Message begins at 20:21

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No matter how dark the times, steady faithfulness to God makes an impact. The message opens with Sir Christopher Wren asking stone cutters what they are doing. One sees a task. One sees wages. One sees a cathedral where people will worship God for centuries. That question leads to Baruch, Jeremiah’s scribe, who lives through the dark last years of Judah and the destruction of Jerusalem and the temple.

In Jeremiah 32 Baruch handles the deed of a field bought while Babylon surrounds the city—an act of faith that declares houses, fields, and vineyards will be bought again. In Jeremiah 36 he writes, reads, and rewrites God’s Word after King Jehoiakim burns the scroll. In Jeremiah 43 he is accused and forced toward Egypt when leaders reject the Lord’s command. In Jeremiah 45 God meets his weariness: do not seek great things for yourself; wherever you go, I will let you escape with your life.

Baruch never stands in the spotlight, yet his quiet, costly faithfulness helps proclaim a hard and hope-filled word. The message invites hearers to tell Jesus the truth about weariness, lower the demand for great things, take the next small step of service, and find their place in God’s big story.

August 23, 2026 Speaker: Mike Kleven Series: Choices Along The Line #5 Bible Text: Hosea 1-3, Romans 5:8; Ephesians 5:25-27 Message begins at 20:02

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God’s loving-kindness pursues unfaithful people paying the price to bring them home. The message opens with the questions people are almost afraid to ask: Can I ever come back? Can God love someone like me? Has God given up? Have I gone too far this time? Those questions belong both to those who have never turned to God and to those who once followed Jesus and wandered away. God answers not with a slogan but with a living parable. He calls Hosea to marry Gomer, to name children Judgment, No Mercy, and Not My People, and then—after a courtroom listing of Israel’s sins—to allure her, speak tenderly, and buy her back. Hesed is love that will not walk away.

That pursuit reaches its fullness when Jesus, the Son of David, is lifted up and draws all people to Himself. Romans 5:8 makes it plain: while we were still sinners, Christ died for us. Ephesians 5 shows why—He gave Himself to make His people holy, radiant, without stain. Followers of Jesus are called to take a costly step toward someone they have written off. Wanderers are invited to stop running from the One who has pursued them all their lives. 

August 16, 2026 Speaker: Mike Kleven Series: Choices Along The Line #4 Bible Text: 2 Kings 11; 2 Chronicles 22–23; 2 Samuel 7:12-13,16 Message begins at 21:00

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When circumstances scream “Flee,” the wise remain loyal to their king. In 2 Samuel 15, as David flees Absalom’s rebellion, the Philistine commander Ittai the Gittite faces a classic pressure point. David offers him an easy exit: “Go back… this is not your fight.” Instead Ittai answers, “As the Lord lives, and as my lord the king lives, wherever my lord the king shall be, whether for death or for life, there also will your servant be.” His loyalty to the living God and God’s king later earns him command of one-third of David’s army.

The sermon draws the parallel to Peter in John 6, when many disciples turned back from Jesus. Peter’s response—“Lord, to whom shall we go? You have the words of eternal life”—echoes Ittai’s settled resolve. Four truths emerge for every follower of Jesus: Your allegiance is to who or what you believe offers life; true allegiance is revealed the moment an easy exit appears; easy exits are always dangerous dead ends; and staying with the True King is public, costly, and rewarding.

August 9, 2026 Speaker: Mike Kleven Series: Choices Along The Line #3 Bible Text: 2 Samuel 15:17-22. 18:2 Message begins at 28:30

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When circumstances scream “Flee,” the wise remain loyal to their king. In 2 Samuel 15, as David flees Absalom’s rebellion, the Philistine commander Ittai the Gittite faces a classic pressure point. David offers him an easy exit: “Go back… this is not your fight.” Instead Ittai answers, “As the Lord lives, and as my lord the king lives, wherever my lord the king shall be, whether for death or for life, there also will your servant be.” His loyalty to the living God and God’s king later earns him command of one-third of David’s army.

The sermon draws the parallel to Peter in John 6, when many disciples turned back from Jesus. Peter’s response—“Lord, to whom shall we go? You have the words of eternal life”—echoes Ittai’s settled resolve. Four truths emerge for every follower of Jesus: Your allegiance is to who or what you believe offers life; true allegiance is revealed the moment an easy exit appears; easy exits are always dangerous dead ends; and staying with the True King is public, costly, and rewarding.