More Blogs >    Next Blog >
Growing Together
Sunday Sermons and Other Teachings from WFMC
Home My Links Contact Me
May 26, 2008
May 18, 2008 "This is what I believe: God works with the willing" Pastor Doug Bradshaw
Sherri King @ May 26, 2008 11:17 AM
What do you think?
May 11, 2008 Mother's Day Pastor Doug Bradshaw
Sherri King @ May 26, 2008 11:14 AM

What do you think?
May 4, 2008 "This I Believe: Truth is Timeless" Pastor Doug Bradshaw
Sherri King @ May 26, 2008 11:11 AM
What do you think?
April 20, 2008 "I saw God today" Pastor Doug Bradshaw
Sherri King @ May 26, 2008 11:07 AM
What do you think?
March 30, 2008 Prepare for Glory: Part 4: How to Save a Life Doug Bradshaw
Sherri King @ May 26, 2008 10:47 AM
What do you think?
April 5, 2008
March 23, 2008 EASTER SUNDAY Prepare for Glory Part 3: How Do I Get to Heaven?
Sherri King @ Apr 5, 2008 07:51 PM
Join Pastor Doug as he explains the only way to get to Heaven
March 21, 2008 Good Friday
Sherri King @ Apr 5, 2008 07:46 PM
Join in our Good Friday service.
March 9, 2008 Series: Prepare for Glory PART 1: What is Heaven?
Sherri King @ Apr 5, 2008 07:43 PM
Pastor Doug discusses what is heaven?
March 10, 2008
March 2, 2008 Doug Bradshaw "This and That"
Sherri King @ Mar 10, 2008 08:12 PM
What do you think?
February 24th, 2008 Doug Bradshaw Money, Part 2
Sherri King @ Mar 10, 2008 08:09 PM
What do you think?
February 17th, 2008 Doug Bradshaw "Money"
Sherri King @ Mar 10, 2008 08:08 PM
What do you do with your cantaloupes?   Have you planted any seeds lately?
February 17, 2008
February 10, 2008 Miracles Happen Doug Bradshaw
Sherri King @ Feb 17, 2008 09:20 PM
What's your miracle?
February 10, 2008
Flip This House Part 4: Doug Bradshaw
Sherri King @ Feb 10, 2008 06:25 PM
What do you think?  Is it well with your soul?

PS-- Pastor Erin, baby Valenti, and Mica are all doing fine!!!!
February 3, 2008
Sermon--December 16th, 2007 Doug Bradshaw
Sherri King @ Feb 3, 2008 04:45 PM
Comment on the sermon.

Podcast coming soon.
Sermon--December 9, 2007 Doug Bradshaw
Sherri King @ Feb 3, 2008 04:45 PM
Comment on the sermon.
Sermon--December 2, 2007 Doug Bradshaw
Sherri King @ Feb 3, 2008 04:39 PM
Comment on the sermon.
Sermon: November 25, 2007-Doug Bradshaw
Sherri King @ Feb 3, 2008 04:12 PM
Comment on this sermon
November 18, 2007
November 18th, 2007 PRAYER
Sherri King @ Nov 18, 2007 03:34 PM
There are three parts to this message on Prayer.

Erin Valenti:  Genesis 32:22-31  Jacob and Esau.  Jacob needed to make peace with his brother.  He knew it would take an act of God to accomplish it without him and his family being killed: the hatred was so strong between them.  Jacob wrestled with God all night.  Jacob humbled himself to his brother and Esau forgave him.  God is actively involved in our struggles. Pray until you get a breakthrough.

Gary Miracle:  1 Kings 18:16-46 Do you really believe in the power of prayer??  Elisha was tired of the people worshipping their gods.  He challenged them.  Whichever god sent fire, they would all worship.  Elisha let the others go first.  They danced, they shouted, they cut themselves.  No fire.  Elisha teased and taunted.  Still no fire.  Elisha raised the stakes. He had them pour water on his alter.  With 1 simple prayer, the one, true GOD consumed everything:  the stones, the water, the alter.  The people fell to their faces.   We have the faith to move mountains today, we just don't use it.  God wants us to talk to Him: to ASK.

Doug Bradshaw:  Exodus 17: 8-16  Paul and Silas were in jail.  They were not complaining or asking why God let it happen; they were singing and praying at midnight.  The other prisoners were listening; then a HUGE earthquake broke the chains and the walls.  The jailer and his family committed themselves to God.  Paul and Silas realized that whereever they were is were God wanted them.  They used it for His Glory.

Due to technical difficulties, this podcast is not available.
November 14, 2007
November 11, 2007 Broken Chains Doug Bradshaw
Sherri King @ Nov 14, 2007 09:29 PM

From Pastor Doug
Broken Chains
Since Bible times and before, chains have been used to imprison and bind people.  As I reflect on the day Sunday I am drawn to the story of Paul and Silas bound by chains in a Roman prison.  As prisoners the chains that bound them were not of there own doing, but used as a means to hold them.  The Bible says in Acts 16 that as Paul and Silas as were singing and praising God in their chains an earthquake hit.  Aside from the amazing attitude of two prisoners who were singing in their chains another amazing thing happened; when the chains were broken the prisoners did not run for  freedom.  What we see from Paul and Silas is that they stayed to do God's work.  Paul and Silas had figured that if God put you in chains he did it for a reason.  They did not question the chains but accepted them as a means to do the work God called them to.  In the next few verses we see the work of God in the jailer and his family.  So amazed by the work of God in Paul and Silas, the jailer falls on the ground before Paul and Silas and says, "What must I do to be saved?"  Who was talking about being saved?  I do not read in the text that Paul and Silas were?  Could it be that after chains fall off people get saved?  It does make some sense.  God frees people from their chains and the people around them see the work of God and want to be saved.  Would it be to much to ask of God that we should see people saved because of the chains that were broken last Sunday?  I am going to be praying this week that it would be so.


Prior to the message, the congregation viewed a clip from the movie "The Last Sin Eater".  The clip depicted Cadi Forbes, who felt responsible for her sisters death, asking the sin eater to help her.  He was unable to.  She then turned to the man of God, who shared with her the real sin eater.......JESUS.

 

November 4, 2007 The Good Work, Part 2, Doug Bradshaw
Sherri King @ Nov 14, 2007 09:28 PM
The "branding" of a product does three things:
1.  Identifies the product
2.  Shows expectation of the brand
3.  Brings recognition of the product

Who are you "branded" with?
If you are a Christian, you should be branded with God.  What does God branding look like??
October 28, 2007 The Good Work Doug Bradshaw
Sherri King @ Nov 14, 2007 09:20 PM
What do you think?
October 14, 2007 Doug Bradshaw
Sherri King @ Nov 14, 2007 09:17 PM
What do you think?
October 7, 2007 Doug Bradshaw
Sherri King @ Nov 14, 2007 09:14 PM
What do you think?
September 30, 2007 WFMC 500 Doug Bradshaw
Sherri King @ Nov 14, 2007 09:09 PM
WFMC 500
September 23, 2007: WFMC 500 Part 3 Doug Bradshaw
Sherri King @ Nov 14, 2007 09:03 PM
Joshua 3:5  Consecrate yourself because God is going to do great things! 
November 13, 2007
September 16th, 2007 Doug Bradshaw Racing Into the Future Full Throttle
Sherri King @ Nov 13, 2007 08:44 PM
Please note: there are NO podcasts for Sept. 2nd and 9th due to technical difficulties.

Racing Into the Future Full Throttle
The new testament is full of examples of Christ embracing people totally, baggage and all.  He was sent to seek and save the lost.  We need to be like Christ.  Seeking and saving.  It should be our mission to be like our Rabbi, Jesus.  After all, our job is "the relentless pursuit of who God has made us to be. And anything else you do is sin and you need to repent of it".  (Velvet Elvis,page 114).

August 26th, 2007 Doug Bradshaw "The Bumblebee"
Sherri King @ Nov 13, 2007 08:31 PM
The story of Randy: "The Bumblebee Effect".  We all have dreams.  We are driven to achieve.  Where there is a hope, there is a future.  Where there is a future, there is a dream.  Where there is a dream, there is GOD.

Sermon: Erin Valenti (Youth Pastor) II Kings 6:8-22
Sherri King @ Nov 13, 2007 08:14 PM
To see God's blessings, you must live within His Word. 
Is there "sin in the camp?"  Take a look at yourself. 
Elisha was confident in his God.  He repeatedly asked God to "open the eyes" of his servant, then his foe that they may truly see.  Prayer can re-route our prospective.  Look at the DELIVERER not the danger.

September 16, 2007
August 12, 2007 Doug Brawshaw
Sherri King @ Sep 16, 2007 08:53 PM
We all want to make a difference.  Yet, when God calls, we say Why Me??
Are you too busy with something else than to do what God asks?  Reach out--bear fruit.

Nourish yourself to bear fruit.  If you pray for patience, does God give you patience, or opportunities for patience????
August 5, 2007 Who is in Control? Gary Miracle
Sherri King @ Sep 16, 2007 08:42 PM
Do you give control of your life to God only to take it back again?
Is satan off and running when you make a commitment and always trying to push God off your throne??

God will clear your vision if you let him; you are off and running.  Don't look back!
July 29, 2007 The Power of Everybody, Part 3 Dave Krueger
Sherri King @ Sep 16, 2007 08:06 PM
ITS A CELEBRATION!!!

Nehemiah needed to rebuild the wall.  He gets agreement from the people.  He deals with both external and internal opposition.  The wall is completed....and they all had a great celebration!!!

God wants us to celebrate.  He wants everyone to hear us celebrate.  We built a wall.  Were we successful?  Measure success like this:  Are we doing EXACTLY and ONLY what God wants us to do and nothing more? 
July 22, 2007 The Power of Everybody, Part 2 Dave Krueger
Sherri King @ Sep 16, 2007 07:54 PM
Nehemiah had a task to do.  He wanted to rebuild the wall around Jerusalem.  Everybody pitched in--the young, old, those who knew nothing about construction......Nehemiah had folks working on the wall in their own backyard!!  What can you find in your back yard???

What can we build together???
July 15, 2007--The Power of EVERYONE, Part 1 Dave Krueger
Sherri King @ Sep 16, 2007 07:43 PM
Are you ready to build a wall together????
July 8, 2007--Doug Bradshaw
Sherri King @ Sep 16, 2007 07:14 PM
1 Kings 18-19 
Do you recognize the difference between fear and faith??

Is your spiritual rhythm in sync?  POUR OUT---TAKE IN.......How do you take in without a Sabbath??
July 1, 2007 To the Church at Laodicea--Doug Bradshaw
Sherri King @ Sep 16, 2007 06:52 PM
This was another city in the Book of Revelation that had an attitude....they were self-sufficient, had a medical school that developed a salve for blindness, and were a financial empire, one reason was the fine black wook they produced.  This lead to there self-sufficient attitude..... God really has a problem with self-sufficiency........its the antithesis of walking in faith.
This letter was a warning: are you blind, naked, and poor?
August 19, 2007
June 24th Sermon: Brad Lockwood
Sherri King @ Aug 19, 2007 06:34 PM
Comments??
Sermon-Doug Bradshaw-June 17th FATHERS DAY
Sherri King @ Aug 19, 2007 06:26 PM
Share a story about your father......................
June 23, 2007
June 3, 2007--Graduation Sunday Doug Bradshaw
Sherri King @ Jun 23, 2007 08:50 AM
Wish your favorite graduate good luck
May 27 2007 Doug Bradshaw
Sherri King @ Jun 23, 2007 08:47 AM
What do you think?
May 13: Mothers Day Doug Bradshaw
Sherri King @ Jun 23, 2007 08:33 AM
Mothers Day: Does this sound familiar:  "Close the door--you weren't born in a barn!"
June 22, 2007
May 6, 2007 Doug Bradshaw
Sherri King @ Jun 22, 2007 09:01 PM
To the Church in Pergamum
April 29th, Doug Bradshaw
Sherri King @ Jun 22, 2007 08:58 PM
To the Church in Smyrna:
May 19, 2007
Dear Church: "Tolerance" Part 3 in a series on the letters to the Churches in Revelation
Sherri King @ May 19, 2007 11:47 AM
Paul writes to the church at Pergmum. Pergamum was a city full of people worshipping idols.  It was a center for emperor worship.  Many were even involved in the church.  Paul warns against them. 

We need to go beyond just "tolerance" of people--we need to throw them grace first, then truth.  Grace opens the door for truth to be shared. 

Many people are good at one or the other.  What about you?
Dear Church: "Suffering" Part 3, Sermon series: "Letters to the Churches of Revelation"
Sherri King @ May 19, 2007 11:16 AM
To the Church in Smyrna:  Paul told them even though they were in the midst of suffering, and trials and tribulations, THEY WERE RICH!! 

Smyrna was a city rich in culture, education, and beauty.  One website describes it as: "As early as 195 B.C. Smyrna foresaw the rising power of Rome and built a temple for pagan Roman worship. In 23 B.C. Smyrna was given the honor of building a temple to the Emperor Tiberius because of its years of faithfulness to Rome. Thus, the city became a center for the cult of emperor worship"

Christians were being persecuted for not bowing down to the emperors.  Nero and Domitian  brought on severe persecution for the early church. Polycarp was martyred in the stadium at Smyrna in 155 A.D. 

Is it any wonder that the Christians in Smyrna were listening to false teachers?  Paul continues to tell them to not lose heart....he knew what they were going through, and he reminded them that the walk with God is not easy.

We need to remember that during the hard times, God is refining us.  To refine gold, it is heated to high temperatures.  The impurities, or "dross" floats to the top. God is doing that to us--heating us, so the impurities service.

Revelation 2:10  "Do not be afraid of what you are about to suffer. I tell you, the devil will put some of you in prison to test you, and you will suffer persecution for ten days. Be faithful, even to the point of death, and I will give you the crown of life".

WHAT DO YOU THINK????
April 27, 2007
April 22, 2007- The Seven Churches of Revelation- Doug Bradshaw
Sherri King @ Apr 27, 2007 11:55 AM
John writes Revelation from the island of Patmos.  He highlights seven churches who all are in various stages of the Christian walk............some say every current church fits into one of the seven..........some say these churches represent the stages that every current church goes through.......
John points out to the church at Ephesus that they have forsaken their first love, their love for God.  They have become so wrapped up in the duty of religion: separation, not adoration, labor, not love, and serving, but never smiling.  Duty.  They have turned love into Duty.  They have forgotten the part about nuturing the relationship with love......

Has your passion turned into duty??? 
April 18, 2007
April 15, 2007 Doug Bradshaw
Sherri King @ Apr 18, 2007 02:53 PM
When you receive the message of grace, you no longer are your own.  When Christ was crucified, we were crucified with Him, and died to our old self.  When Christ was resurrected, we were resurrected as new creatures in Christ.  As in baptism, the old is washed away, and the new comes up out of the water. 
Real grace changes people and makes them new.   

Are you growing so accustomed to grace, that you are returning to past ways, and forgetting where the grace come from, and the price that was paid?  Read Romans 6.

Romans 6:16:  "Don't you know that when you offer yourselves to someone to obey him as slaves, you are slaves to the one you obey--whether you are slaves to sin, which leads to death, or to obedience , which leads to righteousness?"   

Who (or what) are you enslaved to?
April 15, 2007
Good Friday: The 7 Last Words of Christ (Doug Bradshaw)
Sherri King @ Apr 15, 2007 05:42 PM
Good Friday reminds us that our sins were paid in FULL by Jesus, who went through the most painful, agonizing form of death.  Christ, being fully God and fully human, defeated death, to rise again victorious.

What does Good Friday mean to you?



How to hear the podcast:

To hear this podcast through your podcast player, right click on the orange podcast button, and select "copy shortcut".  Open your podcast player, Juice, or iTunes, and do "paste" (control V) in the "Add a Feed" line.  You only need to do this once; the podcast player will update automatically when new podcasts are added. 

Hear the podcast on your computer using the bar below.



April 1, 2007 Brad Lockwood
Sherri King @ Apr 15, 2007 05:04 PM
God is faithful even when it doesn't feel like it.  How can we trust someone when we don't know them?  How can you trust God if you don't know Him?

You can know God through Jesus, his Son, the Gatekeeper, the Good Shepherd through Bible reading, prayer, and listening as He speaks to you. 

Listen to the podcast, and imagine the stone fence, the shepherds, and the sheep that Pastor Brad talks about. 

What do you think?  Do you need to commit yourself to knowing God better?



How to hear the podcast:

To hear this podcast through your podcast player, right click on the orange podcast button, and select "copy shortcut".  Open your podcast player, Juice, or iTunes, and do "paste" (control V) in the "Add a Feed" line.  You only need to do this once; the podcast player will update automatically when new podcasts are added. 

Hear the podcast on your computer using the bar below.


March 25, 2007 What We Know Doug Bradshaw
Sherri King @ Apr 15, 2007 04:56 PM
CS Lewis said that you never know how much you believe in something until its truth or non-truth becomes a matter of life or death. 

What do you know?  Our Redeemer Lives.  God is for me.  The Bible is full of what we know. Memorizing scripture is a great way to remind yourself of what we know.  I remember the contests we would have in Sunday School.  For every ten verses you memorized, you got a sticker.  Whoever had the most stickers at the end of the year won a Bible with colored pictures and maps.  Wow.  We would whip out verses and had no idea what they meant................. It truly surprises me when some of those verses come back to give me joy, peace or conviction at the right times.................

So the question is, can you hang by the rope of what you know, or are you just using it to tie up a box???



How to hear the podcast:

To hear this podcast through your podcast player, right click on the orange podcast button, and select "copy shortcut".  Open your podcast player, Juice, or iTunes, and do "paste" (control V) in the "Add a Feed" line.  You only need to do this once; the podcast player will update automatically when new podcasts are added. 

Hear the podcast on your computer using the bar below.

March 18, 2007- How Can I Keep From Singing? Doug Bradshaw
Sherri King @ Apr 15, 2007 03:07 PM
If you have been following the sermons on Facing Your Giants, you know that once you get in the valley, and advance, the enemy will start shooting back.  In fact, if you make an advance, there will be a "war". 

Remember Job?  Job's attitude was that his stuff wasn't important......Job 1:21a "The Lord gave and the Lord taketh away".................Job continued to "sing" even though life got overwhelming.  It was so overwhelming that he was face down on the ground.....

Do you have an attitude like Job?  He grieved as a person with hope, since nothing can separate us from the love of GOD?  THAT is why he could sing in the midst of his trials.

Are you CONVINCED about Romans 8:38, that NOTHING can separate us from the love of God? 

Remember, you may be 1 prayer away from your breakthrough or answer!!

What do you think? 


How to hear the podcast:

To hear this podcast through your podcast player, right click on the orange podcast button, and select "copy shortcut".  Open your podcast player, Juice, or iTunes, and do "paste" (control V) in the "Add a Feed" line.  You only need to do this once; the podcast player will update automatically when new podcasts are added. 

Hear the podcast on your computer using the bar below.
April 7, 2007
March 11, 2007 Doug Bradshaw
Sherri King @ Apr 7, 2007 08:45 PM
What do you think?
Choice (Doug Bradshaw)
Sherri King @ Apr 7, 2007 08:42 PM
We live in a current.  We are prone to drift.  The further we drift away from what we know is right, the more excuses we make.  We go through a cycle of deceit, justification, and drift.  Something that we know is wrong, slowly becomes okay in our minds.......
King David dealt with drift.  Read Psalm 51.   How do you deal with drift?
March 4, 2007
Facing Your Giants, Part 4 Doug Bradshaw
Sherri King @ Mar 4, 2007 04:30 PM
The PEOPLE stone.............So far, we have PRAYER, BIBLE, and now PEOPLE.  We need people to help us fight our secret giants.  Secret giants are those behaviors and attitudes that we are ashamed to talk about.  We don't want anyone to know about.  The giants are like wolves.........they get us to think we are the only person in our circle of friends or church that has this problem.....then the giants get bigger, and we get more afraid of being found out...........
PEOPLE can help us fight our secret giants. 
We need Nathans.  Nathans (See II Samuel 12) help keep us accountable.  Nathans are most helpful when they are struggling with the same giants we are.  God wants to expose the giants to the light.

We can all identify our secret giants that hide in the darkness, but what about the secret giants that are "socially acceptable"?  The workaholic, the exercise addict?   Regardless if its socially acceptable or not, If it separates you from God, its a secret giant, Right?
Facing Your Giants, Part 3 Doug Bradshaw
Sherri King @ Mar 4, 2007 04:19 PM
Today we received stone #2.......BIBLE.  Stone #1 was PRAYER.  These two stones together have MEGA power.....we underuse them.  We forget just how powerful they are.   The world is becoming a darker place, full of the "T" word.....Tolerance.  Tolerance of behavior that is not uplifting, not in the spirit, not in the Word.  We forget that we should be tolerant of PEOPLE, not bad behavior. 

We should not be afraid to stand up for the truth, even if its not in fashion, or favorable public opinion.  Remember Ephesians?  The armour of God? 

What society "currents" have pushed you to be "tolerant"?  Did you go with the flow?  How did you handle your decision????
February 24, 2007
Facing Your Giants, Part 2 Sermon by Doug Bradshaw, Feb. 11, 2007
Sherri King @ Feb 24, 2007 12:50 PM
"To clasp the hands in prayer is the beginning of an uprising against the disorder of the world".  Karl Barth

We all need to cry out to Jesus.  We need to inquire of the Lord: David inquired:  In I Samuel 18, there are no less than 6 references to David inquiring and the Lord answering. 

If you are in the valley, and you don't take time to pray, does that cause you to go back into your tent?

Listen to the podcast, and let your opinions be known!
February 11, 2007
Facing Your Giants: Part 1
Sherri King @ Feb 11, 2007 07:49 PM

Pastor Doug Bradshaw Challenges You to Face Your Giants

I Samuel 17 tells the story of David and Goliath. Goliath, a 9 foot 9 inch giant with 120 pounds of armor, set the other soldiers quaking in their shoes.  They were happy to stay in their tents. David, a poor shepard boy, faced Goliath with God-inspired confidence with just a sling and a stone.  For us, having a giant in our path is not the problem--its what we do about it.
How are you fighting your giants??