Title:  "Where Would You Like to Spend Eternity?"
Format: Windows Media Video
Date: 
January 20, 2008
Speaker:  Elder Trevor Wratt
Topic:  The danger in 'a little sin' and the everlasting consequence.
Title:  "Fight the Good Fight of Faith"
Format: Windows Media Video
Date: 
January 27, 2008
Speaker:  Teacher Dan Lawrence
Topic:  Verses that contain 'action verbs' show us what our actions should be. A good sermon for those of us with new Bibles so that we can highlight each of these wonderful scriptures.
Title:  "Take Ownership of Your Sin"
Format: Windows Media Video
Date: 
February 3, 2008
Speaker:  Elder Don Case
Topic:  A close look at the differences between Israel's first two kings shows us how we should deal with the sin in our lives.
Title:  "Religion"
Format: Windows Media Video
Date: 
February 10, 2008
Speaker:  Elder Alvin Harris
Topic:  Religion is our relationship with God. Religion is more than just the ordinances and doctrines that seperate us from other christians. It is our individual walk with God. The christian religions of today are in the same error as the Pharisees of the New Testament.
Title:  "One"
Format: Windows Media Video
Date: 
February 3, 2008
Speaker:  Elder Glenn Gill
Topic:  An explanation of the difference between the way men are called into the ministry in the Church of Christ and the way men of other churches choose to become a minister is given in this inspiring sermon. A call to the young men in the church to "prepare yourselves to be called into service in Christ's ministry" is bookmarked by explanations of various aspects of "One".
Title:  "What Do You Stand For?"
Format: Windows Media Video
Date: 
February 17, 2008
Speaker:  Elder Randy Sheldon
Topic:  If a man stands for nothing, he'll fall for anything. This sermon outlines what we stand for by stating basic truths we believe in. A projector displayed topics during the sermon.
Title:  "Nehemiah"
Format: Windows Media Video
Date: 
February 24, 2008
Speaker:  Elder Darin Crull
Topic:  Reviewing the story of Nehemiah can give us instruction for the day and time we live in when this land of promise is increasingly falling farther into sin and becoming ripe in iniquity.
Title:  "Appreciate the Church"
Format: Windows Media Video
Date: 
March 2, 2008
Speaker:  Elder Leslie Case
Topic:  A lesson in appreciation for each other and the help we find in our association with our various church locals is given by a minister who spends time out on the road visiting isolated members.
Title:  "Eternity"
Format: Windows Media Video
Date: 
March 9, 2008
Speaker:  Elder Mark Hill
Topic:  Our time gets shorter each and every day. The 'Good News' is that we get to spend eternity with our Lord if we make the right decisions in our lives.
Title:  "Is Your Cell Phone On?"
Format: Windows Media Video
Date: 
March 9, 2008
Speaker:  Priest Rusty Granger
Topic:  We need to stop listening to what the world dictates to us and make time for the Lord. We need to leave the world outside.
Title:  "Dispatched"
Format: Windows Media Video
Date: 
March 30, 2008
Speaker:  Elder Steve McGhee
Topic:  The work of the Lord. Leaving behind the milk of the gospel, this sermon inspires us to put the things we have heard over the pulpit all our lives into practice in our daily lives and not be Sunday morning Christians.
Title:  "Laying Up Treasure vs. Living in Vain"
Format: Windows Media Video
Date: 
March 30, 2008
Speaker:  Apostle Joel Yates
Topic:  "Where your treasure is there will your heart be also." What we are doing is not as important to God as why we are doing it.
Title:  "The Old Old Path"
Format: Windows Media Video
Date: 
April 6, 2008
Speaker:  Apostle Jay Moser
Topic:  A sermon that gives accounts of a recent trip to Jerusalem and illustrates the pathway that God has placed before us. Powerful and convicting explanations of shame and man's disgusting nature are imparted to us as we follow the journey of Psalm 119. "Every day we must try to set our lives in a course that will be a benefit to others."
Title:  "Watching"
Format: Windows Media Video
Date: 
April 13, 2008
Speaker:  Elder Alvin Harris
Title:  "Make Your Mother Proud"
Format: Windows Media Video
Date: 
May 11, 2008
Speaker:  Priest Shaughn Sprague
Topic:  A Mother's Day Sermon with a message that applies to everyone who has ever had a mother. Get your mother something special this year and the next and the next after that.
Title:  "Knowing God's Will"
Format: Windows Media Video
Date: 
May 18, 2008
Speaker:  Priest Bill Malone
Topic:  We can't dictate to God how He is going to reveal His will to us. When we go to God looking for answers, looking for help in our lives, asking for guidance and direction, we need to make sure that we aren't praying for a specific thing to happen. We need to remember 'Thy will be done'.
Title:  "Our Family"
Format: Windows Media Video
Date: 
May 18, 2008
Speaker:  Elder Don Case
Topic:  "Dad your shirt's on backwards." Our family members have the right to tell us these things. The goal of the family of Christ is to glorify God. We teach each other through our mistakes, successes and our experience of life. We share our lessons. The thread that holds our family together is love, which comes from Christ.
Title:  "Freedom"
Format: Windows Media Video
Date: 
May 25, 2008
Speaker:  Elder Trevor Wratt
Topic:  A Memorial Day sermon that reflects on the promises and prophecies concerning America and the price of freedom. What sacrifices are we making in the name of freedom? We as a nation sacrifice our unborn children on the altar of freedom and call it freedom of choice. We have the freedom to choose between good and evil every day. Freedom requires responsibility. The responsibility lies in the fact that this land has both a blessing and a cursing pronounced upon it.
Title:  "Hope"
Format: Windows Media Video
Date: 
August 10, 2008
Speaker:  Priest Norman Warfield
Topic:  Using prophetic scriptures the speaker gives us instruction on the importance of an attitude of hope for the future.
Title:  "Retirement Plans"
Format: Windows Media Video
Date: 
October 12, 2008
Speaker:  Teacher Dan Lawrence
Topic:  A look at our spiritual retirement plans during a time of economic instability using the parable of the rich man who tore down his barns. The one who dies with the most toys doesn't win. We are not to trust in uncertain riches but trust in the living God.
Title:  "Need for Jesus Christ"
Format: Windows Media Video
Date: 
October 12, 2008
Speaker:  Elder Mark Hill
Topic:  If we died now would we go to heaven or hell? The speaker used the ten commandments as a barometer for our spiritual lives. There's no way we could ever pay the price for our sins, that's why Jesus did it for us. He was/is our sacrifice. We need to examine ourselves and have a willingness to follow Him.
Title:  "Tunnel Vision"
Format: Windows Media Video
Date: 
October 19, 2008
Speaker:  Elder Rodger Bruner
Topic:  Church services are for keeping you from getting tunnel vision. God has laws. (sometimes we decide to do them) Charity is one of God's laws. Everything happens for a reason.
Title:  "The Gospel According to John"
Format: Windows Media Video
Date: 
November 2, 2008
Speaker:  Elder Loren Bryant
Topic:  The speaker confirms the message of John by personal testimony and other scriptures that he recalls and quotes from memory.
Title:  "The Mustard Seed"
Format: Windows Media Video
Date: 
November 9, 2008
Speaker:  Priest Norman Warfield
Topic:  Using three examples of faith from the life and times of Christ, the speaker illustrates what having faith as a mustard seed really means. We need to have great faith and rely completely upon the Lord and He will grant blessings unto us.
Title:  "Thanksgiving"
Format: Windows Media Video
Date: 
November 16, 2008
Speaker:  Elder Don Case
Topic:  A Thanksgiving sermon turned into a program complete with music and puppet show illustrated the importance of being thankful. The fact that there is even a debate about the existence of God is a direct byproduct of the world's failure to give God thanks. Sometimes all we really need is just a new pair of glasses.
Title:  "New Glasses"
Format: Windows Media Video
Date: 
November 16, 2008
Speaker:  N/A
Topic:  Sometimes it's hard to remember to be thankful. (This is just the puppet show portion of Don Case' Thanksgiving sermon.)
Title:  "Thanksgiving"
Format: Windows Media Video
Date: 
November 23, 2008
Speaker:  Teacher Dan Lawrence
Topic:  Heaven isn't about us. It is a state of eternal thanksgiving for God. A Thanksgiving sermon that emphasizes giving thanks through singing, praying and showing gratitude to God, now. Thank Him by sacrificing our wants, desires and our belongings for the Lord. In return we receive the Holy Spirit. It is important to thank the Lord, then follow it with an action.
Title:  "Charity, Kindness, and Patience"
Format: Windows Media Video
Date: 
November 23, 2008
Speaker:  Priest Shaughn Sprague
Topic:  If at the last day we have charity the Book of Mormon says it will be well with us. To be patient we need to be slow to wrath. Wrath is not kind, nor does it have anything to do with charity.
Title:  "The Value of a Soul"
Format: Windows Media Video
Date: 
November 30, 2008
Speaker:  Elder Mark Hill
Topic:  Would you give more effort to save a life than you would to save a soul? Is it our duty to convert people? A $20 bill is still worth $20 no matter what kind of shape it's in or where it's been. So how much is a soul worth? No matter where it's been? No matter what it's been through?
Title:  "Being Christian"
Format: Windows Media Video
Date: 
December 14, 2008
Speaker:  Elder Nathan Denham
Topic:  What we have to look for is how our nation will treat God. As the Church of Christ we are the example. We need to look act and talk like Christians. Be in the world but not of it.
Title:  "The Christmas Star"
Format: Windows Media Video
Date: 
December 21, 2008
Speaker:  Apostle Smith Brickhouse
Topic:  The combined Independence locals met together for the annual Christmas Cantata and found that the topic of the sermon and the theme of the Cantata complimented each other without any foreknowledge.
Title:  "The Power of Prayer"
Format: Windows Media Video
Date: 
December 28, 2008
Speaker:  Priest Bill Malone
Topic:  Pray without ceasing. Can we Pray too much? Never close communication with God. Always ask that the Lord's will be done.
2008 Video Sermons
These sermons are in Windows Media Video (.wmv) format and are ordered by date.
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