Open Door Church - Pagosa Springs: Recent Episodes
Pastor Nathanael Ward
Join us as we encounter Jesus through His word. We hope you are both encouraged and challenged by the Holy Spirit.
At the onset of this Holy Week we look to Luke 19 and the account of Jesus Triumphal Entry into Jerusalem.
We continue in our series on 1 Corinthians talking about abuses and right practices dealing with the Lord's Supper.
We continue in our 1 Corinthians series as Adam addresses the first half of chapter 11.
Pastor Nate continues our series on 1 Corinthians by addressing the later half of chapter 10.
Pastor Nate continues teaching in our series about 1 Corinthians. Today we are in chapter 10.
Pastor Nate engages 1 Corinthians 9 talking about how to live convicted but also give up your rights for the sake of the gospel.
This week we had the great privilege of hearing a testimony from some folks in the congregation. To show discretion to the ones who shared we have not included the testimony online but this is Adam's encouragement to close the service.
We're back in our series on 1 Corinthians! Today we looked at chapter 8 and what it means to have liberty and weak consciences in the church.
This week we explore a brief introduction to our adversary the devil and the battlefield of the mind.
Pastor Nate teaches this morning from 1 Kings 18 about being able to align what you feel with the truth by hearing God's voice.
This is the third and final session of our Hearing God and Prophecy Conference as well as our Sunday morning message. Michael Miller (Reclamation Church Denver and Remnant Radio) shares on some of the reason the Lord shares a word of prophecy with us.
We were blessed to host Michael Miller (Reclamation Church Denver and Remnant Radio) as he taught us on prophecy and other revelatory gifts of the Holy Spirit.This session focuses on answering important questions and building faith to prophesy.
We were blessed to host Michael Miller (Reclamation Church Denver and Remnant Radio) as he taught us on prophecy and other revelatory gifts of the Holy Spirit.
This Sunday we continue in our study of 1 Corinthians as Pastor Nate talks about marriage and divorce from chapter 7.
Pastor Nate continues our study and practice of spiritual gifts by introducing the premise of discerning spirits.
Happy New Year. Pastor Nate shares a teaching about living in light of the Lord's return and how that relates to the spirit of Advent.
Pastor Nate shares the first advent message of the season about Jesus coming to destroy the works of the Devil.
The teaching on Wednesday nights is casual and interactive so we highly encourage attending in person. These archives are for review or catching up. This week Adam introduces and gives a brief biblical history of prophetic dreams.
Pastor Nate continue our series on 1 Corinthians, clarifying some things from the last couple weeks.
We continue with our midweek study on spiritual gifts looking at specific criteria of true prophecy. These sessions are slightly discussion based and these recordings exist mostly for review.
We continue with our series on 1 Corinthians this week in chapter 6. Adam takes us through what it looks like to live as the temple of the Holy Spirit.
We continue our series on 1 Corinthians. Our dear friend, Pastor Daniel Mclean, leads us in chapter 5.
Pastor Nate continues our series on 1 Corinthians. This week we go through 1 Corinthians 4 and how to respond to spiritual authorities.
Pastor Nate continues our series on 1 Corinthians looking at 1 Corinthians 3 and living a life in response to Jesus' worthiness.
This week at prayer and practice, Pastor Nate continues exploring prophecy as the testimony of Jesus.
Pastor Nate preached a powerful message on being mature in the Lord and not being bound in sin.
Pastor Nate continues our week time of prayer and practice introducing the concept and role of prophecy.
This morning we continue with our series through 1 corinthians. Adam is going through chapter 2.
Pastor Nate continues preaching from 1 Corinthians talking about the essential message of Christ Crucified.
Pastor Nate concludes our series on spiritual disciplines by talking about giving of your time by serving.
Pastor Nate continues our series on spiritual disciplines this week addressing the motivation for giving.
This morning, Pastor Nate continues talking about the great benefits of being intentional in community as a part of our series on spiritual disciplines.
Pastor Nate continues the series on Spiritual Disciplines by talking about the practice of participating in community with other believers.
Pastor Nate continues our series on Spiritual Disciplines talking about privately praising the Lord.
Pastor Nate continues our series on Spiritual disciplines by addressing prayer and defining it generally as communication with the Lord.
One of the foundational principles of the Spiritual Disciplines of a follower of Jesus is prayer. Pastor Nate introduces the prayer this week.
Pastor Nate continues our series on Spiritual Disciplines this week, talking about reading the Bible and developing love for the scripture.
We continue in our series on Spiritual Disciplines with Adam talking about reading the Bible.
Pastor Nate is back and he shared a powerful word about remembering your first love and sticking with Jesus for the long haul.
This Sunday, we were very blessed to host Peter and Ashlee Kluth, our Chi Alpha missionaries. Peter spoke on having a biblical view of rest and work.
We had the great privilege of having our own Gary Dutton preach this morning. He shared from his three year journey through God's plan and His love. (We had a little mishap with the audio this week but it will be better for next week's podcast)
This Sunday morning is Pentecost Sunday and Adam shared about the history and background of Acts 2.
Pastor Nate continues the series on the parables and teachings of the Kingdom by talking about the sheep and the goats.
Happy Mother's Day!Today, Pastor Nate continues our series on parables of the Kingdom by addressing the parable of the talents.
Pastor Nate begins a message on the return of Jesus and more broadly about knowing the Lord and being known by Him.
Pastor Nate tackles the parable of the treasure hidden in the field again this morning from a different interpretive vantage point.
Adam continued our series on the Kingdom of God talking about Jesus parable on the mustard seed.
Pastor Nate continues our series on the Kingdom of God by addressing the parable of the wheat and the tares.
He is Risen! Happy Easter!This Sunday, Pastor Nate continued talking about the Kingdom of God by using Jesus parable about a treasure hidden in a field.
Kingdom of God Part 2Pastor Nate continues this series, talking about how the kingdom of God is like a sower, sowing seeds and the different kinds of growth that is experienced.
Kingdom of God Part 1Pastor Nate opens our new sermon series about the Kingdom of God referencing Jesus parable comparing the Kingdom to a wedding and king has for his son.
Pastor Nate confronts the tension of wasted potential and love of possessions against the faithful life of a follower of Jesus.
This morning, Adam talked about the way Jesus and his disciples shared the good news by inviting people to come and witness the Lord.
Pastor Nate shared a powerful message on the simplicity of the gospel message and how sometimes we want to make things more complicated.
This week we had the honor to baptism a few people and Pastor Nate's message accompanied that by explaining the significance and motive to baptism.
Pastor Nate preached this morning on the necessary role of repentance in a move of God.
Adam continues our vision series looking at the great commission from Matthew 28 and our historic responsibility to preaching the gospel.
Pastor Nate continues casting vision for the church to fulfill God's mission. This morning, Nate addresses the third leg of our mission which is to send.
We're grateful to have Ben Loper with us this morning. He shared some important insights from the life of Paul and namely his commitment to making disciples.
This is the second part to our vision series talking about our calling to equip followers of Jesus to do what Jesus does.
This morning, Pastor Nate introduced the first part of our three part mission to Awaken, Equip and Send.
This morning, Pastor Nate shared a powerful message on the necessity of being unified for the sake of the Lord and his mission.
This Sunday, Adam shared from one of the only scenes we get between the infancy narrative of Jesus and the adult Jesus.
Adam shares a message about the significance of the birth of Jesus and the hope it offers us for the future.
Pastor Nate continues the series on the life of Paul the Apostle with his teaching on how to rejoice even when circumstances aren't ideal.
Adam preached this Sunday morning about prayer as a discipline of listening to the Lord.
The Lord moved this Sunday as Pastor Nate continues the series on Paul the Apostle specifically looking at his prayer while in prison.
Pastor Nate continues the series on the Apostle Paul and looks at how Agrippa almost got saved.
Nate continues the series on Paul the Apostle specifically talking about how he demonstrates his repentance in obedience.
Pastor Nate continues the character study of Paul the Apostle by examining his conversion from threat to the church to a foremost missionary.
Pastor Nate launches a brand new sermon series studying the important character, Paul the Apostle.
Adam continues the series on community by trying to pull out the deeper meaning behind our weekly gathering with communion.
Pastor Nate continues our teaching series on a call to community by speaking about the essential function of humility and teachability in a biblical community.
Adam continues the series on a Call to Community talking about how our order of worship pushes back and protests against the false ideals and philosophies of the world.
Pastor Nate continues his series on community talking about how to use the gifts the Lord gives us to help each other.
This Sunday Pastor Nate continues on the theme of community with this message on being intentional.
This Sunday, Pastor continued teaching on the idea of Holy Provocation as a necessity to our christian life.
The question we need to consider is how to we hold fast to the confession of our faith through years and years. Pastor Nate addresses that this morning.
Adam preached a message this morning on John 3 and Moses lifting up the serpent in the wilderness.
Pastor Nate continued the sermon series on the message of the cross this week. We explore practical steps to crucifying the flesh and following Jesus.
We were blessed to host Ben Loper and his family as they prepared to do ministry in French Polynesia. Pastor Ben shared a powerful message on casting off all restraint and following the vision of the Lord.
Pastor Nate continues the series on the Message of the Cross by talking about our role of picking up the cross and denying ourselves.
Adam continued our series on heresies and half truths talking about the cliche of christianity not being a religion but a relationship.
Pastor Nate continues our series on Heresies and Half truths by addressing the tendency for the church to affirm lifestyles and decisions that Jesus disapproves of.
We were honored to host Nate Banke and his family as they share about the powerful work that the Lord is doing through Chi Alpha on college campuses.
Nate continued our series on heresies and half truths, combating the false view of Christian Universalism.
Pastor Nate continues our series on heresies and half truths exposing an unfortunately dominate view known as MTD and how to respond to it with the gospel.
This Sunday, Pastor Nate introduced a new series titled "Heresies and Half Truths" with a message about preaching the Bible and not man's opinions.
Pastor Nate shared an encouraging word this morning about keeping your first love and find fullness of joy.
Happy Mother's Day! Today we look at the love of the Lord and how He compares it to the love of a mother.
Today Adam shared a word about our historical season called Eastertide and how to deal with the "in-betweens" of life
Today, Pastor Nate preached a powerful message to conclude our What it Means to be Saved series about God's purpose for our salvation.
Happy Easter! We celebrate this morning (and all the time) that Jesus is risen. Nate continued the series on What it means to be Saved.
Pastor Nate continued the series on What it Means to be Saved by sharing a powerful message on being saved from a very real hell.
Nate continues the series on What it Means to be Saved with a powerful message on being saved from the devil.
Pastor Nate continues his series on What it Means to be Saved by unpacking the concept of being saved from sin and what exactly sin is.
Adam continued our series on What it means to be saved, with a message on the motivations for God to save us.
Pastor Nate started a new series about the nature of salvation. Today we are looking at the general introduction to this topic.
Adam shared this morning about Simplicity of Heart as a part of the Five Characteristics of a Spirit-Baptized church.
Pastor Nate continued the series on the Characteristics of a Spirit Baptized Church with this message on Supernatural Unity and Radical Generosity.
Pastor Nate continues the series on Five Characteristics of a Spirit Baptized church with this message on the role and significance of signs and wonders.
This week, Pastor Nate shared a truly comforting word on dealing with the depression and discouragement we all may face.
We had the great honor to host Evangelist Mikey Chesier. He shared the powerful testimony of his life and how the Lord still works miraculously.
This morning, Pastor Nate shared the first message in a series called Characteristic of a Spirit Baptized Church. This Sunday we look at the Fear of the Lord and the comfort of the Holy Spirit.
Adam shared this morning on the theological distinctive of the Baptism of the Holy Spirit.
Happy New Year! To kick off the new year, Pastor Nate shared his "church growth strategy" to be full of the Holy Spirit.
Since we had to unfortunately cancel our Christmas Eve service we made it up to today with a message about Jesus.
This week, Pastor Nate shared a powerful message about the importance for the church to stoke each other up.
Pastor Nate shared an important and timely word on gathering together as the church. This is a part of the series "Why We Gather"
Pastor Nate continues the series on gathering as a church with today's message on the church's purpose.
Pastor Nate shared a message unpacking the nature of what the church is according to Jesus in the Scriptures. This is will be part of a series titled "Why We Gather"
Pastor Nate shared a powerful message on the peace that God provides versus the peace of this world.
We had the honor of hosting Peter Kluth from Chi Alpha UNC this morning. He shared a message on the core value of discipleship.
Pastor Nate shares about the priority of preaching the gospel in the life of the follower of Jesus
After many months, our series on the Sermon on the Mount concludes with Jesus teaching on the two foundations.
This week, Pastor Nate begins wrapping up the sermon on the mount series with a message about false prophets and knowing Jesus
Pastor Nate continues our series on the sermon on the mount by talking about what we often call the Golden Rule.
Pastor Nate continues our series about the Sermon on the Mount, talking about effective prayer.
Pastor Nate continues our series on the Sermon on the Mount. Today we hear Jesus teaching on money
We continue in our series on the Sermon on the Mount specifically highlight Matthew 6:13 dealing with overcoming temptation and being delivered from the Evil One.
Pastor Nate shared a convicting word on forgiveness from the series on the Sermon on the Mount
This morning we got to host some great missionaries, Doug and Suzan Scott. They shared with us about their work with Global University.
Pastor Nate Ward blessed us all with an encouraging word from our series about the Sermon on the Mount.
We hope you encounter the Lord through His word.
On this Fourth of July we had the immense privilege to hear from our very own Joey Wychesit. We hope you encounter the Lord as he shares from his story and a word about fellowship
Imagine getting hit with a baseball going 90mph right in the face. Thats going to hurt. A lot. You may need to go to the hospital and you may need to facial reconstruction. Basically you need your face to look like your face again right? What does that have to do with this message? Well the title has the word "reconstructed" in it and for the message...Youre going to have to listen to it to find out :P
When I was a kid I was obsessed with the way armor looked. I still kind of am obsessed but less so. I would often be found with a box over my head and a tube acting like a sword and my brothers and I would play fight with these things. This weeks message we talk about the importance of the armor of the Lord. Anyways the Armor of the Lord is WAY cooler than any box you can put on your head and any tube you use as a sword.
We have been on this "Funerals with Christ" journey for a little while now and yes todays sermon is the infamous Raising of Lazarus! How exciting! If you're not excited for this message you should probably pray and seek the Lord in your relationship with Him
What does Faith in action look like? does it look like the kool aid man? like rocky as he's running up the stairs to prove to everyone that he has the eye of the tiger? Nope. What is it then? For that, you're going to have to listen :) enjoy!
Do you know who isn't mentioned in the Bible all that much but still "Walked with God and Talked with God"? Enoch. Let me tell you about this guy...actually I'll let Daniel do that :) Enjoy
Ever try to build a tower? Like a legit tower. Could you imagine how cool that would be! ahem..Anyways That tower is going to cost a lot of money, time, and effort! This message Pastor Nate takes us through what it means to walk with the Lord and what the cost for Christ really is?
You probably read that as the food item "meatloaf". Don't get me wrong meatloaf is delicious when done properly but food is not the topic of this sermon. Nope. It is in fact the singer "Meatloaf" Whoa! How does Meatloaf have anything to do with being a Christian? In order to find THAT out you're going to have to listen :) Enjoy!
Let's start the new year off with the birth of our savior, Jesus Christ. Spiritual fathers and mothers are a VERY important asset in our walks as Christians. We need these people in our lives. Todays message is all about what it means to be a "Spiritual Father" Enjoy.
It looks like we are finally wrapping up the story of King David. Is it all you hoped for? Well I certainly hope so! Pastor Nate speaks on the importance of repentance in our lives just like in Davids life. And that we can learn from King Davids mistakes and we don't have to make them ourselves. With the help and guidance of God we truly can have a changed heart towards God!
Were you expecting a Christmas Sermon? Continuing the story of King David Pastor Nate shows us the Dangers of Delaying Gods call on our lives.
Were you expecting a Christmas sermon? That's coming next week :) We all know the story of David and Bathsheba but in todays sermon Pastor Nate speaks about how temptation isn't sin its what we do with that temptation that turns to sin. And remember, when sin is fully grown it turns to death.
David was often understood as a man with honor and integrity but the kindness he shows to Mephibosheth is above and beyond anything else. David had legal rights to end the lineage of Saul yet he shows kindness. Want to know why? You got to listen to the message :)
Suffering; some people believe once you become a Christian that suffering will not be there. Thats not the case. Pastor Nate shares about David and suffering for the Lord.
Continuing along with Davids story, Pastor Tyler talks about how worship brings victory. That its not always easy but when it becomes a response in our everyday lives, we win.
Continueing with the story of David, Pastor Nate talks about how we as a people can live in Faith rather than Fear. Fear does a lot of things, it justifies sin, it causes us to fall, makes us "stand still" Are you going to live in faith or are you stuck in fear?
Giants. We all have them in our lives that speak volumes and are intimidating. But that's all they are. When we have the tenacity of someone like David for the Lord we can in fact achieve victory.
In order to be sent successfully we first need to be equipped with the proper gear. Luckily Jesus helps us with that. Jesus sends us out, not with nothing but with power from on high. Without His Equipping we will not make it.
For Sunday night we had the awesome opportunity to hear from our children pastor, Kelsi, and hear her story.
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Pastor Nate continues to share on the three fold mission of Open Door Church. This week we explore our call to people of awakening.
Sin is often treated as no big deal to us. Why is it so important to the Lord? It's time to take drastic action against that which Jesus died to free us from.
Did Jesus really mean for us to be perfect? Join us as we discuss what it means to be holy, the role grace plays in our life, and how we perfect holiness in the fear of God.
We are continuing our teaching on the Fear of the Lord this morning. Join us as we look to an old testament story that points towards a new covenant reality.
Our Sunday evening service in which we discuss the practical ways we can grow in the Fear of the Lord.
What does the Great Commission mean for me? Join us as we look at the command of Jesus to make disciples and what our responsibility is in sharing the Gospel.