Valley Sermon Podcast: Recent Episodes
Valley Baptist Church: Lutherville, MD
We begin our new series, "Attitude Adjustment - a Study in Philippians" with Philippians 1:1-11 and a "Loving Attitude."
David Winter wraps up our series on "Lessons From Moses" with a look at Deuteronomy 27-28 in "Reflections."
Pastor Barry continues in "Lessons from Moses" with "Helpers" from Exodus 18 and 35-36.
Pastor Barry Brown continues our look at "Lessons From Moses" in a look at Exodus 13-14.
David Winter speaks on Exodus 3 and 4 and "Excuses" in our "Lessons From Moses" series.
We begin our new series, "Lessons From Moses - Faithfully Facing Challenges With God's Help," with a look at Exodus 1 & 2 in "Backgrounds."
The "Christian Leadership Questions" series concludes with the "Question of Stewardship" from 1 Timothy 6.
For the first time since before the pandemic, Valley and Maryland Christian Church (MCC) were able to have a combined worship service. Valley's pastor, Mike McQuitty, speaks on Unity in Our Diversity.
We begin our series, "Christian Leadership Questions" out of 1 Timothy with a "Question of Competence" from 1 Timothy 1.
This week, Pastor Mike continues in "Journey to the Empty Tomb" in "Eyes of Faith" from Mark 12:38-44.
We begin our new sermon series, "Journey To The Empty Tomb" with a look at Mark 12:13-17 in "Giving to Caesar."
Join us as Barry Brown finishes up our "Preparing the Way of the Lord" series with "Mission Of The Messenger" from Malachi 4.
This week we welcomed John Elkins from Brazoria, TX, as our guest speaker. He spoke on Genesis 1:1-3.
We conclude our "Angels of Christmas" series by looking at "Jesus- Superior To The Angels."
We continue in our "Angels of Christmas" series with "The Angel Who Announced Love" from Luke 2.
This week we look at "The Angel Who Provided Peace" in Luke 1 as we continue our series "The Angels of Christmas."
As Advent begins, we begin our new sermon series, "The Angels of Christmas" with "The Angel Who Gave Hope" to Zechariah and Elizabeth in Luke 1.
Pastor Barry Brown concludes our "Stewardship of Life" series by looking at 1 Corinthians 12:4-11 and "Stewarding Spiritual Gifts."
This week's sermon in our "Stewardship of Life" series comes from 1 Corinthians 15 and deals with "Stewarding Truth."
We continue our series in 1 Corinthians on "Stewardship of Life" by looking at "Stewarding Finances" from 1 Corinthians 15.
The next sermon in our "Stewardship of Life" series comes from 1 Corinthians 5-9 and concerns "Stewardship of the Body."
This week we wrap up our series, "Entering the Promised Land" with a look at Joshua 23 & 24 in "As For Me and My House."
We look at "Avoiding the Missteps of Misunderstanding" in this week's sermon from our series "Entering the Promised Land."
This week we look at the "Buried Sins" of Achan in Joshua 7 and we continue our series in Joshua.
Our pastoral intern, David Winter, continues our series, "Entering the Promised Land," by looking at Joshua 5 & 6 and "Breaking Down The Walls."
We continue our walk through Joshua "Entering the Promised Land" in Joshua 8 and "Reading For Renewal."
This week as we continue in our series in Joshua, "Entering The Promised Land," we look at Joshua 5 and the "Reasons For Ritual."
This week as we continue in our series in Joshua, "Entering The Promised Land," we look at Joshua 5 and the "Reasons For Ritual."
This week as we continue in our series in Joshua, "Entering The Promised Land," we look at Joshua 5 and the "Reasons For Ritual."
This week as we continue in our series in Joshua, "Entering The Promised Land," we look at Joshua 5 and the "Reasons For Ritual."
We continue to follow Joshua as we see the nation of Israel walk through the Jordan River and set "12 Stones" as a memorial to what God did for them.
We begin our new series on Joshua, "Entering the Promised Land" with Joshua 1 and the need for "Courage and Consecration."
Pastor Mike looks at Philippians 1 & 4 and how we act as "Partners In The Gospel" with our various mission partners and our denomination as a whole.
One of our members' son and his wife, Paul & Rebecca Mosley, share about their mission work in Ethiopia as well as share from the book of John with a "Reflection on Transformational Reconciliation."
Our candidate for Director of Discipleship, Rev. Barry Brown, looks at Philippians 1:12-20 and "Honoring Christ in Difficult Situations."
In "Where We Don't Want To Go," we finish up our "Jesus as Disciple Maker" series looking at John 21.
As we continue in our series, "Jesus as Disciple Maker" we see the example Jesus set and learn how we can "Pray Like Jesus."
As we continue in our series, "Jesus as Disciple Maker" we see the example Jesus set and learn how we can "Pray Like Jesus."
We continue in our series on "Jesus as Disciple Maker" this week with John 12: 20-50 and discussion about "Endurance & Self-Denial."
This week we look at John 11 and Jesus' actions surrounding the death and resurrection of Lazarus in "In Every Situation."
This week we look at John 10 and "Being a Good Shepherd" in our "Jesus as Disciple Maker" series.
This week as we continue our series, "Jesus As Disciple Maker", we look at John 8 and "Confronting Darkness."
We continue our series, "Jesus as Disciple Maker" with a look at John 6 in "Stewardship and Multiplication."
Pastor Mike shares with us through video recording about how we are to be "Always Working" using text in John 5.
This week we look at John 3 and 4 in our "Jesus As Disciple Maker" Series in "Chameleons For Christ."
As we continue our series on seeing "Jesus As Disciple Maker" we look at John 1 and how sometimes you have "Got To Be There."
We begin our new series, "Jesus As Disciple Maker" with a look at John 1 and "The Call To Greater Things."
How does Genesis 22 and a story from Abraham's life foreshadow our reason for celebration this Easter morning? You'll have to check out "Resurrection Belief" to find out.
We continue in our series on Abraham and Sarah with Genesis 23 & 24 and a"Legacy of Faith."
As we continue on in our "Journey of Faith" with Abraham and Sarah, we see God's "Mercy in Judgment" in Genesis 18 as Lot is spared in the judgment of Sodom and Gomorrah.
We continue on in our journey with Abraham & Sarah and the laughter surrounding the birth of their son. "How To Laugh" is available now.
We continue the story of Abraham, Sarah and Hagar as we learn about the "God Who Sees" from Genesis 16 and 21.
We continue in our series, "Abraham & Sarah: A Journey of Faith" in Genesis 15 "When God Promises..."
Join us as Pastor Mike looks at Genesis 14 as we continue our journey with Abraham in "How Do You Know...?"
This week we look at Genesis 13 and the separation of Lot and Abram in "Finding Good Space."
We begin our new series titled "Abraham & Sarah: A Journey of Faith" with Genesis 12:1-9 and learning of the "Call To Blessing."
This week we conclude our "Prayer for the New Year" look at Psalm 19 with "Glorifying God and Staying Spritually Safe."
We continue our series, "Prayer for The New Year" looking at Psalm 19 by examining verses 1-11 in "Glorifying God Through Our Lives."
We continue our "Prayer For The New Year" look at Psalm 19 with another look at verse 14 from a new angle in "Glorifying God With Our Thoughts."
Due to forecasted ice, we transitioned to a Zoom gathering for our worship service this week. Pastor Mike began our new series, "Prayer for the New Year" with Glorifying God With Words. The text is from Psalm 19:14.
As we wrap up "The Gifts of Advent" series, we look at Isaiah 45 and Matthew 2 and "The Gift of Magi.
We continue in our Advent series, "The Gifts of Advent" with a look at Isaiah 52:7-10 and "The Gift of Good News."
As we continue through the Advent season and look at "The Gifts of Advent", Pastor Mike preaches on the "Gift of Significance" using Isaiah 7:14.
As we look at the "Gifts of Advent" this week we look at "The Gift of Promise" in Isaiah 11.
Guest speaker, David Winter, starts our "The Gifts of Advent" series with the "Gift of Thanksgiving" as we look at Philippians 4:10-13 and the "Characteristics of a Truly Content Person."
Join us as we look at Ezekiel 43 and finish in our series on The Book of Ezekiel with "Temple Rules: Holy!"
This week in our series on the book of Ezekiel, Pastor Mike looks at Ezekiel 37 and the story of the dry bones coming to life in "New Life for Dry Bones."
We continue our series in Ezekiel with "Undivided Heart" looking at chapter 11 of the book.
Join us as we continue in the book of Ezekiel with "The Good Shepherd" by looking at Psalm 23 and Ezekiel 34 and the different kinds of shepherds there can be for the church.
This week we look at Ezekiel 18 and "God's Heart for Change" as we continue in our current series through the book of Ezekiel.
"The Watchman's Task" continues our series "Book of Ezekiel: God's Word for Troubled Times" by looking at Ezekiel 2 & 3 and the job of the watchman and how his warnings were not always met with acceptance.
We begin our new series, Book of Ezekiel: God's Word For Troubled Times, but looking at chapters 1 and 10 in "Re-envisioning The Future."
We continue in our series on the "Hard Sayings of Jesus" by examining Luke 17:11-19 concerning the 10 lepers in this week's sermon, "The Other 9."
Pastor Mike continues in our "Hard Sayings of Jesus" series by looking at Luke 17:7-10 in "Only Our Duty."
We continue this week in our series, "Hard Sayings of Jesus" looking at Luke 12:49-53 and Jesus' words about "Not Peace, But Division."
Listen as Pastor Mike continues in our series, "Hard Sayings of Jesus" by looking at Luke 21:5-7 in the sermon entitled "Not One Stone..."
This week MJ Washington shares with us from 1 Samuel and the story of David to help listeners know about "Facing Your Giants."
Join us as Pastor Mike looks at another of the "Hard Sayings of Jesus." In "No Excuses, Just Commitment", we look at Luke 14:16-35 and the cost of discipleship.
Pastor Mike looks at Luke 5:33-39 and one of the "Hard Sayings of Jesus" found there - "New Wineskins Required."
As we celebrate the freedom we enjoy in our country during this weekend, Pastor Mike looks at Galatians 5:1 and "The Freedom of Christ."
This week Pastor Mike looks at the early church in Acts 11 as we explore the last of the "Four Essentials of a Biblical Church" by seeing that we must be "A Missional People."
This week Pastor Mike looks at the third of the "Four Essentials of a Biblical Church" as we find in 1 Thessalonians 4:9-10 how we are to be "A Communal People."
In the second of our "Four Essentials of a Biblical Church" Pastor Mike looks at how a church must be "A Spiritual People" following the guidance of the Holy Spirit and having the gifts of the Spirit.
We begin our new series "Four Essentials of a Biblical Church" by looking at Matthew 6:13-18 and seeing how "A Confessional People" answer the question Jesus asks Peter in that passage, "Who do you say that I am?"
Mike McQuitty leads us to consider Memorial Day in a possibly new way in "2 Nations ~ 1 Sacrifice."
This week, Mike McQuitty looks at Matthew 6:13 as we look at dealing with "Trials or Temptations"
In "Dealing With Disputable Matters" we learn what Paul says in Romans 14 about handling issues that are not concrete in Sripture.
Mike McQuitty continues our series "Model For Ministry" by looking at the wrong ways and right ways to love by using our text in 1 Thessalonians in his sermon "A Mother's Love."
This week, Mike McQuitty continues in 1 Thessalonians and examples of "Following the Father's Ways."
Mike McQuitty begins a new series looking to 1 Thessalonians as a "Model For Ministry."
In Nehemiah 12, we wrap up our series entitled Rebuild Restore Revive as we see the completed wall and the entire nation "Rejoicing Together."
This week, we move back into our series, "Rebuild Restore Revive" by looking at 1 Peter 2:4-10 and see how important "The Right Stones" are to any building.
We celebrate the Risen Savior this Easter morning by looking at 1 Peter 1:3-9 and discovering how Jesus is "Our Living Hope."
We continue in our series Rebuild Restore Revive as we look at Nehemiah 9 and see that regardless of how stubborn we are to want our way, we cannot surpass the "Stubbornness of God."
In "Commitment To Change" we look at Nehemiah 9 and 10 with Mike McQuitty as we continue in our current series, "Rebuild Restore Revive."
Mike McQuitty continues our series through Nehemiah, "Rebuild Restore Revive" by looking at Nehemiah 5 and Nehemiah's example on "Perspectives on Justice."
We move forward in our series from Nehemiah, "Rebuild Restore Revive" as we look at Nehemiah 4 and 6 and how Nehemiah handled "Responding to Opposition."
Mike McQuitty asks "Where is Your Place on the Valley Baptist Church wall?" as we look at Nehemiah 3 and "Building The Wall Together."
Mike McQuitty speaks about "Leading In Difficulty" using the example from Nehemiah 2:11-20 as we continue in our series, "Rebuild Restore Revive."
Listen as Mike McQuitty shares from Nehemiar 2 about having "A Plan & A Prayer" in this sermon from the "Rebuild Restore Revive" series.
Mike McQuitty shares from Nehemiah 1 about being "Broken over Brokenness" in this recording from our Zoom worship service this week.
Mike McQuitty shares insight into the story of Anna in Luke 2:36-38 to see how we can be "Patient In Affliction."
Mike McQuitty shares from Luke 2 about the story of Simeon and asks "What Are You Longing for?"
Steve Yoon, English pastor of Maryland Christian Church, our ministry partner joins us to speak about "The Signs of God Living In Us" focusing on the text of 1 John 4:13-21.
Our guest speaker, Alvin Bowles, speaks about our responsibility and privilege to care for the earth in "The Earth Is Hurting."
We conclude our Advent sermon series with Aaron Stewart as we continue to look at the Christmas story and "Finding Christ in Our World."
This week we look at the story of Mary and Elizabeth as Aaron Stewart speaks about "Finding Joy in our Discouragements" from Luke 1:5-55
Aaron Stewart shares about "Finding Peace in Our Struggles" as we look at the story of the shepherds from Luke 2:8-20.
Aaron Stewart begins our Advent season by looking at the stories of Simeon and Anna and encouragement in "Finding Hope in Our Uncertainties."
Rev. Steve Yoon, English pastor of our partner church, Maryland Christian Church, shares from Luke 17 about having "The Spirit of Thanksgiving."
Guest speaker, Mike McQuitty, speaks about "Living In Unity" as Jesus' prayed his believers would do in John 17.
Our guest speaker, Mike McQuitty from Grace Life Collegiate, shares from Daniel 6 and how to have "Faithfulness in Unfair Times."
This is our third in the "Love One Another" mini-series. This week Pastor Chad uses Luke10:25-37 to answer the question, "Who Is My Neighbor?"
The second in our series entitled "Love One Another" looks at 1 John 4:7-21 and what "Church Love" should look like.
Listen as we hear from Whitney Zulu, founder of one of our mission partners, Impact One Initiative. Whitney shares from Lamentations on how we an "Dare To Hope" even during this confusing time.
We begin our new series, "Love One Another," we look at Mark 12:28-31 in "The Same Thing."
Our guest speaker, Aaron Stewart, looks at what happens after Moses' death as we examine Joshua 1:1-11 in "Moving As Community."
As we close out our series, "Strengthening The Soul - Remix - Looking Back At Moses" we spend time in Deuteronomy 34 and the end of Moses' journey in "The Promise of The Promised Land"
In "Discerning God's Movements" we look at Numbers 9:15-23 and the obedience of the Israelites to discern and follow the direction of God and how we can do the same today.
"Interceding" looks at Exodus 17:8-16 and the power of interceding on behalf of those around us - or even those we've just heard of. We then end the sermon with a time of intercessory prayer together.
"Defining A Rule" takes a look at Exodus 18 and then at our lives and how we can follow Christ in all aspects of our lives.
Listen to the latest in our series "Strengthening The Soul - Remix - A Look Back at Moses" as we look at Exodus 13:17-22 and see why God took the Israelites to the Promised Land "The Roundabout Way."
Join us as we look at the story of Moses encountering the Burning Bush in Exodus as we look to find "The Truth About God."
This week in "Finding The Truth About Me" we look at Exodus 1:22-2:22 and how the early events in Moses' life had an effect on him throughout his life - much as ours do to us.
"How Is It" is our first visit back to the life of Moses as we begin our series, "Strengthening The Soul - Remix."
The followup sermon to "Lament" from last week is "Blessing" in our series entitled "Noticing."
As we regather at the church building and also share our services online, we look at Romans 8:18-30 in our two-part sermon series entitled "Noticing" This week we look at "Lament."
This week we push forward in our series "Strengthening the Soul” looking at the life of Moses. After the burning bush, a journey begins. Numbers 33 gives us a summary of that journey. We look at Moses’s and the Israelites’ journey and how it might give us a framework for understanding our own “Journey.”
We continue our series, Strengthening Our Soul, by looking at Exodus 3:5-4:17 and the conversation between God and Moses. The focus for Moses and for us is on “Calling.” What is God’s calling for Moses? What is God’s calling for you?
We continue looking at the life of Moses in our series Strengthening the Soul. This week we read Exodus 2:23-Exodus 3:5. As we look to Moses in this passage and think about the work of his soul and ours we talk about the importance of “Noticing.”
This week we press into our exploration of Moses and his faith journey by going back to the beginning of his story. As we continue our series Strengthening the Soul, we look at Exodus 1:22-2:22 together. It is a painful start and it requires work to find the hope to walk forward. The same is often true for us. We talk about this together as we look to the passage and notice and pursue "A Conversion."
"A Longing" begins a new sermon series called Strengthening the Soul: A Look at Moses. The theme is based on a book that motivated the journey of spiritual formation that Pastor Chad has been on for the last couple of years. The source for the book and for our series will be the Old Testament story of Moses. Moses' leadership journey was one of great courage and faith. His experience of ups and downs carries great insight for our own need for Spiritual Transformation. We introduce the series by looking at some of what set Moses apart in Numbers 12:1-8 and talk about A Longing.
Pastor Chad Morreau examines 1 Corinthians 11:20-34 and the importance of and responsibility surrounding celebrating the Lord's Supper in this week's sermon, "At The Table."
We’ve been looking together at specific areas of our life and some habits we could put in place in 2020 to help us orient that area of our life towards Jesus. This week we look at our “Relationships” and some habits to help us center our interactions with others around the love of Jesus. Peter’s story in Acts 10 will be a guide for us.
We continue our series "Reorientation." We’re talking about how we might reorient specific aspects of our life to be wholely focused on Jesus in this new year. This week we look at Psalm 46 and talk about some habits that will help us reorient our “Time.”
We begin our new series, "Reorientation," by looking at Matthew 19:16-22 as Pastor Chad discusses the story of the rich, young ruler in the sermon titled, "Money."
Pastor Chad concludes our Advent series, "It's Almost Here" by looking at Matthew 1:18-25 and "Christmas Love."
We celebrate the third week of our Advent series, "It's Almost Here" with Callie Morreau sharing about having "Joy In The Darkness."
Aaron Stewart begins our Advent series, "It's Almost Here" by looking at the Hope we have because of the first coming of Christ and the second coming that we are still waiting for.
The pastor of our partner church, Maryland Christian Church, shares with us during our combined worship service.
Mike McQuitty from our mission partner Grace Life Collegiate Towson University shared with us yesterday on Psalm 78 and the importance of "Telling The Next Generation."
"Experiencing Peace" wraps up our series on being "Committed to Transformation" by looking at the words of Paul in Philippians 4 and how they can help us live a "Radically Transformed" life.
Jeremy, Caleb and Clayton Freeman share about the miraculous road God has led them on throughout their family's life, but specifically since a car wreck in December of 2017 where Caleb should have died by all odds. Listen as the share. #butGod
In the second message of response to our "Committed To Transformation" series, Jeff Elkins shares how his understanding of what it means to live as a missionary has been radically transformed by sharing 5 stories that show the evolution of his understanding.
We continue our series "Committed to Transformation" with some reflections on the commitments we’ve been discussing. Aaron Stewart focuses on one of the commitments and expound on being transformed because of this specific work of Valley in their discipleship journey.