H2O Church of Kalamazoo: Recent Episodes
H2O Church Kalamazoo
Sermons from H2O Sunday Services. You can join us in person weekly on campus at Western Michigan University.
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Ben starts our series He is with us, sharing about how we don't have to fear because God is with us.
Daniel kicks off our series Reason sharing about the question: Why does God sometimes seem different in the Old and New Testament?
Daniel continues our series on Romans 8 talking about what it means to be conformed to Jesus.
Gentz continues our series on Romans 8 talking about sharing in suffering and glory with Jesus.
Ben continues our series on Romans 8, sharing about what it means to be Heirs with Christ.
Daniel continues our series on Romans 8, sharing about what true life looks like with Jesus.
Ben continues our series on Romans 8, sharing how our mindset changes as we follow Jesus.
Gentz starts our series on Romans 8 talking about how there is no condemnation in Jesus.
This week Daniel spoke on 1 Thessalonians 4 sharing about the hope we have in Jesus even in times of grief.
This week Gentz spoke on 1 Thessalonians 2 & 3 challenging us to share our lives with one another and to ask God to grow our love as a church family.
Daniel kicks off our new series answering your Questions sharing about “How can God be Good and There be Suffering?”
Gentz started out our series sharing about Growing our love for God and sitting at his feet.
Nik Spasovski shares about how Jesus is tenacious in healing, dependance, and proclaiming the Good News.
Gentz finishes up our series on Psalm 23 teaching us how God wants us to dwell in his house forever.
Ben continues our series on Psalm 23, teaching about God being with us in the darkest Valley.
Gentz kicks off our series on Psalm 23, teaching us what it means for the Lord to be our Shepherd.
Ben teaches that Jesus wants to disrupt our lives so we choose the living water and be refreshed in him.
Dave continued our series going through our church values teaching on Sending is our Passion.
Troy continued our series going through our church values teaching on Justice is Our Charge.
Ben continued our series going through our church values teaching on Campus is our Focus.
Gentz continued our series going through our church values focusing on Authentic Relationships Make Up Our Church.
Troy continued our series going through our church values focusing on Prayer is Our Posture.
Dave continued our series going through our church values focusing on Scripture is our Foundation.
Ben kicked off our new series going through our church values focusing on Jesus is our Message.
Ben continued our new series Jesus was Their Message exploring how the Old Testament is all pointing to Jesus focusing on Habakkuk.
Gentz continued our series Jesus was Their Message exploring how the Old Testament is all pointing to Jesus focusing on how people met with God in the Old Testament.
Ben continued our new series Jesus was Their Message exploring how the Old Testament is all pointing to Jesus focusing on Ruth, Naomi, and Boaz.
Graig continued our new series Jesus was Their Message exploring how the Old Testament is all pointing to Jesus focusing on the plagues leading to Jesus.
Gentz continued our new series Jesus was Their Message exploring how the Old Testament is all pointing to Jesus focusing on how the plagues point to Jesus.
Gentz continued our new series Jesus was Their Message exploring how the Old Testament is all pointing to Jesus focusing on Judah's life.
Ben kicks off our new series Jesus was Their Message exploring how the Old Testament is all pointing to Jesus.
Ben finished our 2 part series from Proverbs on the purpose, people and pursuit of wisdom in the book of Proverbs.
Ben Brand shares from Proverbs on the purpose, people and pursuit of wisdom in the book of Proverbs.
Ben finished our series Peace in the Storms talking about God being with us during the hard times of our lives and our need for others to speak truth to us
Ben started our series peace in the storms talking about God being with us during the hard times of our lives.
Daniel talked about what to do when we realize we have lost our focus and need to get back on track …
Daniel finished up our Advent series Carols, focusing on the meaning of Come Let Us Adore Him …
Ben continued our Advent series Carols, focusing on the meaning of Let every heart prepare Him room …
Gentz finished up our series Teach Us To Pray, focusing on the book of Daniel and the power of prayer…
Daniel continued our series Teach Us To Pray, focusing on the book of Daniel and his prayer life.
Ben finished up our series on the Lord’s Prayer (Jesus’ example prayer he gives to teach his disciples how to pray to the Father)
Gentz continued our series on the Lord’s Prayer (Jesus’ example prayer he gives to teach his disciples how to pray to the Father), teaching on “Deliver Us From Evil…”
Daniel continued our series on the Lord’s Prayer (Jesus’ example prayer he gives to teach his disciples how to pray to the Father), teaching on “Forgive Us As We Forgive”
Ben continued our series on the Lord’s Prayer (Jesus’ example prayer he gives to teach his disciples how to pray to the Father), teaching on “Give us this day our daily bread.”
Gentz continued our series on the Lord’s Prayer (Jesus’ example prayer to teach his disciples how to pray to the Father), teaching on "your will be done..."
Daniel continued our series on the Lord’s Prayer (Jesus’ example prayer to teach his disciples how to pray to the Father), teaching on “Your kingdom come….”
Gentz continued our series on the Lord’s Prayer (Jesus’ example prayer to teach his disciples how to pray to the Father), teaching on "hallowed be your name."
Ben continued our series on the Lord’s Prayer (Jesus’ example prayer to teach his disciples how to pray to the Father), teaching on the second two words of the prayer: “…in Heaven.” (The prayer begins “Our Father, in Heaven, ….”)
Gentz continued our new series on the Lord’s Prayer (Jesus’ example prayer to teach his disciples how to pray to the Father), teaching on the first two words of the prayer: “Our Father.”
Pastor Gentz kicked off a new series on the Lord’s Prayer, teaching from Matthew 6 that we can always talk to God, because his attention is always towards us and he sees and hears us. We don’t need to do anything to impress him or earn his attention.
Daniel wrapped up our two-part series on the Greatest Commandment and the Great Commission, sharing from the gospel of Mark and what it means and looks like to love God with all we are.
Ben starts off a new series kicking off the school year, sharing how we can live out the Greatest Commandment and Great Commission.
Daniel wraps up our series on Genesis, sharing from the story of Joseph and about how God’s story gives us a picture for what it looks like to live with God through the ups and downs of life.
Ben continues our series on the book of Genesis, sharing from the story of Joseph that God is always with us. And, though we will have trouble, Jesus has overcome the world.
Daniel continues our series on the book of Genesis, sharing from the story of Judah that God values repentance.
Pastor Ben Brand continues our series on the book of Genesis, sharing from the story of Jacob about wrestling with God.
Daniel continues our series on the book of Genesis, sharing from the story of Isaac about what we can do when we’re tested by God, including relying on what we know to be true about God.
Pastor Ben Brand continues our series on the book of Genesis, sharing from the story of Abraham, Sarah, and Hagar that God is faithful to his promises in his time.
Pastor Daniel Hamilton continued our series on the book of Genesis, sharing from Genesis 15:1-21 that God holds up both ends of his covenant with people.
Pastor Daniel Hamilton continues our series on the book of Genesis, teaching from Genesis 12:1-9 that God’s story is for all people all over the world.
Pastor Ben Brand continues our series on the book of Genesis, sharing from Genesis 4-11 that God’s desire is for us to walk with him, and when we fail to do so there are consequences, but he is merciful.
Pastor Daniel Hamilton continues our series on the book of Genesis, God’s Story, sharing from Genesis 3 that though we have an enemy and have turned away from God, God had a plan to fix everything.
Pastor Gentz continues our series, sharing from Genesis 2:4-25 that God’s design is for a gracious, intimate, personal relationship between God and people.
Pastor Daniel Hamilton continues our series, sharing from Genesis 2:2-3 that as embodied creatures, the practice of sabbath is vital to our spiritual well-being.
Pastor Ben Brand continues our series, sharing from Genesis 1:26-28 about how people were made by God in the image of God and how that affects our identity, purpose, and belonging.
Pastor Daniel Hamilton kicks off our series, showing us what we can learn about God from the creation of the world in Genesis 1:1-25.
Pastor Ben Brand wraps up our series, looking at how God's kingdom advanced in the book of Acts.
Pastor Daniel Hamilton continues our series, looking at a description of the church in the book of Acts and how they followed Jesus together.
Pastor Ben Brand continues our series, looking at when Jesus sent the 72 disciples and what we can glean for us today.
Pastor Hamilton speaks mainly from Luke, sharing about the kingdom of God and our call to humility, generosity, and hope.
On Easter Sunday, Pastor Ben Brand speaks from Luke 24:1-49, sharing how Jesus rose from the dead and appeared to his disciples and what that means for us.
On Palm Sunday, Pastor Daniel Hamilton speaks from Luke 19:28-48, sharing how Jesus came to Jerusalem as king and with compassion and passion.
Pastor Daniel Hamilton speaks from Luke 10:38-42, encouraging us to prioritize sitting at Jesus’ feet, spending time with him and learning from him.
Pastor Ben Brand speaks from Luke 9:51-62, looking at Jesus’ determination to go to the cross/Jerusalem for us and challenging us to consider what holds us back from wholeheartedly following Jesus.
Pastor Ben Brand speaks from James 5:7-20, where we're called to patience, prayerfulness, and returning to God when we wander.
Pastor Daniel Hamilton speaks from James 4:13-5:6 on how confidence in our plans leads to destruction.
We continue our series in the book of James, and this week, Pastor Ben Brand wraps up Chapter 2.
We continue our series in the book of James, and this week, Pastor Daniel Hamilton leads us into Chapter 2.
In our first week of Advent we find hope by looking back on what has done to then look forward to that which is to come.
Pastor Gentz finishes up this series talking to us about the broken cistern of looking to others for approval. These will never compare to the loving approval we have from God in Christ Jesus.
This week Pastor Daniel Hamilton talks about how we can come to Jesus when we are full of worry.
Pastor Ben Brand continues the series and he examines how we can so often run to the relationships in our lives as broken cisterns.
In week 3 of our Spring or Cistern series, Pastor Ben Brand challenges us to consider the place of entertainment in our lives. Is it something we use as enjoyment from the LORD or do we end up using it to try to replace the very life Jesus offers us?
In our second week of the series Daniel teaches on how view work in a proper context. It's not to be devalued but it's also not to be idolized.
As we start a new series looking at where life is truly found, Pastor Gentz , kicks us off by asking us to consider what we go to in our lives in search life instead of God?
In the final week of our "You Belong" series, Pastor Ben Brand, teaches on the importance of using our spiritual gifts to build up the church.
What do we belong to? The Church! Pastor Daniel Hamilton teaches on the importance of working toward unity in the Church aka the Body of Christ.
Pastor Gentz, in week 4 of our "You Belong" series leads us to consider how our lives could be changed if we walked more in the light of Jesus.
Pastor Daniel Hamilton reminds us of the invitiation to life with Jesus. Teaching comes from Luke 19.
Pastor Ben Brand starts of the new school year with a message from Joshua 1 full of encouragement and a reminder of the truth that God is with us.
Pastor Daniel Hamilton leads us through Nehemiah 8 & 9 where reminded that it can be helpful to look back on what God has done in the past so that we can move forward in the present.
Pastor Ben Brand teaches us from Nehemiah chapter 5. This week we look more closely at how Nehemiah gives us an example of living in the fear of God.
Pastor Daniel Hamilton continues our series in Nehemiah by teaching through Nehemiah 4 & 6. In these chapters we see how Nehemiah and company respond when what God has asked them to do is opposed.
Pastor Ben Brand leads us through Nehemiah chapter 3. This week we see how all of the people come together to accomplish a common goal regardless of their background or specialization.
Pastor Ben Brand finished up our series in the book of Philippians. This week we are in Philippians 4:10-23
This week Pastor Daniel Hamilton continues our Philippians series by focusing on Philippians 4:2-9
Pastor Daniel Hamilton continues our series in the book of Philippians leading us through Philippians 3:1-11
Pastor Daniel Hamilton teaches on Philippians 2:19-30 as we continue our series in Philippians.
Pastor Ben Brand continues our series in Philippians by teaching through Philipiians 1:27-2:18
Pastor Gentz, continues our series in the book of Philippians; leading us through a closer look at Philippians 1:12-26.