Bruce Hempel

  • Five Lessons That All Our Children Must Learn

    This sermon by Bruce Hempel focuses on essential lessons for children and parents, emphasizing the importance of love, discipline, and spiritual growth. Delivered with personal anecdotes and biblical references, Bruce outlines five critical lessons that children must learn to navigate life and faith. [00:01:27] Life’s Challenges and God’s Plan: Bruce opens with a song about…

  • The Power of Love

    Bruce Hempel delivers a sermon on love, emphasizing its centrality in the Christian faith. He explores biblical teachings on love, distinguishing between agape (sacrificial love) and phileo (brotherly love), and highlights how God’s love transforms lives. The message challenges listeners to respond to God’s love by living sacrificially and embracing their identity as His children.…

  • Church Leadership

    This sermon, delivered by Bruce Hempel, explores church leadership, contrasting modern Western practices with the biblical model rooted in Jesus and the early church. Bruce stresses humility, service, and scriptural fidelity over contemporary traditions.

  • What was the early church like?

    This sermon, delivered by Bruce Hempel, explores the nature of the early Christian church, drawing from scripture to contrast it with modern practices. Bruce emphasizes simplicity, community, and edification over formality and titles, urging the congregation to embody these values.

  • The early church as depicted in the Book of Acts

    Bruce Hempel delivered this sermon focusing on the early church as depicted in the Book of Acts, encouraging the congregation to read Acts and providing an outline of its key events and themes. Below is a concise summary of the sermon’s main points with timestamps.

  • Faithfulness and Devotion to God

    Bruce Hempel delivers a sermon contrasting the faithfulness of Hannah with the unfaithfulness of Eli’s sons in 1 Samuel 1-2. He emphasizes devotion, keeping promises to God, and the importance of worship as a lifestyle of sacrifice. The message warns against self-centeredness and calls believers to live as faithful priests, honoring God in all areas…

  • Preparing the Way of the Lord

    Bruce Hempel’s sermon focuses on cultivating awe for God, the prophetic role of John the Baptist, and the call for believers to prepare the way for Christ’s return through boldness, prayer, and testimony. He emphasizes the importance of worshiping God beyond human understanding and imitating John’s fearless devotion to truth. [00:00:00] Opens with a call…

  • Jesus’ Divine Perspective

    Bruce Hempel’s sermon focuses on contrasting Jesus’ divine perspective with the human-centered thinking of His disciples, the Pharisees, and Herod. He examines passages from Mark 8–10, highlighting Jesus’ unwavering commitment to God’s will—even unto death—while His followers struggled with self-interest, power, and misunderstanding. The message challenges listeners to prioritize God’s will over personal desires. Key…

  • Jesus in Cosmic Terms

    Bruce Hempel explores the divine and cosmic nature of Jesus, urging listeners to move beyond a purely human perspective of Christ. He emphasizes the importance of spiritual perception, humility, and reverence, drawing from biblical accounts of Jesus’ transfiguration, post-resurrection appearances, and future judgment. The sermon challenges believers to live with eternal perspective, honoring God and…

  • Faith in Jesus’ Power

    Bruce Hempel delivers a sermon on faith, emphasizing that nothing is impossible with Jesus. He explores several miracles in Matthew 8 and Mark 5, highlighting how faith in Jesus’ power transforms lives. The message encourages believers to grow in faith, overcome fear, and trust God in every circumstance. [00:00] Introduction to Matthew 8 and Mark…