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Featured Sermon: The Apostles Creed – I Believe In from Matt Chandler

Matt Chandler: What is The Apostles Creed? Who wrote it? When did it show up? This looks at the history behind the creed and why it’s still relevant today.

Featured Sermon: Passion, Purpose & Designer Jeans by Louie Giglio

Louie Giglio encourages Christians that the passion they bring to work should serve a higher purpose which is to honor Christ and make His name known.

Pete Klindt: From Walkin’ Proud To Walking In Faith

Pete Klindt went from leader of the Pete Klint Quintet, a favorite Rock-n-Roll band in Iowa in the 1960s to a business executive who follows Christ.

Christ’s Supreme Achievement on the Cross

“In this is love, not that we have loved God but that he loves us and sent his Son to be the propitiation for our sins,” (1 John 4:10, ESV).

Featured Sermon: The Resurrection Dilemma

Pastor Phil Winfield, senior pastor at Grace Church in Des Moines, IA, preached the first sermon in his series on the Resurrection of Jesus Christ.

Same-Sex Attracted Pastor Gives Profound Defense of Biblical Sexual Ethics

Sam Allberry gave a profound two-minute defense of biblical sexual ethics applied to identity and marriage before the General Synod of the Church of England.

Featured Sermon: The Transforming Power of the Gospel by R.C. Sproul

This week’s featured sermon: Dr. R.C. Sproul at the Ligonier Ministries’ 2016 National Conference explains why the gospel is both true and transforming.

Featured Sermon: The Ultimate Essence of Evil from John Piper

John Piper: The ultimate essence of evil is the loss of taste for God as our all-satisfying life and joy, and the preference for other things above God himself.

Featured Sermon: One Way to Heaven

Pastor Ryan Jorgensen, the senior pastor of Harvest Bible Chapel Des Moines, provides our featured sermon from John 14:1-11 – “One Way to Heaven.”

Featured Sermon: A Biblical Framework for Life

For Sanctity of Life Sunday we feature a sermon from Shane Vander Hart that outlines a Biblical framework for why Christians should be pro-life.

Featured Sermon: Sola! Scripture Alone

Pastor Michael Mudlaff of Westkirk Presbyterian Church in Urbandale gives the first sermon in a five-part series on the Five Solas of the Reformation.

Featured Sermon: Our Help Comes From the Lord

Caffeinated Thoughts’ inaugural weekly featured sermon was given by Pastor Matt Agee on Psalm 121 at Grace Church in Des Moines, IA on January 8, 2017.

Video: What We Celebrate At Christmas

Reformed theologian Dr. R.C. Sproul reminds us that what we really celebrate at Christmas is the incarnation of God Himself.

How Can Southern Baptists Move Forward in Unity Regarding Calvinism?

Dr. Albert Mohler, president of Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, said that Southern Baptists can be thankful for the substantive debate over Calvinism.

Thomas C. Oden (1931-2016), Champion of Christian Orthodoxy

Theologian Thomas C. Oden, one of Methodism’s and American Christianity’s most esteemed theologians, passed away at his home in Oklahoma Wednesday night.

Calvinism and the Southern Baptist Convention

Shane Vander Hart addresses those within the Southern Baptist Convention who see Calvinism as a blight within the denomination.