West Bradenton - A Neighborhood Church
Weekly messages from Sam Rainer - lead pastor of West Bradenton Baptist Church.
Episodes
April 22, 2024 • 21 mins
Pastor Sam Rainer preaches through every verse of Matthew’s gospel. This week’s sermon covers Matthew 12:22-50. After Jesus heals a demon-possessed man, the religious leaders confront Him. They claim Jesus has struck a deal with Satan, but He challenges their logic. In this text, Jesus reveals the damage of blasphemy and teaches about the nature of evil spirits.
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April 15, 2024 • 25 mins
Pastor Sam Rainer preaches through every verse of Matthew’s gospel. This week’s sermon covers Matthew 12:1-21. Is the Sabbath a day of rest, a day for worship, or both? Is the Sabbath still binding today? What is the difference between the Lord’s Day and the Sabbath? Your life is better when you rest for a day and worship. But why?
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April 8, 2024 • 20 mins
Pastor Sam Rainer preaches through every verse of Matthew’s gospel. This week’s sermon covers Matthew 11:1-30. In this chapter, the “greatest man,” John the Baptist, doubts Jesus. It’s a low point for John the Baptist. But Jesus is with us, even through the dark valleys. God can take your worst mistakes and make them miracles for His glory. God offers grace on the other side of every failure!
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April 1, 2024 • 15 mins
Pastor Sam Rainer preaches through every verse of Matthew’s gospel. This week’s sermon concludes the Easter series with the account of Jesus’ resurrection. Everything we believe hinges on this one thing. Remove the bodily resurrection of Christ, and Christianity has no footing whatsoever.
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March 25, 2024 • 19 mins
Pastor Sam Rainer preaches through every verse of Matthew’s gospel. This week’s sermon begins an Easter series and covers the Triumphal Entry and the prophecy about Jerusalem’s destruction in Matthew 21:1-11 and 23:37-24:51. The temple was torn down, stone by stone. But the Kingdom of God is built one person at a time.
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March 18, 2024 • 25 mins
Pastor Sam Rainer preaches through every verse of Matthew’s gospel. This week’s sermon covers Matthew 9:35-10:42. Why are people openly hostile to God? The overarching spiritual reason is our sin nature and how we default to rebellion against God. But why are some antagonistic against Christians and the church? And what can the church do to help them?
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March 11, 2024 • 24 mins
Pastor Sam Rainer preaches through every verse of Matthew’s gospel. This week’s sermon covers Matthew 9:1-34. In chapters eight and nine, Matthew records several stories of Jesus healing physically. Crowds followed Jesus, in part, because He could heal. Many brought loved ones to Jesus for this reason. But these stories have a clear connection between the physical and spiritual. Faith is the connecting point.
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March 4, 2024 • 22 mins
Pastor Sam Rainer preaches through every verse of Matthew’s gospel. This week’s sermon covers Matthew 8:1-34. Demon possession is real, but believers in Christ do not need to fear. We have the Holy Spirit within us, and our souls cannot be shared with a demon. While believers cannot come under the control of a demon, we can come under attack. That’s why we need spiritual armor!
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February 26, 2024 • 21 mins
Pastor Sam Rainer preaches through every verse of Matthew’s gospel. This week’s sermon covers Matthew 7:1-29 and the conclusion of the Sermon on the Mount. Believers should not judge and condemn, but believers should judge and discern. Discernment is a critical spiritual discipline because Satan’s attacks are real. How can we distinguish between being judgmental and exercising discernment?
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February 19, 2024 • 21 mins
Pastor Sam Rainer preaches through every verse of Matthew’s gospel. This week’s sermon covers Matthew 6:19-34 and the connection between money and anxiety. Anxiety is fear of losing what you love or getting what you hate. Contentment is internal satisfaction that does not depend upon external circumstances. What connects anxiety to money? Coveting! What is the solution to the problem of coveting? Contentment!
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February 12, 2024 • 25 mins
Pastor Sam Rainer preaches through every verse of Matthew’s gospel. This week’s sermon covers Matthew 6:1-18 and the issue of Christian hypocrisy. A hypocrite is a person who acts differently than his or her stated beliefs. Everyone will be guilty at times. However, Christian hypocrisy occurs when you make yourself the priority over God. There are six major ways the church can become hypocritical.
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February 5, 2024 • 29 mins
Pastor Sam Rainer preaches through every verse of Matthew’s gospel. This week’s sermon covers Matthew 5:17-48 and Matthew 19:1-11. The Sermon on the Mount has several examples of what it means to live righteously. Divorce, in particular, is one area where the church has struggled. Since divorce is common, there are lots of opinions and lots of hurt surrounding the issue. The church should not treat divorced people with shame. Chris...
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January 29, 2024 • 24 mins
Pastor Sam Rainer preaches through every verse of Matthew’s gospel. This week’s sermon covers Matthew 5:1-16 and the first part of the Sermon on the Mount. There is a heavenly perspective and an earthly perspective. We tend to focus on the short-lived, easy satisfaction. Jesus calls us to focus on the eternal.
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January 22, 2024 • 23 mins
Pastor Sam Rainer preaches through every verse of Matthew’s gospel. This week’s sermon covers Matthew 4:1-25 and the temptation of Jesus. Temptation is the opportunity to sin prompted by a life circumstance. Proclaim this truth when facing temptation: Satan is not equal to and opposite God. He is defeated and bound by God.
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January 15, 2024 • 22 mins
Pastor Sam Rainer preaches through every verse of Matthew’s gospel. This week’s sermon covers Matthew 3:1-17 and the topic of baptism. Why is baptism so important and, at times, controversial? Baptism is an outward testimony of the inward change in a believer’s life. Why do we immerse people in the water for baptism? Does a pastor have to perform a baptism to make it valid? Sam answers these questions and more in this week’s messag...
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January 8, 2024 • 27 mins
Pastor Sam Rainer begins a new series through Matthew’s gospel. Who was Matthew, the tax collector? What are the themes of his gospel? Jesus is the King of kings, the Promised Savior. He is the One who ushers in an eternal Kingdom. All other kingdoms will fade. Only one will last eternally. Matthew demonstrates how Jesus is the fulfillment of prophecies in the Old Testament. Through the writer Matthew, we learn how Jesus’ redemptio...
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January 1, 2024 • 31 mins
Pastor Tim preaches through the book of Jonah to uncover how unfair God's grace really is, and why we should be eternally grateful for that. Join us as we see how God is calling us to live out his heart for the nations.
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December 25, 2023 • 20 mins
Pastor Sam Rainer concludes the Little Lord Jesus Christmas series. The irony of the first Christmas is that Heaven knew who it was sending, but Earth did not know who it was receiving. The manger of Little Lord Jesus is necessary for the work of salvation. Why? It takes God in the flesh to save us from our own flesh.
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December 18, 2023 • 10 mins
Who was the first group to understand the significance of little Lord Jesus? The angels in heaven received this message first. Pastor Sam Rainer continues this year’s Christmas series. The Christmas story has a fascinating juxtaposition: the might of countless angels and Little Lord Jesus in a feeding trough.
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December 11, 2023 • 22 mins
The virgin birth is essential to the miracle of grace. Pastor Sam Rainer continues this year’s Christmas series with a sermon on the doctrine of adoption. The miracle of grace is how we are adopted into God’s family.
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