Sermons by Mike Whitney

Sermons by Mike Whitney

God’s Heart

Thank you bro. Thank you, john, good morning, welcome. My name is Mike, one of the pastors on staff here at sewer church. It’s an honor to be with you this morning and I’m excited to look at this passage. I just disclaimer, I spent my childhood with sheep, my dad had market lambs at the Adams County fair, we would show market lambs sheep in colorado and and I spent many summers of a bad teenage attitude grumbling and…

Discipleship Will Cost You Everything

Thank you Chloe, thank you for coming this morning. My name is mike when the pastors on staff here at church, it’s honor to be with you this morning. It’s my honor to be able to spend some time looking at the word of God with you. I’ve spent some time this last week studying and praying preparing some thoughts for this passage and I just really do think it seems like if you think of the messaging of Christianity…

A Thrill of Hope

Good morning everyone merry christmas, we’re so excited to have you all here to get to worship. Um and just praise um our God together. Um on this christmas morning we’re gonna do something a little bit different this morning. I’m going to read through our passage for the day. So if everyone would please stand if you are able to um as we read um our christmas passage will be in Isaiah 53. So if you would open there…

Colossians 3:1-11

Welcome, thank you for coming. My name is Mike one of the pastors here on staff at our church were in that wall between Thanksgiving and the Christmas season. So next week there’s gonna be uh christmas stuff around here, christmas songs are rolling. I don’t think we’re doing mistletoe this year due to budget cuts, but there’s, there’s a lot of christmas festivities about to start cooking at our church. So thank you for coming. It’s an honor to…

Colossians 1:15-23

you ever in your life, come to the point yet where you feel like you just you just hit that wall mentally, emotionally, physically relational e you’re just out of gas, you hit that wall and you want to sit down because that last hit took it out of you and you’ve not stood up yet in your walk of God, you your christian walk of God has gone from a sprint, a mad sprint to a walk to a…

Rooted in Prayer

Good morning. Welcome. Welcome. Come on in. Hey, my name is mike, one of the pastors on staff here at, so a church, It’s great to be with you. We, uh, I’m excited about our content today, what we’re gonna look at, I like to open up a short story. So I have a wife and my wife makes me go to the doctor and I go to the doctor once a year and they take blood, they check my…

Rooted in Values

it’s great to spend the morning. A few I know we live in a world that lacks leaders with values. We live in a world where we are jobs might not have value, we have friendships that might not have value and purpose and worth and and we can struggle, we can struggle to find meaning in our life purpose to live for. There’s quiet quitting happening in our world of mental health on the rise speaking as uh one…

Psalm 18

come on in, Let’s start here. What’s your what’s your self narrative? Getting out of bed this morning, the alarm clock, you’re like here we go again, or you’re like here we go again. I mean, what’s your self narrative? Are you just constantly thinking like fearful thoughts? Are you like scared? The sky is falling self narrative? Are you uneasy, shaken, nervous about what’s gonna happen if uncertainty about your past or the future? Is that yourself narrative? You’re…

Battlefield Benediction

come on in. Thank you. Um, I see uh, you all had to come and see what your friends are up to because the instagram and algorithms were showing you a bunch of ads and people that weren’t even your friends. No, no, the joke flopped. Well there’s difficult times in being a pastor and humor is a difficult topic for me. I never tend to figure it out. But there’s good times and difficult times and there’s times of…

Finding Meaning in a Meaningless Life

Good morning, Good morning, Welcome. It’s great to see you. My name is mike, one of the pastors on staff here at Solar Church. I’m just a little distracted, a little flustered this morning and no one ever get that way at times. You’re like, I’m, my pregame ritual is not there right now. And so you’re just kind of trying to find your sea legs as you go into this thing. I was under the impression that our, our…

Psalm 24

Happy fourth of july weekend. Good morning. I’m thankful for the opportunity to spend a few moments of you looking at God’s word, I’m gonna share a short story and if I do my job right, I’ll tie it together here. Later in the sermon, this passage today reminded me of my trash this week. I have a have a street I live on and the lady that lives behind me, she’s this retired, sweet dear ex teacher of music…

Do Not Bear False Witness

commandments. This is commandment number nine this morning. It will be addressing the topic of lying. Lying, lying. Ah this is good. That’s a good one. So let’s pray before we jump into this. This topic this morning just helped collect our thoughts. Lord, I thank you for the word of God and how it’s alive and active. Sharper than any double edged sword. Lord, I thank you that it’s able to do business in the heart of the believer…

Do Not Steal

Good morning, Welcome to our church. My name is Mike, one of the four pastors here at this church. It’s an honor to be a few. Today. We’re looking at the eighth commandment. You’ve probably heard your mom with the eighth commandment. You remember your mom? She would say in the second book of Mom, chapter 24 verse seven, Thou shalt not try me was your mom? That was that was another woman. Um, okay. But today, seriously, we look…

Real Rest

Hey, welcome. Hello. Hello. Hello. My name is Mike. I’m on the four elders here at our church. Thank you for coming. Uh, it’s a joy to be a few. It’s a fun to watch babies getting dedicated kids are a blast. It’s honor to spend some time for this morning and look at God’s word. My uh, I have the honor of speaking through the fourth commandment this morning with you in exodus 20. We’re spending 10 weeks looking…

The Second Commandment

Landon Patrick. Your your first job might not be in Lincoln, but your second job is in Lincoln. We’ll leave the light on for you. Welcome back if you guys want to come back. But we sure love students. Thank you for doing that guys. I was smart. Um, let’s let me share a quick story. I was driving back from church last week and I was asking one of my sons like, what do you think of church? It…

Humble King, Great Savior

Good morning. Welcome. Thank you for coming to church. It’s a, it’s an exciting time. Palm sunday easter sunday and the christian calendar is key hallmark passages and moments in the life and calendar of a church and the people next week, we’re giving out candy to your kids. I think this week parents, we have a bunch of baby chicks that they have upstairs that they’re giving to your kids, so don’t, don’t mind the mess. First service said…

Believing for More Open Doors

Amen. Amen, Good morning. No, no, no. Great morning. Great morning. This is the day the Lord has made. We will rejoice and be good job church, good job church. What a great decision you did to start or end your week with gathering of God’s people to, to sing, to pray to fellowship, to eat a donut, eat some, drink some coffee, say hi to your old friends and listen to the message of God preach so great choice,…

Believing For More Laborers

Amen. Thank you for that. That’s great. That was a wonderful who made that Chloe. Well done Chloe. Thank you Chloe. Amen. Welcome. Thank you for coming this morning. It’s my name is Michael on the five pastors here and so are churches. The honor to be a few today. It’s encouraging to have a beautiful sunday morning to be a few and talk with you, pray with you, fellowship with you, drink some coffee with you have a donut…

Eat, Drink, and Be Anxious

Good morning. Thank you for coming physically or digitally. It is if your digital, it’s brutal cold out today. It is, it is painfully cold. Oh my goodness, I don’t believe this weather, this is great. Um glad you’re here. Super Bowl sunday. So we’re Super Bowl. Super sunday and it’s good to be if you all this is the one sunday here. I got to limit myself to a few football jokes and references as we go through this.…

Roasts Over Roast

Alright alright, friday night dads with daughters. We have the daddy daughter dance 68 PM now dads dads with daughters, I want you to look over at your daughter right now look him in the eyes, look me in the eyes and say good morning beautiful. Now how can you possibly not bring your daughter to the daddy daughter dance? Looking in those eyes right now man, I know that your, it’s not your ideal, you know, thought of how…

Shamelessly Persistent

jesus and his disciples went onto the villages around caesarea philippi on the way. He asked them who do people say I am? They replied. Some say john the baptist, others say elijah and still others, one of the prophets. But what about you? Who do you say? I am? Amen. Welcome. Good morning. If you’re on the live stream, welcome If you’re here in the room, welcome. Um, you reminded me Chloe of what I interaction I had with…

Sympathizer and Savior

merry christmas livestream people merry christmas, real people in the room, we sure appreciate and love you. Um just thank you for bearing with us christmas I think like four years ago when we did christmas, we don’t even like saying christmas songs and we kind of forgot I’m saying the royal, we like me. I kind of forgot about we’re rolling through some other passages and stuff and I know how do you forget that? I don’t know. So…

Loving People Who Are Different

Amen. Good morning. Welcome Welcome as well as we approach the holiday season. Think of any weird family traditions. Y’all might have my uh my family does some stuff, it just seems wrong. Um they, they do a family fun run, which feels like a five K. To me. And there’s all these nephews that are like adolescent teenage track guys who do cross country and they run a spirited seems like a three mile race after we do thanksgiving…

Luke 9:51-62

All right. Welcome. Welcome. Welcome, Come on in, have a seat. Thank you for coming. My name is mike, I’m on the passage of that solar church. It’s great to be a few. We are in the gospel of Luke. Chapter nine versus 51 through 62, Section 14 of those blue workbooks in the lobby, page 506 in the house Bible. Um, And our latitude longitude, if you’re on the live stream and you slip in and you’re still sleeping…