Sermons from Messiah Lutheran Church in Joliet, Illinois, featuring Pastors David Nygard, Kurt Hoover and David Stier.
We sit down with Herb Alexander who has been our Choir Director here for some time! In this interview we learn how he came to be at Messiah and his goals for the future of our church!
Our Children's Choir Director gives us an insight into her plans for the future of the ministries she is leading. She also really likes walking!
Our Children's Ministry Director, Leslie, gives us some insight into how she came to be at Messiah and what she likes to do to relax!
Mike Brown gives us his testimony and some advice on how saying "No" may be helpful!
Pastor Kurt Hoover sits down and tells us his vision for Messiah as well as his story of how he got here! Fun Fact: The Host and Kurt like DnD!
Our Bookkeeper Sherri gives us a run down on all she does for our ministry here at Messiah!
In this episode we interview our Office Administrator, Vicki Dallman, and hear how she came to be at Messiah! It truly feels like a "God Thing"!
Kate gives us an interview on what her role at Messiah is and how our Building Liason impacts the use of our church!
Hello! Welcome to the first ever episode of Fireside Chats! Our first season is focused on meeting the staff here at Messiah Lutheran Church and helping people see all the things that are done around the church day to day! Our first episode is a conversation between Justin Brown (Worship Coordinator) and Nikolai Stier (Tech Director/Host) discussing what our normal week looks like at Messiah and our goals for the year!
Pastor Kurt Hoover introduces his newest sermon series on how to build and maintain self-confidence!
Pastor Emeritus Dave Nygard explains how the devil attacks us in our lives!
Another sermon in Pastor Kurt's Sermon series called "Six places Jesus promised to be"
Pastor Kurt Hoover brings us another place where we can find Jesus according to His promises!
Brought to you by Pastor Kurt Hoover. Yes. It's about a table. And Jesus.
Pastor Nygard gives us a sermon on the importance of baptism and why we should always be "Walking Wet"!
Presented by Pastor Kurt Hoover in our new sermon series!
Ending off our "What's Next" sermon series and finishing explaining the Bring, Build, Bump vision!
Following up on the Last Sermon and continuing explaining our Bring, Build, Bump vision!
Pastor Kurt Hoover gives us the Penultimate sermon in our series "What's Next?".
Pastor Nygard gives us a Message telling us about the one thing that God can't do!
A child of our congregation(He's a little grown up now) gives us a sermon following our NEXT series!
Continuing our sermon series on what comes next in our ministry for the kingdom!
A message to rally behind as we enter a new school year and look forward to what comes next in God's plan!
A sermon following the disciples questions of Jesus and how he cares for us!
The final sermon in our "Could He Be" Series!
A Special Guest Brian Phipps gives us a message on how God is there for us through our storms. Watch the Master of Cliffhangers at work! :)
A continuation of our "Could He Be?" series presented by Pastor Hoover!
Another lesson on what God could be for you!
A sermon expanding on the miracles of Jesus and the dispute about whether He is God.
Our final sermon from Pastor David Stier for the near future as he is answering a call down in Georgia. Thank you Pastor and Godspeed!
The third in our series about how The Bible came to us today!
We continue to dive into how we got the historical document called, "The Bible"
Another sermon included in the "Jesus' Stories" series presented by an old friend of the church!
'The first part of a sermon series on the creation of the document we know as "The Bible".
Pastor Dave gives a powerful sermon on one of Jesus' Stories towards the religious leaders of his day!
Another episode in our Family Adventure Series!
A Special Mother's Day sermon from our Pastor Emeritus Dave Nygard! (Edit: I had the date wrong in the title this past week. It is now correct)
The second in our series following our "Family Adventure"s!
The first instance in our "Family Adventure" series! Join next week for more family based sermons!
The third installment of our "Empty" series following the resurrection of Jesus!
The second sermon in our "Empty" series following the resurrection of Jesus!
The first of our sermon series following the resurrection of Jesus!
Our 11am sermon from Easter Sunday. HE IS RISEN INDEED!
Pastor Kurt's Sermon from Easter Sunday! HE IS RISEN INDEED!
Our Palm Sunday Sermon presented by our retired Pastor Nygard!
The final installment of our Deeper Magic Series! This one details exactly what the cross meant for us as the Christian Church and includes a some-what graphic description of what being crucified was like.
Another installment branching from our "Deeper Magic" series!
The third installment in our "Deeper Magic" series with C.S. Lewis' Narnia Allegory
The Second sermon in our "Deeper Magic" Series
The first sermon in our journey through the "Deeper Magic" series, presented by Pastor Kurt
The final sermon in our "Busy" series spear-headed by Pastor Kurt!