Swift Creek Students

The gospel changes our hearts to obey a new master.In this sermon, Pastor Mark Young walks through Romans 6:15-23 to show four ways the gospel changes our hearts from being a slave of sin to a slave of righteousness. Preached on May 7, 2025.

Does the gospel gives us the freedom to sin as much as we want? This is the question that Pastor Mark takes up in this sermon on Romans 6:1-14. Preached on April 23, 2025.

Can I Lose My Salvation?Pastor Mark answers this question in this second message on Romans 5:12-21. Preached on 4/16/25.

In this sermon, Pastor Mark answers the question:What happens to those people who die without ever hearing the gospel? He walks through Romans 5:12-21 with the students to answer this question by showing from the text what all human beings have inherited from Adam, and how it should lead us with us urgency to get the gospel to those who have never heard. Preached on April 9, 2025.

Press on in Christ to higher views of the gospel. Pastor Mark preached on Romans 5:9-11, on the higher mountains peaks of the gospel where there we see much more! Preached on March 12, 2025.

The love of God is shown in the death of Christ for sinners. Pastor Mark opens up the gospel realities of Romans 5:6-8. Preached on March 5, 2025.

"Assurance is found in the finished work of Christ."Dylan Rose preached on Romans 5:1-5 on Feb. 26, 2025.

The promise of Christ makes us unwavering witnesses. In this message, Pastor Mark explores the example of Abraham to see how God's promise given to Abraham motivates us to bring the gospel to the nations and encourages us to grow unwavering in our faith as we make him known. Preached on Romans 4:9-25 on 1/29/25.

God justifies the ungodly and counts them as righteous. In this sermon, Pastor Mark walks through Romans 4:1-8 to help us understand the reality of justification. Preached on 1/15/25.

The gospel kills our boasting and produces humility. In this sermon, Pastor Mark walks through Romans 3:27-31 to show how the gospel kills our ability to boast about our salvation. Preached on 12/4/24.

Jason Brown shares his powerful testimony of how Christ saved his life. I hope you will listen and the Lord uses it in your life for God's glory.

Good News! We are saved by grace through faith in Christ for God's glory. After six weeks of looking at our sinful condition, we finally arrive at the good news of the grace of the gospel. Pastor Mark unpacks Romans 3:21-26 on Nov 6, 2024.

Sin has ruined us, but Christ can rescue us. In this sermon, Pastor Mark wraps up this first section in Romans focusing on the judgment of God and our sinful condition. This passage in 3:9-20 shows us that under sin no one is righteous, no one seeks for God, no one does good. We need to be rescued by our Savior. Preached on Oct. 30, 2024.

"Stand on God's truth in a world full of error." In this sermon, Pastor Mark unpacks Romans 3:1-8 to show how the gospel is true even if though so many reject it. The truth of the gospel should gives us boldness to stand. Preached on 10/23/24.

The cure to our hypocrisy is a transformed heart. In this sermon, Pastor Mark examines Romans 2:17-29 to examine our struggle with hypocrisy and our need for a new heart. Preached on 10.16.24.

The condition of mankind reminds us of the urgency of the gospel. In this sermon, Dylan Rose unfolds Romans 2:12-16 to fuel our hearts to have a greater urgency to share the gospel knowing that one day everyone will stand before the judgment of Christ. Preached on 10/9/24.

The purpose of God's Judgment is to lead us to repentance. In this message, Kelly Davis walks through Romans 2:1-11 to show us key truths regarding the purpose of God's judgment. Preached on 10/2/24.

The Wrath of God should make us hate our sin. In a very serious passage, Pastor Mark unfolds Romans 1:18-32 to show why the wrath of God is revealed against our sin. The sermon unfolds our sinful condition and to help grow more serious about sin. Preached on 9/25/24.

In our final session, we cover the work of Christ. Taught by Pastor Mark Young.

This session of our intensive covers the attributes of Christ's humanity. Taught by Pastor Mark Young.

This is the audio from Session 1 of our theological intensive on the Person of Christ. In this session, we examine Scripture to understand the deity of Christ. Taught by Pastor Mark Young on 9/22/24.

Let us not be ashamed of the gospel. In our third message in our series on Romans, Pastor Mark walks through Romans 1:16-17 to observe two realities of the gospel that help us not be ashamed of the gospel. Preached on Sept. 11, 2024.

When we serve the Son, we strengthen His people. In week 2 of our series through Romans, we examine Romans 1:8-15 to see how serving "in the gospel of His Son" transforms our relationships with each other. Preached by Pastor Mark Young on 9/4/24.

We live for the sake of the gospel of God. Pastor Mark begins a new sermon series through the entire book of Romans. It should be at least an 18 month journey through the book. The series begins in this sermon by unpacking "the gospel of God" in Rom. 1:1-7. Preached on Aug. 28, 2024 to the swift creek students.

This is the high school breakout teaching session at student collective conference on May 4, 2024. In this session, Dr. Mark Young provides a theological and practical foundation for living as biblical men and women of God. The end of the session provides students with four questions to ask before dating.

This is the final sermon in the Colossians series. In this message, Pastor Mark walks through Col. 4:2-18 to show how Sharing Christ is how we ought to spend our life, and this text shows us how we ought to do that. Preached 5/1/24.

Pastor Mark preached on Colossians 3:18-4:1 to show how real faith in Christ is revealed practically in real life. This sermon deals specifically with the topics of future marriage, obeying parents, and giving our best at work and school. Preached on 4/24/24.

Due to audio recording issues, the audio is difficult to hear. Forgive me for the low quality audio. You will need to crank it up and watch out for loud popping sounds! Dr. Mark Young preaches Col. 3:5-17 on killing our sin and putting on 12 qualities of the new self. 4/17/24.

Chris Derry continues our series on Colossians, preaching on Col. 3:1-4. Preached on 4/10/24.

Colossians 2:16-23 preached by Pastor Mark Young on 3/13/24.

Series: Colossians. In this message, Pastor Mark walks through Colossians 2:1-15 to encourage the students to walk in Christ, being unashamed of Christ and the cross. Preached on 3/6/24.

Colossians: We continue our series in Colossians by looking at the greatest certainty in the believer's life: Christ in you, the hope of glory. Preached on Col. 1:24-29 by Mark Young on Feb 21, 2024.

Series: Colossians. In this sermon, Pastor Mark preaches from 1:15-23 on Christ being supreme over all things. Preached on 2/14/24. We are troubles with audio recording in this sermon.

New Series: Colossians. In this message, Pastor Mark walks through Col. 1:1-14 to see three realities that are true of our faith in Christ Jesus.

Kelly Davis preaches a stand alone message from Acts 3:1-7. Preached on 1/24/24.

Our students submitted theological or practical questions prior to this week that we looked at answered from God's Word. The questions answered in this session (Jan 17, 2024): How were the Jews saved before Jesus? Is dating in high school biblical? Is it okay to struggle as a Christian? What does "the Lord is my portion" mean? Why did God put the tree in the garden of eden if he knew Adam and Eve would eat from it and sin? Does forgiveness mean to just act like nothing ever happened?

This message finishes off our Romans 8 series. Pastor Mark preaches from Rom. 8:31-39 on looking to the promises of God to have closeness to Christ. 12/7/23.

In this sermon, Dylan Rose continues our series on Romans 8. In this text, we see our future glory with Christ is our hope in suffering. Preached on 11/28/23.

Romans 8 - In this series, we are walking through the chapter of Romans 8 to build our lives on the gospel promises we have in Christ. In this message, Chris Derry preaches on Romans 8:12-17 on our Adoption in Christ.

Romans 8: A short series on Romans 8 to center our lives on the promises of Christ in the gospel. In this message, we see how Christ has Christ has set us free from sin, self, and separation. Preached by Pastor Mark Young on 11.1.23.

Series - Jonah: A Story of God's Mercy. In our last message in the series, we look at Jonah 4 to answer the question, "Is it ever right to be angry at God?" Preached by Mark Young on 10/25/23.

Series - Jonah: A Story of God's Mercy. In this message, Pastor Mark preaches from Jonah 2 to look at how we should respond to God rescue. Preached on 10.11.23.

Series - Jonah: A Story of God's Mercy. In this message, Mark Young preaches on Jonah 1:17 when Jonah gets swallowed by the big fish. We learn that when we hit rock bottom we begin to see God rescuing us from our running. Preached on 9/20/23.

Series - Jonah: A Story of God's Mercy. In this message, Pastor Mark walks through Jonah 1:11-16 to see how the One who brought the storm is also the One who calms the storm. We see that the storm only begins to lift when we repent. Preached on Sept 13, 2023.

Series - Jonah: A Story of God's Mercy. In this message, Pastor Mark walks through Jonah 1:4-10 to see how sin always brings a storm. Jonah teaches us to see how God brings the storm in his mercy when we run from him. Preached on Sept 7, 2023.

New Series - Jonah: A Story of God's Mercy. In this message, Pastor Mark preaches from Jonah 1:1-3 on exhorting us to not run from God when he calls to do the hard thing, especially when it comes to bringing the gospel to difficult people. Preached on 8/31/23.

Pastor Mark answering student questions they submitted in advance on May 10, 2023.

The following audio is from a high school breakout session at the Student Collective Conference on May 6, 2023, given at The Heights Baptist Church.

A stand alone sermon on Galatians 2:20 by Dylan Rose.

This message is from Chris Derry on 1 Timothy 4:7-16, preached to our students on 3/29/23.

In our last sermon of our Ambassadors for Christ series, we did a final examination our lives to see whether we really are followers of Christ. Preached by Mark Young on 3/22/23.