Teaching by Bret Hastings (Page 2)

Teaching by Bret Hastings (Page 2)

Experiencing God

Psalm 84:1-12 Good morning everyone. I’m so glad to be able to bring the word of God to you this morning. If you want to turn there, we’re going to be in Psalm 84 and when I was a youngster, I can say that now that I’m in the fifth decade of life a long, long time ago, at least it feels like that to me. One of the things that had a significant impact on my soul as a…

The Purpose Driven Life

1 Corinthians 9:24-27 Well, it was a joy to be able to open the Word of God with you all this morning. We’re going to be in the book of 1 Corinthians, so if you want to turn there now, please do so. But by way of introduction, I want to start just with a little bit of cultural context. We all, as Americans and really as most the citizens of the world, we’re familiar with the Olympic Games. Many…

Happy Are the Persecuted

Matthew 5:10-12 For today, we are finishing up a series on the Beatitudes out of Matthew chapter 5. If you want to turn in your Bibles there, you can do that now. But it’s really been a joy for me to have this opportunity to preach and teach through the Beatitudes. It’s been convicting, but also encouraging to my own soul. And I just find our Lord’s teaching to be absolutely fascinating, brilliant. The depths of which we cannot plumb,…

Happy Are the Peacemakers

Matthew 5:9 Well good morning, Grace Church, we are starting off the new year this year, 2026, by continuing on in a study on the Beatitudes from Jesus’ Sermon on the Mount. If you want to, you can turn in your Bibles to Matthew chapter 5. And give or take a few years, it was right around 2000 years ago that Jesus preached what we have recorded in the Gospel of Matthew as the Sermon on the Mount. Nearly 2000…

Happy Are the Pure

Matthew 5:8 Well, it is a joy to be here with you this morning. It’s a joy to bring God’s Word to you this morning. It’s a privilege. But we are in the middle of a series on the Beatitudes out of Matthew chapter 5. So if you want to turn there in your copy of God’s Word, we’re going to read that in just a few moments. But here in the Sermon on the Mount, in this section on…

Happy Are the Merciful

Matthew 5:7 If you are new, I started a series in the Beatitudes out of Matthew 5, back in the summer and we made it halfway through the Beatitudes before Travis got back in the pulpit in order to try to finish Luke. And as I mentioned earlier, he finished last week and so I am jumping back into the Beatitudes. But August 24th, that was a long time ago, the last time I preached out of the Beatitudes. So…

Happy Are the Satisfied

Matthew 5:6 For today, we are back in our study in the Sermon on the Mount in Matthew chapter 5. And this, probably for me, is one of my favorite sermons, that things that I’ve learned and, and studied in Scripture. And so, I hope that, that comes out and is translated to you today. But for today, what I want to start with just a very simple question for you today. Are you satisfied with life? Are you satisfied…

Happy are Those Who Inherit the Earth

Matthew 5:5 A few months ago I had the opportunity to preach for a couple of weeks and I thought that I would do just a short series on the Beatitudes out of Matthew chapter 5. But then after two weeks had passed, I only actually made it through two of the Beatitudes. So we are going to return there for today and next week to continue just to glean as much as we can from the most brilliant and…