Kerkhoven Evangelical Free Church Sermons Podcast

Daniel 7:1-14 - Ferocious Beasts And Where You’ll Find Them

December 15, 2019 00:00 - 35 minutes - 8.1 MB

Daniel 7:1-14 - December 8th, 2019 There are three prominent figures in Daniel 7, and in dramatic movie-style fashion, they are unveiled as Daniel’s dream-vision progresses. The first to appear are four successive beasts. By their looks they are terrifying distortions of real creatures, but their dreadful appearances are only enhanced by their behavior: they devour and destroy. Who are these beasts? Have they already come and gone? More importantly, who is this “son of man” (the second promi...

Daniel 7:1-14 - Daniel's Dream of Four Beasts

December 15, 2019 00:00 - 35 minutes - 8.1 MB

Daniel 7:1-14 - December 8th, 2019

Daniel 6:14-28 - Guilty... Until Proven Innocent!

December 06, 2019 04:00 - 33 minutes - 7.84 MB

Daniel 6:14-28 - December 1st, 2019 According to the court of law a person is considered innocent until proven guilty not the other way around, but Daniel 6 shows us that this can be reversed. How? Well there are always two courts over a person’s life. In this chapter Daniel has already been proven guilty by the human court. But quickly we are made aware that there is another Tribunal, and there is another Judge, one who has supreme jurisdiction over every man, and He had also decreed a verd...

Daniel 6:1-13 - The Plot and the Prayer

December 02, 2019 15:00 - 34 minutes - 7.89 MB

Daniel 6:1-13 - November 24th, 2019 Everybody knows Daniel and the lion’s den – but did you know prayer was behind the plot that led to the lions? In a united effort against Daniel, prayer to God was suddenly outlawed and punishable with death. It says something when your enemies recognize the consistency of your devotion to God and use it against you! The question that this led Daniel (and us) to ask is: What matters more at the end of the day? How badly do I need prayer? The answer depends...

Daniel 5:1-31 - Worth the Weight

November 22, 2019 15:00 - 40 minutes - 9.23 MB

Daniel 5: 1-31 - November 17th, 2019 Have you weighed yourself lately? Disappointed? Surprised? The scales are not the enemy – they simply tell the truth, whether we like it or not! The question is what we decide to do about it. Belshazzar, the biological predecessor of Nebuchadnezzar, knew the weight of God’s grace in his father’s life, but he shunned it. Instead of weighing himself, he divulged in a sinful pattern that led to a bold challenge against the true God. So God took his weight fo...

Daniel 5 - The Writing on the Wall

November 22, 2019 15:00 - 40 minutes - 9.23 MB

Daniel 5 - November 17th, 2019

Daniel 4:28-37 - Redeeming the Blacklist, Part II: That We Might Know

November 15, 2019 22:00 - 34 minutes - 7.96 MB

Daniel 4, v. 28-37 - November 10th, 2019 Typically great empires are spoken of by their rise and fall (i.e. the Rise And Fall of the Roman Empire), and this is the pattern of every earthly kingdom – even every person! This is why I love Daniel 4 – because only God can reverse that pattern. What that means is first we must “fall” from our illusion of self-dependence (our pride) – in order that we may truly rise forever– (humbly) exalted under the mighty hand of God. No wonder this chapter er...

Daniel 4:1-27 - Redeeming the Blacklist, Part I: Our Faithful Witness

November 08, 2019 14:00 - 39 minutes - 9.04 MB

Daniel 4, v. 1-27 - November 3rd, 2019 Despite his numerous encounters with God, King Nebuchadnezzar was still the same old man, unchanged in his ways and ultimately self-glorying. It would not be hard to imagine him being voted, “least likely to convert” by the Jews of his day. But God had other plans! God used a dream, a crisis, and most importantly, a faithful witness, to move him toward repentance and faith. So, what does the portrait of a faithful witness look like?

Daniel 4, v. 1-27 - Nov. 3, 2019

November 08, 2019 14:00 - 39 minutes - 9.04 MB

Daniel 4, v. 1-27 - November 3rd, 2019

Daniel 3:19-30 - Flame-Changer

October 30, 2019 01:00 - 28 minutes - 6.64 MB

Daniel 3, v. 19-30 - October 20th, 2019 Does it strike you that God didn’t keep Shadrach, Meshach, or Abed-nego from going into the fiery furnace? There is no guarantee of God’s deliverance from earthly troubles! Fire, in some form or another, awaits us all (1 Pet. 4:12) – but to what effect? The flame can destroy, and often it will… but it can also refine. For God’s people – those who by faith, trust in (cling to) Jesus Christ – we have a greater promise than the evading of suffering: we ha...

Daniel 3, v. 16-30 - Oct. 20, 2019

October 30, 2019 01:00 - 28 minutes - 6.64 MB

Daniel 3, v. 16-30 October 20th, 2019

Daniel 3, v. 1-18, Oct. 13, 2019

October 18, 2019 13:00 - 43 minutes - 10.1 MB

Daniel 3, v. 1-18 October 13th, 2019

Daniel 3: 1-18 - Heart Reservations

October 18, 2019 13:00 - 43 minutes - 10.1 MB

Daniel 3, v. 1-18 - October 13th, 2019 How surprised would you be if you walked into a hotel room you reserved only to find it being lived in by someone else? That might depend on your temperament, but needless to say, you would have some words with hotel management! Now let me ask you, how do you think God feels – who has reserved the exclusive right of your heart – when He finds your adoration being doled out to anything and everything but Him? If Daniel 3 shows us anything (and there’s a ...

Daniel 1 - Sept 22, 2019

October 16, 2019 14:00 - 39 minutes - 9.05 MB

Daniel 1 September 22, 2019

Daniel 1 - Welcome to Babylon

October 16, 2019 14:00 - 39 minutes - 9.05 MB

Daniel 1 - September 22, 2019 The book of Daniel commences with one of its central themes: the kingdoms of this world are passing away! Judah, having forsaken the LORD, has been handed off to Babylon. This shift marked a new era where God’s people would be ruled by Gentile powers. Daniel and his companions, now exiles in service to a godless regime, faced the question of how they would maintain fidelity to God when everything around them was pressuring them to be otherwise. How do you, as ex...

Daniel 2:1-30 - Here For The Crisis

October 16, 2019 14:00 - 49 minutes - 11.3 MB

Daniel 2, v. 1-30 - September 29, 2019 Daniel and his companions finished their Babylonian training, seemingly just in time to be finished off (in a hot rage the king decreed all wise men to be executed!) What timing! Actually, it was God’s perfect timing – because these four men understood that God had called them to meet the crisis of their time! Their faithfulness in small matters (chapter 1) is what readied them for bigger challenges in chapter 2. Their responses teach us that God has us...

Daniel 2:31-49 - Standing On The Stone

October 16, 2019 14:00 - 46 minutes - 10.6 MB

Daniel 2, v. 31-49 - October 6th, 2019 History never seemed so uncertain. Was God finished with Israel? It may have seemed like it in Daniel’s day – but God had a word for the Jews and the world – His kingdom was coming and it would be the one that ultimately lasts! The dream of Nebuchadnezzar is more than a future glimpse – it comments on the whole of human history – and from that two significant symbolic images emerge: a statue and a stone. A man made object, glorious, but destined to be d...