Prairie Bible Church Messages
Prairie Bible Church is a non-denominational, Christian church located in Cedar Rapids, Iowa. Our mission is; "Help people grow their faith through a simple, authentic representation of Jesus' love". We hope you will enjoy hearing these inspirational, faith based messages to enrich your life and help grow your faithwww.prairiebible.org
Episodes
373 episodes
All is Vanity | Ecclesiastes 1:1-11
“I've often said that I wish people could realize all their dreams and wealth and fame so that they could see that it's not where you’ll find your sense of completion.” -Jim Carrey. Solomon had everything that the world values: wisdom, women, m...
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"You Follow Me" | John 21:20-25
The first question Peter asked Jesus after he’d been restored was, “Lord, what about this man?” While Peter should have been focusing on Jesus’s plan for his life, he fixated on John. Jesus said to Peter, “What is that to you? You follow me!” W...
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The Restoration of Peter | John 21:1-19
Have you ever done something so shameful, so embarrassing, so disgusting, so bad, so sinful,that all you wanted to do was run away and hide? Now put yourself in the shoes of Peter wherethat very moment has occurred. After closely follow...
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Jesus and Thomas | John 20:24-31
When the Gospel of John uses the word “believing,” it is always as a verb (98 times). That cannot be a coincidence. For John, believing is an action, and it drives every other action in our lives. When we go astray, there is often something we ...
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Jesus Appears to the Disciples | John 20:19-23
Among the greatest evidence for Christ’s resurrection is the rapid change in His followers. The disciples went from a group of timid, fearful men to bold followers who died for Jesus. How do we explain this? The answer lies in the fact that the...
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The Resurrection | John 20:1-18
It’s hard to fathom how Jesus’s followers felt immediately after his death. When He secretly appeared to His saddened followers on the road to Emmaus, they said, we had hoped that he was the one to redeem Israel (Lk 24:21). When Jesus ...
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It is Finished | John 19:28-42
Jesus’s death and burial means that I must die to myself. I won’t experience His power until I surrender my former way of life. To be raised to new life, the old self must die and be buried. That means coming to Jesus is about surrender. For “t...
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The Crucifixion of Jesus Christ | John 19:16b-27
When Jesus gets up on the cross, He gets up on His throne. Jesus is King because He did what no one else can do. No one else can say they’ve never sinned. No one else has perfectly kept the law. No one else has completed a greater act of love t...
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Pilate Before Jesus: Part 2 | John 19:1-16
True authority is God-given. It is not based on position or title. Anyone looking in on the meeting between Pilate and Jesus from a worldly perspective would see Pilate as the authority, and they would be wrong. The carpenter’s Son from a disre...
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Pilate Before Jesus: Part 1 | John 18:28-40
We still talk about the Roman Empire to this day—but did you know that the Bible speaks of the Roman Empire too? Daniel 7:7 says, “…behold, a fourth beast, terrifying and dreadful and exceedingly strong. It had great ...
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The Trial and Denial of Jesus | John 18:12-27
The trial of Jesus is really a trial of all those around him. Peter hits rock bottom as he denies Jesus three times, and Annas fails to grasp his own need for Jesus. Peter’s story is our story: repeated failing, yet restored by the faithfulness...
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The Betrayal and Arrest of Jesus | John 18:1-12
As Jesus stared down the barrel of a horrific death– drinking the cup of the wrath of God against all sin– He exhibited stunning courage. Even Judas and the soldiers were compelled to bow at the force of His proclamation, “I AM.” Their forced r...
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Jesus Prays for Us | John 17:20-26
Jesus knew that His people would struggle with staying together. When we quarrel with other Christians over trivial matters, we look just like the divided world around us. The Bible teaches that there are times when divisions are necessary, and...
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Jesus Prays for His Apostles: Part 2 | John 17:13-19
Jesus knew that His Apostles’ battle would continue after He ascended to heaven. Satan would go after them and seek to destroy them. But Jesus prayed to His Father, “I do not ask that you take them out of the world, but that you keep them from ...
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Jesus Prays for His Apostles: Part 1 | John 17:6-12
Jesus devotes more of His longest recorded prayer to the Apostles than anyone else. He spent a major portion of His ministry on them, because He knew that they would be trusted with continuing His work. Christ’s discipleship model was the oppos...
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I Have Made Plans for You: Part 2 | Jeremiah 29:4-11
Jeremiah 29:11 has had books and countless sermons preach on it over the years.o Why? Because it’s so aspirational, _____-______ and encouraging!§ But for that verse to carry its full impact, you...
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Jesus Prays for Himself | John 17:1-5
John 17 is Jesus’ longest prayer in all the Gospels. Think of all the mornings and nights that Jesus spent praying to His Father. It is here, in John 17, that we get a glimpse into the content of those prayers. Jesus was the most selfless perso...
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Moonwalking with Einstein | Isaiah 46:3-11
A good memory is a skill, not a talent, and there are tools/techniques that can help you to develop that skill.In our scripture for today, God is using one of those tools to help us remember one of the most important...
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Christ Our Conqueror | John 16:16-33
There is no way around trouble and suffering in this life. Jesus said, “In the world you will have tribulation.” Yet He also told us, “But take heart; I have overcome the world.” To take heart means to be courageous. When faced with trouble, we...
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Recipe for Victory
Most ingredients of any recipe are often distasteful by themselves. But put them all together and you get something WONDERFUL! So it is with the ingredients of Easter!
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He Was Pierced for Our Transgressions | Isaiah 52:13-53:7
Many want to skip over Good Friday and get right to Easter. We want to skip the cross and get right to the empty tomb. But the gospel is a message about blood and sacrifice. To deal with sin, Jesus had to endure sorrow, grief, rejection, tortur...
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The Work of the Holy Spirit | John 16:4-15
Take Home Message: It is better for me that Jesus left, because He has sent the Spirit. The Work of the Holy Spirit | John 16:4-15It is better that Jesus left, because… The Spirit is now with me...
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Handling The World’s Hatred
Jesus said, “If the world hates you, remember that it hated me first.” Followers of Jesus shouldn’t be surprised when we are hated, because the very Founder of our faith was hated. We do not fit into this world, because we do not belong to this...
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