Prairie Bible Church
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Our mission is simple: building up God’s people through God’s Word for God’s glory. Each episode features clear, Bible-centered teaching designed to encourage your faith and help you walk with Jesus in simple, authentic ways.
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Join us each week for messages of hope and truth.
(Sunday service times: 9:00 & 10:30 AM | Kids Ministry at both)
Episodes
387 episodes
God's Investment Advice | Ecclesiastes 11:1-6
The Bible is a book that contains lessons for every area of life, including how we invest our money. God not only gave Solomon wisdom, He gave him more riches and possessions than any king before or after him (2 Chronicles 1:12). God used Solom...
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How to Not Ruin Your Life | Ecclesiastes 10:1-20
There was a man who had so much promise. He came from a powerful, wealthy, and good looking family with parents who loved him. He was favored and put in a position of authority at a young age over a great kingdom. Most importantly, God greatly ...
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Time and Chance | Ecclesiastes 9:11-18
The more we try to control everything around us, the more out of control everything seems to become. That is because there is no escape from life’s sudden pressures and dangers. Our money, status, even wisdom and righteousness cannot insulate u...
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How to Live Like I'm Dying | Ecclesiastes 9:1-10
Most people do not like to think about death, especially their own. Death makes us uncomfortable, and the thought of it seems to take the fun out of life. But there is great value in meditating on our death. It reminds us that we don’t have for...
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God and Government | Ecclesiastes 8:1-17
One of the marks of our age is a rejection of authority.This rejection has led to a lack of respect for God and the government he appoints. Obedience to God and government, in that order, leads to great blessing. If we are to respect the au...
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Lessons on Wisdom: Part 2 | Ecclesiastes 7:15-29
There are many ditches and potholes to be avoided on life’s path, and we are all prone to one or the other. Some live recklessly and die young, while others beat themselves up over things that are not even sin. There are also those who are expe...
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Lessons on Wisdom | Ecclesiastes 7:1-14
The Bible holds up wisdom as one of the greatest treasures that we can receive. It says, “The Lord founded the earth by wisdom and established the heavens by understanding.” Yet, most people check out on wisdom—they’d rather live by their own c...
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Unnecessary Suffering | Ecclesiastes 6:1-12
Life is tough, and when we make bad choices, it’s really tough. Our suffering is not merely because of destiny or the devil; sometimes we suffer for our own dumb decisions. We see this in Israel’s story. Like parents who want their kids to succ...
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The Vanity of Wealth | Ecclesiastes 5:8-20
The Bible does not say that money itself is a root of all kinds of evils. It says that the love of money is a root of all kinds of evils. The question is not, “Do you have money?” It is, “Does money have you?” Wealth, when enjoyed within God’s ...
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Approaching God Rightly | Ecclesiastes 5:1-7
To fear the Lord means to stand in reverence and awe of Him; it means to respect Him. God is our “Abba, Father,” but He is also the Creator and Ruler of the universe. We often forget this and end up speaking rashly or making commitments to God ...
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Overcome Evil with Good | Ecclesiastes 4:1-16
One reason that Solomon was called wise is that he did not ignore the reality of evil in the world.He acknowledged it and lamented it. In a world where overwhelming evil threatens to overcomeus, we are called to overcome evil with...
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God's Timing | Ecclesiastes 3:1-22
One of the hardest things to understand about God is His timing. So many of our questions come from a desire to know why God does what He does when He does it. His timing can feel messy, uncertain, and confusing. But Ecclesiastes reminds us tha...
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Searching for Fulfillment: Part 2 | Ecclesiastes 2:12-2:26
“What’s the point?” That is Solomon’s conclusion after considering the fruit of all his hard work and wisdom. Even when all our work and discipline pay off and we accomplish all our goals, the reward often leaves us wanting. If God is not at th...
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Searching for Fulfillment: Part 1 | Ecclesiastes 1:12-2:11
"I would like to buy about three dollars' worth of gospel, please. Not too much – just enough to make me happy, but not so much that I get addicted. I don't want so much gospel that I learn to really hate covetousness and lust. I certainly don'...
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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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