Seminole Students Podcast
Your source for Seminole Students sermons, lessons and resources. Seminole Students is the 6-12th grade student ministry of Seminole Baptist in Springfield, MO. We seek to glorify God by helping students find and follow Jesus.
Episodes
82 episodes
Wise Counsel: How to Keep Your Devotion Time Fresh
Every seasoned Christian has been there: you finish your devotion time and you feel nothing. You feel the same way you did before you opened your Bible. We hate to admit this to anybody, but it bothers us that we feel this way. I want you to kn...
Sermon: God Leads (Ex. 13:17–22)
Have you ever started something new in your life? Whether it's a new school, new job, new house? If you're of dating age, maybe a new relationship? As exciting as these things might be, there's also a real sense of fear. That's how the Israelit...
Sermon: Removed From Comfort (Ex. 12:33–42)
I don't know about you, but I love my comfort zone. It's well....comfy! The problem with it is that I won't ever grow, change, or increase my dependence on the Lord there, so God will thrust me from comfort. He did the same for the Israelites, ...
Sermon: The Final Plague (Ex. 11, 12:29–32)
Pharaoh had been locked in a battle against Yahweh God (one that he would surely lose) but God is going to deliver the final blow. This final plague will be the worst one. What we see in these passages is that God blesses His people in the mids...
Commentary: A Familiar Salvation Story (Ex. 12:1–28)
Once more, Pastor Luke wasn't present to preach this so he provided his commentary and sermon structure for his leaders and students. He has recorded it for your benefit, so grab your Bible, follow along, and be encouraged!
Commentary: The Plagues! (Ex. 7:14–10:29)
Pastor Luke wasn't present while our students were taught on this passage so featured is his commentary that was available to his students and adult leaders. Feel free to open your Bible to this passage and follow along while you listen!
Placeholder: How to Find Sermon on Ex. 7:1–13
If you want to locate the sermon, it's posted privately since one of our awesome students preached the sermon. I want to protect my students' identities so this sermon will only be available to family, church members, and close personal friends...
Sermon: A Good Reset (Exodus 6:1–13)
Every once in awhile, we just need a good reset. Whether it's a reset of your room or just starting over on a project, it's occasionally necessary to keep focused. When we encounter discouraging obstacles, a reset is necessary. For Moses, God r...
Sermon: This Wasn't the Plan! (Exodus 5)
At the end of chapter 5, it seems as though Moses had an expectation for how his meeting with the Pharaoh should have gone. Maybe he expected instant success or at least for it to not have gone as awry as it did. He might have thought "this was...
Sermon: The Prep Work (Exodus 4:18–31)
The more important the task, the more preparation is required. Anything important you do in your life, you need to do some prep work for. Graduation, marriage, career, projects, YOUR CALL FROM GOD all require work to be done to prepare! Moses k...
Sermon: God Called the Right One (Exodus 4:1–16)
Have you ever been confident in making a choice only to find out you completely blew it? I know I have! Did you know that God has never done that? In our study of Moses's call from God, Moses begins accusing God of making the wrong choice of ca...
Sermon: Q&A with God (Exodus 3)
Have you ever read about God's call for your life in the Bible and wondered how on earth you would ever pull it off? Moses felt the same way when God called him to speak to Pharaoh and the Israelites in order to be freed! Moses would find out t...
Sermon: The Selfish Servant (Jonah 4)
Up until this point of Jonah, we're not told what his motivation was for running. He finally obeyed in preaching to the Ninevites and they actually repented! That's wonderful news! This should have been a joyous occasion for Jonah.... but it wa...
Sermon: Another Second Chance (Jonah 3:6–10)
The subtitle to this sermon series is "And the God of Second Chances." We saw Jonah's second chance, but there's another second chance offered to the entire nation of Nineveh. This message focuses on the king of Nineveh and his response to Jona...
Sermon: Once Burned, Twice Turned (Jonah 3:1–5)
The title of this message is a play off of the phrase "once learned, twice burned," or perhaps you know it as "once bitten, twice shy." Either way, it's a way of saying that you learned your lesson well. If you burned your hand on the stove onc...
Sermon: Rock Bottom (Jonah 2)
Have you ever been at "rock bottom?" It's never fun, but the beauty of it is it always gives us a chance to repent. That was the case for Jonah. In Jonah 2, Jonah gives us a model for repentance that we can use in our own lives when we're helpl...
Wise Counsel: What To Do on a Snow Day (To Make it Better!)
Have you ever ended a snow day or a free day and thought, "man, that could have been spent better." Yeah, me too. What if there was a way to make it better? What if before the video games and show binging, you spent some extra time dev...
Sermon: The Jig is Up! (Jonah 1:7–17)
In crime movies, when the bad guys are caught and the police are busting up their operation, they might say "the jig is up, boys." In other words, "we've been caught." When it comes to our own sin, we like to hide it and cover it up, but God wi...
Sermon: Wrong Way Jonah! (Jonah 1:1–6)
Are you required to obey your parents? What about God? Surprisingly, the answer is both yes and no. Yes, you absolutely are required to. God doesn't give you an alternative, you're commanded to obey Him and your parents. Also no, you have a sen...
Sermon: Praying for Others (1 John 5:7–21)
Have you ever asked for a favor from someone that wasn't for you? As in, you went on someone else's behalf to ask for a favor. Using your own social capital to pull in a favor for someone else is a really good thing to do. But what happens when...
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Sermon: The Surest Testimony (1 John 5:6–12)
Have you ever heard of what's called "narrative building?" It's kind of like when someone starts a rumor about you. They begin to 'build' a 'narrative' or a story about you that's either false or only half true and then it's professed as if it'...
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Wise Counsel: What to Do When the Bible *Seemingly* Contradicts Itself
Every once in awhile, you'll be reading your Bible and you'll hit a difficult passage. It happens to everyone, but if we're not careful, it can send us in a total spiral! That's why this episode was recorded, to help you with some strategies fo...
Sermon: Overcoming the World (1 John 5:1–5)
God is going to overcome the world and believers in Christ get to partake in it with Him. BUT, how do we know we're going to? How do we know we're in Christ? John is going to give us even more evidence that we are in Christ, grab your Bible and...
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Sermon: Perfect Love (1 John 4:7–21)
Have you ever wondered what perfect love is? Could you define it? Could you identify it? Even as a Christian, it can be hard to define or model perfect love, but the Holy Spirit has guided John to give us the perfect picture of it from God's ex...
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Wise Counsel: Your Testimony is NOT Boring!!!
Have you ever heard somebody's testimony on how they were brought from the worst of the worst into Christ's kingdom? When you compared their testimony to yours, did it make you feel like yours is lacking? I've felt this before! But tune in to h...
