Missions 26 | Everyone Needs to Hear - Season 5, Episode 94
How does the gospel actually travel from one person's heart to a stranger who has never heard it? Closing out missions month, Pastor Andrew examines Paul's chain of reasoning in Romans 10, tracing salvation backward from calling on Christ's name to believing, hearing, preaching, and being sent. He confronts the tension between the promise that "whosoever" can be saved and the sobering reality that vast regions of the world remain largely unreached, drawing on his own experience in Thailand to illustrate the gap. Listeners are challenged to identify who they are praying for, to make themselves available, and to embrace their own part in sending others with the gospel.
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Missions 26 | Spend and Be Spent - Season 5, Episode 93
The gospel is an unstoppable, miraculous truth, so why does reaching the lost still depend on ordinary people giving up their time, comfort, and money? This message examines 1 Corinthians 9 alongside Romans 10 and 2 Corinthians 12 to show that God has chosen to work through personal sacrifice, sending messengers who must first be commissioned and continually supported. Pastor Dorrell traces the Apostle Paul's example of surrendering personal liberty for the sake of others, arguing that mature Christian faith is marked by deference rather than the pursuit of personal rights. Listeners are challenged to willingly spend and be spent, giving up their own convenience so that someone else might hear the gospel and be saved.
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Missions 26 | Blessed to Be a Blessing - Season 5, Episode 92
Why would a happy marriage, a forgiving spirit, or an unexplainable peace make a stranger want what you have? This message examines Psalm 67 against the backdrop of Numbers 6 and King Hezekiah's revival, showing that God's blessing on a believer's life is never meant to stop there. When God's countenance shines on His people, their changed lives become a missionary testimony that draws the nations toward salvation; while unconfessed sin does the opposite, wounding God's heart and giving skeptics reason to mock Him. Listeners are challenged to actively pursue God's smile, not for personal comfort, but so that the overflow of that blessing can change everyone around them.
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Missions 26 | Living to Magnify Christ - Season 5, Episode 91
What does it take to rob a believer of joy in sharing the gospel, and why did Paul's imprisonment fail to do it? Working through Paul's letter to the Philippians, the message shows how he found joy in advancing the gospel despite difficult circumstances, difficult people, and mixed motives around him, because his focus stayed fixed on magnifying Christ rather than himself. The central thesis is that the platforms, chains, and hardships in a believer's life become opportunities for the gospel when Christ, not comfort or self-promotion, becomes the aim. Listeners are challenged to identify their own God-given platform and ask what it would look like for their life to make Christ, rather than themselves, the most important thing.
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Missions 26 | I Am A Debtor - Season 5, Episode 90
Why does the gospel so often go unspoken, even among those who believe it changes lives? Working through the opening of Romans, the message examines Paul's claim that he is a debtor to all people, obligated by the grace he has received to bring the gospel to Greeks and barbarians, wise and unwise alike. The central thesis is that the gospel fails not for lack of power but for lack of a voice, since God's love for the world compels every believer to both eagerness and readiness to share Christ. Listeners are challenged to stop relying on others to carry the message and to become the voice the gospel needs in their own relationships and communities.
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Missions 26 | From Woe to Go - Season 5, Episode 89
What do you see when you look at God, and how does that vision shape everything else about you? This message walks through Isaiah's throne room encounter, tracing his path from crushing conviction to bold surrender. Confronted with the holiness of God, Isaiah moves from "woe is me" to "here am I, send me," a pattern every believer must follow: seeing God rightly, confessing sin honestly, receiving cleansing, and answering the call to go. Set against the church's missions month, the message presses listeners to identify whatever they are still withholding from God and to surrender it, trusting that one person reaching one more person for Christ can, over time, reach the whole world.
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Missions 26 | The Value of a Soul - Season 5, Episode 88
What truly determines what we value most in life? Pastor John Waterloo examines Jesus' question to his disciples in Mark 8, “Who do you say that I am," and His warning that gaining the whole world means nothing if a person loses his own soul. Drawing on Philippians 3 and Paul's willingness to count worldly gain as loss for Christ, Pastor Waterloo demonstrates that the soul's worth is measured by its price, the death of Jesus Christ, and that our spending and priorities reveal what we truly treasure. In the third sermon of Eastland’s missions conference, listeners are challenged to examine what they value most and commit themselves to the work of seeing souls saved.
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Missions 26 | Ask for More - Season 5, Episode 87
Why do so many believers settle for simply getting by rather than asking God for more? Pastor John Waterloo examines Elisha's bold request for a double portion of Elijah's spirit, showing how this prayer reflects a heart unwilling to coast in complacency or measure itself against others. Drawing on Ephesians 3:20 and personal illustrations, he demonstrates that God's power exceeds anything believers ask or imagine, yet many miss it simply because they never ask. As the church enters its missions conference, listeners are challenged to stop comparing themselves to others and instead ask God boldly what more he wants to do through their lives.
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Missions 26 | See and Pray - Season 5, Episode 86
Why does compassion so rarely translate into action for the lost around us? Pastor Ben examines Jesus' encounter with the multitudes in Matthew 9, showing how Christ's teaching, healing, and deep compassion flowed from seeing people as spiritually destitute—sheep without a shepherd. Drawing on global statistics of unreached peoples and a personal account from a mission trip to Peru, Pastor Ben demonstrates that Jesus did not simply command his disciples to go, but first called them to see the need and pray, since prayer reshapes the heart to match Christ's own burden for the lost. As Eastland Baptist Church enters Missions Month, listeners are challenged to let genuine prayer for the world's spiritual need become the catalyst that moves them from awareness to action.
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