Wheatland Baptist Church

06/05/2026

PowerPoint Ministries
Dr. Jack Graham

“You shall not bow down to them or serve them, for I the Lord your God am a jealous God.”

-- Exodus 20:5

Here is one of the most sobering truths in Scripture: you become what you worship. It is not merely that your worship reflects who you are. Your worship shapes who you are becoming. The psalmist says of those who make and trust in idols that "those who make them become like them" (Psalm 115:8). You pour your life, your attention, your devotion, your identity into something, and over time, you start to look like it.

We see this in our culture all around us. People who worship money become transactional: every relationship evaluated by what it produces, every decision driven by the bottom line. People who worship pleasure become hollow, needing more and more stimulation to feel less and less. People who worship themselves become isolated, the world shrinking down to the size of their own reflection. The idol always promises more than it gives. And the worshipper, having given everything to it, has nothing left.

But the reverse is also gloriously true. Those who worship the living God become like Him. The Scripture says we are being transformed "from one degree of glory to another" (2 Corinthians 3:18), as we behold Him. The more you genuinely worship Jesus, not the performance of worship but the real thing, the heart yielded in awe and love and surrender, the more you begin to carry His character. More patient. More generous. More quick to forgive. More courageous in truth. More compassionate toward the suffering. You look increasingly like the One you love.

This is the magnificent promise embedded in the Second Commandment. When God says "have no other gods," He is not just protecting His honor. He is protecting your soul from the slow, sad process of being hollowed out by a counterfeit. He is making room for the transformation that only genuine worship can produce. The goal of it all is not religious compliance. It is that you and I would be conformed to the image of Jesus Christ.

So here is the question worth sitting with today: What is shaping you? What are you becoming? And does it look like Jesus?

05/03/2026

The year's Vacation Bible Study for grades 1 through 5 is nearing. We invite you to bring your kids to partake in entertaining activities, engaging games, and most significantly, to learn about Jesus Christ's love. June 10-12 from 9am to noon.

04/15/2026

InTouch Ministries
Dr. Charles Stanley

Developing Patience
Growth rarely comes easily, yet we can celebrate the good that God will bring from our struggles.
James 1:1-4

Do you ever wish you were more patient? Most of us would say yes! But how do we acquire a calm, gentle heart? And what can we do to help strengthen this attribute over time?

Let’s start by thinking of patience as a muscle that has to be used in order to become stronger. Toward that end, believers should recognize difficulty as an opportunity to develop their patience. The human instinct is to cry out to God in bewilderment when tribulation comes. We blame. We resist. We complain. But what we should do instead is say, “Thank You, Father—it’s time to grow in patience!”

James tells us to consider trials a joy (1:2). But we often fail at this, don’t we? Humanly speaking, praising the Lord for tribulation feels unnatural. However, doing so begins to make sense to believers when they cling to God’s promise that good comes from hardship (Rom. 8:28). We are not waiting on the Lord in vain. We can praise Him for the solution He will bring, the lives He will change, or the spiritual fruit He will develop in us.

Accepting hardship as a means of growth is a radical concept. But God’s followers have cause to rejoice. Tribulation increases our patience so that we can stand firm on His promises and await His good timing

04/07/2026

PowerPoint Ministries
Dr. Jack Graham

“I am the vine; you are the branches. Whoever abides in me and I in him, he it is that bears much fruit, for apart from me you can do nothing. … If you abide in me, and my words abide in you, ask whatever you wish, and it will be done for you.”

--John 15:5, 7

Prayer is not the cause of abiding in Christ, it’s the result or effect of abiding in Christ. Or to put it another way, if we’re truly abiding in Christ, we won’t have to force prayer.

In today’s verse, Jesus tells us what the secret to growing and maturing as a Christian is. It’s pretty simple! Be a branch. That’s it! Be a branch. And because branches are connected to the vine, there’s a constant interchange between the two.

Now, I don’t know what kind of background you come from or what your impression of praying is, but if it helps, I would encourage you to just think about prayer as a conversation. A conversation of a friend with a friend.

And when your relationship with a friend is growing, you talk! You talk and you listen. And in healthy relationships, that conversation and interaction flows naturally.

As a pastor, I talk to a lot of people who openly share with me that praying is boring. But here’s the deal. When you and I are truly abiding in Christ, when we’re truly connected to him, when we’re sitting at his feet every day and soaking up the truth of his Word, spontaneous, interactive conversation with God will become a natural outflow!

So today, I want to just say, quit worrying about your prayer life and just start talking to God! Talk to him about everything. Your fears, your worries, your friends, your family, your kids, your job, your finances, your purchases.

Talk to him about everything! And don’t worry about using a lot of “thee’s” and “thou’s.” Talk to God from your heart. Tell him how you feel.

And then, once you’ve done some talking, stop and listen like you’d do in a conversation with your spouse or friend. Take the time to see what God is saying back to you in your heart. So often our conversations with God are so one-sided!

So take the time when you pray to really listen for the still, small voice of God speaking to your heart.

04/05/2026

04/03/2026

PowerPoint Ministries
Dr. Jack Graham

There is nothing comfortable about Good Friday.

We call it "good" — and it is, in the deepest sense — but don't let that word soften what actually happened. What happened on this day was brutal. Unjust. Devastating. And it was necessary.

Jesus was betrayed by a friend, abandoned by His closest followers, falsely accused, mocked by soldiers, and nailed to a cross between two criminals. The crowd that had shouted "Hosanna" just days earlier now screamed "Crucify Him." Pilate knew Jesus was innocent and handed Him over anyway.

And in the middle of all of it, Jesus prayed for them.

A thousand years before Calvary, the psalmist wrote words that read like an eyewitness account:My God, my God, why have you forsaken me (Psalm 22:1)? Those are the very words Jesus cried from the cross — not a quote, but a cry wrenched from a soul bearing the full weight of human sin. Your sin. My sin. In one devastating, holy moment.

He was forsaken so that you would never have to be.

When Jesus breathed His last, darkness fell, the temple veil tore from top to bottom, and a pagan Roman soldier looked up and said, Certainly this man was innocent (Luke 23:47). Even His executioners couldn't deny who He was.

Here is what Good Friday demands we reckon with: the cross was not an accident. It was the plan of a loving God to do what nothing else could — to pay a debt we could never pay, to absorb a wrath we fully deserved, to purchase a freedom we could never earn.

That is what your sin cost. That is what my sin cost.

And He paid it. Willingly. Completely. Finally.

The question Good Friday asks is not simply whether you believe this happened. You can know the story of the cross and still live as though it doesn't apply to you — still carrying guilt, still going your own way, still withholding the surrender He purchased with His life.

Ask yourself today:

What in my life requires that kind of sacrifice? Am I living as someone who has truly been redeemed — or simply someone who knows about it?

IT IS FINISHED. HE SAID IT. HE MEANT IT. THE PRICE HAS BEEN PAID IN FULL, AND YOU NAME WAS ON HIS HEART WHEN HE PAID IT.

04/01/2026

PowerPoint Ministries
Dr. Jack Graham

Wednesday of Holy Week is often called Silent Wednesday. No triumphal entry. No temple confrontation. Just two people — and two very different answers to the same quiet question: What is Jesus worth to you?

The first is a woman with an alabaster jar.

She came to Jesus and poured expensive perfume over His head, an act so extravagant the disciples were indignant. Why this waste (Matthew 26:8)? But Jesus saw it differently. She has done a beautiful thing to me. (Matthew 26:10)?

She didn't calculate the cost and decide Jesus was worth it. She simply loved Him, and love like that doesn't hold back. The jar was broken. Every drop was given. And Jesus said wherever the gospel is preached, what she did will be remembered.

She will never be forgotten because she held nothing back.

Then there was Judas.

While that perfume was still fragrant in the air, Judas slipped away to the chief priests. What will you give me if I deliver him to you (Matthew 26:15)? Thirty pieces of silver. That was what Jesus was worth to him in the end.

Two people. Both had walked with Jesus, seen the miracles, and heard the teaching. One gave everything — and one traded Him away for something that wouldn't last a week.

Here's what makes Silent Wednesday so unsettling. Judas didn't look like a betrayer. He looked like a disciple. Nobody at the Last Supper pointed at him and said, “I knew it all along.” Devotion and betrayal can look remarkably similar from the outside. What separates them is the answer to one honest question: “What is Jesus truly worth to me?”

Ask yourself today:

What is Jesus truly worth to you — not in words, but in the actual currency of your choices? Where in your life are you holding back what He deserves?

03/26/2026

Join us for a wonderful Easter “Sonrise” Service, where hope and renewal come alive. Enjoy coffee and donuts with us as we celebrate the promise of a brighter tomorrow because of the resurrection of our Lord and Savior!

03/19/2026

In Touched Ministries
Dr. Charles Stanley

What Does It Mean to Be Saved?
No matter what you have done, you can be forgiven—if you turn to Jesus.
Psalm 25:12-18

How does a person become righteous in God’s eyes? The path to redemption doesn’t begin with a decision to live a better life or to stop doing something wrong. Rather, it starts with the realization that we cannot correct our sinful nature on our own. It’s impossible to make ourselves righteous; we must depend on Jesus’ work on the cross. God applies the benefit of the Lord’s atoning sacrifice and adopts you into His family.

Your good works and righteous acts are a sign of a transformed heart, but they cannot earn salvation. Scripture tells us that being saved is “not as a result of works, so that no one may boast” (Eph. 2:9). When you stand before God, the only way you can be forgiven of your sins is through Jesus and His sacrificial, substitutionary atoning death at Calvary. The Savior came to give His life in order to rescue many (Mark 10:45). His actions show His immense love for mankind.

No matter what you have done, you can be cleansed of the stain left by sin. Confess any known transgressions to the Lord and turn from them. Then Jesus will forgive you and write your name in the Lamb’s Book of Life (Rev. 21:27). By trusting in Him, you are assured of eternity in His presence.

03/13/2026

PowerPoint Ministries
Dr. Jack Graham

Jesus said to her, “Go, call your husband, and come here.” The woman answered him, “I have no husband.” Jesus said to her, “You are right in saying, ‘I have no husband’; for you have had five husbands, and the one you now have is not your husband. What you have said is true.”

--John 4:16-18

Being intolerant of sin is one of the most practical ways to really love someone… as Jesus shows us many times in the Scripture.

Now, does that mean that we should be intolerant of sinners? Absolutely not! Christ frequently interacted with the worst “sinners” of His day.

But He didn’t just interact with those who were caught in the grip of sin. He loved them enough to tell them that they were heading down a dead-end road.

But we live in a culture where anyone who stands for truth is seen as intolerant. People are expected to be tolerant of everything and everyone except those who are willing to stand for what is right!

The fact is, what this world needs… what the church needs… and what your sphere of influence needs is a Christian who will say, “You know, I’m going to take a stand for the truth of God’s Word. I’m going to buck the system of this world and in love, I’m going to call right, right and I’m going to call wrong, wrong.”

You know, it doesn’t take a thousand people to start a revival. It only takes a few! It only takes a few who will be willing to be used by God to start that fire.

So let me ask you… are you willing to be used by God? Are you willing to take a stand for what’s right… even if it comes at great personal cost to you?

God is looking for a few good men and women… a remnant… who are willing to pay the price for Him.