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Sermons by Impact Church in Hunt Valley, MD

Jul 19

Don't Be Ignorant

Most people stuck in the same struggle assume the problem is that they are weak. This message makes a different case: you are not outmatched, you are uninformed, and there is a real difference between the two. Opening a new series called Attacks, guest preacher Pastor Darlene builds the whole message on a single line from 2 Corinthians 2:11 — that we are not to be ignorant of the enemy's devices. Drawing on years as a United States Army officer, Pastor Darlene walks through seven strategies lifted straight out of military doctrine and names where each one turns up in an ordinary life: intelligence wins wars, the surprise attack, psychological warfare, divide and conquer, cutting the supply lines, wearing the opponent down, and holding the high ground. From there it gets uncomfortably practical. Why isolation is a tactic and not just a mood. Why the things you say out loud when you are angry can give away your position. Why the enemy studies your patterns — what offends you, what tempts you, when you are tired — more carefully than you study your own. Why a soldier's armor covers the front and not the back. And why the whole posture changes once you understand that you fight from victory rather than for it. The message ends with a personal testimony about a season of despair, an altar call that almost did not happen, and an open invitation. Scriptures referenced in this episode: 2 Corinthians 2:5–11, Ephesians 6:11, Genesis 3:1, 2 Peter 3, 1 Peter 5:8–9, Nehemiah 4:17, Proverbs 22:6, Philippians 4:6–7, Exodus 14:13–14, Romans 12:1–2, John 15:1–4, Romans 8:1, Galatians 6:9–10, Ephesians 6:10–18, John 8:44. This is Part 1 of Attacks, a new series on recognizing and standing against the schemes of the enemy. Impact Church exists to help everyday people find real faith, real community, and a purpose bigger than themselves. Wherever you are starting from, you are welcome here — visit a service or connect with us online.
Jul 12

Missions: Go

You can believe all the right things and still feel like the power behind your faith went missing somewhere along the way. This message gets specific about why that happens — and the one decision that actually changes it. Built around the Great Commission, Pastor Antonio Barboza makes an uncomfortable case: most of us have quietly settled into being spectators. We show up, we believe, we watch from the seats. But the power described in Scripture was never meant for spectators — it's for witnesses, for people willing to go and live their faith out loud right where they already are. From there the message traces how authority and power actually get released in an ordinary life — tied to sacrifice and obedience rather than talent — what the word "power" in Acts really means, and how that same power shows up as strength to endure hard seasons and gifts to serve the people around you. It's anchored by a raw, firsthand account of a hospital-bed healing during Covid that turns the whole idea from theory into testimony. Scriptures referenced in this episode: Matthew 28:16–20, Acts 1:4–9, Matthew 6:33, John 16:33, Psalm 150:6, John 4:34–35. This is Part 3 of our series on missions and what it means to "go." Impact Church exists to help everyday people find real faith, real community, and a purpose bigger than themselves. Wherever you're starting from, you're welcome here — visit a service or connect with us online.
Jul 5

Missions: Pray

The enemy wants you to believe your prayers don't work — because the moment you believe that, you stop praying. This message is a call to do the opposite: to keep going. Every believer has an assignment from God, and there's a real enemy who resists it. But the battle for that assignment isn't won by trying harder — it's won in prayer. Anchored in Jesus' parable of the persistent widow in Luke 18, this message moves from the weight of our past — why you should celebrate the anniversary of your repentance instead of your failure — to prayer as the weapon that tears down strongholds, and finally to a concrete challenge: four specific ways to pray for people carrying the gospel into difficult places, as two Impact Church teams prepare to serve in Kenya and the Dominican Republic. Along the way it lingers on the persistence of Elijah, who kept praying and kept looking for rain until a cloud the size of a hand appeared. Scriptures referenced in this episode: John 10:10, Romans 3:23, 1 John 1:9, John 13:6–10, 2 Corinthians 4:7–10, 2 Corinthians 10:4–5, Luke 18:1–8, James 5:16–17, 1 Kings 18:41–45, 1 Corinthians 16:9, Ephesians 6:18–19, 2 Thessalonians 3:1–2, Colossians 4:3, and 2 Corinthians 1:8–11.
Jun 28

Missions: Give

You've probably quoted "my God shall supply all your needs" — over a bill, a job loss, a season when the math didn't work. But that promise was written to a very specific kind of person, and the context changes what it actually means for you. This episode opens our Missions series at Impact Church, and it starts with the part of missions nobody puts on a poster: giving. Anchored in Paul's letter to the Philippians — written while he was locked in a Roman jail — the message follows how one unusually generous church funded the most famous missionary in the New Testament, sending their gift through a man named Epaphroditus who nearly died to get it there. Along the way it reopens two of the most-quoted, least-understood verses in the Bible: "I can do all things through Christ," which is really about learning to be content when you have nothing, and "my God shall supply all your needs," which was spoken over people who gave sacrificially first. The takeaway is simple and a little uncomfortable — obedience comes before the blessing, and giving isn't a one-time box to check but a way of living that pulls you into something bigger than your own horizon. It's more blessed to give than to receive, and the more faithfully you do it, the more room God gives you to keep doing it. Scriptures referenced in this episode: Mark 16:15, Matthew 28:19, Hebrews 13:16, Acts 20:34–35, Philippians 1:3–6, Philippians 2:3–8, Proverbs 3:5–6, Philippians 2:25–30, Philippians 3:18–20, Matthew 6:19–21, Philippians 4:6–8, Philippians 4:10–13, Philippians 4:14–19. Impact Church exists to help everyday people take their next step with Jesus, wherever they're starting from. If this message met you where you are, we'd love to have you join us for a service or connect with us online.
Jun 14

The Bigger Picture

You're closer to the thing you've been believing for than you think — but the obstacle in front of you is so big it's the only thing you can see, and everything in you wants to turn back. This message is about what to do in that exact moment. Part of our Growth series, this message looks at the gap between God's point of view and ours. From where we stand, the problem fills the whole frame. From where God sits, the outcome is already settled — He "sees to what He sees" (Jehovah Jireh, Genesis 22:14). The shift isn't trying harder; it's changing what you're looking at. Zoom out to remember the bigger picture of what God has promised, then zoom in to the one next step in front of you. The message centers on the twelve spies in Numbers 13 and 14 — ten of them saw giants and felt like grasshoppers, while Caleb and Joshua saw the same land and said "let's go up and take it." It's an honest look at how faith gets refined in the hard stretch between the promise and the breakthrough, and why God so often moves us forward little by little instead of all at once. Scriptures referenced in this episode: Genesis 22:14, Genesis 17:6–8, Exodus 6:2–8, Numbers 13:1–2, Numbers 13:17–24, Numbers 13:30–33, Numbers 14:1–4, Exodus 23:29–30, Proverbs 13:11, Deuteronomy 26:8–9.
Jun 7

Movement

There's an area of your life you keep wishing were different, and somehow it never moves. The reason is simpler than you think: you can't keep doing what you've always done and expect a different result. Real change starts with movement — and movement starts with a single word of faith spoken over the place that feels dead. This is the first message in our Growth series, built on the valley of dry bones in Ezekiel 37. When God walks the prophet through a field of dry, hopeless bones, he asks a strange question: "Can these bones live?" From the apostle Paul getting up after he was stoned and left for dead, to the quiet, unglamorous consistency behind Tom Brady's career, to the simple fact that you only ever take one step at a time, this message lands on four practical moves out of a stuck season: hear the word, obey, move, and practice. The big idea underneath all of it — as long as there's still a pulse, it's not over. Growth doesn't happen because of the struggle, but in the struggle. Scriptures referenced in this episode: Acts 14:19–22, Ezekiel 37:1–14, 1 Kings 19:11–12, 2 Kings 5, Genesis 22, Mark 11:23, 2 Corinthians 12:9–10, James 1:2–4, and 2 Corinthians 5:8.
May 10

Fighting for The Word

The fight in your head is fought with words. And the only words that hold up are the ones you actually know. This week's message is about why most of us are losing a battle we were never meant to fight alone — and what changes when you stop borrowing belief from other people. We start in Jesus' parable of the sower, where a seed only grows in soil that's been given time and understanding. From there we trace the way doubt, fear, anxiety, shame, and condemnation show up the moment a promise from God lands in your life — not as random feelings, but as targeted pushback against something the enemy doesn't want taking root. Then the sermon turns: the Word of God is powerful whether you believe it or not. It doesn't need your endorsement to work. You don't fight for the Bible. You fight with it. And the people walking around tired and anxious aren't tired because the Bible doesn't work — they're tired because they're trying to win a battle without picking up the sword they were handed. Scriptures referenced in this episode: Psalm 19:7–11, Matthew 24:35, Hebrews 4:12, Matthew 13:18–23, Ephesians 2:10, Exodus 3:9–11, Proverbs 22:6, Joshua 1:9, Proverbs 3:5–6, John 13:7, Psalm 138:8, Philippians 4:19, Psalm 25:8–10, 1 Peter 5:5, Jeremiah 24:7, 1 Peter 3:12, Ephesians 6:17, 1 Timothy 1:18.
May 3

Renewed Mind

You don't drift into a better life. Your default wiring pulls you toward yourself — what you want, when you want it — and hearing the right things won't rewire that mind for you. This episode unpacks what actually has to happen for the way you think to change. Anchored in Romans 12:2 and the long arc of Jacob's life across Genesis 25 through 33, this message names the magnetic pull most of us live under — a self-centered, opportunistic way of operating that feels normal because everyone around us is doing it — and follows Jacob to the night his mind finally changed: alone in the dark, wrestling with God, refusing to let go until he was blessed. The science backs the story. Neuroplasticity confirms that meditation, repetition, and disciplined attention literally rewire the brain. Your mind can become new, but only when you stop letting go of what God says the moment a contrary thought shows up. Scriptures referenced in this episode: Romans 12:2, Proverbs 23:7, 2 Timothy 3:1–5, Genesis 25:24–34, Genesis 27, Genesis 29:15–30, Genesis 32:24–28, Genesis 33:1–11, 2 Corinthians 10:5.

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Sermons by Impact Church in Hunt Valley, MD

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2024 - 2026
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