How do we know that God is going to make good on His promises? How do we know God will really come through for us? We look to Jesus. Jesus, his life, death, and resurrection, is the fulfillment of God's promise to Abraham to bless all families of the earth.

Pastor Nick Shults

Bethany Lutheran Church

Pueblo, CO

July 20, 2025

Music by: The Hymnal Project

Bethany Lutheran Church

Pastor Nick Shults

Music by: The Hymnal Project

What do we do when God's promises feel like just words?

In this sermon from Genesis 15, Pastor Nick explores the astonishing moment when God makes a covenant with Abram—a promise so radical that God binds Himself to it with a solemn oath: Faithfulness or death.

Discover how this ancient ritual of torn animals and passing fire points forward to the cross of Christ, where God’s own flesh—the Lamb of God—is torn in two for the sake of His unbreakable promise to you.

In Jesus, God doesn’t just speak words of blessing—He backs them up with action, blood, and resurrection power.

Genesis 15:1–21

Pastor Nick Shults

June 29, 2025

Our Savior’s Lutheran Church, Pueblo West, CO

Music by The Hymnal Project

What is real faith? In a world full of false narratives and spiritual half-truths, Pastor Nick Shults kicks off a new sermon series in 1 John by exploring the foundation of Christian belief: the Real Gospel. It may sound crazy—God becoming flesh, dying, and rising—but it’s more than just a wild story. It’s a real, historical, incarnational, and transformational truth that changes everything.

This sermon invites us to embrace a Gospel that is:

• Incarnational – God really took on human flesh.

• Verifiable – These events happened in time and space.

• Transformational – The Gospel shapes how we live in real community.

Pastor Nick reminds us that real faith doesn’t start with us—it starts with God’s real action in Jesus. And that makes all the difference.

Listen to Jesus. And if you want to listen to Jesus, go where Jesus promises to be found. In His Word. They are, from page 1, all about Jesus. They, from page 1, show us who Jesus is and what Jesus is up to in this world. They witness to the fact that Jesus has promised to show up in suffering - that Jesus has promised to enter into suffering - our suffering - the world’s suffering - with us and on our behalf.

Why do you seek the living among the dead? Christ is risen!

Jesus has come to bring you the hope of true shalom.

"Jesus came to seek and save the lost"