Cedar Hills Community Church

Celebrate Sabbath: Deeper Rest

Pastor Kent Landhuis

THEME - Sabbath is more than a nap.

TEXT - Hebrews 4

1. Recognize the need for deeper rest.

Hebrews 4:1-2

Exodus 20:8-11

2. Make every effort to enter deeper rest.

Hebrews 4:9-11

Genesis 2

3. Come to Jesus and find deeper rest.

Hebrews 4:12-13

Matthew 11:28-30

Isaiah 26:3

NEXT STEPS

1. Come to Jesus and find rest.

2. Meditate on Hebrews 4:11-16.

3. Journal using this prompt: Wh...

Celebrate Sabbath: The Power of Stopping

Exodus 20:8-11

Pastor Steve Poole

1. Stop doing.

Stopping is a physical act of obedience to God.

Matthew 6:27

Isaiah 26:3 (Shalom, Shalom!)

2. Stop worrying.

Worry is the opposite of God. 

We are addicted to doing.  

3. Stopping trains us to trust God.

Exodus 16

Psalm 3:1-2, 5

NEXT STEPS

1. Put your faith and trust in Jesus

2. Practice sabbath, stopping this week and ask God to help you wit...

Sabbath Done, Done

Pastor Kent Landhuis

THEME - Celebrating Sabbath reorients our lives.

TEXT - Genesis 2:1-3

1. Remember the Sabbath (to keep it Holy).

·        God finished the work of creation. Genesis 2:1-3 

·        God will finish his work in us. Philippians 1:6

2. Reclaim the Sabbath (to keep it joyfully).

·        Stop.

·        Rest. 

·        Delight.

·        Worship.

3. Reorient the Sabbath (to keep it regularly).

·   ...

Hunger for God: Selfless King Jesus

Luke 4 & Luke 19

Pastor Steve Poole

1. Fasting prepares us to resist temptation.

 • James 4:7

 • God > me

 • “Here we see the most significant difference between Jesus and Adam: Jesus believed God. Let me say it again. It is not simply that Jesus believed in God, but he believed God.” ~ R. C. Sproul

2. Fasting increases our hunger for God.

3. Fasting prepares us to live out God’s purpose for ...

Hunger For God: Fasting and Obedience 

Pastor Kent Landhuis

THEME - Obedience is more important than fasting.     

TEXT - Isaiah 58

LENTEN INVITATION: Focus less on lesser things to focus more on greater things. 

1. When blocked, be frustrated.

·         Isaiah 55:1-2

·         Isaiah 58:1-7

2. When blocked, remove the blockage.

·         Zechariah 7:5

·         1 Corinthians 13:1-3

3. When blocked, obey.

·         1 Samuel 15:1...

Hunger For God: Discernment

Pastor Kent Landhuis

THEME - Fasting removes noise and clutter so that we can discern God’s will.

TEXT - Acts 13:1-3

LENTEN INVITATION - Focus less on lesser things to focus more on greater things.

1. Noise is a problem.

 • Philippians 4:6-8

 • Psalm 10:1-4

 • John 10:1-5

2. Fasting is a solution. (Acts 13:1-3)

 • Fasting clears noise.

 • Fasting opens ears.

 • Fasting softens hearts.

NEXT STEPS

1. Ski...

Hunger for God: Fasting & Power  

Pastor Steve Poole

1. Power comes from Jesus. 

Mark 9:19 

2. Power comes by faith. 

Mark 9:23 

3. Power comes through prayer and fasting. 

Ezra 8:21-23

Esther 4:16

“Whenever men are to pray to God concerning any great matter, it would be expedient to appoint fasting along with prayer.” John Calvin

NEXT STEPS

1. Come to Jesus and believe in Him.

2. Fast and pray this week.

3. Journal and refl...

Hunger For God: Surrender 

Pastor Kent Landhuis

THEME - The spiritual practice of fasting helps us offer our whole selves to God in surrender.   

TEXT - Jonah 3:1-10

Lenten Fasting: Focus less on lesser things to focus more on greater things. 

1. Whole body surrender requires humility.

 • Romans 12:1-2

 • Isaiah 55:8-9

2. Whole body surrender recognizes our creature status.

 • Psalm 100

 • Psalm 139:23-24

3. Whole body surrend...

Hunger for God: Fasting

Pastor Kent Landhuis

THEME - Fasting deepens our hunger for God.  

TEXT - Matthew 6:16-18

LENT - Focus less on lesser things to focus more on greater things. 

1. When you fast, focus less on food, more on craving.

 • Less: Physical hunger. (Matthew 6:16)

 • More: Hunger for God. (Matthew 4:4)

2. When you fast focus less on results, more on moments.

 • Less: “If you fast, then you will receive.” (Matthew 6...

Come Follow Me: Friction

Pastor Kent Landhuis

THEME - Growth requires friction (High Invitation and High Challenge.)   

TEXT - John 15:18-27

1. Embrace the High Challenge of Trouble.

 • John 16:33

 • John 14:1

 • Philippians 3:7-11

2. Embrace the High Challenge of Opposition.

 • John 15:18-20

 • Ephesians 6:10-17

3. Embrace the High Challenge of Friction.

 • John 15:21-27

 • John 6:68

NEXT STEPS

1. Name your quiet place and time: __...

Come Follow Me: Love

Pastor Kent Landhuis

THEME - Abiding in God’s love bears the fruit of obedience.    

TEXT - John 15:9-17

1. Abide in God’s love.

The main thing is to keep the main thing the main thing.

John 15:4-5, 9-11

Philippians 3:7-11

2. Bear the fruit of love.

John 15:12-16

1 John 4:7-10

3. Love one another.

John 15:17

1 John 4:19-21

NEXT STEPS

1. Name your quiet place and time: ________________

2. Meditate: Choose a ...

Come Follow Me: Surrender

Pastor Kent Landhuis

THEME - Spiritual formation requires surrender.    

TEXT - John 15:1-11

1. Have it your way.

• John 15:5.

• Viticulturist - Vine Dresser

• Isaiah 45:9

2. Just wait. 

• John 15:4

• Abide - remain

3. Not by might, not by power, but by my Spirit.

• John 15:8

• Zechariah 4:6

• Galatians 5:13-26

NEXT STEPS

1. Name your quiet place and time: ________________

2. Meditate: Choose a ...

Come Follow Me: Remain

Pastor Kent Landhuis

THEME - Following Jesus like a tree.    

TEXT - Psalm 1

1. How happy is the one planted in good soil.

·        Psalm 1:1-2

·        Torah - law - God’s desire.

·        Matthew 22:34-40

2. How happy is the one rooted in good soil.

·        Psalm 1:3-4

·        John 15:4

·        Abide - remain.

3. How happy is the one who bears fruit.

·        Happy or perish. Fruit or fire.

·        Ps...

Come Follow Me: Abiding & Scripture

Pastor Leah Carolan

TEXT: John 17:14-19

KEY VERSE – Sanctify them in the truth; your word is truth. (vs. 17)

1. What is Scripture?

Two Testaments/Covenants of 66 books

Divinely Inspired

2. What is the Word [logos]?

All of God’s spoken divine thoughts, wills, emotions released in His speech.

Jesus

3. What happens when we engage in Scripture?

Self-Examination

Spiritual Encounter

Guidance and Convic...

Come Follow Me: Abiding & Prayer

Pastor Steve Poole

1. We all abide in something

2. Abiding in Jesus means orienting our lives around Jesus the source of life, strength and

vitality.

• “Just as branches draw life and nourishment from the vine, so believers draw spiritual life, strength and

vitality from Christ. He is not an accessory to our lives; He is the source of our life.” (Rev. Kyle Borg, TableTalk)

• 2 Peter 1:3-7  

3. Tw...

Come Follow Me

Pastor Kent Landhuis

THEME - Following Jesus in 2026 will transform our lives.    

TEXT - Mark 1:16-20, 35-39

1. Be with Jesus. (Vision)

 • What does abiding with Jesus look like?

 • What kind of person will I become when I abide with Jesus?

 • What is at stake if I don’t abide? (Why is this a better alternative?)

2. Become like Jesus. (Intention)

 • Have I truly decided to change? (Desire without intention is use...

He Shall Reign: Eternal Song

Pastor Kent Landhuis

Revelation 4

1 After this I looked, and there before me was a door standing open in heaven. And the voice I had first heard speaking to me like a trumpet said, “Come up here, and I will show you what must take place after this.”

2 At once I was in the Spirit, and there before me was a throne in heaven with someone sitting on it.

3 And the one who sat there had the appearance of jas...