Harbor Cov Podcast

Sermon Series: All In – The Lenten Deep Cuts

Sermon Title: The Principle of Death

Sermon Text: John 12:20-33

PREACHING: Matt Knapp, Transitional Pastor

Sermon Questions:

For your head: How does Jesus’ path to "glory" (the cross) redefine your definition of success?

For your Heart: Is there a "dormant seed" in your life that you are scared to plant? What is holding you back?

For your Hands: What one preference can you sacrifice to serve someone else this week?

Sermon Series: All In – The Lenten Deep Cuts

Sermon Title: The Wrong Kind of All In

Sermon Text: Matthew 20:20-28

PREACHING: Matt Knapp, Transitional Pastor

Sermon Questions:

Heart: What do your recent frustrations with God reveal about what you are really expecting from him?

Mind: Where is your desire to be noticed causing jealousy instead of support in your relationships?

Hands: What hidden task can you do this week to serve someone without getting any credit?

Sermon Series: All In – The Lenten Deep Cuts

Sermon Title: The Grimm Commitment

Sermon Text: John 11:1-16

PREACHING: Matt Knapp, Transitional Pastor

Sermon Questions:

1. What are some of the worst labels we give ourselves and others?

2. What are some things you need God to redeem in your life?

3. What are the conditions of the lenses with which you view the world?

Sermon Title: The Undeterred Will

Sermon Text: Luke 13:31-35

PREACHING: Matt Knapp, Transitional Pastor

Sermon Questions:

1. What are your “sights set on?”

2. How do you and the people you are close to deal with suffering?

3. How are you different today because of any suffering you may have experienced recently or experienced a while ago?

Sermon Series: Your Picture Is On His Refrigerator

Sermon Title: Breaking A Generational Curse

Sermon Text: Multiple from The New & Old Testaments

PREACHING: Jack Hawkins, Transitional Pastor

Sermon Questions:

1. What are some positive hand-me-downs that you got from your family of origin?

The audio version of the Lenten Liturgy for 2026 - with music.

The audio version of the Lenten Liturgy for 2026 - without music.

Sermon Series: Your Picture Is On His Refrigerator

Sermon Title: Your Heavenly Dad Wants You to be Filled with Joy

Sermon Text: Multiple from The New & Old Testaments

PREACHING: Jack Hawkins, Transitional Pastor

Sermon Questions:

1. In what ways are you settling for substitute joy rather than the true joy God wants to give you?

2. How often is your joy based on circumstances?

3. In what ways do you need to move closer to the party?

Sermon Series: Your Picture Is On His Refrigerator

Sermon Title: Why Does My Heavenly Father Want Me to Fear Him?

Sermon Text: Multiple from The New & Old Testaments

PREACHING: Jack Hawkins, Transitional Pastor

Sermon Questions:

1. In what ways have you let the fear of what other people think influence your life?

2. What steps do you need to take to be more concerned with the opinion of God than the opinion of all the other voices in your life?

Sermon Series: Your Picture Is On His Refrigerator

Sermon Title: And So Is Your Neighbor’s

Sermon Text: Luke 10:25-37

PREACHING: Matt Knapp, Associate Pastor

Sermon Questions:

1. What do you think of when you hear the phrase “Created in the Image of God"

2. What “tribes" are you a part of? What are their slogans? What does it pressure you to ignore?

3. Who has helped your pain heal and whose pain are you helping heal?

TITLE: Your Legacy is Made in Interrupted Space

SCRIPTURE: Matthew 9

PREACHING: Jack Hawkins, Transitional Pastor

QUESTIONS:

1. What is your typical reaction when you are interrupted?

2. What are some ways you can carve margin in your life so that you are more interruptible?

TITLE: Your Heavenly Dad Wants to Move You to a Better Seat

SCRIPTURE: Acts 1:8, Acts 2:1-8,11,12,36-39

PREACHING: Jack Hawkins, Transitional Pastor

QUESTIONS:

1. Do you feel like you are on the front row right now, or do you need to move to better seats?

2. What do you feel God calling you to get involved with so that you can witness him work?

3. Who is someone in your life that needs seats to the game?

TITLE: Your Heavenly Dad Is Trustworthy

SCRIPTURE: Hebrews 11:1, 8-13, 22, 32, 39-40

PREACHING: Jack Hawkins, Transitional Pastor

QUESTIONS:

1. In what way are living in the unresolved.

2. Where do you want to be when your situation is resolved?

3. Is there an area in your life that you're being challenged to wait?

TITLE: God Gives Us Hope For Our Future

SCRIPTURE: Isaiah 43:18,19

PREACHING: Lis Cochrane, Guest Preacher

QUESTIONS:

1. What is one thing from 2025 that we need to let go of to move into the future?

2. What is one area in our life we need to apply Biblical Hope for 2026?

3. As we move into this year in what way can you be more involved in global missions?

SERIES: Scandalous Christmas

TITLE: Angry Jesus

SCRIPTURE: John 2:13-22, Matthew 21:12-13, Mark 11:15-17, Luke 9:45-46

PREACHING: Jonathan Montejano, Director of Student Ministries

QUESTIONS:

Do you consider yourself to be a Temple of the Holy Spirit?

What are the tables in your life that God needs to flip? Will you trust God to flip the right tables?

Who is a person you can ask to help make sure these tables do not get reset?

SERIES: Scandalous Christmas

TITLE: When Jesus Comes Into Our Mess

SCRIPTURE: Psalm 68:20, Matthew 1:21, Luke 19:10

PREACHING: Jilane Hawkins, Guest Speaker

Series: Scandalous Christmas

Title: The Fugitive Birth of Jesus

PREACHING: Jack Hawkins, Transitional Pastor

SCRIPTURE: Luke 2

QUESTIONS:

Are you on the run?

Is your to do list out of control?

What step do you need to take to include Jesus in your running?

Preaching: Angela Rajnus, Discipleship Coordinator

Title: Scandalous Christmas - Hope in Suffering

Scripture: Luke 2:22-38

Questions:

When has Jesus exposed the motives and priorities of your own heart, bringing you to a place of humility?

What habits help you to cultivate humility?

How can we prepare ourselves and encourage others to remain faithful when experiencing rejection and suffering?

Preaching: Associate Pastor, Jeremy Kidd

Title: Hidden & Secure

Passage: Colossians 3:1-4

Theme: Christ secures our lives in God.

Questions:

1. Does your guilt and shame ever cause you to doubt your relationship with God?

2. What does it look like for you to seek “heavenly things”?

3. How could a more secure relationship with God change your life today?

Preaching: Transitional Pastor, Jack Hawkins

Sermon title - Healthy Relationship Habits

Sermon text - 1 Corinthians 13:4-8

Sermon Questions:

When you are in conflict are you more likely to examine the people around you or to examine your own heart?

What are you doing to create environments of acceptance?

Preaching: Transitional Pastor, Jack Hawkins

Sermon title - Who's The Author of Your Life?

Sermon text - Ecclesiastes 7:8,14,21,22; 10:10; 12:13

Sermon Questions:

Who’s the author of your life? Who is in control of writing your story?

In what area of your life do you need to sharpen your axe?

Preaching: Transitional Pastor, Jack Hawkins

Sermon title - Margin With Your Money

Sermon text - Ecclesiastes 5

Sermon Questions:

What is at the center of your most common money worries?

What steps do you need to take to get some margin wirh your money?

Preaching: Transitional Pastor, Jack Hawkins

Sermon title - Your Shopping Cart Is Full

Sermon text - Ecclesiastes 4

Sermon Questions:

The antidote to “two handful living” is simple. Put something down. Is there something that you need to put down right now in order to live more simply?

What steps can you take to make sure that you don’t climb the ladder of success and find yourself lonely at the top?

Preaching: Transitional Pastor, Jack Hawkins

Sermon title - Busy for a Season or Busy as a Lifestyle

Sermon text - Ecclesiastes 3

Sermon Questions:

Are you a habitually busy person?

Is there something you need to get rid of right now?

Is God calling you to say yes to something right now that will make you busy for a season?

Preaching: Transitional Pastor, Jack Hawkins

Sermon title - Your Matters List

Sermon text - Ecclesiastes 1, 2

Sermon Questions:

Do you ever feel exhausted by the sheer number of things in life that matter?

How does the pursuit of your matters list keep you from living into your fullest self?

Preaching: Associate Pastor, Matt Knapp

Sermon title - Good News

Sermon text - 2 Corinthians 5:16-21

Sermon Questions:

What makes the Gospel good news for you?

Who in your life could use the good news of the Gospel? Is there a way you can share it?

Where can you find "better seats" to see what God is doing?

Preaching: North Campus Pastor, Mark Willson

Sermon title - Good Company

Sermon text - Hebrews 10:19-27

Sermon Questions:

How is the company you are keeping forming you?

What kind of company do you need to become the person God wants you to be?

How can you offer we kind of good company you need to others?

Preaching: Transitional Pastor, Jack Hawkins

Sermon title - Good Deeds

Sermon text - 1 Timothy 6:17-19

Sermon Questions:

What habits do you have that keep you from being contented?

Who is someone who you would like to invest in?

Preaching: Transitional Pastor, Jack Hawkins

Sermon title - Good People

Sermon text - Mark 4

Sermon Questions:

What’s keeping you from growing?

Are you still struggling with whether or not all this God stuff is true?

Are you trying to do life on your own?

Are money worries keeping you from growing in your relationship with God?

Preaching: Transitional Pastor, Jack Hawkins

Sermon title - Good Church, Good God

Sermon text - Genesis 3:1-7

Three Questions:

1. Do you think that the general population believes that our God is good?

2. Have you ever had an experience in your life that brought that thought into your mind?

3. Do you ever find you want to be the one that decides what is good and what is evil rather than relying on God to make those decisions?

Preaching: Guest Preacher, Erik Cave

Sermon title - Wonders to Behold: Making Pathways to Jesus

Sermon text - Luke 18:15-17

Three Questions:

#1. Who would you honestly consider to be an inconvenient other?

#2. How have you put these inconvenient others in their place?

#3. Where is Jesus calling you to go to embrace an inconvenient other?

Preaching: Guest Preacher, Greg Asimakoupoulos

Sermon title: A Major Intersection

Sermon text: Joshua 1:1-9

Three Questions:

#1. Speaking of intersections, what intersection in your spiritual journey was most impactful?

#2. What is a major intersection in your life currently?

#3. How can you meaningfully contribute to Harbor Covenant during its current intersection between lead pastors?

Preaching: Guest Preacher, Jack Hawkins

Sermon title: Who's Writing Your Story?

Sermon text: Zephaniah 3:17

Sermon questions:

How different would your life be if you realized that God delights in you?

Are you letting God write your story or do you keep trying to grab the pen back?

Are there some voices from your past that are still influencing your story in a negative way?

Sermon from August 3rd, 2025.

Preaching: Guest Preacher, Alan Forsman

Sermon title: Keep Building

Sermon text: Nehemiah 1:3-4, 2:4-5, 11, 19, 3:1, 3, 5, 6:9, 15-16

Sermon questions:

What are we losing?

What remains the same?

What are new possibilities?

Senior Pastor Michael White's final sermon at Harbor Covenant Church.

Sermon title: Keep Your Eye On The Prize

Sermon text: Philippians 3:10-14

Sermon questions:

What is the goal of this stage of your life?

What tempts you to focus on the past?

What type of Jesus are you portraying to others?

PREACHING: Michael White | Senior Pastor, Harbor Covenant Church | Vice President of Mission Priorities, Evangelical Covenant Church

Sermon title: It might not look like it, but God is in control.

Sermon text: Daniel 8

Sermon questions:

Where does it seem like evil is winning now?

How does Daniel’s vision encourage you?

What does God have for you to do right now?

PREACHING: Michael White | Senior Pastor, Harbor Covenant Church | Vice President of Mission Priorities, Evangelical Covenant Church

Sermon title: It might not look like it, but God is in control.

Sermon text: Daniel 7

Sermon questions:

What current event is most challenging to your faith?

Where do you see evidence of a cosmic struggle going on in world?

What can you do to remind yourself that God wins?

Sermon Title: It Might Not Look Like It, But God Is In Control

PREACHING: Michael White | Senior Pastor, Harbor Covenant Church

Sermon text: Daniel 6

Sermon questions

Where does your loyalty and your hope lie?

If someone sifted through your life, what would they discover about your integrity?

What is the state of your devotional life with God?

Sermon Title: Rediscovering Jesus

PREACHING: Michael White | Senior Pastor, Harbor Covenant Church

Sermon text: Luke 4:16-22

Sermon questions

What area of your life needs to be reset?

What is the biggest piece of “Good News” for you?

Who are you tempted to believe doesn’t deserve God’s grace?

Sermon title: Discipleship Unpacked

PREACHING: Michael White | Senior Pastor, Harbor Covenant Church

Sermon text: John 8:31-33

Sermon questions:

Who or what currently holds your allegiance?

How would this be obvious to a bystander?

What discipleship area needs the most attention from you this year?