Camp Creek Sermons
by Camp Creek Primitive Baptist Church
There is no background so vile, no person so sinful that God's grace cannot heal. God loves you. God has forgiven you through the sacrifice of Jesus Christ upon the cross. God desires to have deeper more intimate fellowship with you. Listen to sermons that will encourage you in your relentless pursuit of Jesus Christ our Savior.
Episodes
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Boiling Goats in Their Mother's Milk
Elder Josh Coker takes us to 1 Peter 2:1–3 to discover how God intends His Word and the gospel of grace to nourish, comfort, and strengthen His people. As we explore the danger of adding human requirements to Christ’s finished work, we are reminded that salvation rests on God’s grace alone, not…
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Victory and Heartbreak: Finding Grace in Regret
Pastor J. S. Melvin takes us to 2 Samuel 18, where David’s victory over Absalom’s rebellion is overshadowed by the heartbreak of losing his son. As we explore the tension between truth and love, the consequences of our choices, and the pain of regret, we’re reminded that we can love people…
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When You Cannot See the Hand of God
Pastor J. S. Melvin takes us to 2 Samuel 17 to see how God’s providence is at work even when His hand seems hidden. As David faces betrayal, danger, and uncertainty, God works through ordinary conversations, faithful people, delays, decisions, and unexpected provision; this message encourages us…
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Keep Walking
Pastor J. S. Melvin takes us to 2 Samuel 16, where David walks through betrayal, false accusations, exhaustion, and an uncertain future while learning to leave room for God to work. As we face seasons when life seems to unravel all at once, this message reminds us to slow down before reaching...
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Guard your Heart From the Way of Absalom
Pastor J. S. Melvin takes us to 2 Samuel 15, where David’s kingdom, relationships, and sense of security begin to fall apart. As David faces betrayal, loss, and painful consequences, we are invited to trust God’s providence rather than act in the way of Absalom who manipulated outcomes through...
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Reconciliation
Pastor J. S. Melvin takes us to 2 Samuel 14 to explore the difference between coming home and being truly restored. Through the broken relationship between David and Absalom, we are reminded that grace tells the truth, forgiveness releases bitterness, and reconciliation sometimes requires us to...
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What Happens When Sin is Permitted to Grow
This week Pastor Melvin turns to one of the darkest passages of scripture: 2 Samuel 13, where lust, abuse, silence, revenge, and grief expose the devastating reach of unaddressed sin. Yet even when life feels like a song filled with dissonance, God is still the Composer—and in Jesus, we can trust...
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The Joy in Repentence by Pastor J. S. Melvin
2 Samuel 11 ends with this statement: "But the thing that David had done displeased the LORD." Turn with Pastor Melvin to 2 Samuel 12, where we see that God does not abandon David. He sends Nathan to him. He exposes what David has tried to conceal. He brings David face-to-face with his sin. David...
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Don't Mistake Your Tent for Home
Pastor J. S. Melvin takes us to 2 Samuel 11 and the story of David and Bathsheba, reminding us that even when we belong to God, we can lose our focus when we become too comfortable in this temporary life. As we consider the picture of the tent throughout Scripture, we are invited to remember that...
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When Conflict Finds You
Pastor J. S. Melvin takes us to 2 Samuel 10, where David’s act of kindness unexpectedly leads to humiliation, conflict, and war. As we walk through Joab’s response to being surrounded, we are encouraged to face life’s battles with courage, support one another, do what faithfulness requires, and...
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Praise the Lord O My Soul
Brother Matthew Arnold takes us to Psalm 146 and reminds us that our lives are meant to glorify God and praise Him for His goodness, grace, mercy, and salvation. As we learn to preach truth to our own souls, trust God rather than people or earthly circumstances, and remember that Christ reigns...
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The King Has Sent for You
Pastor J. S. Melvin takes us to 2 Samuel 9, where David’s kindness to Mephibosheth gives us a beautiful picture of God’s grace toward helpless people. Come and be reminded that God knows your weakness without making it your identity, and that the King has prepared a place at His table and sent…
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Christ's Headship and the Body of Christ
Brother Matthew takes us to Ephesians 4:11-16 and expounds on three different ways that we see Christ is the head of the church, our local body of believers: 1. He was our substitutionary representative; Christ is the king of the church where he reins and rules in righteousness; our Savior is our...
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The Lord Preserves His King
Pastor J. S. Melvin takes us to 2 Samuel 8, where David's victories over Israel's surrounding enemies reveal that the true source of every triumph is God's faithfulness, not human strength. Turn with us to this powerful chapter as we see how God calls His people to trust Him rather than the...
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The God Who Walks with His People
Pastor J. S. Melvin takes us to 2 Samuel 7 where David desires to build God a permanent house, only to discover that God's greatest delight has never been a building—it has always been dwelling with His people. As we trace God's faithfulness from Egypt to David's throne, we're reminded that...
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When God Builds a Greater House
Pastor J. S. Melvin takes us to 2 Samuel chapter 7 where David discovers that God’s plans are far greater than anything he could imagine. In this message from The @ Samuel Series, we see how God’s grace redirects our desires, preserves us through every season, and points us to the greater King,...
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A Brand Plucked from the Fire
Brother Matthew Arnold takes us to Zechariah 3, where Joshua the high priest stands before the Lord clothed in filthy garments while Satan accuses him. In this message, we see the beautiful picture of God's sovereign grace as He removes sin, clothes His people in Christ's righteousness, and...
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The Ark's Testimony: The Presence of God and the Greater Savior
Pastor J. S. Melvin takes us to 2 Samuel 6 and invites us to hear this familiar passage through the eyes of the Ark of the Covenant. Rather than focusing only on David or Uzzah, this message reminds us that God's holiness, His presence, and His mercy all point beyond the ark itself to Jesus…
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God Is Working While You Wait
Pastor J. S. Melvin takes us to 2 Samuel 5 as David is finally crowned king after years of waiting, reminding us that God was faithfully at work through every valley, cave, and hardship long before the crown ever came. Continuing The 2 Samuel Series, this message encourages us to trust God's...
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Waiting Well: Trusting God's Timing Without Taking Shortcuts
Pastor J. S. Melvin takes us to 2 Samuel 4 where David's patience stands in sharp contrast to those who try to accomplish God's purposes through sinful shortcuts. As we follow the collapse of Saul's kingdom, the story of Mephibosheth reminds us that God never forgets the broken and is always...
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Growing Stronger in the Long War
Pastor J. S. Melvin takes us to 2 Samuel 3, where the kingdom of Israel is torn by division, revenge, delayed obedience, and grief, yet God's sovereign hand continues to accomplish His purposes. As David grows stronger through a prolonged conflict, we're reminded that God often does His deepest...
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From Promise to the Palace
Pastor J. S. Melvin takes us to 2 Samuel 2 where David finally begins to receive God's promise of kingship, yet discovers that the fulfillment comes gradually rather than all at once. Turn with us as we learn how God shapes His people through seasons of waiting, partial fulfillment, and difficult...
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Gracious Grief
Pastor J. S. Melvin takes us to 2 Samuel Chapter 1 where David responds to the death of Saul not with celebration, but with grief, mercy, and grace. In this message, we are challenged to see how the grace of God changes the way we view enemies, betrayal, bitterness, and wounded relationships,...
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Marks of a Mature Christian
Brother Matthew Arnold takes us to 1 Timothy 1:1–5, where Paul charges Timothy to protect the church through sound doctrine and faithful leadership in a culture filled with confusion and false teaching. In this message, we're encouraged to pursue the marks of spiritual maturity—a pure,...
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The Tragedy of Spiritual Drift
Pastor J. S. Melvin takes us to 1 Samuel 31 where the heartbreaking fall of Saul reminds us that spiritual collapse rarely happens all at once. In this final message from The 1 Samuel Series, we see how pride, insecurity, bitterness, and partial obedience slowly pulled Saul away from God, while...
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The Light of the World
Brother Jonah Lowrance takes us to Gospel of John 9 where Jesus, the Light of the World, gives sight to a man born blind and reveals both His power and His mercy. Through this powerful encounter, we are reminded that apart from Christ we are spiritually blind, but through His grace God opens our...
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When Everything is Gone
Pastor J. S. Melvin takes us to 1 Samuel 30, where David returns to Ziklag and finds everything he loves reduced to ashes, showing us what to do when life falls apart. Through David’s response, we’re invited to see how God meets us in our lowest moments—calling us to encourage ourselves in Him,...
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When God Says No: The Grace of Closed Doors
Pastor J. S. Melvin takes us to 1 Samuel 29 where God protects David—not by opening a door, but by firmly shutting one. As David drifts into a dangerous position among the Philistines, we’re reminded how easy it is to move away from dependence on God without even noticing. This message invites…
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When Graves Open but Nothing Moves
Pastor J. S. Melvin takes us to Matthew 27:50–53, right in the middle of the crucifixion, where an often-overlooked moment reveals the overwhelming power of Easter. We see how God tears the veil, shakes the earth, and opens graves—showing us that through Jesus, death no longer has the final word...
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A Lifetime of Loving Christ
Licensed Minister Matthew Arnold takes us to The Gospel of John 21 where the risen Jesus meets His disciples by the sea and restores Peter after his failure. Through this powerful moment of grace, we are reminded that loving Jesus is the foundation of the Christian life and that His mercy calls…
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Silence
Pastor J. S. Melvin recounts the story, recorded in 1 Samuel 28, of Saul's response to God's silence. Unlike Saul's, our response should not be to panic, fill the void with noise, nor respond with our emotions. Instead we should go back to God's Word, and know that in Christ, silence never has…
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America's Hypocrisy Versus Jesus' Christianity
Elder Jeff Winfrey from Dawson Springs Primitive Baptist Church in his second sermon during our Spring Meeting asks us a thought provoking question, "What is real christianity?" He reminds us of John 13:34, Matthew 5:44, and Mark 12:30 and emphasizes Luke 9:50. We should allow the Holy Spirit in…
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You Can Change the World
Elder Jeff Winfrey from Dawson Springs Primitive Baptist Church began our Spring Meeting in Hebrews 13:2. As a born again child of God you have in you what you need to make the choices each moment of each day to make a difference in your world and show your Lord and Savior how much you love him…
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The Battle Inside
Pastor J. S. Melvin continues his series in 1 Samuel showing us that sometimes our most dagnerous conversations are with ourselves. When our discouragement threatens to destroy us, what ultimately gives us hope is that God's promises depend on God's faithfulness.
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Providence Versus Permission
Pastor Melvin takes us to 1 Samuel 26 where David and Abishai enter Saul’s camp in the wilderness of Ziph while the King and his army are in a "deep sleep from the Lord." Just because an opportunity presents itself (Saul being vulnerable) doesn’t mean God has given permission to sin. Abishai sees...
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Spiritual Maturity is an Ongoing Process
Turn with Pastor J. S. Melvin to 1 Samuel 25 and listen to the story of David when he comes into contact with the angry, wealthy, foolish man, Nabal. What we learn is that David's success at restraint in the previous chapter does not necessarily guarantee that David will once again take the high...
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When Power Becomes Possible
Turn with Pastor J. S. Melvin to 1 Samuel 24 where we see that providence is not the same as permission. David's biggest flex is exercising restraint by not killing Saul when he had the chance.
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The Road to Emmaus
Turn with Brother Matthew Arnold to Luke 24 and learn powerful truths about the journey with Jesus on the Road to Emmaus.
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The Rock of Escape
Unfortunately, due to technical difficulties, some of the audio is missing. Pastor J. S. Melin takes us to 1 Samuel 23 and shows us through the story of David and his battle with Saul that obedience to God is not a transaction; it is alignment. Always rest in the Lord and know that he has a...
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The Cave
Pastor Melvin takes us to 1 Samuel 22 and shows us how God meets us when we are frightened and like David are hiding in the Cave of Adullam. God can turn a cave into a classroom and give us faith to move forward.
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When Faith is Messy
Pastor Melvin takes us to 1 Samuel Chapter 21 and shows us what it's like when fear takes over our faith, but as we follow the life of David, we find ultimately that there is encouragement in this chapter.
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Preparation by Trial
Pastor Melvin takes us to 1 Samuel 20 and shows us that sometimes we feel, like David, that we have tried to do everything right, but everything is still falling apart. What we find is that sometimes God allows change in our lives, not because we are wrong but because we are ready. Trials are not...
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The Sunday In Between
Christmas is over, and New Years is not yet here. This is the Sunday in between what happened this year and what is coming next. Turn in your Bibles to 1 Samuel 7, and follow along with Pastor Melvin as he shows us how the children of Israel had unfortunately become complacent in their worship.…
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A Christmas Message
Pastor J. S. Melvin takes us to the Gospel of John to expound upon the best news ever.
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God in the Chaos
Pastor Melvin takes us to 1 Samuel 19, and shows us that nothing in your life can undo God's Plan, even when the king conspires against you.
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The Unstoppable Triumph of God's Plans Over Human Politics, Fear and Failure
Pastor J. S. Melvin takes us to 1 Samuel Chapter 18 and shows us how walking into God's plans sometimes puts you in the path of someone else's jealousy, but when you are walking in God's calling, there is something about you that others will see and be drawn to.
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David and Goliath
Pastor Melvin takes us to 1 Samuel 17 and shows us how God is Lord of our valleys in the familiar story of David and Goliath.
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God Writes New Chapters
Pastor J. S. Melvin takes us to 1 Samuel 16 and shows us that God sees you when others overlook you, God is shaping you in this current season, God's timing is never rushed, and God uses worship to restore you.
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Refuge in the Name of the Lord
Brother Matthew takes us to Psalm 20:1-9 and Joshua 20 and shows us how the six cities of refuge are a picture of the names of Jesus and the attributes of our Lord and they point to our ultimate high priest, the King of Righteousness, the King of Peace.
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The Danger of Almost Obedience
On Sunday November 02, 2025, Pastor Melvin takes us to 1 Samuel 15 where we read about Saul taking King Agag alive instead of doing all that God had told him to. Partial obedience is willful disobedience dressed up in religious clothing. Incomplete obedience can leave something alive that will…
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There is no background so vile, no person so sinful that God's grace cannot heal. God loves you. God has forgiven you through the sacrifice of Jesus Christ upon the cross. God desires to have deeper more intimate fellowship with you. Listen to sermons that will encourage you in your relentless pursuit of Jesus Christ our Savior.
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