Camp Creek Sermons

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, seek His direction, and trust that He restores completely. This message reminds us that even when you feel abandoned or empty, God is still at work, and in Him, nothing is ever truly lost.

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 you to trust that even God’s “no” is an act of love, guiding you back to your true identity and protecting you from paths that could harm you.

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 and what feels buried in our lives can live again. This message invites you to trust that even when nothing seems to be happening, God is already at work, and through the resurrection power of Jesus, what has been opened will rise.

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 us back into faithful service no matter our past. Turn with us to this passage and be encouraged that a life devoted to loving Christ will overflow into loving others and enduring faithfully to the end.

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 the final word.

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 us to find common ground and fellowship with others who love Jesus.

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 for what he has done for you.

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.

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 an open door for revenge, but David sees a test of his trust in God’s timing.

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 ground when his pride is wounded.

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.

Turn with Brother Matthew Arnold to Luke 24 and learn powerful truths about the journey with Jesus on the Road to Emmaus.

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 purpose. Even when you are hunted, you are held.

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.

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.

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 necessarily corrective; God uses them to prepare us.

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. As we look back on 2025 and ahead to 2026, we should see how God was with us, and we should build stones of remembrance to remind us.

Pastor J. S. Melvin takes us to the Gospel of John to expound upon the best news ever.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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 come back and destroy us later. We should obey our Lord, not in order to gain his love, but because he already loves us.

Pastor Melvin takes us to 1 Samuel 14:31-52 and shows us how legalism actually produces worse sin in our lives than living in the victory and freedom of God's grace. Even in the middle of the messes you make, you, like Saul, can build an altar to the Lord and acknowledge his preeminence in your life. Know that God is still "speaking" even when silence is his response to your prayers.

Elder Coker begins in Numbers 21 where Aaron has just died and the Israelites were discouraged. What do we do when we get discouraged? If we shift our perspective to Jesus and what awaits us in Eternity, we can be encouraged and lay hold on eternal life today!

On October 25, 2025, Saturday Morning of our Annual Fall Meeting, Elder Josh Coker takes us to John 3:16 and shows us how this verse is a declaration about, rather than an invitation to, those who are believing in Christ.

On Saturday morning of our Annual Fall Meeting, Elder Dickie Halbgewachs begins in 2 Peter 3 and encourages us to look forward to the last day, the day of the Lord, when the King will say as recorded in Matthew 25:34, "Come, ye blessed of my Father, inherit the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world."

On October 24, 2025, in the second sermon of our Fall Annual Meeting, Pastor Josh Coker shows us in Philippians 2:1-9 that we should think of ourselves less and others more.

In the first sermon of our Annual Fall Meeting on October 25, 2025, Elder Dickie Halbgewachs takes us to Genesis 3:14-15. We read about the results of Adam and Eve's transgression. Imagine the weight they felt after their fall, having actually been perfect, unlike any of us. What gave them hope and what gives us strength to go on today is the promise that Christ will prevail!

Join Pastor Melvin on Sunday October 19, 2025, in 1 Samuel 14:24 where Saul makes a rule forbidding eating until the evening instead of celebrating the victory over the Philistines that God had given Israel that very day. Legalism, adhering to rules in fear of instead of out of love for the law giver, takes the honey out of holiness.

On Sunday October 12, 2025, Pastor Melvin shows us in 1 Samuel 14:8-23, where Jonathan and his armor bearer go up against the Philistines, that sometimes faith is exhausting! God doesn't "need" you, but he invites you to participate in bringing his will to pass. Instead of measuring your odds, measure your God!

On Sunday, October 5, 2025, Pastor Melvin takes us to 1 Samuel 14:1-7 and shows us how quality (the power of our God) wins out over quantity (our own ability and resourses) every time. Jonathan's faith that he and his armor bearer could defeat 3,000 Philistines was based not in knowing how but in trusting who.

Join Brother Arnold as he takes us to Ephesians 3 and 1 John 4 to explore the profound, unchanging nature of God's love. Discover how you can find your assurance and identity in God's finished work.

Pastor J. S. Melvin takes us to 1 Samuel 13 and shows us how God can use something small to make a big difference. Victory is not about you or what you have, but about your God and the miracles he can perform.

Pastor J. S. Melvin takes us to 1 Samuel 12 and reminds us not to mistake God's patience for his permission, but instead to run to God, confess our sins, and serve him in gratitude for what he has done for us.

Pastor Melvin draws from 1 Samuel 11, where Israel faces overwhelming, mountain-sized odds and the temptation to surrender in shame. Yet, God intervenes through unlikely means—raising up Saul and redeeming a troubled city—to bring deliverance and unity. Even when we feel surrounded and inadequate, God’s grace is already at work, turning our weakest moments into opportunities for hope and restoration.

Pastor Melvin takes us to 1 Samuel 10, showing how God’s sovereignty interrupts the ordinary and calls even the unlikely—like Saul, hiding among the baggage—to extraordinary purpose. Join us to be reminded how God’s grace equips and transforms us, working through our weaknesses to fulfill His plans.

Sometimes when you are going through the motions of the ordinary, God leads you to the extraordinary. Pastor Melvin shows us this in Samuel 9, where we read the story of how Saul, in searching for his father's donkeys, finds Samuel the prophet.

Pastor Melvin takes us to 1 Samuel 8 and encourages us that even though we too often make poor decisions and often suffer consequences, God is still in control and in his kindness, mercy and love brings his will to pass.

Brother Matthew begins in Luke 4:13-22 and shows us how through Jesus' death upon the cross, he saved us from our fallen state, enslaved to sin, so that we are now free to glorify, serve and have fellowship with him.

You may feel like you are in the spiritual doldrums today and that your enemies are always gathering, but in 1 Samuel 7, Pastor Melvin shows us that God is still thundering in the hospital room, when you lose your job, in your living room, and in all our distresses. We should mark these moments by raising a stone of remembrance, an Ebenezer, something that reminds us that we were there and so was God.

On Sunday, July 27, 2025, Pastor J.S. Melvin continues our study of 1 Samuel in Chapter 6. Even though the Philistines endeavored to worship God in all of the wrong ways, through grace, God looked on their hearts and accepted their clumsy worship.

What can we do when it feels like our God is not prevailing?In I Samuel 4 the Ark of the Covenant is carried into the house of Dagon, but God was on the move in enemy territory. He is always sovereign, and this gives us so much encouragement.

Samuel Chapter 4 teaches us to be careful to read God's word and not to go past the guard rails that God has put in place for us.

Are you discouraged by the season in which you find yourself? Do you find a gap between where you are and where you want to be? Keep ministering where you are and keep praying because God is working even if you cannot see it as Pastor J. S. Melvin shows us in 1 Samuel 3.

On Sunday, June 15, 2025, beginning in Romans 3:19-25, Brother Matthew Arnold encourages us through his message on the powerful doctrine of our redemption by Christ Jesus our Savior.

On June 29, 2025, Brother Matthew Arnold begins in Exodus 4:10-17 and in preaching about the ten plagues, shows us how God can use our ordinary skills in extra ordinary ways.

On Sunday June 22, 2025, Brother Matthew Arnold begins with Romans 14:17-19 and expounds on what the Kingdom of God is and how righteousness, peace and joy in the Holy Ghost are identifying marks of it.

Pastor John takes us to I Samuel Chapter 2 and shows us what we can learn from Eli about parenting. Regardless of our earthly father's short comings, God, our heavenly father, provides all we need .