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The Implanted Word is the teaching ministry of Pastor Bill Gehm. Pastor Bill is the senior pastor of Grace Church in Amarillo, Texas. Grace Church is a Calvary Chapel, and pastor Bill takes a verse by verse approach to preaching the Bible. We pray that you are encouraged in your faith as you listen to God's Word.
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God’s timing includes people—mentors who speak wisdom, friends who lift weary arms, challengers who refine character, and encouragers who remind you of your calling. He weaves appointments you couldn’t arrange: a conversation at just the right moment, a helping hand when resources run thin, or a door-opener when you’ve hit a wall. And in today’s message, Pastor Bill will encourage you to trust that God’s orchestrating relationships to guide, steady, and propel you forward.
Christ’s love is unlike any other—you are fully known and still fully embraced. It doesn’t fade with moods, distance, or failure; it runs toward you in weakness, lifts you when shame whispers, and stays when others step back. His love corrects without crushing, comforts without numbing, and calls you into purpose with gentle strength. And in today’s message, Pastor Bill will remind you to let God’s relentless affection quiet fear, heal old wounds, and re-teach your heart what real love feels like.
You are not an accident or an afterthought. God crafted your personality, gifts, and even your quirks with intention, weaving strengths and struggles into a purpose only you can carry. Your story—every chapter—can reflect His goodness. Release comparisons, reject shame, and embrace the design He delighted to make. Grow where He’s planted you, and let Him refine, not replace, who you are. And in today’s message, Pastor Bill will invite you to rest securely in Christ: He made you on purpose, for a purpose!
When Jesus convicts you, the right response isn’t excuses, delay, or self-defense—it’s repentance. Turn around, tell the truth, and hand Him the keys you’ve been clutching. Repentance isn’t humiliation; it’s the doorway to freedom, clarity, and a restored relationship with your creator. And in today's message, Pastor Bill will invite you to choose the courage to change course, trusting God’s mercy to cleanse, His wisdom to redirect, and His joy to meet you on the other side.
They say that you learn the most about yourself when you become a parent. It starts when you bring the newborn home. How well do you handle pressure when you’re sleep-deprived and stressed? The next phase is when you hear your little one say things you thought they didn’t hear. Yikes! Today, Pastor Bill teaches that you never know who’s listening. Does your life reflect what you truly believe? Do your conversations point towards Christ so that those listening know where you find hope?
God has a way of using the most unsuspecting people to accomplish the most unexpected things. Today, Pastor Bill teaches that God wants to do incredible things through little old you. He’s not asking you to go out and create some multimillion-dollar organization or fly to the uttermost parts of the world, though that may be a part of His plan, too. He’s asking you to simply go about your day-to-day routine, living out the Gospel message, and tell those you encounter about Jesus Christ.
How do you receive God’s Word? For many believers, the Bible is a tool used to reinforce their own preconceived notions and the way they want to perceive the world. They wield it recklessly as a sword, ready to take down anyone who disagrees with them. But, as Pastor Bill will point out in the example of the Bereans, this book, this gift from God, is meant to reveal who He is to our hearts. When we study it with humility, he’ll reveal His truth and transform our hearts to be more like His.
In today’s message from Pastor Bill, we’ll encounter a group of Jews who challenge us in our walk. This group was from the region of Berea, and they were known and still remembered for their faithfulness to God’s Word. They diligently studied it daily, and when Paul came with the Gospel, they received him eagerly and weighed his words against the Word of God. This is what we need to be doing every time we take in teaching, testing it for ourselves to be sure it aligns with Scripture.
The fruit we bear as believers may be some of the best, if not the only, evidence for the Gospel that someone in your community ever encounters. We need to be aware of this and allow it to motivate our actions and attitudes. All too often, the only thing different about us as believers is the way we spend our Sunday mornings. As Pastor Bill will urge us in today’s message, we’re called to get out into the world and share the truth that’s been revealed to our hearts by God’s Word and His Holy Spirit.
We have a real problem with entitlement in our culture. Everyone thinks that they’re owed more than they’re getting, and we’re preoccupied with figuring out who to blame for any hardship we experience. As Pastor Bill will challenge us in today’s message, suffering is a big part of our calling as believers. Paul and Silas had the opportunity to run free from the prison but chose to stay for the sake of the guard, their oppressor. Likewise, we may find ourselves called to stay for the sake of those we call enemies.
As we examine the account of Paul and Silas in prison and the miraculous work of God that happened there, Pastor Bill has an uplifting and challenging message to share. This story is incredible. Paul and Silas, imprisoned for their faith, had an uncertain future immediately ahead. Yet, instead of trembling in fear, they lifted their voices in praise. Then the earth trembled, and God provided freedom. As we’ll find in today’s study, before they walked free, God had a bigger purpose for them.
Jesus wants to fill you with His Holy Spirit. We often wish we could walk with Jesus physically and experience Him here in the flesh, but He gave us an incredible gift in his absence by sending His Holy Spirit. This Spirit doesn’t just walk with us and talk with us; He lives in us and empowers us to do things that Jesus said would be even greater than His own earthly works. As Pastor Bill will encourage us in today’s message, all we have to do to receive this Spirit is to ask in faith.
Have you ever had a job you hated? Or a neighbor, co-worker, or classmate who just made your life miserable? You just want to get out of that situation as soon as possible. It can be very challenging to maintain patience and grace in that position. Many of us find ourselves stumbling into sinful attitudes and actions in response. But, as Pastor Bill will challenge us in today’s message, these trials are an opportunity, and God wants to use you if you’ll just open your heart to his moving.
The kingdoms of man are filled with greed, pride, violence, and lust. The focus is always on what best serves me, even when it brings harm to others. That may sound just fine to you, but when others have the same mindset, it’s going to cause conflict, and that’s what you’ll see playing out in this world every day, in real time. As Pastor Bill will remind you in today’s message, the Kingdom you enter into when you accept Jesus as Lord is one of love. That love is focused on serving others, not yourself.
What an encouraging and hope-filled truth from Pastor Bill! God sees where we are. He knows the pain and struggles we’re experiencing. He sent His Son, Jesus – who lived in this world, just like the rest of us, and then went on to experience pain and agony we can’t imagine on the cross. Jesus knows what we’re going through. Not only did He give us that incredible gift, but then He built a community of believers around us that can lift us up and carry us when we don’t know how to go on.
Are you going through a hard time right now? Whether it feels like walking through the valley of the shadow of death, or just an uncomfortable detour, many of us probably are facing a trial or will sometime soon. This life is full of them. As Pastor Bill continues our study in the book of Acts today, he offers this encouragement – we are not alone in our struggles. God is with us in His Holy Spirit, and He’s put a community of people around us that wants to support us if we’ll give them a chance.
Text, email, messenger, facetime, skype… you could go on and on with the various means we have to communicate with others in our world. And of course, there’s still the option of meeting face-to-face. As Pastor Bill will remind us in today’s message, we have an amazing privilege and responsibility before us in this life. We’ve been given new life in Christ, and we’re surrounded by people who are drowning in their sin and sorrow. We need to get out there and share the hope we’ve found.
You’re called to prophesy to the world around you. That doesn’t mean you need a pulpit and a congregation. This means you need to share the Good News of the Gospel with the people in your community through your words and deeds. As Pastor Bill will point out in today’s message, some in the Church make themselves busy in every other way possible, and the work they do is wonderful, but those activities and programs are only part of the picture. The focus needs to be on sharing Jesus.
Being a witness doesn’t mean you have to stand on a stage or preach to crowds. God invites each of us to simply share what He has done in our lives. When we talk about His grace, His faithfulness, or the ways He’s changed us, we let others see Him through our story. Witnessing is personal, honest, and natural. It flows out of a life transformed by Christ. Today, Pastor Bill will explore how you have the privilege of pointing others to Jesus by sharing the truth of God’s work in your own heart.
It’s easy to see the Bible as a collection of old letters or ancient stories, but it’s so much more than that. Every page carries a personal message from God to you. The words that guided, corrected, and encouraged people thousands of years ago still speak into our lives today. Today, Pastor Bill will reveal to you that when you open Scripture, God meets you where you are, with wisdom, comfort, and direction. It’s not just history or literature; it’s His living Word reaching deep into your heart.
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