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Feb 18

HOW TO CREATE A WINNING SCHEDULE

Ever found yourself with more on your to do list than you have time to accomplish? Welcome to the club... Last summer during quarantine...

Sam Hamstra

Feb 16

MY WORD FOR 2021

I ran across something called the "One Word Challenge" about 5 years ago & have been leaning into it ever since. The basic idea of the...

Sam Hamstra

Feb 12

GROWING IN DISCIPLINE

This past Sunday we kicked off a new teaching series at Anthem called Level Up (you can watch HERE). To kick off this series I asked a...

3 REQUIREMENTS FOR GOING TO THE NEXT LEVEL

Sam Hamstra

Feb 9

3 REQUIREMENTS FOR GOING TO THE NEXT LEVEL

In part one of a teaching series we are doing at Anthem called Level Up, I shared from 1 Corinthians 9 three things that are required in...

Sam Hamstra

Jan 7

THE TABERNACLE PRAYER

Prayer is something that I need to work on in my life. Maybe I'm the only one (fill in your own example), but all too often I will start...

Sam Hamstra

Jan 6

12 THINGS TO PRAY OVER YOUR CHILD

I few years ago I read through the book of Daniel from the Message paraphrase. As I was reading, I began writing down all the words used...

Sam Hamstra

Jan 4

2 BIG PRAYER MISTAKES

To kick off the year at our church we are doing a deep dive into the spiritual disciplines of prayer & fasting! Over the course of the...

Sam Hamstra

Jan 3

MY TWO FAVORITE BOOKS ON PREACHING

I've been preaching now for a decade. I can still remember the first few sermons I shared....If you were there for them let me take a...

3 THINGS I DO EVERY YEAR TO KICK OFF THE YEAR RIGHT

Sam Hamstra

Jan 1

3 THINGS I DO EVERY YEAR TO KICK OFF THE YEAR RIGHT

It's officially 2021. We made it! For as long as I can remember, I have started the year off with these 3 disciplines to get the year...

Sam Hamstra

Dec 30, 2020

FASTING 101

21 DAYS OF PRAYER & FASTING :: JANUARY 3-23, 2021 Calling all Anthem people! We are asking that anyone who calls Anthem home joins us in...

Sam Hamstra

May 14, 2020

A SIMPLE PRAYER FOR LEADERS

One of the most powerful leadership prayers to pray right now!

4 KEYS TO CROSSING OVER INTO YOUR DESTINY

Sam Hamstra

May 7, 2020

4 KEYS TO CROSSING OVER INTO YOUR DESTINY

Check out 4 Keys to crossing over into your destiny from Joshua 1!

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