Our Heavenly Father desires that all of us have peace. In fact, He desires that we have a three-fold peace: peace with Him, which is the result of having the gift of eternal life and knowing it; peace with others, which is the capacity to have a [...]

Before Jesus goes the first time into a synagogue to stand and speak, Satan has already challenged him. Satan has begun a series of temptations in an attempt to disrupt God's purposes. I would submit to you, I believe God provides every generation [...]

We're gonna continue a theme we began in some previous sessions. I've invited you to read with me through the Gospel of Luke. It's only 24 chapters. I know it's extracurricular activity, it's beyond the scope of your Bible reading. The nerve. But [...]

Do you happen to remember who wrote the Book of Revelation? It's not a trick question. The apostle John, the one that Jesus recruited. By the time we get to the Book of Revelation, John is near the end of his life. By at least church tradition, all [...]

The goal is really simple. I want to encourage you to read your Bibles. We're a Bible reading church. It's become a part of the fabric of who we are as a people. Not randomly, but in an intentional, systematic way we read through our Bibles every [...]

It will give life to you, the Word of God. I wanna start in Hebrews chapter 4, in verse 12. It says, "The word of God is living and active. Sharper than any double-edged sword, it penetrates even to the dividing of soul and spirit, joints and [...]

Our enemy, the devil, wants you to believe that you're not significant. That to be important, you have to be an influencer. I would submit, you have influence with the Creator of all things. Let's decide the simple part of this, that our life [...]

I started a new series in the previous session. I wanna take a few sessions and talk with you about the Gospel of Luke. In fact, I wanna ask you, if you will accept it, to take a little homework assignment. I know we already do daily Bible reading [...]

It makes me smile when I see all these kids that fill our stage or all these babies that we dedicate, I step across and I see all the children when they're here throughout the week, or whenever it may be, to know that God has plans for those young [...]

Now the title for this session is "A Dimensional Life". I'll come back to that in a minute, but what I really wanna begin is a study with you on the Gospel of Luke. Luke is written by the one author of the New Testament who's not Jewish. [...]

That the real essence of prophecy isn't about foretelling, it is about God's perspective on the season in which you're living. And then the beautiful part of scripture is that it is addressive literature, what causes the Word of God to be a living [...]

There's a lot of discussion in our world today about globalization and the impact of the international community and how we don't live alone on an island in the world any longer. In fact, this week, we've all kind of watched, with some anxiety I [...]

Our topic this weekend has to do with prophecy, specifically in discerning what is next from the scripture. Is it possible to anticipate the season that we're living in, to anticipate what God is about so that we might cooperate with him? I believe [...]

When God says, pray for the peace of Jerusalem. I don't believe he means just pray for an absence of military conflict. I believe he's telling us to pray for the peace of the people in the land and their relationship between God and himself. It's a [...]

All right, our title for these three weeks is "Discerning What is Next," and the real objective is to understand that God is watching over us. We live in an unusual season in history, and I believe God is shaking the earth, and to be [...]

Well, worship is about another dimension. It's not grounded in time and space. It has little to do with how I feel or whether I want to or whether it's pleasing to me. We are worshiping, as I have said, an eternal, omnipotent, and omniscient God. We [...]

The topic for this session is "Things Forgotten and Remembered" and it's something that's been bouncing around in my heart for a bit, and I felt like it was valuable enough to share in a broader way. There are things that are forgotten. [...]

Friends will come and go. Family will come and go. People have an interesting way of being with you when you're on top, when things are going good for you. But when you struggle, and you suffer, and you're at the bottom, it's interesting how people, [...]

If you can find your Bibles or find in your Bibles, Ephesians 5. I'm gonna read a bunch of verses with you over the next couple minutes. Let's look at verse 17, "Therefore do not be foolish, but understand what the Lord's will is". I [...]

You know, this weekend we're concluding our series on how God sparks divine and lasting change in our lives. Now, when we are making positive changes in our lives, like putting in a new habit or trying to get rid of a destructive habit, normally, [...]

Conflict is something that's just tearing up Christian families and marriages and churches today because a lot of Christ's followers have no idea how to resolve conflict and that conflict is so important in our lives because you have to have [...]

We're in a series I'm calling "Dinner with Jesus," because there's so many times in the Gospel that we see Jesus eating dinner with people. Why is that? Because with Jesus, it's all about relationships, and Christianity is all about [...]

Well, this weekend, we're concluding this series, "Rivers in the Desert," as we're looking at how God wants to bring a river of blessing right to us in the middle of life's problems and pressures, and it's based on this passage, Psalm [...]

Kerry Shock : You know, a while back, Chris and I had the opportunity to visit the Negev Desert in Southern Israel, and while we were in the desert, Chris was determined to go on a camel ride. And we heard there was this Bedouin who had camels and [...]

I get to talk this weekend about something Chris and I are so passionate about. In fact, it's really our life's passion, and that is to live our lives and to live out our faith in such a way that our kids and their kids see that God is real and they [...]

Welcome. Baruch Haba B'Shem Adonai. Welcome in the name of the Lord. I am in a spot right now. I wish you could be here. I'm in the deep forest of Colorado. In fact, I got some survival training here. And the guy that I brought over here from the [...]

God bless you and shalom, my beloved friend. Some of you may have Jewish friends and you're a bit timid about sharing your faith in Jesus with them because deep down inside you're thinking: "The Jewish people are God's chosen people. Who am [...]

The year was 1900. The city was Galveston, Texas. And that year, that storm that devastated Galveston nearly destroyed the whole city. Soon afterward, the city fathers sought the help of a very prominent and brilliant design engineer. They asked him [...]

Perhaps more than any time in my lifetime, I'm hearing more and more the statement, "victim's mentality". So many individuals and so many groups are claimed to be victimized. The problem with trivializing victimhood, is that real victims, [...]

There was a Roman emperor by the name of Arcadius, probably less known than most emperors. He was a weak man and he was totally controlled by his wicked wife. It's almost like the Jezebel-Ahab situation. They were in the late 300s. His wife hated a [...]

Back in the days of the Communist rule in East Germany, some of us have lived that history. The younger generation probably read about it in history book, but we lived it. During the terrible years when the Communists were in control of East Germany [...]

Everything in us, everything that we have learned, everything that the world tells us, everything we've been taught, is not to be poor in spirit. Feeling helpless or hopeless or unworthy, feeling totally empty is not what is going to make you a [...]

There are times in all of our lives when sin and pride and self-sufficiency brings us brokenness. There are times in all of our lives when our stubbornness and the stiff-neckedness bring about brokenness in our life. And when that brokenness comes [...]

A man was convinced that he has an inferiority complex problem, and he went to see a psychiatrist. And he told the psychiatrist, "I suffer from an inferiority complex". So the psychiatrist examined him very thoroughly, very thoughtfully, [...]

Today, I don't think you need to be a prophet to recognize that we live in hazardous times. We are watching with our own eyes how good is called evil and evil is called good, how the righteous is scorned and the wicked is praised. We're seeing how [...]

Today, I'm gonna show you proof, evidence of David's emerging from the cave of Adullam turned into a prayer closet. He emerges, giving us evidence, giving us proof that in that prayer closet, in that cave of Adullam, David began to develop a new [...]

We're going to see today how David turned his cave into a prayer closet. But the truth is, I lived long enough, I talked to enough people, whether we're in the church or outside of the church, to learn that there are some people who actually thinks [...]

Sir Francis Drake was a great world explorer. He sailed around the world several times. And right after his fifth voyage around the world, he got caught, or his ship got caught, in a severe storm at the River Thames when he was almost home. His [...]

Everything I read of late indicates that we live in a time when genuine friendship, becoming rare. The level of loneliness has been so on the increase, and social media that's supposed to help us is making it worse. True, lasting loyalty and [...]

I want to tell you something very important. Listen to me very carefully, there is no such thing as a fearless person. The only difference that you find is between those who take counsel of their fears and those who refuse to do so, the only [...]

Wendell Willkie was a friend of President Roosevelt, that is Franklin Delano Roosevelt. And he came to him one day in the Oval Office, and he said, "Mr. President, can I ask you a question"? He said, "Sure". He said, "Why do [...]

Take your Bibles, please, and turn to Second Corinthians chapter 5. And when you've found it, let me tell you something. Your achievement in life will be primarily motivated by your motivations, impelled by your motivations. Now what motivates you, [...]

I would invite you to take God's Word and turn to Psalm number 128. The title of this message is "The Blessing of a Christian Family". The blessing and the benefits of a Christian family. Life is all about relationships. And someone added, [...]

I want to talk to you today about Dealing With Ugly Situations. In life we all face the good, the bad and the ugly. We love the good times where we're seeing God's favor, and doors are opening. We can handle the bad, we didn't get the contract, a [...]

Peace be with you. Friends, we come to the Feast of Pentecost along with Christmas and Easter and the greatest feast in the church year. The great celebration of the Holy Spirit. We remember that great day when the Father and the Son sent the Holy [...]

Peace be with you. Friends, we come to the wonderful feast today of the Ascension of the Lord, a very important feast and one that has all sorts of interesting theological and spiritual implications. I want to draw your attention first, it's our [...]

Peace be with you. Friends, we come to the Sixth Sunday of Easter. We're getting very close to Pentecost. So what the Church does, it gives us readings that are kind of hinting at the Holy Spirit, giving us a kind of foretaste of this great feast of [...]

Peace be with you. Friends, we come to the fifth Sunday of Easter and, boy, the Gospel is so powerful from the Gospel of John because it speaks this truth, and I've talked about it a lot before, but it's what's distinctive really to Christianity. [...]

Peace be with you. Friends, we come to the fourth Sunday of Easter, known as Good Shepherd Sunday because Jesus says in the gospel, listen, "I am the good shepherd. A good shepherd lays down his life for the sheep". Now, here's what I find [...]

Peace be with you. Friends, last week we looked at the twentieth chapter of Saint John's Gospel, one of the great Resurrection appearances. And this week, on the Third Sunday of Easter, we have a passage from that magnificent twenty-fourth chapter [...]