I wanna remind everyone here, the Holy Spirit is not a denomination. The Holy Spirit is not a network. The Holy Spirit is not an emotion. The Holy Spirit is not a moment, not even a service, a conference, ideology, or a Philosophy. The Holy Spirit [...]

Pastor, did you read my notes? Did you, like, reference? Did someone on your team... I'm not being facetious, I'm acting for real, like the integrity ti... So, they didn't give you like, seriously? 'cause you came up and your tagline at, and the mix [...]

Jesus makes special promises to each of the seven churches of Revelation. To the church of Philadelphia he says, to the person that overcomes, "I will write upon him my new name". Throughout the Bible there were people given by God a new [...]

In the letters to the seven churches, Jesus says to the church of Philadelphia, "Behold, I am coming quickly! Hold fast what you have, that no one may take your crown," Revelation 3:11. Hold fast that no one may take your crown. Well, can [...]

The town of Philadelphia in Asia Minor was named in honor of a Pergamon king named Attalus II, Philadelphus who was loyal to his brother, that idea of brotherly love is what led to the naming of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania and presumably, the [...]

It's not unusual to read stories about people who pay off their home mortgage more quickly than scheduled. One man spoke about how he cut down his spending, choosing not to eat at restaurants or to buy fast food. He said he was offended by how much [...]

The ancient city of Sardis was located at or near the end of a royal road, which ran 1700 miles away to the palace of king Artaxerxes. That's where Esther lived and Nehemiah. Sardis is famous for the first gold coins ever used. The gold came from [...]

When a British adventurer succeeded in trekking solo across the frozen sea from northern Canada to the North Pole, things got complicated after he lost a ski when he fell through thin ice. Jesus spoke of thin ice when he addressed the church of [...]

If you form the dough into cookies and then dip the tops of them in sugar before you bake them, you'll end up with sugar-coated cookies. Nothing at all healthy about them but people like them and the reason is, and I'm quoting the recipe now is, [...]

Jesus is very direct with the church of Thyatira about their sins, but then he speaks to those who are following him faithfully. He says, "But hold fast what you have till I come", Revelation 2:25. There might be times when you feel your [...]

The longest of the letters to the seven churches in Revelation is the one to Thyatira, in which Jesus states his displeasure with the church, allowing certain sins to go unchecked. Jesus believed it was the church's responsibility to take a stand [...]

When John wrote to the seven churches, paganism was rampant throughout the Roman Empire. Gods such as Apollo, and Diana, and Bacchus, and Neptune were worshiped. Among the ruins of the ancient city of Pergamon is the temple of Trajan, a Roman [...]

You notice in the letters to the seven churches in Revelation that Jesus affirms and chastises most of the churches. To the church at Pergamos Jesus says as he does to each of the churches, "I know your works", and then he points out [...]

Jesus letter to the church Smyrna takes on a new relevance when you consider where the name "Smyrna" comes from. It's based on the word myrrh, one of the gifts brought to baby Jesus by the wise men. It was used as a perfume for incense and [...]

How do you encourage a group of people who are about to go through a time of incredibly difficult trial? Jesus told the church of Smyrna: they were going to go through tribulation, but in doing so, described himself as, "The first and the last [...]

We're continuing our study on the strategies and tactics of the spiritual influences around us and we're specifically talking in this session about blessings and curses. It's a real thing, it's not just a fantasy or a fiction or something that [...]

It's an honor to be with you today. We're gonna continue our study on strategies and tactics that are involved in the spiritual conflict that defines our lives. In this session, we're gonna talk about blessings and curses. It's another way of [...]

John Bradshaw : Welcome to "Line Upon Line," brought to you by It Is Written. This is where we answer your Bible questions. We love to receive them. If you have one you'd like to submit, we invite you to email it to us. Email address is [...]

This is an excerpt from: It Works In Reverse Anybody want to take a guess, when David made the biggest mistake of his life and slept with Bathsheba and the child born died and he went back and had another child… Anybody want to guess the name of [...]

Let's go back to our Scripture in 2 Kings, chapter 3. If you're seated, stand really quick for the Word of God. All of a sudden. Put that little phrase in the chat if you're joining us online or look at the person next to you and say, "All of a [...]

It's an honor to be with you again. We're continuing our study on strategies, tactics, and an unseen enemy. In this session, we're going to talk specifically about anointing and blessings. We don't have to chase the blessings of God. We don't have [...]

And we're walking through a series that actually started in my heart the weekend that we had, Chad Robichaux and Kevin and Aziz were here. As I listened to them talk it was so clear to me, for many of you I'm sure you already knew it but there's a [...]

Now, I wanna take it a little more practical direction. Some time ago, I introduced, I gave you an invitation to take prayer outside the church and begin to integrate it with your lives. We called it "Let's Pray," remember that? It's a [...]

We've been doing a topic. We've been working on this notion of "Leading Faith," and the idea is to bring faith into the arena of your leadership. You're all leaders. I had a revelation some weeks ago. I didn't have a vision and God didn't [...]

So, one of the things we wanna do is begin to say to the Spirit of God, help me strengthen my faith. I may have had faith to be born again. I may have had faith that there's a heaven and I wanna participate in the kingdom of God. I may have had the [...]

You know, faith has different expressions. Some of you have faith in your physical strength and some have faith in your intellect and some have faith in your education. And those things aren't inherently evil. Even in the context of your spiritual [...]

I have a question. What's gonna be said of our generation? Are we gonna be described for our athletic prowess, for the stadiums we built? We gonna be described for our turn towards green, the new energy? What's gonna be the story that's said about [...]

The theme we're pursuing is "Strategy, Tactics tactics are a bit smaller, an objective in the moment. You need the tactics necessary in order to achieve the strategy. Now strategy and tactics will change. The way we knew the Lord and worshiped [...]

Many of you know, I suspect, we had some guests with us last week. One was a retired Force Recon Marine, Chad Robichaux. He'd done eight tours in Afghanistan, and he had with him, I hope you got to hear him, if you didn't, you can hear him online, [...]

I want to begin a new topic with you this weekend. We're gonna talk about "Leading Faith". Leading faith. We've talked about courageous faith and I suspect you know about saving faith, the faith you need to become a part of the kingdom of [...]

Find the Book of Acts, and, turn if you will to chapter five. When you've found it, look up here and let me tell you there are two great forces that are working against your life and the life of this church. They are orchestrated by Satan himself. [...]

Be finding in God's word acts chapter five, and when you've found it, look up here and let me ask you a question: how many really happy, happy and victorious Christians do you know? Now we have sung, "Victory in Jesus," but in reality, how [...]

Would you find the Book of Acts? Turn to chapter four. And as you're finding it, may I ask you a question? Are you a bold Christian? Or, perhaps are you a cowardly Christian? May I put it this way: if you were arrested for being a Christian, would [...]

Be finding the Book of Acts and, that's right after the gospels and, we're into acts chapter two. We're talking about living supernaturally. If you didn't bring a Bible, most likely there'll be one there in the pew rack before you. Now what I want [...]

Be finding the Book of Acts, chapter eight. We've been going through the Book of Acts, "Living supernaturally". But we know also that, when God works, Satan works also. Here's a question, true or false: Satan is against religion. Don't [...]