The devil is a tactician. Now, if he has a strategy for you, if he has game-planned for you, I would humbly suggest perhaps you should have a plan of your own. Now, we’re given one. I gave you Luke 4 just as a little support for that. It says, this [...]

I want to extend the invitation. I’ve only got a few more days left before we’re gonna move on, but for a long time now, for several years, I invite you at the beginning of the year to read your Bible with us and certainly I wanna extend that. But [...]

I want to take two or three passages. How much time have I got? I got a bit. It’s a confusing topic, and I’m going to take just a minute. It’s a less formal service. I said one time to a group of people with whom I was traveling to Israel that the [...]

No, I’m grateful you’re here. I wanna extend the invitation from the video personally to read the gospels with us. I’m really inviting you to read the Bible, but I wanna ask you to begin the year, if you’ve never done the Bible reading with us [...]

Some of you say, you know, «I work in a place where it’s difficult to be a Christian,» «I live in this neighborhood and it’s filled with godless people,» or «My kids go to a school and it’s not», yeah. «I’m sending you out like sheep amongst wolves. [...]

If you’ve been around here for very long, you know the invitation to read your Bible at the beginning of the year is not a new idea. I don’t apologize for revisiting that. It is transformational. And I’m happy for you to read on another agenda. I’m [...]

The things Matthew tells us the devil knows are intriguing to me. He knows Jesus is the Son of God. He knows the words of scripture. The devil knows that the angels will follow God’s commands. We got all of that from reading those three or four [...]

It’s not a new thing to invite you to read through the Bible with us. We’ve been doing that for many years now and there are stories all over the building about the changes and the benefits and the transformations that have come with that. This [...]

In our head, there’s a leaving behind, there’s some separation that has to come. It’s a disciplined life. The kingdom of God, Jesus said, «It’s difficult to enter». You gotta live with that, a little bit, and expect it to be difficult. You not [...]

We’ve been working through a study on breakthroughs, those points where God intervenes in our lives. Outcomes that can only be explained by God’s participation, when you arrive at a place in your life and there’s really no imagined outcome that’s [...]

So we’re gonna look at some people that don’t get it right and maybe it’ll help us gain some momentum in saying yes. Acts chapter 13, the church is just trying to get their legs underneath them. The pressure in Jerusalem has grown to the point that [...]

We’ve been doing a series on breakthroughs. I’ve done several sessions prior to Christmas around these ideas of breakthroughs and how to open our lives more fully to these interventions of God, because I don’t understand them to be random. I believe [...]

If you’ll allow me… I know it’s in the Bible and it’s a wonderful story and we celebrate Mary and Joseph and they’re in our pageants and they’re venerated because we’re looking back on them from two millennia’s perspective. But I would submit to [...]

We’re working through a study on breakthroughs. And I really began this because I was so aware of how many people amongst us (and you can put me on that list) we’re in places where we need breakthroughs from the Lord, those places where only God’s [...]

That’s really the question on the table today. To what extent are you willing to grow in the Lord? I’m gonna suggest that it has an impact, not only for you, but for the generations who follow you. In fact, if we start with Zachariah and Elizabeth, [...]

We’ve been doing a study on breakthroughs and I want to continue that series another session or two. The title for this session is «Alone in the Desert,» and it’s really a companion piece with the previous session. We looked at Zechariah and [...]

You know, one of the things I get to do is try to help be engaged in creating a community of faith that welcomes people. And the most unhappy stories are the ones that usually make it to me and I’m always a bit amused. People say, «You know, I [...]

We’ve been working through a series called «Breakthrough,» and in this session, I want to talk to you about new wine. There are no samples in the building. I’ve been encouraging you to revisit this little paradigm that we have lived with for some [...]

Some of you know the order of march as it unfolds. They crossed the Jordan river and God piles up the water in a manner similar to what happened at the Red Sea. They paused for a time of consecration and physical preparation before they begin the [...]

We’re walking through a series on breakthroughs. The real goal is to try to understand the components that are present when God brings breakthroughs because I’m very certain that in all of our lives, there are places where we need God’s help. [...]

I wanna give you some examples of how I imagine America is being looted today. One, is they’re looting our heritage. America is the greatest experiment in self-government our world has ever seen. That’s the truth. We are bound together not by [...]

We’re walking through a series under the general theme of «Breakthroughs». Interventions, God’s interventions in our lives. Those times where God steps into time and makes a difference in our experience. I don’t believe that we can fulfill God’s [...]

And so, I’m concerned about our generation and what we’re doing. I made a list of some things happening. Looting has become so prevalent, I think we’re almost immune to it. I think we’ve accepted as a normal way of living. I’m not talking about some [...]

We’re talking about breakthroughs, trying to understand the nature of breakthroughs, so that we can participate in them more fully, gain the benefit of God’s interventions in our lives. When I say «breakthrough,» what I mean is God’s intervention, [...]

The third week of Advent is traditionally celebrated with a focus on joy, and I would like to honor that this weekend. We’re starting Luke chapter 2 in verse 10 with a verse that is a part of the Christmas narrative. It says: «The angel said to the [...]

Galatians 1, «I’m astonished that you are», again, this is not unique to us. It wasn’t unique to just one church, it wasn’t unique to the Corinthian church or the church at Thessaloniki. It’s a persistent problem against the communities of faith in [...]

We’ve been working through kind of a continuation of a theme we’ve had for a while now, leading with our faith. You are remarkable leaders in a whole variety of ways; business, technology, in the hobbies of your choice, in families. In all those [...]

For all of our talk about abortion, the abortion numbers have not diminished. It really wasn’t a legal issue. It wasn’t because it was the law of the land. It was the condition of our hearts. How abortions are performed changes dramatically, the [...]

I wanna continue the study we’ve been doing on leading with our faith, and the title for this session is «They Soon Forgot». I had something I felt like the Lord put on my heart, but it was hard to get it to paper. I have rewritten this more than is [...]

I believe God is a healer. He can do it with medicine. Sometimes he does it without, I’m most grateful for both. This is not just some Old Testament thing. In Matthew 8, and verse 16, «When evening came, many who were demon-possessed were brought to [...]

I wanna continue the theme we picked up for the last couple of sessions, talking about leading with faith. It’s a very important principle. All of you are leaders in a variety of arenas. Some of you have great significance and great accomplishment [...]

I would submit to you that serving the Lord is an expression of gratitude and a display on our part of an awareness of his glory. Now, I wanna go back to the Moses narrative because God provides Moses with all the tools that he’s going to need for [...]

We’re in the midst of a short series under the general theme of «Leading With our Faith». But it’s really targeted towards this unique season of the year and the opportunities it presents. You know, there’s some world class leaders that gather on [...]

It's an honor to be with you today. We're working through a little study on leading with our faith, but in this session we're going to talk about a legacy of faith. Now, what will you be remembered for when your days under the sun are [...]

I started a theme in a previous session back to "Leading With Faith," but it's the holiday edition. We've talked a lot this year about leading with our faith and stepping out of the crowd, but I wanna have that conversation in [...]

It's a privilege to be with you today. Our topic is "Leading with Our Faith in the Holidays". You know, they tell us that faith and politics are not appropriate for polite company. I disagree. I think we have to bring our faith with [...]

It's an honor to be with you today. Our topic is "Leading with Our Faith in the Midst of the Holidays". You know, it's an important time of the year. You're gonna be gathered with friends and family and co-workers, all sorts [...]

Simple suggestion: please read your Bibles, daily, intentionally. When I say systematically, I mean, from front to back, not just randomly here and there. I have found there to be a benefit when we do reading together. That's not the only way [...]

The topic is "Living Faith," and to be completely candid, I had prepared an outline, at least sketched out the outline that I intended for this evening, and when I did the Bible reading this morning, I felt like I got a whole different [...]

But my time is slipping past. I want to come to the last question. It's the most important one. What determines if you're a Christian? Is it location, where you sit? Is it descent, because your parents and your grandparents were? What [...]

Now, the topic for this session is "Determining Our Identity". You know, in a season like this, there's so much focus given to the segments of our society, it really becomes wearisome. You hear how this subset of our society will make [...]

Hey, I wanna take a moment to wish you a very merry Christmas. I even dressed up for Christmas morning. You know, so often we let the circumstances of our day determine our attitude. I wanna encourage you not to do that today. God has blessed us. He [...]

It is such a privilege to be with you today. Our topic is "From the Manger to Majesty". And we're focusing on the miracle of Jesus's entry into time. But it was a very inauspicious beginning. It's in a stable, it's not [...]

There is something ahead of us that is much better than where we are now. There are crowns awaiting us. Not from this present age. There are rewards to be given to us that exceed anything you could achieve in this current age, any acknowledgment, [...]

A lot of scripture today. I believe it’ll help you. The topic is «Kings and Kingdoms» and it’s really a pretty simple message. In fact, I wanna walk through these scriptures with you. I hope pretty quickly, I’d like to plant a seed in your heart. [...]

I would submit to you that we learn to fear God. It’s a learned behavior. In the same way, you learn some physical skill by repetition and training muscle memory or you learn something academically. It’s a learned response. It begins with truth. The [...]

The title for this session is «What Are You Afraid Of»? And most of us would say nothing, but the honest answer I think is many things. It seems to me that fear is stalking the streets. It was introduced in a new way a few years ago when we heard [...]

Our topic is «Unafraid… With Courage». I would submit to you, it’s time for the church to understand the call upon us is to lead lives unafraid and with courage. We have focused for most of my adult life on having our systematic theology correct. We [...]

It’s good to be with you again. We’re gonna continue our study on spiritual warfare, particularly looking at the end of time. You know, the Bible is a book filled with spiritual conflict. It starts in the opening chapters of Genesis when the serpent [...]

May I ask you, if you're on trial and the judge is in a really hard place and there's some angry, powerful people shouting for your execution and the judge knows you're innocent. Do you think it'd be okay if he just caved to the [...]