We're doing a bit of a unique study for us. We're walking through the Gospel of Luke. Maybe we're crawling through the Gospel of Luke. I haven't moved at quite the pace I had hoped initially. But I've given you a little bit [...]

Allen Jackson : Welcome to Tennessee. Yael Eckstein : What a blessing. Shalom y'all. Allen Jackson : This is a learning season for us. So I hope you will help us a little bit. This is the high holidays in Israel, and for you to be in Tennessee [...]

Luke is gonna present to us today, quickly, a group of people making decisions regarding Jesus. But I want us to understand we're not just reviewing something from antiquity. We're not considering a theological tone, that we're [...]

We're working through the Gospel of Luke. We're not hurrying through it. I know it's in addition to our normal Bible reading. As a congregation, we read through the Bible each year. I hope you're a part of that. If you're [...]

But I read a book many years ago by Stephen Covey. and the premise of the book was: The main thing is to keep the main thing the main thing. And the redemptive work of Jesus is the main thing about our faith. Not the label of the church where we [...]

Please understand that when we read the Gospel of Luke, we're not reflecting on history. We're trying to understand what it means to be followers of the Lord. We are rejecting God, and we will face the judgment for these choices if we [...]

But in addition to our normal Bible reading, I have invited you to read the Gospel of Luke with me. Really, depending upon your schedule, we have varying amounts of free time. If your schedule allows, read it once a day. It's only 24 chapters, [...]

So the very next verses, Luke gives us this scenario at a little village not far away. There's a funeral procession, and Jesus interrupts the funeral procession, and what does he do? He said, "Young man, get up". "And the dead [...]

Working through a study on the Gospel of Luke, I've invited you to, beyond your normal Bible reading, which I understand is a little bit of an extra lift, but I've invited you to read the Gospel of Luke with me repetitively. If your [...]

The challenge I think we faced is we've done these sinners parties and we've gathered to sympathize with their sin. We wanted to be sure they know we're empathetic, that we understand. Jesus met with them to call them to repentance, [...]

We're in the midst of a discussion that is really a review of the Gospel of Luke. I've been encouraging you, inviting you, to join me in reading the Gospel of Luke. It's extracurricular activity, I know. "We're already on 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 [...]

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 [...]

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, [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

I wanna talk to you about words, but I really have a bigger agenda. I'm gonna suggest to you that there's a spiritual authority in your words. That the words you speak in spiritual authority is a concept biblically that's intertwined. [...]

We're given several instructions and we don't hold the privilege of applying them randomly at our discretion. Why would we think there's anything different with our giving? Honoring our parents? Do you just get to honor them when you [...]

This is the second part in a series of talks I have done. We started in the previous session last night, I wanna continue. The title for this one is "Live Generously". I'm gonna talk about money, but we've already had the [...]

Well, I brought you the Financial Ten Commandments. These are not in Deuteronomy or Levit... well, they're probably there, but they're not arranged in the way I have done them. I took "thou shalt" and "thou shalt not" [...]

I wanna do a couple of sessions on a topic of money and power. And I think this really came from what's been on our televisions lately. The political conventions are over for a season. Hallelujah, I'm okay with that. It was a little [...]

The study we've been doing, walking towards Easter, has been called "The Intervention". And the Easter story is the culmination of God's intervention on behalf of humanity. It's something that was pointed to throughout the [...]

You know, the challenge with the word "generous," the weakness in the word "generous," the concept I think is apparent to us, and I like it a lot for that reason, But the weakness in the word is it's really not defined very [...]

I'm of the opinion that we're approaching the season that would suggest the return of Jesus to the earth is a possibility. I don't mean this week or this month. I'm not suggesting that. But it seems to me that many things [...]

I would compare that to David, Solomon's father. He didn't come from a notable family of power and wealth. David came from a pretty typical family structure. Now, he wasn't in the optimum position. He was the youngest. He had several [...]

The title for this talk is, "Legacy, Eternity, And You," and it's really a bit of a reflection on the readings we're doing. I hope you do the daily Bible reading with us. If you don't, I would like to invite you to. You [...]

I want to continue the theme that we began last week talking about our need for a Savior. Folks, we need a Savior. And if you don't know, his name is Jesus. The Bible says he's the Savior of the whole world. Not the originator or the [...]

See, there is no Savior besides God. He secures our future. He watches over it. That's what David understood. He said, "God is my rock. He is my Savior". He's even our Savior in times of distress, when we don't like the [...]

I want to take a couple of weeks and just talk to you about Jesus. You know, at the end of the day, he's my best friend and at the end of the day I want my life to bring honor and glory to him. And I don't have a better topic. And for this [...]

Our attitudes towards children reflect far more pagan perspectives than they have at other times. They are currently trafficking in children on our border in unprecedented numbers. They're being sold into slavery predominantly for sexual [...]

This session I've titled "The Shadow of Paganism" because I believe that the shadow of paganism has fallen over the contemporary American church, but I would put this discussion in a little larger context of Christianity pelagianism [...]

I think one of the reasons that we failed to forgive and that we failed to process it is we don't really think there's too much of a consequence for sin. You know, we just don't. We don't often see immediate judgment from God. [...]

We're working through a series under this general theme of "A Change of Heart". I believe that's really the only solution for the ills that face us. I think we all know by now we're in another election cycle, but as I have [...]

There's a power available to us that it can orchestrate a change of heart and may that change of heart begin within those of us who gather in the church. 2 Timothy 3 and verse 5, Paul is describing a lengthy set of characteristics of human [...]

I think the greatest need for transformation is within the church. I believe that those of us who imagine ourselves to be Christ-followers, can cooperate with the Spirit of God, he would bring about the changes that would bring transformation to our [...]

If we want to be participants in this moving of the Spirit of God that we say we're so anxious for, we're gonna have to be the ones willing to embrace change. We're gonna have to have a change of heart. We're gonna have to move [...]

I wanna start a series of talks under the general theme of a change of heart. I am convinced that our best future is dependent upon a change of heart in the midst of the people of God. I think it's far more important than economic cycles or [...]

Jesus has already been here once. Now, while his entry was rather inauspicious, the outcome of his coming that first time was dramatic. It was an intervention. It changed the course of human existence for time and eternity. But he's not done. [...]

The theme for this session, and this evening as well, is about interventionist in training because it's, our story is not just what God's done for us, but what God intends to do through us. We are not just consumers of the blessings of God [...]