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 [...]

We have been doing a study from the Gospel of Luke and it has been a blessing in my life. That's really why I shared it with you. I had the opportunity to spend a disproportionate amount of time reading through the Gospel of Luke. And there was [...]

Again, I think we've had a different imagination. We thought, because we sat in the same church together and we shared community together, or we stayed in the same denomination and we read the same translation of the Bible, that we would all be [...]

We've been working through the Gospel of Luke for a few sessions, and I've invited you to do a little extracurricular reading. I won't ask for a show of hands because I know you're all participating. I'm an optimist. [...]

It's good to be with you again. We're continuing our discussion on Jesus, his followers, and politics. You know, I wanna be really clear. We'll work on it more in the lesson, but the gospel is the solution for the transformation of [...]

I find we are very comfortable talking about first century ideas. We're completely at home talking about the political circumstances in the first century that resulted in Jesus's execution. We are much less comfortable talking about the [...]

We've been working through this study in the Gospel of Luke. I'm just about to, I'm gonna take a break. I wanna come back and do something similar I think with the book of Acts, but I think this is the 12th session with Luke. [...]

We're living through a season where there's been a massive failure within the church. We've lost more than 60 million children. And there's not an overwhelming outcry from the church. We're almost silent. We say, "We [...]

We've been doing a study on the Gospel of Luke and I've invited you to a little extra reading assignment, for which I know you're just thrilled beyond all measure, beyond our normal Bible reading. Once a year, as a congregation, we [...]

Isn't that what we hear all around us? We're offended by the truth of God's Word. We're told not to talk about it, it's a cultural conversation and we shouldn't have it. Baloney, it's biblical. And if you're [...]

How many of you have read the Gospel of Luke with us in these last few days? Good, I think. I've asked you to invest a little time beyond your normal Bible reading patterns to read the Gospel of Luke. We've spent several sessions now [...]

You don't have a message until you establish in your heart who Jesus is. It's not about joining a denomination or finding a worship service you like or a preacher that you enjoy or the translation of the Bible that's easier for you to [...]

We're doing a study in the Gospel of Luke. I have encouraged you to consider accepting an additional reading assignment beyond your daily Bible reading. Although our daily Bible reading has been pretty much on point this week, I thought to get [...]

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 [...]