Jesus did this. He knew when it was time in the garden. Remember in the garden of Gethsemane? He takes Peter, James, and John with him, and he says, "You stay..." So he's got the 12. Judas has left, so he's got the 11. He takes 3 [...]

I'd like for you to turn with me before we go back over your points to John 19, and I'm gonna ask you to hold there for a moment. So John 19, and just hold your Bibles open there, and we're about to go for it in just a moment. But I [...]

Ephesians 5, and I want to read verses 15 through 18 to you. What I'm seeking to do over the next few minutes is prove to you, scripturally, which is what you should want, prove to you scripturally that what we're talking about this [...]

I'm gonna have you, if you would please, to turn to Galatians chapter 5, but you're gonna hold for a moment there. Now, we are gonna make seven points about God moving among us and us learning how to move with him. But what I need from you [...]

Turn with me now to Hebrews chapter 11. Hebrews chapter 11. That portion in Genesis 22, they don't even have him saying a word till the third day. Now, I didn't mean he didn't, but isn't it something? I mean, can you think, I [...]

Tell me the three, we've been to three lands already, three venues, three places, and part of our objective this weekend is that you and I are trying to figure out which present land we're in. We're also looking back over our shoulder [...]

What would happen if we just let God be God over everything else that we cannot control? What would happen if we did not? Now, I don't feel weird about this because some of you have a babysitter with some kids and you're needing to stay in [...]

You may be seated and turn with me to 1 Samuel chapter 3. I'm going to get you camping at chapter 3, but we're going to glance back at 2 for just a moment, talk about the unfolding of what's happening in 1 Samuel. Because we're [...]

We ought to stick out in our workplace because we're filled with the Spirit, and we're empowered. Listen, he's very, very good at real estate, very. If you're a real estate agent, you can honestly say to him, "You know, I [...]

What our premise is this weekend is about getting it deepest down. At the deepest conviction we have, way down in that soil, is that we are immeasurably loved by Jesus Christ, and not just we but I and you, immeasurably loved by Jesus Christ. Now, [...]

I want you to listen to these words. I'm going to read to you these measurements that are immeasurable. I'm gonna read them to you out of the NIV. Listen to the wording. It says, "And I pray that you, being rooted and established in [...]

Would you turn with me to Ephesians chapter 3, please, Ephesians chapter 3. Our text for our theme this weekend will be found in verses 14 through 21. Ephesians 3, "For this reason I bow my knees before the Father, from whom every family in [...]

Amen, you may be seated. All right, would you tell me as you're seated, let's go through one through five and I'm gonna get you started and you're going to complete it. Number one is this: shadows... They cannot exist apart from [...]

Isaiah 49:2 says this: "He made my words like a sharp sword. He hid me in the shadow of his hand. He made me like a sharpened arrow. He hid me in his quiver". Isaiah 51:16: "I have put my words in your mouth and covered you in the [...]

Everybody say hallelujah and amen. Now, while you're on your feet, tell me your two points. Number one is what? Shadows cannot exist apart from life. Doesn't that feel good? Alright, and then number two is what? The strong human bent is to [...]

Shadows change with the seasons. I know you probably knew that, but it was a good reminder to me that the tilt of the earth's axis affects the lengths of the shadows. So during the summer, our location is tilted toward the sun. That makes the [...]

Would you turn with me to the book of Colossians chapter 2. The book of Colossians chapter 2. What I'd like to do with your permission is read you 19 full verses before we ever get started. We're going to lock in on a theme that comes late [...]

Let the peace of Christ rule. So, you know when we want like how can I say, how can I say? Speed dial. You know when we need a speed dial? In other words, we need quick access. This is the one to remember. So, say your waters, those waves are [...]

Now, I wanna look at our working definition of peace. And as I do, I wanna ask you to turn to John chapter 7, John chapter 7, so that I can show you where we are drawing this metaphor. A couple of times in the Old Testament God speaks about wanting [...]

Here's the premise I want you to take down because this is where I want us to go from here. This is what I'm presenting to you as a foundation for us to build on, right here. The cost of going on and on without experiential peace is [...]

You may be seated. Would you turn with me, if you have your Bibles, to John chapter 14. If you didn't happen to bring your Bible, that's no problem. I'm gonna read you everything that we are going to need to hear from the scriptures. [...]

I want to bring to your attention Matthew chapter 13, verses 51 and 52, because they are so beautiful. Matthew chapter 13:51-52 says this, Jesus asked them, he's been telling them parables, he wants to know, do they understand what he's [...]

Okay, before we think in terms of the rich store of wisdom, salvation and knowledge, I want you to just think about stability for a moment. I did this with my team last night. I said we just went around the circle. But I mean, we're you, [...]

Here's what we're learning, and we're turning, I'm asking you to have open Luke chapter 6, verse 45. I wanna read it to you again, a good person, now, remember from our previous lesson, what we're talking about when we say [...]

Go with me to Luke 2, to perhaps the most familiar story in all of New Testament scripture to people because it is going to be the birth narrative. We're gonna go to the point in the narrative where the baby has been born, the angels have [...]

You may be seated. I'd love to read to you out of Luke chapter 6 starting at verse 27. Now, our text that you and I are really going to be focused on isn't going to come into play until about verse 40, and then through that last portion [...]

Now, listen carefully, there is a rule, an unbreakable rule in the Word of God: that without the shedding of blood, there is no remission of sins. There is never a time when it departs from that truth. Always, always, always, any time there is, [...]

Notice the hem. I just love this. Notice that it says, "I saw the Lord seated in a high and lofty throne, and the hem of his robe filled the temple". Okay, so why a hem? Why a hem? Well, several of the scholars said something that I am [...]

Alright, go back to 2 Chronicles 26, I want to remind you where we've been. So, the leprosy or the skin disease has broken out on the forehead of Uzziah, the priests have gone out dragging him out, and he himself indeed was anxious to leave. [...]

This is our theme, this, what I'm just calling this, majestic irony. All the already having in the entire world, can't compare to being marvelously helped. I would imagine that some of you that have also known the Lord decades of your life [...]

You and I are going to study starting out of 2 Chronicles chapter 26. We're jumping right in the middle and toward the latter part of the book of 2 Chronicles. So, before we get into it, let's have a little bit of context. So, I need you [...]

I started thinking to myself, when it comes to knots, there are perhaps three kinds of people. Those who love to tie knots, anybody? I find it interesting that God would have me give this lesson at exactly this time because Keith and I have an [...]

In the glorious name of Christ Jesus our Lord. Everybody say, "Hallelujah and amen". You may be seated. Please turn with me, if you haven't already, to Daniel chapter 5 and I'd love to give you a little bit of background so that [...]

In the glorious and holy name of Jesus, everybody say "Hallelujah" and "Amen". You may be seated. Turn back with me to Philippians chapter 1 and 2 please. And I thought that I would tell you a little story of something very [...]

For some of us, we think our circumstances are our problem. No, our thinking is our problem, our thinking. We're always gonna have hard circumstances. Those are never, ever... one will fix and another will break. "Thinking the same way, [...]

All right, Philippians chapter 1. Let's go back to our three points from last night: the darkness has never seemed darker. Number two: we stars, we have never had a chance to shine brighter. Number three: unlike planets, each star possesses [...]

We're going to make a series of five points. Now listen. Originally I had six points, but I had to lose one of them. Why? Because a star only has five points. So, I'm a very obsessive-compulsive thinker, and so my mind nearly broke over [...]

You may be seated. And would you turn with me to Philippians chapter 1. Our scriptures are going to be coming out of about midway through chapter 1 to about midway through chapter 2. I want you to glance at it, and I want to give a little bit of [...]

Now, I want to go back to our text in Hebrews 10:19 through 20 with Hebrews 4 still in view. So keep it in mind. And I want to go through it. So if you're open to Hebrews 10, it says, "Therefore, since we have boldness," in 10:19, [...]

This is something I wanna speak over you before we head on to review and get into this morning's lesson. I can tell you this much. That what he has called you to do exceeds your natural gifting. It exceeds your skill set, as skilled as you may [...]

What is our confession is what we're doin'. We're goin' back to the fundamentals. What is it we're confessing? Working definition of confession in early New Testament church practices was this: a way of expressing allegiance [...]

I am thrilled about what we're about to study. I don't know about anybody else, but, man, this is some kind of day we are living in, isn't it? I mean, can I just say to you that no matter where you've been on any issue, any side, [...]

Listen, okay, Jesus does not promise that life will always be fun, but he does promise that it can always be fruitful. He said, "You abide in me, I'm going to tell you you can't go through the thing that I cannot produce fruit from. [...]

Do you see where Syracuse is? What is that? Tell me what that land is called. Sicily, these are places. It's so important, it's one reason why I love to have you look at a map, because you know these places. This is not a fable. These [...]

In the glorious and beautiful name of our Savior and redeemer Jesus. Hallelujah and amen. You may be seated. Now, I am a rabid reader. I don't mean a rapid reader, I mean a rabid reader. I am serious about the things I read. I'm even [...]

One of the things I just love about studying, especially, like, the prison Epistles, especially the books that have a lot of commonalities, I love to think about when you see a lot of similarities in some of the wording in Colossians and Ephesians, [...]

You and I are going to be looking at verses 12 through 14 together, but I want to start us back at 3, so that I can get us, we're in Philippians chapter 3 and verse 3, and I want to read all the way through 15. "For we are the [...]

I was thinking to myself a few minutes ago, when I was thinking through that beautiful passage about us again, or God's people again, that need recovery so badly, picking up those tambourines once more. And I thought about something that has [...]

I wanted to show you guys a picture of my bird dog. She's just a baby. She's two years old. Her name is Creak. We call her Creaky. And that's Creaky right there. She's a German Shorthair Pointer. And right there with her are two [...]

Our theme is "The God of Again," and it made me think of this particular excerpt by G.K. Chesterton, "Orthodoxy", "Because children have abounding vitality, because they are in spirit fierce and free, therefore they want [...]