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 [...]

Now, here's what I wanna do. The time of the prophets, remember, it's going to center around the time that the kingdoms have already split and there is a ton of idolatry. And so, then it becomes this era of the prophets and there come, [...]

You may be seated. I just want you to know before we open this book together, that on these sacred pages are no dead dry words. This ink right here is animated by the Spirit. Jesus said, "My words are spirit and life". That's what he [...]

And let the church say hallelujah and amen, in the name of Jesus. I'm going to read to you out of 1 Thessalonians chapter 2, verses 3 through 12. You and I are going to settle in on verses 7 and 8 but I want to give you a little bit of context [...]

Luke chapter 1 and just leave it wide open, and I want you to have out your notes because I'm gonna ask you about six points we have so far, and then I'm going to give you the seventh point, and we are gonna begin closing this thing up. [...]

One of the things that I see over and over and over again in the letters from Paul is that he is asking God for boldness. And he is asking the listeners of his letters, pray that I might be bold. Pray for me, that I may declare it boldly, and he [...]

Let's go on with our fourth point, then we'll read the text that backs it up. "This Jesus is the Jesus of Scripture". This Jesus is the Jesus of Scripture. That could not be more important. I want you to hold right there, but I [...]

We're talking about really knowing Christ. Not just about him, but knowing him. Knowing this Jesus from that Jesus. We're not gonna get to know him like this same Jesus, even on a podcast. Our pastors would tell us, "Yes, I believe in [...]

I'm going to be reading Acts 1 through 14 in a moment and then on through parts of Acts chapter 2, but I want to just go to the very first verse to begin with, and then I want to compare it back to Luke. So, Acts chapter 1, verse 1 says, this [...]

So, I want you to go back with me, what is one word? Two words. Three words. Four words. Five words. Six words. Seven words. We're on eight words. Nine words. Ten words. Eleven words. And 12 words. Okay, turn with me to the very end of Matthew. [...]

I didn't have this in my notes, so I don't know if I should say it or not, and this is when I usually say it. One of the things about us, this is, men can do this just as easily. It's just that I happen to be a woman, and so I've [...]

You're in John chapter 11, but I need to know what our first ready words in the red with seismic results have been. So, how many do we have so far? All right, I'm gonna need to know what they are and I've been thinking this morning [...]

You see, intimacy with God has to start right here. So I knew already. And you know how I knew I was gonna use this? Because over and over again, women on Twitter answered when I said, "What word from the Scriptures, in red, means so much to [...]

You have a seat please and turn with me to John chapter 6. John 6, and I'm gonna start reading at the 63rd verse. So give me a few minutes to lay some wet concrete down so that you understand where we're heading and the more we get into [...]

When Joseph woke up, he did as the Lord had commanded him. Several months later, we learn in Luke's Gospel chapter 2 that a decree went out from Caesar Augustus that the whole empire should be registered. So, everyone went to be registered, [...]

We will begin this hearing of the ancient eternal story in what will seem to many like a most unusual place. So I'm asking you to command your mind's eye to be wide awake and your heart to be fully engaged, and let your ears be inclined to [...]

The Word of God talks about tribulation from the beginning. The word that you would see if you looked up the word, sometimes even "trial" is a pressure, stress. Those words that are translated in various translations of the Scriptures, [...]

I want you to do something with me. I want you to turn to Galatians chapter 3. Galatians, so you're in Revelation. Don't lose it 'cause that's our text for this evening, but I want you to go back much earlier in your New [...]

You may be seated. You're opened with me to Revelation chapter 7, and I want to give a little bit of background for anybody that might be with us who has very little familiarity with the book. Without a doubt, it is the one that, if you [...]

Somebody needs to know that your anointing has not diminished with age. Aaron was older than you'll ever live to be. Anybody? Holy Spirit isn't subject to age. He is eternal. What happens is we go, "Well, I don't know. I'm [...]

Christ set our table with a feast for the soul. Everything our soul needs to feast is represented, symbolized on this table. Christ set our table with a feast for the soul. Now, it was under that particular point that we learned our parallels. And I [...]

Now, I'm gonna read to you. I do want you to jot this down someplace, but I'm not gonna turn you to it right now 'cause we got other fish to fry. Well, that was so good. I should've worked all sorts of food jokes into this. Maybe [...]

I have never studied this before, and I'll explain to you in a minute how I got intrigued with it. But I cannot wait to see what God's gonna do with it. I wanna tell you a little story. A couple of years ago, Keith and I were in a Mexican [...]

I was cleaning out my purse the day before yesterday. Small animals, enough food for a family of four, none of it any longer in the packages, I'm just saying. If you were that hungry. And I had all these keys. All these keys. All these plastic [...]

Remind me how many points that I told you we were gonna have, all right? How many points have we got? All right, and what are they? So start with number one. What is number one? That's exactly the way the psalmist begins the 73rd Psalm. He [...]

Listen, when it talks about the arrogant, I want you to go there with him 'cause you can picture this in 9 and 10 when it says, "They set their mouths against heaven, and their tongues strut across the earth". So literally this is the [...]

Glance on the page of Scripture with me at the 73rd Psalm and look just above it. In most of your Bibles, I know for certain any of your formal translations, it's going to have a little partition that is setting it apart right before the Psalm [...]

We have chronic resistance to dependency on God. We, honestly, y'all, we want him to rescue us, and then we want him to leave us alone. Come in, we want him to be, you know, the Emergency Broadcast System. We want him to be the EMT. We want him [...]

Turn to the book of Ephesians. I'm gonna try to stay attentive to what we're doing because we don't wanna miss anything of these Scriptures. So what we're going to do is bring back up our four-part confessional. Now, we're [...]

What I'm going to do now is talk you through a little bit of an illustration about what we're talking about. Now, listen, what I'm gonna do is I'm gonna strongly simplify it, and in some ways, then I'm even gonna make it [...]

Ephesians chapter 1, let me give you a little bit of the background here. It is a letter of the apostle Paul. It is one of his prison letters believed to have been written along with three others, Colossians, Philippians, and Philemon, during the [...]

One of the things that it has been very beneficial to me in my walk because I do come from a background of defeat, is that one of the things that would get to me is that I could not imagine particularly early in my walk to freedom, I could not [...]

How can you help somebody, and then help people, help people? This is how it just keeps going on and on. Help people and then they're... Listen, we don't just keep needing that same level of help. At some point, you know what? There is [...]

What we're hoping is that these are words that land. That's a difference between classroom, and that's what we're trying to do here together is that we're trying, we're studying here together that these truths would [...]

Now, by this time, you have two points down and we're about to take down the third and most important one so far. I want to remind you what we've got. Number one, we have everything it takes to be the most compelling people on earth, and [...]

I'm going to do something I would not normally do to get us started on our concept. I'm gonna keep your Bibles closed, if you would. I'm not gonna have you open them from the top because I wanna start trying to get you thinking toward [...]

I want you to jot this down with me. This is point number four. Point number four. This is where all that leads. "When Jesus drives, all passengers thrive". My ongoing prayer over and over and over again is, "Jesus, be the driving [...]

The art of growing up, that we're gonna get to the end of our lives, and God, if he has had his magnificent way, is gonna have such a masterpiece for us to see when we get there that he has done with the course of these years and these days and [...]

Psalm 90, verse 10, if you want to jot that verse down so that you'll know where it's stemming from as I say these words. Psalm 90, verse 10 says this: "The years of our life are seventy, or even by reason of strength eighty". [...]

Turn with me in your Bibles to Ephesians chapter 4. Now, I've gotta tell you something. This is part of my memory work right now. So, when I tell you I shouldn't have even been surprised that this is where God would land it, because this [...]

So, we get to end our thoughts together in our passages on joy. We looked first of all at an overview of the section of the Psalm that we're studying, so that we looked, first turn to Psalm 126. We read it together, then we pulled out the lens [...]

I want to read Psalm 126 to you tonight out of the NIV. This is the psalm that, the translation, rather, of the psalm that I first began to love this section of Scripture in. So Psalm 126. "When the Lord restored the fortunes of Zion, we were [...]

Now let's do a bit of recapping before I read another translation of Psalm 126. So, a couple things to get our minds right where they need to be. What is our collection of Psalms called? And you're giving me that "s" on the end [...]

All right, you are at Psalm 126. Be seated. I'm gonna read it to you, and then we're gonna study the context of it, but let me read it to you for now. I'm reading out of Psalm 126, verse 1 through 6, and I'm reading out of the [...]

You know, I truly do believe that corporate worship is just a taste of what it will be like to be completely free. Anybody know what I'm talking about? When you really, really give way to it, and I believe maybe somebody is here this weekend, [...]