I want you to notice something. You've got to see the juxtaposition of the end of 14 and the beginning of 15. Remember, the Word of God was inspired by God. It is God-breathed. But the chapters and verses were put in later. That's to help [...]

Do you know that we were doing a little bit of checking, many of you have some kind of smartphone, most of them will have cameras on them. And we did a little checking and the best camera on an iPhone that you can get currently is 12 megapixels. So, [...]

Do you have eyes and do not see? Because we can have eyes with 20/20 vision and he's still going like, "Can you not see"? Well, what is it you're trying to show? Can you not see? What are you... can you not see? Now, here's [...]

Let me tell you something. He's come to speak in power to us because his Word is fresh and alive, what sets it apart from anything else we could read. It's not just ancient words that are dried up on the page, but these are living words [...]

Slavery and captivity. Know the difference? Well, this one, this one's always gonna be for us after we know him. This one will always be that there was a warning. I've gotta tell you something. From the time that I ever was writing, you [...]

Something I ask for my own life and the lives of my children and grandchildren all the time, "Lord, get all the glory. Drain us of every drop by the time we're gone. Get every drop of glory you can get from us". Produce much, produce [...]

Here we are. Now, I hope so much it does not hide the fact that we're going to be talking about the land of? The land of? Go ahead and go with me to Exodus 3 because he says it, I'm talking about the Lord, from the very beginning when he [...]

If you're like me, when I try to bring something up on my phone, when I try to look on the web for something, if it does not come up in 15 seconds, I'm done. I'm like, forget it. I'm not taking all day with you. I have a really [...]

What I am hoping we have before us is the kind of concept that will not only be intriguing to us, it's intriguing to me, but that will be helpful to us, that it would give us insight into our own journey with God and that we'll really, [...]

All right, now I want you to look at 116, verse 7 again. I told you this would be big to us. "Return to your rest, O, my soul, for the Lord has dealt bountifully with you". Would you go with me now to Ruth? You're gonna go to the book [...]

In the glorious and holy name of Jesus, everybody say, "Hallelujah" and "amen". You may be seated. You have got your Bibles open to what Psalm please? Psalm 116, and I'm gonna read to you the first 16 verses please. It says: [...]

This is one of those verses that you put a star by in the margin because the concept is tremendously meaningful and it needs to be down in the marrow of our bones. It's about Christ, of course, Christ the great High Priest. You probably see [...]

You may seated. Where are we in the scriptures? Psalm 116. Let me tell you a little bit about it before we get started in it. The book of Psalms is actually five different books within the canon that we call Psalms. There's Book 1, Book 2, Book [...]

All right, do you remember that he's just described the people around him as "sheep without a shepherd". They're distressed, they're dejected. It's a word that also means oppressed and harassed. Asked his disciples to [...]

I'd like for you to turn with me this time to Matthew chapter 10, and then we're gonna scoot up and grab in a little bit of chapter 9 with it. So go with me, our primary text is going to be Matthew chapter 10, but we're going to do a [...]

Do you remember what point number one is? And we're looking back to chapter 5 of Matthew. Number one, we live in a magnetic field polarizing the needle of our compass. Number two is this. Christ calls us to recalibrate our compasses to the [...]

I was raised to think constantly about missions. So, by the time I would have been three years old, everyone, I would have known these passages by heart. So, I want to say them to you. I'm gonna be reading out of the CSB translation. This is [...]

Why would Abram be afraid? I read one commentary today, and I'll always think that a scholar knows better than I do. But it still sort of hit me strangely, as he said, he talked about the fear of the armies that had fled from the four kings. [...]

You may be seated. You should be open to Ephesians chapter 6. We are going after a phrase in the Scriptures that is going to lead us where we want to go in a couple of different places in the pages of the Word. But I want you to hear the context of [...]

This is the neatest Word. I think about it so often. I think about it a lot in prayer and will say it back to the Lord. The word that is "to know hearts" is a compound word in the Greek, so it is a putting together of... heart is [...]

So remember, we're getting some for-real rehab for approval addicts, and we're learning that it doesn't have to do with numbers. We could be as addicted to the approval of one person as someone else is to a full public of tens of [...]

We're gonna get some insight into the warnings that Jesus gave us about people pleasing and about being very, very careful when we look around us and a lot of people are really pleased with us because he's saying, "I'm gonna tell [...]

You may be seated. I want you to turn with me, if you would please, to 1 Thessalonians chapter 2 and then I would like for you to also get Galatians 1 in your hand so that you are ready to go back and forth between the two. Hold at 1 Thessalonians [...]

"A new commandment I give to you, that you love one another as I have loved you, so you love one another". Now, here's the rub: So we're new creations. New creations. But we're still living on the old creation, earth, amid [...]

Now, the very first thing, if we wanna get really technical, the very first thing that God created was time because it says: "In the beginning". Well, for there to be a beginning, there now is time because it's coming out of the [...]

You and I cannot fully appreciate any part of what's happening in Revelation 21, unless we get some of Revelation 17, because he is meaning to contrast the two. He is saying, "Come, I will show you the prostitute. Come, I will show you the [...]

Revelation 21, now why in the world do I have you in Revelation? Well, because for the last year, I have been going through a workbook that is put together for "busy believers," it says. It's a "read through the Bible" plan. [...]

We're talking about God working in the inner man, and it's so imperative that we're in the Word of God; because if we're not, we don't know how his character goes and what is absolutely contrary to anything he would ever [...]

What's our question on the table? How do we become strong sisters? This whole day is about how to be a strong sister. Say that after me. How to be a strong sister. Okay, number one was what? Girl, we're going to learn to share our space. [...]

This has been a huge thing that God has been doing in my own life and in our ministry at Living Proof back in Houston. What this is doing, if we'd be willing to be part of it, is to push back really hard on the celebrity culture that is [...]

In the glorious name of Jesus, everybody, say, "Hallelujah and amen". You may be seated. You're in the book of Ephesians. I want to go to three different places in it with the intention of showing you a pattern in it that is [...]

I am so full of joy to be with you, and to start this particular journey. I've gotta tell you something that is unique to my experience in teaching the Scriptures and doing curriculum. I did not mean to write a Bible study on Galatians. It was [...]

Be seated. I'm gonna read one more time through John chapter 15, but this time I'm going to read through verse 17, instead of verse 11, because we're gonna tag a little bit more to it in order to end it where it needs to be ended. [...]

Grapes are the single most profitable fruit on the planet. See, is it any wonder in our parallel, of all things it is a grapevine Jesus is talking about in John chapter 15 when he speaks of our fruit-bearing. Turn with me there. We're gonna [...]

Isaiah chapter 5. I want to read verses 1 through 7. Do you notice, when you look on your page, and will you notice with me that this portion of scripture is written in what looks like verse. When you look just prior to it, in most of your major [...]

I have had as much fun studying for this lesson, doing the research that it's taken, getting ready for you in this particular theme, in this particular lesson's climate as I have ever had in all of these years. I cannot wait to share this [...]

This would have been well understood by anyone who had ever seen a Roman soldier. The shield would not have been something like oblong. It would've been something rectangular that looked like a small door. Now, in those days... I was reading [...]

Now, remember we have three different metaphors going, and we're going to get into all three of them during the course of this day. We've got a running metaphor, so I've come ready to demonstrate that. We have got our boxing metaphor. [...]

Paul is about taking aim. What is it in your few moments, I think he would challenge us to say, that you are aiming your life toward? What is your aim? Go with me to 2 Timothy 3:10. "You, however, have followed my teaching, my conduct, my aim [...]

All right, our text is toward the very end of 1 Corinthians chapter 9, but I wanna give you just a little bit of context so you know what we're going into. I want you to glance at the headings that most of your formal translations will have [...]

Romans chapter 8. My verses are 9 and 10, and they say this, "You, however, are not in the flesh, but in the Spirit, if indeed the Spirit of God lives in you. If anyone does not have the Spirit of Christ, he does not belong to him. Now if [...]

We can trip over our own feet, we can trip over someone else's feet, and we can trip over Jesus's feet, and on the other side of that colon, what word do you have there? "Offense". Everybody, say it again. We can get offended by [...]

From Genesis to Revelation, if you're looking for what would be a common denominator of a calling, well, it is when God appoints, the immortal invisible appoints a mortal to make something about him visible. Number two, calling - I'm [...]

One of the things that I will do very often with the Lord and very often on my face, is I will just say to him take it, take it all. Take it all. Take it all. Here's my physical body, use it up. Here is my mind. And Lord, we've only used, [...]

Here's the beauty of the Word and you know it because if you have some seasoned time in the Scripture, you have this in your history. You have experienced this over and over again, that somehow, no matter how many times you've seen a [...]

Jesus said that the kingdom is near us and that the kingdom is in us, and yet our feet are not yet in it. So if you ever wonder why it is we are strangers in this world, well, because our citizenship is in a different place and here we are and very [...]

Turn with me please to the book of 1 Peter and chapter 1, 1 Peter and chapter 1. You're going all the way deep in your New Testament, and I'm going to start reading at verse 1 through verse 13. Let it sink in as we go. "From Peter, an [...]

I want you to look now at the lions. You, of course, noticed that Daniel is thrown into the lions' den and when you think about what it would be like to be thrown into a den of hungry lions, we are reminded that humanity in its depravity has [...]

So we had hoped to be here at Woodlands United Methodist. This is such a strong church in our area and we're so fond of it and it has such a wonderful reputation for loving Christ in our city. And we had hoped to be here with a group but here [...]

I want you to go with me to the book of James, first of all, James chapter 1. James chapter 1, I want you to go there, and I'm also gonna grab on to Proverbs 3. So, you head over to James 1 and I'm gonna meet you there in just a sec, [...]