Turn with me to John chapter 15. John chapter 15 and I'm also going to open for you, because it's very important that we make the distinction. One of the things I love to do is if I see Jesus speak something over the disciples, then I love [...]

Would you turn with me, please, to Luke, chapter 10? Oh, we're gonna have fun today. We are gonna have some fun today. See, I think Bible study is a blast. We have to get involved with it and get in there with it, not separate the Word of God [...]

My job as a teacher is to make sure the best of my understanding, led by the Holy Spirit, that you remember our lesson. And so I'll do anything: Corny works for me. Cheesy works for me. Whatever it takes to have enough rhythm to it or to be [...]

Everybody say, "Amen". Would you have a seat, please? And would you turn in your Bibles to Deuteronomy the 30th chapter. Deuteronomy 30. Now, I'm just wondering how many of you are facing some pretty big decisions right now. Can I see [...]

I have this little list of prayers that I've come up with that are based on Scriptures that talk about different things that God has opened. He's opened the mind of the disciples to understand the Scriptures. He's open this of someone [...]

Here's what I want to do in the coming moments. This huge hindrance is that many of us feel like we're not getting a lot out of our time with God. What's that supposed to look like? For some of us, you're, like, "You know, I [...]

So Isaiah 40 and you get to just plant yourself right there so I'd like to hear a couple of different things from you so that we can review it because the more we review it, the more you say it, particularly the more you write it, the more [...]

Throughout Isaiah 40, in several different places, God takes on the idols of the world, and he's going, like, "Why would you trade me in for them, things you made with your own hands, and you're gonna worship them when you have got [...]

Throughout the 40th chapter of Isaiah, there are two things, two attributes of God that are both being showcased and are being showcased gorgeously in juxtaposition, I mean, going back and forth, volleying between them, and they don't seem like [...]

All right, you and I are gonna compile a list of points together that help us be able to wrap our minds around the beauty of Isaiah chapter 40, and it beings right here, "God is both transcendent and immanent". There is no other. He is [...]

Wonderful people of the west, I have to tell you something, if you sense the power of God in the building, you need to know in case you came from a distant enough place that you did not realize that early afternoon, this whole entire area lost all [...]

You may be seated. I've gotta tell you guys something. I have actual humans in the room with me today to teach for the first time in several months. What a wild thing to think that somehow over these last months the Lord has just brought us all [...]

From the very top tonight, we're going to the book of Genesis. That's the very beginning, go there with me, Genesis 24. I'm going to do something a little bit frustrating because I'm not going to teach the passage in its proper [...]

Would somebody turn in their Bibles with me, please, to Hebrews chapter 12, the 12th chapter of the book of Hebrews. I'm gonna pick up at verse 18, "For you have not come to what may be touched, a blazing fire and darkness and gloom and a [...]

So, I'm gonna ask you a series of questions and I'm gonna be asking you for the names of females that you would be able to answer that question with. And you can use their first initial, as long as you can remember it later, or you can use [...]

The story we are about to retell never, ever gets old to me. You know how some stories, you could just hear it over and over again, and it probably has to do with the fact that somewhere in your journey, you had such need of it that it became such [...]

My daughter, Amanda, is married to my son-in-law Curtis, who is the pastor of our church. They are a very, very fun family. They have three kids: a middle schooler, and then Annabeth my namesake is nine, and then they have this little two-year-old [...]

We'd have to have lived under a rock not to be aware of the sexual abuse scandals that have surfaced in the last several years all the way from Hollywood, to houses of worship, rocking denominations from Roman Catholicism, to Southern Baptists. [...]

You may be seated, and you are where in the Scriptures? Joshua chapter 10, now I want to tell you a little bit of background. This chapter has one of the most fascinating scenes in all the Old Testament right in the middle of it, perhaps you're [...]

I wonder where your heart is as we meet in this place. I wonder how many of us in this room have the guts to come completely, honestly before the Lord Jesus because that's the only way that the Word lands is the spirit of truth. We come to him, [...]

Have you been havin' a little trouble concentrating lately? Would some of you say, "Yes", if you would? Can I, just, please, can I see your hand? Do you feel like your mind is just all over the place? Anybody in the house? How about [...]

Tonight, as we open up our Bibles, I want you to approach it like it is nothing else on this earth. You will never hold anything in your hands, nothing that you can hold in your physical grasp that is like the Word of God, nothing, nothing, [...]

Would you turn with me to the gospel of Mark chapter 4, the gospel of Mark chapter 4? And I want to center on verses 24 through 34. As we launch our topic this weekend, I'm very, very excited about what we've come to talk about. But I want [...]

Our concept does come like flying like a bird, right out of Psalm 124, and it will lead us elsewhere. Psalm 124, I'm reading to you out of the ESV tonight. "If it had not been the Lord who was on our side", anybody, "let Israel [...]

You may be seated. I can't wait to tell you where to turn. Turn with me in your Old Testaments please to 1 Samuel chapter 17, 1 Samuel chapter 17. Do you see a little caption before you get to that very first verse of 1 Samuel chapter 17, what [...]

Now I wanna show you these are my three most recent Bibles and to tell you where I got the theme, you've got to know that I have a brand new Bible. Now, this is the one just prior to it, and this is the one just prior to it. And before this, [...]

So starting, first of all, I'm going to read to you out of Matthew 21. I want to give you a little bit of our context here. If you'll look toward the beginning of that chapter, you're going to see that this is the triumphal entry. For [...]

All right, would you sit down and would you turn with me to Colossians chapter 4, Colossians chapter 4, written to the brothers and sisters in Colossi, where he had never been, but had many relationships and it is believed probably because of the [...]

You may be seated. Would you turn with me to Matthew chapter 15. I wanna read to you verses 29 through 31. Matthew 15:29, "Jesus went on from there and walked beside the Sea of Galilee. And he went up on the mountain and sat down there. And [...]

I want you to turn with me to Ephesians chapter 1, Ephesians chapter 1, and I have thought and thought and thought how in the world to tell you. I'd like to explain how a particular theme came to my heart and what God used to bring it and stir [...]

Hey everybody, I am so excited to be able to invite you into a brand new two-part series that's going to take us a little bit off road from our usual format. This one is called, "Let's Talk Family". For these next two programs, [...]

Let me tell you what's in the Scriptures for us in this gathering place. You and I are a large gathering of women who are going to encircle and surround an original little pack of women that traveled alongside the living Lord Jesus Christ, [...]

I wonder if you would go with me to John chapter 20, John's Gospel, the 20th chapter, verse 1, "Now on the first day of the week, Mary Magdalene came to the tomb early, while it was still dark, and saw that the stone had been taken away [...]

Genesis 18, I'd like to read verses 1 through 8 and then we'll come back a little later in the lesson and pick up a few more verses of it. It says, "And the Lord appeared to him," that is going to be Abraham, "by the oaks of [...]

Turn with me to Psalm 30 as you're seated please. The 30th chapter. "I will extol you, O Lord, for you have drawn me up". Somebody say, "He has drawn me up". Beautiful, "And have not let my foes rejoice over me". I [...]

We are here to digest what God is doing. I want my Word, and I want it to become part of me, and the more you just engage, the more you're gonna find he's gonna do and make it stick. Now, we're opening up to the book of Colossians. [...]

I cut my teeth on the Word of God in this church, a different campus, but in this same fellowship of believers. I also became a worshiper at this church. I was in my early 20s when we first started coming to First Baptist Church of Houston, Texas, [...]

I want to teach you, if you don't already know it, what a homograph is. A homograph is one of two or more words that are spelled alike but are different in meaning, or derivation, or pronunciation like to bow, this would be to bow. But if you [...]

Would you turn with me to Revelation chapter 1, Revelation, the very first chapter. I'd love to read verses 1 through 9 to you out of Revelation chapter 1. This is the Word of the Lord: "The revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave him [...]

I gotta tell you something. Very few things fascinate me in the human experience like the inspiration of Scripture through the Holy Spirit. We understand from Scripture that it has all been God breathed, inspired by God himself, through all of these [...]

Proverbs chapter 8, this particular Old Testament book falls in the genre of wisdom literature alongside Job and Ecclesiastes, and much of it is believed to have been written by King Solomon, and it is written to his son, and sometimes we see the [...]

Four scenes in four completely different sets of circumstances and socialization and I want you, if you would please, in all four of these scenes, try to picture what the expression of Jesus might have been. Because what do you think in that moment [...]

Joshua chapter 4. I'm gonna read verses 1 through 18. Let me give you a little bit of background. For 40 solid years, the children of Israel have been in the desert, in the wilderness, having been set free out of the wonders and mighty works of [...]

Our word this weekend comes right off the page, verse 12, Philippians chapter 1, where it says, for I'm just gonna tell you, I'll paraphrase this, that what has happened to me has actually happened to, here's our key word, [...]

Luke chapter 2, and let me get you a little bit up to speed as we get there. Luke chapter 2, so we made a lot of distance now because what we're tracking is not just the history of Israel. What you and I are tracking is the up and down of the [...]

Now, here's what I want you to do, turn with me to Exodus 34:28 and then also 29. This is really interesting. And "So he was there with the Lord forty days and forty nights. He neither ate bread nor drank water. And he," And this he [...]

If you’ve got your Bibles with you I want you to turn with me to the 27th chapter of the book of Acts. Acts 27. And if you’re able to grab a Bible, get it and sit down for a few minutes if you can. If not, while you are doing whatever you need to do [...]

I’ve got to tell you something that happened a couple of weeks ago. I just cannot get it out of my head. You need to know that I laughed at my own self when it happened. I was at a speaking event. I had a conference that weekend and I was in West [...]

I want to ask you about something, what happens when some of the suffering that we're going through we know good and well, we caused. I wonder if anybody, just anybody, just one person out there is dealing with any painful consequences. Anybody [...]

I need to be known. I'm just not known, I've got a need to be known -- an innate need, as created in the image of God, there is something in me that I just got to know that somebody wants to know me. Anybody know what I'm talking [...]