I’m so happy to have the privilege to talk to you about the things of Christmas, and thank you for being such a great audience and allowing me to be a teacher, which I love to do. J.B. Phillips has written a Christmas fantasy. The fantasy involves a [...]

Back in 1824, a 12-year-old boy watched helplessly as his father was taken to the March Chelsea prison in London for unpaid debts. He was crushed. School ended, and this young boy was sent to work at Warren’s Blacking Warehouse, where he spent 10 [...]

Well, you know I have been speaking on the Holy Spirit, and today as we conclude that series, I want to ask you a question. I want you to think about this. Here’s the question: What is the greatest evidence of someone being filled with the Holy [...]

Lately, it seems there’s an award show on TV just about every week. Have you noticed that there are the Emmys, the Golden Globes, the Academy Awards, the People’s Choice Awards, the Screen Actors Guild Awards, the Country Music Awards, and the [...]

Somebody once asked comedian Jerry Seinfeld how to get better at telling jokes. His answer was pretty simple: the way to get better is to create better jokes, and the way to create better jokes is to write one every day. Then he explained how he [...]

We have been studying on these Sundays the ministry of the Holy Spirit. It’s been kind of a new thing for many of us, and we have learned a lot. We’ve learned about how to walk in the Spirit. We’ve learned about what it means to be filled with the [...]

DL Moody was one of the most influential evangelists of the 19th century. You’ve heard me talk about him over the years; he’s one of my favorite characters. He left a successful career in the shoe business to share the gospel. During his brief 62 [...]

When Walt Disney opened Disneyland in Anaheim on July 17, 1955, it covered 160 acres of former orange groves. Opening day was chaotic; rides broke down, paint was still wet, and the pavement was so soft that women’s high heels sank into the asphalt. [...]

We are studying the ministry of the Holy Spirit, and today, I want to talk to you about the fruit of the Spirit, which is a term used in the New Testament. During World War II, a young teenager tried to enlist in the Navy. He was only 15, but he was [...]

If you have ever watched a halftime show at a basketball game, you know just how hard they try to keep the crowd entertained. I mean, there are Frisbee- catching dogs and trampoline dunkers and even dancing unicyclists. But at a recent Las Vegas [...]

It was the fall of 1940 in a small village in southern France. Four teenage friends and their dog, whose name was Robot, were trotting along a countryside road. As they wandered near a hillside, Robot scampered toward a hole in the ground near a [...]

We’re studying the doctrine of the Holy Spirit. People want to know who the Holy Spirit is and what in the world He has to do with life. We’re going to talk about that today as we focus our attention on a verse of Scripture in Ephesians chapter 5, [...]

Today I want to talk with you about the subject of heaven and why it won’t be boring. And I want to begin with a little epitaph, an old poem about a tired housewife that’s been shared for years in books and cards. I don’t know who wrote it, but it [...]

Lately, it seems there’s an award show on TV just about every week. Have you noticed that? There’s the Emmys, the Golden Globes, the Academy Awards, People’s Choice Awards, Screen Actors Guild Awards, the Country Music Awards, and the Grammys. And [...]

There aren’t many normal days on the site of Camp 3 near the summit of Mount Everest. The camp is usually set up at an elevation of around 24,500 feet, which is within the death zone caused by frigid temperatures and significantly reduced oxygen. So [...]

Way back In 1962, Brendon Grimshaw accomplished something most people only dream about. He purchased his own private island in paradise. He bought a tiny spit of the Seychelles Island in the Indian Ocean just above Madagascar. The island called [...]

Sheila Walsh : Let me ask you something. Have you ever had a quiet moment, maybe in the middle of a busy day or just lying awake at night, when you’ve wondered, is this really all there is? Maybe life feels full but something still feels missing. [...]

Almost 100 years ago, a young missionary in Ecuador named Raymond Edman staggered in the jungle, desperately ill. «He be dead by morning,» the doctor said, and his wife dyed her wedding dress black, readying it for the funeral which, in the tropics, [...]

In the Old Testament, Habakkuk the prophet struggled and he said, «O Lord, how long shall I cry, and You will not hear me»? And Job wrestled with it. Job said, «Oh, that I had one to hear me! Oh, that the Almighty would answer me». And David said [...]

The daughter of an atheist once told a friend that she had been raised without any religion. «I don’t believe in God, » she said. And then a little wistfully she added, «But the other day I came across an old German book that contained a prayer, and [...]

«Ask, and it will be given to you; seek, and you will find; knock, and it will be opened to you». These three instructions, ask, seek, and knock, are in the imperative mood. Now, I’m an old English major, so that means something to me, but let me [...]

We are pretty self-sufficient people, but that has caused us to make prayer our last resort when we’re in trouble. We make prayer so difficult. Prayer may be mysterious, but it’s not complicated. It’s simple. And in this series, I’m going to teach [...]

Sheila Walsh : Let me ask you first of all, where did your interest and your passion to understand prophecy begin? David Jeremiah : Sheila, I grew up in a pastor's home and my dad who loved the Word of God. Every year when I was growing up, we [...]

David Jeremiah : Please help me welcome Sheila Walsh. Sheila Walsh : Oh, Dr. Jeremiah, this is so exciting. So this new book is amazing, "The Coming Golden Age". But honestly, I don't think I've heard many people talk about [...]

Vladimir Putin called it a special military operation, and the rest of the world called it the largest ground invasion in Europe since World War II. In the early hours of February 24, explosions erupted across Ukraine. Russian airborne forces [...]

Is it reasonable for us to hope that lifespans will increase in Christ's millennial kingdom? Yes, it's more than reasonable and we can more than hope. We can believe in the historical testimony of God's Word and we can rely on the [...]

Sitting on 37 acres of land southwest of Colorado Springs is a place called ADX Florence. It's the most secure prison in America. If you could walk its corridors, you'd pass a who's who of criminals, including Zacarias Moussaoui, who [...]

In her 2011 Christmas broadcast, Queen Elizabeth said, "Jesus was born into a world full of fear. The angels came to frightened shepherds with hope in their voices. 'Fear not,' they urged, 'we bring you good tidings, great joy [...]

Eliezer Ben-Yehuda and his new wife, Devora, sailed wide-eyed into the port of Joppa, which is in Israel. They had dreamed forever that they would be able one day to step into the Holy Land, and now their dream had come true. They arranged to get [...]

In the aftermath of World War I, the Red Cross recruited American young men to travel to Europe to help the suffering masses over there, and one farm boy from Missouri caught the vision. He was too young to apply, but he forged the date on his birth [...]

It was 10 o'clock on September 15, in 2021, and the town of Denton, North Carolina went dark. More than 1,400 people found themselves without power, which is a big deal in a town with a total population of 1,660. A little later that morning, [...]

It was March of 2022, and Martin Douthwaite began walking on a crisp March afternoon in Selby, England. His plan was to make a circle around his village walking completely around it, and then around it again, and then around it again. In fact, he [...]

Ohio surgeon Michael S. Kavic once wrote in a medical journal that when interviewing candidates for a surgical residency, the qualifications he looked for were not necessarily the qualities you might expect: a high intellect, excellent hand-eye [...]

Dean Karnazes stumbled as he reached the front porch of his San Francisco area house. He had just spent an evening celebrating his 30th birthday, and he was really drunk. He had a successful job in corporate America, but he didn't know what his [...]

On May 26, 2013, 4:30 p.m., a massive ocean swell slammed into the Jascon-4, a tugboat towing a oil tanker off the coast of Nigeria. The waves sprayed sheets of water across the deck, cracking a piece of the hull and flipping the vessel over on its [...]

It was a dream come true from Roman Yurkov. As a 35-year-old car salesman from Tula, Russia, Yurkov had his share of financial troubles, including a gambling habit. Like most people in his community, he was doing the best he could to get by. Then [...]

Sheila Walsh : You've heard the saying, "Keep the faith," but what does that mean for us as Christians? Hello, I'm Sheila Walsh, and I'm so excited about what we're going to be learning today. Dr. Jeremiah is here to [...]

Israel is a very special place for anyone who goes, and I always wondered, until recently, why, when you walk the streets of Jerusalem or you walk in Israel, there's this kind of aura that comes over you, and I finally figured it out. I was [...]

Donna and I were staying in the hotel in New York City in front of which a man drove his car up over the curb and ran down over 20 people. One 18-year-old girl was killed as she was walking along with her sister, and many were sent to the hospital [...]

I heard a story once about a mother who got a call from school saying that her young daughter was ill. She hurried to pick up her child and then she called the doctor, but the doctor's schedule was already overbooked that day. He could see the [...]

There's no such thing as luck. Anything that happens to you, good or bad, must pass through his fingers first. There are no accidents with God. I like the story of the cowboy who applied for health insurance, and the agent routinely asked him, [...]

Jim and Carol Cymbala are good friends of ours. Donna and I have known them for many years, and almost every year we go to New York City to speak at the Brooklyn Tabernacle. Some of you remember when I was sick, Jim took off a Sunday from his great [...]

"It was the bottom of the sixth inning, and the Montreal Expos's most feared hitter, Tim Raines, was at the plate. The pitcher, kicking high, threw as hard as he could, and it was the last pitch he would ever throw. A loud, sickening crack [...]

Jenna Rose Alpern and her husband had just welcomed their first child into the world, which is an exciting time for any young couple, a time of transition and change and a time of growth, and in their case, a time for a new apartment. As residents [...]

When you study prophecy, you know there's a certain kind of a major outline that holds it all together. If you've been around here very long, you kind of know the next thing that happens is the Rapture. After the Rapture, there's [...]

In Romans 13:11 through 14 there is a signature passage, "And do this knowing the time, that now it is high time to awake out of sleep, for now our salvation is nearer than when we first believed. The night is far spent, the day is at hand. [...]

I read a story about Ashley Irwin, who was slightly amused and slightly alarmed when her young son, Wyatt, asked her to pull down his Marvel-themed duffel bag, and he told his mom, "I've got a big trip tomorrow". At first Ashley [...]

In one of his final messages, Dr. Billy Graham wrote in his "Decision Magazine," he said, "The days of Noah are returning to the earth and a catastrophe as great and terrible awaits those who refuse to enter into the ark of salvation, [...]

Robert Murray M'Cheyne was a brilliant, highly influential pastor. He was a poet in the 19th century, and he died of typhus before his 30th birthday, and many people thought that his life was wasted because he lived for such a short time, yet [...]

In all of his mansions, there's not room big enough for all of his awards. Sir Paul McCartney may go down in history as the greatest musician of all time, a founding member of the Beatles, and a man who became, as the Guinness Book of Records [...]