Today we’re going to look at the Kingdom of God. Is that a big enough topic for everybody? We’re going to discover whether you and I are in the Kingdom or whether you and I are not in the Kingdom. People always ask, «How do I know I’m a Christian? [...]

Three billion people who are Christians around the world will be celebrating Easter today. On five continents, every ethnicity, and virtually every language, a worship leader will stand before the congregation and express his profession, his [...]

We talk about parenting. First of all, we spent several weeks discussing what it means to have a marriage based on biblical principles. I firmly believe and can affirm that if the Bible teaches us about marriage, if those principles are not true, [...]

There’s always bad news before there’s good news, ladies and gentlemen. In the gospel, well, the gospel is good news. There’s bad news before there’s good news: we had to realize, be convicted of our sin and our rebellion against God before the good [...]

Neuroscientists, those who study the brain, have found a switch that you and I can turn on in our brains to be healthier, wiser, and happier. Did that sink in? Now everybody asks, what in the world is that switch? It’s your mind. It’s my mind. You [...]

We read in Psalm 3 how Absalom, the son of King David, launched a revolution. Every time a decision was made by David and those in power, Absalom would go take the opposite course. In other words, he set up a new system of justice that was contrary [...]

How do we apprehend the word of God? I’ll tell you exactly how we do it: with the presence of God. It is only through the presence of God that we have the power of God. We try to use the power of God, as did the Israelites who faced the Philistines, [...]

What is a worldview? Somebody will say, «Well, I don’t know.» Let me tell you exactly what it is: it is a philosophy of life. It is how you and I view life — animal life, Homo sapiens, human life-and how we relate to the universe and to the Earth. A [...]

We’re familiar with the 23rd Psalm. Right at the end, it says, «Surely goodness and mercy shall follow me all the days of my life, and I will dwell in the house of the Lord forever.» I heard someone teach on this passage years ago. He said, «You [...]

I’ve had the privilege of going to the Vatican and visiting the Sistine Chapel on several occasions. The last time Joe, Beth, and I were there, we got what they called a backdoor tour. Our guide knew someone there, and we went into the Sistine [...]

We hear a lot about colors: red states, blue states, purple states, white, green, black, orange. We hear a lot about colors, but there’s one color that is a very, very dangerous color. I don’t think you could guess what it is. It is an angry color; [...]

David was a man after God’s own heart. He wrote 72 of these Psalms; he was a harpist, a singer, a composer, a leader, a genius in any way you look at it. From a shepherd boy to taking care of Goliath, how he handled Saul when he was seeking to kill [...]

Noah was a man of faith, the Bible tells us, and he had a wife and sons, married wives, and they had a household-a family of faith- which was countercultural, going in the opposite direction of everybody else on the planet. So judgment came in the [...]

We have the idea-well, I can go and pray to God anytime. Oh, He’s omnipresent; He is. But you and I can’t pray anytime because I am unclean and you’re unclean. We go to God, and God is holy, and God will listen only to people who are holy. So you [...]

Our scripture is from the Book of Acts, Chapter 5. I’ll read verses 12 through 15: «At the hands of the apostles, many signs and wonders were taking place among the people, and they were all with one accord in Solomon’s Portico. But none of the rest [...]

We’ve been studying the book of Psalms. We’ve already looked at Psalm 1 and Psalm 2; they are the introductory Psalms. Originally, they were just one Psalm. Then you move on to Psalm 3, which we have looked at, and we’ve also examined Psalm 4. Now [...]

We’re going to study a part of the book of Psalms as our preaching menu for the next few months. I’ll be honest with you: I’ve been reticent to do this. Not that I haven’t spoken on Psalms or taught on Psalms; it’s just one of those books that’s [...]

To what can we compare this generation? With that question in mind, I encountered something I had never heard of before. There’s a special category of goats called fainting goats. Did you know that? By the way, these goats have the finest cashmere [...]

Dr. David Peterson was pastor of the Memorial Drive Presbyterian Church in Houston, Texas, for many years. Dave tells a story that when he was in seminary, he studied a man by the name of Dr. F.R. Frederick Buechner, who is a well-known scholar, [...]

Anybody here who has ever lived in Vermont, would you lift your hand? You lived in the state of Vermont? Surely out of 5,000 or 6,000 people, somebody’s lived in Vermont! Am I not seeing your hands? Where? Back there! Stand up, Vermont! Stand up for [...]

Hebrews chapter 12, verse 11: «Now no discipline seems to be joyful for the present, but painful. Nevertheless, afterward it yields the peaceable fruit of righteousness to those who have been trained by it.» And it is discipline; God loves those He [...]

We’ve been talking about having a life coach for a long time. Then we moved from having a life coach to discussing how we can proceed and progress in our Christian walk. I looked at some verses and reviewed them again. In John 10:10, Jesus said, «I [...]

We begin the new year in just a few days. Some of us will go to the supermarket and as you’ll go out the supermarket, you’ll see there inevitably those newspaper, journals there and they’ll have predictions, remember? And they’ll have all the [...]

Neuroscientists, those who study the brain have found a switch that you and I can turn on our brain and will be healthier, wiser, and happier. Did that sink in? Now everybody asks, what in the world is that switch? It's your mind. It's my [...]

Serious words in 2 Timothy chapter number 3. So many times we listen to Scripture and we don't apply it. I want you particularly this Christmas Eve, especially this Christmas Eve in this moment of history in the world in which we live, see if [...]

Emmanuel means God with us. And that's Christmas. I love to quote and I do every Christmas Phillips Brooks' words. On that first Christmas, he said, "God came down the stairs of heaven with a baby in his arms". That's [...]

I love Christmas. I don't know why, I just do, don't you? Something about it, something about it. When you think of Christmas, I think of home. When I think of home, I think of Christmas. But, around the world today, there are 271,521 [...]

Sometimes when you're perusing around the Bible, open it to the first chapter of Judges. Joshua had led the children of Israel to conquer the Promised Land. He didn't clean out all the evil that was there, demonstrated in the lives of all [...]

Now, the book of Romans is different from all the other letters that Paul penned. It's radically different. All the other works of Paul were generally answering questions that he had been asked. He was trying to deal with problems in the [...]

Let's just take an examination, and let's just look for a moment as what it is like in marriage, in intimacy to live within the boundary of God. What is it like in marriage to live within the boundary of God? And then we are going to see [...]

Our Scripture is found in the book of Exodus. In Hebrew, the first word in chapter one of Exodus is and, and all this happened in Genesis, and. And then we move into Exodus, and I want you to notice what's going on. Beginning with verse number [...]

It was probably about 3 o'clock in the afternoon, Friday. The announcement was made: Jesus is dead. I'm sure the whisperers went out everywhere. He's dead. He's dead. Jesus is dead. Normally, when a criminal was executed in such [...]

There was a time on this earth when Adam and Eve, their mind was in perfect agreement with the mind of Almighty God. The garden of Eden, pristine utopia. God, mankind. In the garden there was beauty, joy, freedom, celebration, because the mind of [...]

God created time. Let that soak a while, okay. That answered so many things. God created time. And from the first nanosecond of creation in the beginning, God, from that first moment when He spoke time into existence all the way through history, [...]

Let me ask you a question: Would you let someone spoke in this pulpit, this evangelical, believer in Bible, if they had been part of the persecution of many Christians in the Middle East, you would have seen a lot of people be executed and they [...]

Now I want us to read this together. Would you do that? Listen to it. Read it with me: "Why are you down in the dumps..."? Time out! All twelve of you! Read it with me! Here we go! "Why are you down in the dumps, dear soul? Why are [...]

Everybody did what was right, but they were wrong. It's the last Verse of the Book of Judges-Judges 25:21 says, "There was no king in the land of Israel, so everybody did what was right in their own eyes". In their own eyes... When [...]

If God took each and every one of us-every one of us over to one side and looked you and me right in the face and asked this very personal, intimate question, how would you answer it? How would I answer it? If he asked this: "What is the [...]

It's amazing how interest in last things wanes and swells. Sometimes there's a lot of interest; sometimes there's little interest. Primarily I've noticed it centers around what's going on in the Middle East. And when there [...]

I want you to repeat after me eight words, "When I am weak, then I am strong". Does that make any sense at all? It's a paradox. Weakness, strength. When we're weak, then we are strong? Doesn't that sound like nonsense, silly [...]

Our Scripture is found in Psalm 119, verse 105, "Your word is a lamp to my feet. And a light to my path". Say that after me, "Your word is a lamp to my feet. And a light in my path". In 1917, in Petrograd, Russia, now St. [...]

Motherhood, to be a mother, is the most demanding job on the planet. To be a mother is the least recognized, rewarded job on the planet. But to be a mother is the most important job on the planet. Without any question about it. And mothers [...]

In 1898, a young student named Johnny Campbell became the first known cheerleader in the United States of America. On the campus of University of Minnesota, an athletic contest was taking place, and Johnny Campbell stood up and led all of those in [...]

There's something about large public trials that have always attracted people. When there's an issue on the line, or a life on the line, and decisions must be made, and it is taken into the public arena, there's something magnetic [...]

What is a Christian? Most of us can give an answer to that. A Christian is someone who is convicted of their sin. They confess that sin, they turn away from that sin, and they invite Jesus Christ to come into their life and to clean up their act and [...]

Right at the beginning of the earthly ministry of Jesus, we read in John chapter number 3 and John chapter number 4, about two individuals who came to know Christ. These two individuals could not be more different. The first was Nicodemus, came to [...]

What is the operative word, the basic factor that leads to war? What is the thing that is there? We look at Mao, we look at Adolf Hitler, we look at Tojo, we look at Stalin, we look at Idi Amin, and we can rattle off all of those who led in war in [...]

Ed Young : Recently, my son, Ben, interviewed me about what our home was like growing up. Let me tell you something confidentially. I was nervous. I assure you, as you will be able to see in a few moments, it was unscripted and unrehearsed. But in [...]

So, we need to learn how to parent in the world in which we live. You know what parenting today is like? It's like building a fire in the rain. You ever tried to build a fire in the rain? I have. It's tough, isn't it? Man, a lot of [...]

"All right! You want a healthy family, a healthy marriage, here's the list! Where are you failing? Try harder"! Isn't that what you expect? That's not what you're gonna get, because if you've been around for a [...]