Jesus preached that the Kingdom of God has come and calls us to repent and enter through the narrow gate; in the Sermon on the Mount’s conclusion in Matthew 7, He uses three parables—two gates, two trees, and two houses—to reveal whether we truly [...]

On Easter, Christians worldwide proclaim Christ's resurrection from the dead; drawing from 1 Corinthians 15:3-4, the preacher explains that Jesus died for our sins, was buried, and rose again according to the Scriptures, providing historical [...]

Biblical marriage forms the foundation for parenthood, where unconditional love between husband and wife overflows to the children; drawing from Jesus' elevation of children in Mark, parents must prioritize kids through discipline in early [...]

John the Baptist preached the bad news of human sin and rebellion to prepare the way for Jesus, who baptizes not just with water but with the Holy Spirit and purifying fire; through His baptism and victory over Satan’s temptations in the [...]

Drawing on neuroscience's discovery of brain plasticity through thinking, the preacher argues we can rewire our brains for health and happiness, rejecting genetic determinism; biblically, renewing the mind (Romans 12:2) enables true worship, [...]

In Psalm 4, amid Absalom’s rebellion and personal slander against David, the preacher finds glimpses of New Testament salvation—personal deliverance by grace, practical relief from toxic critics, sanctification through trials, and true worship by [...]

The preacher teaches that we truly apprehend and understand God's Word only in His presence, which brings His power; to enter that presence requires unconditional commitment—total surrender without holding back—and first dealing honestly with [...]

The preacher defines a worldview as a philosophy of life rooted in Genesis, with four Christian cornerstones: loving God wholeheartedly, loving neighbors, loving one's spouse, and loving children by training them up in God's way through [...]

The preacher reflects on Psalm 23's promise that goodness and mercy follow believers all their days, leading to eternal dwelling with the Lord, but notes many missed a proper childhood; using Luke 2:40-52, he shows Jesus' unique recorded [...]

Drawing from Michelangelo’s Creation of Adam, where God eagerly reaches out while Adam remains passive, the preacher illustrates how God is always near and reaching toward us as Emmanuel. Through Jesus' early ministry—calling disciples who [...]

The preacher warns against the dangerous «gray» approach in parenting—lacking clarity, absolutes, and decisiveness—which stems from relativism and leads to tragic outcomes for children. Instead, parents must have clear biblical goals: training [...]

David, a man after God's own heart, faced devastating family consequences from his sins with Bathsheba, particularly through his passive fatherhood that led to rebellion and tragedy with his son Absalom. In Psalm 3, written while fleeing [...]

Noah's story shows a man of faith who obeyed God by building the ark despite ridicule and a countercultural life, leading to salvation for his family amid judgment. Drawing from Hebrews 11, faith is defined as reason leading to belief and [...]

The preacher explains that though God is omnipresent, sinful humans cannot approach Him in prayer without holiness, which comes only through the blood sacrifice foreshadowed in the Ark of the Covenant. Using the imagery of the mercy seat covering [...]

Drawing from Acts 5:12–15 where people sought healing even in Peter’s shadow, the preacher teaches that every Christian casts a «shadow» of influence that is never neutral, and the way to lengthen and widen that godly influence is not by striving [...]

In the midst of fleeing from his son Absalom's rebellion during one of the darkest times in his life, David pens Psalm 5 as a morning prayer affirming his covenant relationship with the personal God Yahweh, asking Him to listen, lead him [...]

Introducing a series on the Psalms as a profound book of praise, prayer, and prophecy that teaches authentic, raw communication with God, the preacher turns to Psalm 2—originally linked with Psalm 1—to contrast godliness with the ungodly rebellion [...]

Jesus sharply rebuked the cities of Chorazin, Bethsaida, and Capernaum for witnessing His miracles and hearing His teaching yet refusing to repent, warning that their judgment would be harsher than that of wicked pagan cities; using the metaphor of [...]

Drawing from a story about Frederick Buechner's autobiography and likening the Bible to God's own autobiography, the preacher explores salvation through Jesus' miracles in Luke 5, showing how a relationship with Christ transforms our [...]

Using a vivid Vermont lake illustration to contrast misguided "faith" with true biblical faith, the preacher examines Jesus' encounters in Luke 7 with a centurion's remarkable trust in Christ's authority, His triumphant [...]

Biblical Foundation for Discipline 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 [...]

Jesus promises abundant life through abiding in Him as the vine, producing fruit like love, joy, and peace. The preacher challenges believers to examine their growth, urging maturity in Christ through a transformed mind, heart, eyes, feet, and [...]

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 [...]