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 [...]

In 1878 some archaeologists were digging around in the sands of Egypt, and they ran into an obelisk with hieroglyphics written on it, and they translated the hieroglyphics and they discovered a civilization, a culture, a nation, that heretofore [...]

Jesus began his public ministry in Jerusalem, in Judea, on the temple mount, there at the temple. The perfect place to begin, would you say? And when you read the Bible about the temple that can't be talking about the temple mount, which is an [...]

I'm in heaven, it's the first sunrise I've ever seen in heaven. I have on my resurrected body, this old shell was thrown away. Now I've got that resurrected body, it's going to take me about 50 trillion years even to [...]

Four hundred years, no word From God. Temple worship went on. Sacrificial system continued. All the special days were religiously observed. A form of godliness, no power, until we read in the Gospel of John, there was a man sent from God whose name [...]

I love to read biography! I've read a lot of biographies... Somehow when you walk inside the skin of men and women, significant, insignificant, historical, Biblical, I just love biographies! How many of you like biographies? Lift your [...]

A brief look at El, E-L. We're not going to exhaust our study but when you see the name E-L or the initials, E-L it stands for God. That E-L is mentioned 238 times in the Old Testament, E-L. We looked last week at the God of creation, he is [...]

When I was a boy, I played flat out. Know what that means? I just, whew. I wasn't the fastest or the biggest or the strongest, and certainly not the best athlete, but I'll tell ya, when I entered into a contest, I didn't leaven [...]

We're all familiar with somewhat Psalm 23, even those outside of the understanding. We know that famous passage. We've talked about it. We've exegeted it recently, and it begins "The Lord is my Shepherd". and we hear that at [...]

I heard someone say, in conversation, loneliness is hell. Now, they didn't know that, but they made a very profound theological statement. Because loneliness is, indeed, hell. We search for definitions of hell, we look at the Bible. Fire and [...]

Jack was almost 6'4", weighed about a smooth, oh, 265 pounds, ex-marine, big, strong, bombastic, personality just everywhere. If you knew Jack you liked him, he was a man's man, he was everybody's friend, he loved life, and he [...]

Elvis has left the building. That famous phrase has been applied in these years in many, many different situations. Major League baseball game, someone hits it out of the park, homerun, and the announcer a might say, "Well, that ball has left [...]

I looked today at Easter in a new way because I've come to a realization that I am terminally ill. But you also are terminally ill, everybody here. We just don't know how long the term will be. In light of that, Easter has new meaning for [...]

Everybody here would like to have the power of God at your disposal, in your repertoire. We need the power of God to help us in our business, helps us in our vocation, health challenges we might have. In any area of our life, all of us would love to [...]

If you just came from outer space, didn't know anything about church and Christian history, or any doctrines of biblical truth, and somebody would tell you that the death of a man who lived over 2,000 years ago has relevance for you, you'd [...]

Mark 14:12, "On the first day of Unleavened Bread, when the Passover lamb was being sacrificed, His disciples came to Him, 'Where do You want us to go and prepare for You to eat the Passover?'" Verse 22, "While they were [...]

Several years ago in the "Wall Street Journal," a writer penning words that went something like this. He said, "Money is the passport that will take you anywhere you want to go, except to Heaven". And said, "Money also is a [...]

Proverbs 25:11, "A word fitly spoken is like apples of gold inbaskets of silver". Beautiful, flowing Verse, isn't it? A word fitly spoken is like apples of gold in baskets of silver. The picture here we receive in Proverbs is one that [...]

Well! Every survey you read says the basic need, number one need of every married man, take any survey with almost no exceptions... It may be verbalized a little different. The number one basic need of every married man is sexual fulfillment. The [...]

We are wrapped up with superheroes. When I was a boy, I went to the movie almost every Saturday. Cost a dime. Can you believe that? And I watched Roy Rogers and Gene Autry and... most you've never heard of, Whip LaRue. Anybody ever heard of [...]

The theme of this Scripture is Jehovah-jireh, God will provide. So, when I say Jehovah-jireh in the service, you will answer... Jehovah-jireh. "Now it came to pass after these things". After these things is where we begin as we ascend [...]

41 years ago, I showed up in Houston and I met CW Maxcy, who's Lee Maxcy's dad, and he came up to me and he said, "Do you know anything about Texas history"? I said, "Well, I've heard of Sam Houston and I've heard [...]

God told Joshua to go and possess the land and to wipe out the Moabites, the Jebusites, the Amorites, all the Canaanites. Wipe out all the -ites in the land, so God's people could go and become his peculiar people, wholly separate to him [...]

Four hundred years, the Children of Israel. We have the Israelites right here together in this bunch, 400 years in slavery. God working through Moses brought them into freedom, but still they thought like a slave, acted like a slave, and they could [...]