Jacob, now there's a guy. By definition, his name means "slick". It does. Deceiver, usurper, con artist. What a low down, dirty, rotten scoundrel he was and he lived up to his name. So, we're going to excavate Jacob. And by the way, we see [...]

Another aside I practice that a little bit and I put that down and Winston thought it was a big bone he'd been looking for all his life. Shofar. Read your Bible, look in your concordance, look up shofar and you'll see that all the way through the [...]

In our culture, I think we all know that marriage is in trouble. The Bible begins with marriage, and in Genesis chapter 2, we know that Genesis 1 is an account of creation, Genesis 2 is a commentary, an explanation of chapter 1, which dealt with [...]

It's amazing how a lot of us can go to church, some Bible study classes for a long time, periodically all of our life, but still be basically biblically illiterate. Matthew chapter 22, a lawyer asked Jesus, "What is the most important [...]

Google "heaven" and you know what you'll see? Miles and miles of white clouds. You may see an angel or a cherub with a little halo around. You may see a harp of some kind but on and on and on and on you get the world's picture of heaven [...]

Perhaps you noticed in the news that 007, Roger Moore, died this past Tuesday. He was 89 years old. He made, what, seven or eight different movies, all of them very popular? He was a man with a gun. He was a man who was a spy for Great Britain but [...]

Revelation, I was in seminary, I took a class on Revelation for an entire year. The first day of class, our professor Dr. McDowell said, "If anyone puts on S on Revelation, you're gonna flunk the course". It's Revelation, the last book of [...]

What kind of bodies will we have in heaven? What will heaven be like? What will you look like? What will I look like? And we'll immediately go to the prototype of the kind of bodies we'll have and that's a resurrected body of Jesus Christ. We see [...]

Every second three people die. Every minute 180 people die. Every hour 1,1000 people die. Every day 250,000 people leave this earth. The mortality rate is 100%. A hundred percent. And therefore when we cease to function as a living person in this [...]

John chapter 13 is a tough chapter when you know that Jesus had only a limited amount of time, a few hours to stay in this world. The cross was a few hours away. So, here he is in the upper room, talking to the Apostles, giving them his last words [...]

The most misunderstood word is the word love. The word love is abused so many, many times when we utter that word. The second most misunderstood word is the word faith. We misuse faith all the time. We abuse that word. We have the idea of faith is [...]

A lot of people like trivia. Now, we hear trivia and we say, whoa. Trivia like, I don't know, beetles taste like apples, hmm. Wasps taste like pine nuts, hmm. Worms taste like fried bacon. Now, if you doubt that, Mark experimented, he'll tell you [...]

Once every generation or so, you have just an outstanding young man come along. He was graduated from high school top of his class, played four sports. Was an excellent athlete. Received a full academic scholarship to Rice University, and there he [...]

We're studying a book of sheer philosophy. Somebody would say, "Well, I came here to study the Bible and you mean to tell me we're going to study a book that contains sheer philosophy"? Absolutely, there's nothing more confusing than to [...]

What will be your legacy, Dad? What will be your legacy? Everybody has a legacy. So, the question is, Dad, what will be your legacy? Imagine, for a moment, that you're attending a funeral service and you're seated in the back, and the casket is down [...]

Now, of all people that we could name in the Bible, or outside of the Bible, as to what we discovered about God's guy for the 8th century, Elijah, he'd be the last person on the list that I would ever think would be caught up in burnout or [...]

In the 8th century B.C., there's a man named Elijah who lived 800 or 900 years before Christ. On the throne of Israel was a pagan king named Ahab, and everybody knows the name of his wife, Jezebel. But with the rule of Ahab and Jezebel, we have [...]

Oh, about in the late 1980s, 1990s, the end of last century, most of the scholars, and erudite people, and philosophers in the Western world predicted that by the first decade of the 21st century that religion would be an anachronism in America. [...]

I'm from Mississippi and I love the name of a little town there called Soso. S-O-S-O. It's interesting how that town got its name. It's still a little community of, I don't know, maybe a couple or three thousand people, and when they were building [...]

In biblical days, the rabbis would walk around and teach, but when they sat down that indicated hold on. They were going to say something really eternal and important and, therefore, they were no longer walking around, but now they sat down, and the [...]

For three different sessions, three weeks, we've been on Mount Sinai, remember? That's the one Moses went up. Eight different times, he got up there and stayed 40 days and 40 nights. We've only been there three weeks. And God spoke to him those ten [...]

You can't blend in when God gave you the calling to stand out. God has a message delivered to the world through everybody that's here, everybody on the planet. If that message does not get through to the world, through your life, that message will [...]

We have a wonderful member of our church, Ron Still, he gave his testimony here to a group of men, deacons, last Sunday night. And Ron stood up, he just opened up his life to all of those guys in a very candid way. Remember, when somebody shares [...]

Basic principle we need to have established over and over again, and that's the providence of God. God is running this universe. He always has, he always will. And he does it somehow without violating. Man's gifted by God to be a free moral agent, [...]

Most of us have bucket lists, maybe not consciously written down, but subconsciously. You know, "I'd like to go there. I'd like to have that experience". And we have all these things that we dream about that we plan to do, or want to see [...]

So, we're going to climb up the Mount of Transfiguration. Now, people have asked the question, "Well, where is the Mount of Transfiguration"? A lot of people think it's Mount Horeb and that's what Jerome said, and I've been on top of Mount [...]

Strategic word of Scripture found in Psalm 1:27. It reads, "Unless the Lord builds the house, they labor in vain who build it". Say after me, "Unless the Lord builds the house, they labor in vain who build it". Do you realize [...]

How many of you have had some kind of conflict in your marriage within the last decade, that's 10 years? Would you lift your hand and hold it up? Lift your hand if you're married, if you've had a conflict, lift it up, in the last decade. Hold it up. [...]

Today, we're talking about marriage, a foundation of marriage, and I read in 1 Corinthians Chapter 3 that Paul is talking about the foundation of the church in Corinth, and he says, "I planted," in other words, Paul planted the church. He [...]

Sticks and stones may break your bones, but words will never harm you. Did your mother or dad ever tell you that? It's a lie. It's an outright lie. Sticks and stones break your bone, but words do bless us, or words do harm us. And it's amazing how [...]

Romans 13, I think, is the 7-up Chapter of the Bible. You say, "That's kind of silly". Someone told me if you'll say silly things that'll be memorable, so all you can know, all I know about Roman 7, it's got 7-ups in it, and I want you to [...]

"What do you want from me"? I've been asked that question. You've been asked that question. Just what do you want from me? And sometime, we can use the same verbiage and have totally different meaning. "What do you want from me? What [...]

What if everybody in this church were like you? What kind of church would we have? Would we be able to turn on the lights? Would we be able to sing? Would be able to have worship? Would be able to go on mission trips? Would we be able to care for [...]

What if you decided you wanted to give something to God? What if you decided, "I want to give God something"? What could God use? What does God need? What does God want? You talk about somebody's got everything? Ehhh, somebody's got it [...]

Open your Bibles, if you would, to Jeremiah, Chapter 17. I'll begin reading with Verse 9. Then I'll skip and read to Verse 13 following: "The heart is more deceitful than all else and is desperately sick. Who can understand it"? KJV, [...]

John chapter 14. Jesus says, "Do not let," stop it, "do not let your heart be troubled. You believe in God; believe also in me". What's he saying? He said, "If you believe in God," yes, "you believe also in [...]

You'd be amazed how many times people ask me, how you stay so passionate about life? How do you stay fired up all the time? You seem to have fire in your belly! How does that happen? Ladies and gentlemen, I decided a long time ago that I was going [...]

From Native American lore, there is a story that I just can't forget. An Indian brave was walking under a large, high cliff, and he looked down and saw an eagle's egg, and he picked up that eagle egg, and he couldn't climb the cliff to put it back [...]

And as we look back on Solomon, this as you may know was his autobiography, his memoirs, and he has walked us through a tough, tough place. He is talk about meaninglessness, and he says, "I've tried power, possessions, pleasure, projects". [...]

Sir Winston Churchill was a master of the English language. If you've not read his history of the II World War, I encourage you to do so. It'll help us to understand, you and I, western civilization in a way that you will never have through any [...]