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 [...]

Moses wrote more of the Bible than any other single individual. Moses. The second person that wrote the most, you'll never guess, would be Ezra. You never guessed him. Third would be Luke. Fourth would be Paul. So you can look at the Bible and [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]