When you and I do more than is expected or reasonably required for us to do, we're on God's team. Listen carefully, I want you to respond. When you and I, when we do more than we are expected or required to do, that means that we are [...]

"Happy People Run from Lust". That's our title. Do you think the title is true? Could it be the reason we, in the United States of America, with all of our affluence, are still rated among the most unhappy people on the earth, could [...]

It was toward the end of the day and a desperate, young housewife, whose husband was away at battle with the military, decided to take a shower. And she gets undressed and goes and pulls down the window shade but leaves it, you know, not [...]

"You have heard that the ancients were told, 'You shall not commit murder' and 'Whoever commits murder shall be liable to the court.' But I say unto you," said Jesus, "that anyone who is angry with his brother [...]

A child's question, "Who made God"? Isn't that a question children ask? I can remember, I don't know exactly when or how old I was, but I can remember asking that question, "Who made God"? Anybody else remember [...]

How many of you like to get on the water? You like the water, whatever, raise your hand. Aw yeah. How many of you would just as soon, you never got on a boat and got in the water again? Would you lift your hand? Yeah, yeah. About 60% like it and the [...]

"It was the best of times; it was the worst of times. It was the age of wisdom; it was the age of foolishness. It was the season of light; it was the season of darkness. It was the spring of hope; it was the winter of despair. We had everything [...]

You would think that we would spend our time and our thought and our energy on things that are most important to us. Things that are really of value. We wouldn't spend a lot of time on peripheral things; on passing things... We'd sort of [...]

From 1892 to 1934, Ellis Island, Statue of Liberty right in the middle of it, was the port of entry for people who came from all over the world. Little plaque there, "Bring me your huddled masses," and the rest of it, "yearning to [...]

Charlotte, North Carolina, a man bought a box of rare cigars, very, very expensive cigars, and he insured them. And before he made his first payment for covering those cigars by insurance, he reported a fire in which a series of little fires [...]

Luke chapter 15 is something. It can be outlined, all three parables, by lost, found, celebrate. First parable's the story of lost, found, celebrate. Second parable, lost, found, celebrate. Third parable, lost, found, celebrate. And the [...]

When Jesus came, the theme of what he was about, what he brought into being was the kingdom, the kingdom of God. And in the Bible, the kingdom of God, the kingdom of heaven, in the New Testament for sure, is interchangeable. So you read Matthew, [...]

How do you add 1/2 and 1/3? Oh, come, we've got one literate mathematician in the group. You get a common denominator. The common denominator, the lowest would be 6. So 1/2, we'd turn it into 3/6, and 2/6. You'd have 5/6, right. Not [...]

Duck Dynasty! Phenomenal thing! All the pseudo-entertainment people look at that and say, "Why do millions watch"? But we get it around here, don't we? We pretty well understand that. By the way, we have a Bible study class named Duck [...]

And our little phrase today is "God will what? Judge what? Secrets". Whoo... "God will judge secrets". Let's see if we can do that in sign. Remember God, do we not? "God..." good. "Will" is just this... [...]

I have here a sword. It's the real thing. This sword was made out of steel. It is a man-made sword. Man made this, and with this sword, you can go to war. If anyone doubts that, just step right up. It's a sword. Man-made, made to go to [...]

Our Scripture is from the Book of Acts, chapter number 5. I'll read 12 through 15. "At the hands of the apostles, many signs and wonders were taking place among the people. They were all with one accord in Solomon's portico. But none [...]

I hope you have your Bible in hand. Matthew 4:1 following: Then Jesus was led up by the Spirit into the wilderness to be tempted of the Devil. After He had fasted forty days and forty nights, He then became hungry, and the tempter came and said to [...]

Let me say something up front: regardless of how you feel about the topic we will deal with today; I hope you will hear me out. I hope you'll hear me out... because we are dealing with the most polarizing and controversial subject in the 21st [...]

A T.V. reporter with cameramen in tow, and a microphone in his hand entered a bar. Went up and sat at the counter of the bar, and there was a man there with a mug enjoying himself, drinking a little Bud Lite. And the reporter looked at him said uh, [...]

In our Scripture today, we have four of the apostles asking Jesus questions. Why are they asking these questions? It's because that Jesus has said to them, "I am leaving". They knew that He was going to the Cross. They knew that He [...]

Sex! I've always wanted just to shout that out! It's amazing how some people think that that subject should not be brought up in church. Today, we're gonna talk about, from a Biblical perspective, what every wife would like for her [...]

God invented marriage. God gave us this most sacred union as a long as we're alive on this earth, and therefore, in that union, He has spelled out, He's explained clearly as to how a male functions, and to how a female functions. But I [...]

I'm not going to spend a lot of time proving to you that we live in a culture that virtually worships sex and sexuality. We live in a world that is all about pleasure, and for most people, the ultimate pleasure is expressed in the sexual realm. [...]

The title of an old and familiar book written, I don't know, 20 or 30 years ago is still a relevant question. "Why do bad things happen to good people"? And the opposite of that disturbs me even more. "Why do good things happen [...]

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 [...]

Perhaps you will remember a few years ago a report in the Houston Chronicle, how there was a spot left on a cheerleading team, and two young girls were competing for that one spot. Both of them were 13. The mother of one of the young girls felt like [...]

Let me say something up front: regardless of how you feel about the topic we will deal with today; I hope you will hear me out. I hope you'll hear me out... because we are dealing with the most polarizing and controversial subject in the 21st [...]

Forgiveness! That's a big word, isn't it? Forgiveness. Forgiveness has about it a mystery, and I think we all wonder at times, "Has God really forgiven me? I mean, all of these times, I've gone back over and over... has He [...]

The law is circular. In our legislature, State Senate, House, Senate House, Washington, all of it that's there, it's circular. The lawyers primarily are elected to public office, right? They make the laws, right? And you go into a court; [...]

Our schools are broken! Open your Bibles, if you would. The Book of Judges, Chapter Number 2. I'll read Verse 8. "Then Joshua, the Son of Nun, the servant of the Lord, died at the age of 110". Verse 10: "All that generation also [...]

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn in 1983, this Russian philosopher, scholar was writing about his native land, Russia. And Solzhenitsyn said he could remember as a boy hearing the older people talk in the family, and they were lamenting about what happened to [...]

America today is broke, and broken. And this is where we are! And therefore, in thinking about how we're going to address the fact that Washington is broken, and Wall Street is broken; the courts are broken, the schools are broken, the family [...]