After Solomon completed the building of the temple, the priests of Israel and the leadership of Israel in the temple made a decision that they were going to sing a certain psalm on a certain day of the week. For example, on Wednesdays they sang [...]

As I approach my assignment, I just want to thank God for everybody being in the house and thank God for all those who are watching online. I even want to thank God for the men and women who are joining us right now from hundreds of correctional [...]

We are in week four of a series we’re calling «Triggered.» We are putting Christ in the middle of our crash-outs. It is the first week of October. Has anybody had a crash-out in the first week of October? I’m not even saying last month; it’s only [...]

Would you get your Bibles out and go with me to Ephesians chapter 4? We’re going to start today, I believe, at verse one. This is the start of week three of a series we’re calling «Triggered.» Has anybody been blessed by this series so far? All [...]

Turn to John 16:33. John 16:33. This word is going to be tight, and it’s going to be right. I’m going to get you out of here. But I have to deliver this word because some of you are very triggered after all that praising, after all that worshiping. [...]

And today I have an assignment, and so I need everybody to buckle up because I want to let you know that God gave me confirmation of this message I’m about to speak to you 78 days ago. Amen. I was in a conversation with Pastor Bri before I headed [...]

Welcome and Introduction Welcome to Bible Study Tuesday night. Such a joy to be here. Thank you for joining us wherever you are in the world. I'm excited and thankful for your presence tonight. Thank Reverend Stephen Hurd and our praise and [...]

Opening Gratitude and Reminder I'm grateful and thankful for the mercy of God and the grace of God, and I'm grateful for this opportunity to dive into the Word of God. So thank you for joining us. We're going to pray, and I want to [...]

Genesis chapter 1, verse 24: Then God said, «Let the earth bring forth the living creature according to its kind: cattle and creeping thing and beast of the earth, each according to its kind.» And it was so. Our minds produce ideas, our hands [...]

1 Timothy chapter 1, verse 18: This charge I commit to you, son Timothy, according to the prophecies previously made concerning you, that by them you may wage the good warfare. Paul was aware of the prophecies that had been made concerning Timothy, [...]

Yesterday, we looked at the battle that King Jehoshaphat led the people of Judah into. They were fighting three armies from Moab, Ammon, and Seir. They went into this battle with singing. And so today, we’re going to look at the victory that God [...]

1 Timothy 1:3 and 4: As I urged you when I went into Macedonia, remain in Ephesus that you may charge some that they teach no other doctrine, nor give heed to fables and endless genealogies, which cause disputes rather than godly edification, which [...]

This week, we are focusing on singing a very important part of our worship and praise to the Lord. And so we go to Colossians chapter 3: Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly, in all wisdom, teaching and admonishing one another in psalms and [...]

Genesis 1:31: Then God saw everything that He had made, and indeed it was very good. So the evening and the morning were the sixth day. God looked at what He had done, and He pronounced it very good. They were very good morally, and they were very [...]

We are looking at singing into battle. When you’re faced with opponents and difficult situations in front of you, you can go into warfare with singing. Our story is from 2 Chronicles 20:21. And when he had consulted with the people, he appointed [...]

1 Timothy 1:1–16 However, for this reason I obtain mercy, that in me first Christ Jesus might show all longsuffering as a pattern for those who are going to believe in Him for everlasting life. Paul saw his salvation as a pattern that God was [...]

The Doxology: A Hymn of Praise «Now to the King eternal, immortal, invisible, to God, who alone is wise, be honor and glory forever and ever. Amen.» (1 Timothy 1:17) This verse is a doxology — a hymn of praise used by the early church. It reveals [...]

2 Chronicles chapter 20, verses 27 and 28: Then they returned, every man of Judah and Jerusalem, with Jehoshaphat in front of them, to go back to Jerusalem with joy. For the Lord had made them rejoice over their enemies. So they came to Jerusalem [...]

First Timothy, chapter 1, verse 15: This is a faithful saying and worthy of all acceptance, that Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners, of whom I am chief. This is a very dramatic verse in First Timothy, where Paul calls himself the chief [...]

1 Chronicles chapter 16, verses 8 and 9: Oh, give thanks to the Lord! Call upon His name; make known His deeds among the peoples. Sing to Him; sing psalms to Him; talk of His wondrous works. This psalm was a psalm that was composed on the day that [...]

1 Timothy 1 verse 12: And I thank Christ Jesus our Lord, who has enabled me because he has counted me faithful, putting me into the ministry. So, at this time, Paul is talking about his calling and the ministry that God has given to him, and he [...]

Genesis 1, verse 26: Then God said, «Let us make man in our image, according to our likeness. Let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, over the birds of the air, over the cattle, over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creeps [...]

We’ve talked about singing and worshiping the Lord with our song, with our praise. That we must sing a new song. That what we sing must be in the word of God. And we must declare God’s works in our singing. Look at Isaiah chapter 44:23. Sing, O [...]

Welcome to a brand new week as we continue our study of God’s Word, and I trust that you have been enriched every morning. This week, we’re going to look at singing, as singing is a very important part of our worship and our praise to the Lord. We [...]

Well, we’re still talking about fruitfulness; we’ll be discussing it this week and next week. So, there’s quite some ground to cover, and we’ve spoken a bit about it. Now, we go to Genesis 1, verse 28: «Then God blessed them, and God said to them, [...]

Welcome to a brand new week. We’ve been talking about fruitfulness since the previous week, and we will continue this week discussing fruitfulness. We have talked about several factors relating to our fruitful life. So, Matthew 21:19 tells us: «And [...]

Introduction to Isaiah Chapter 33 Well, you guys, grab your Bibles tonight and turn to Isaiah chapter 33—a chapter that is one of the most difficult chapters to teach on. Literally tremendous. I encourage you later: if you get absolutely nothing [...]

You guys okay? For real, you guys good? How many of you have come to the church in the last six months? You’re new here? You’ve been here for the last six months? Raise your hands. Don’t be shy. I’m not gonna bother you. Okay, great. Excellent. That [...]

Welcome to «Live with Passion,» I’m Father Cedric Pisegna, this is a special episode, a Christmas episode. Merry Christmas to you all. Want to proclaim to you what we proclaim at the Midnight Mass, if you’re Catholic, comes from Isaiah chapter 9, [...]

In 1997, National Community Church was just getting off the ground. We were meeting in the movie theaters at Union Station, and one day after church I was walking home. We lived on F Street; F Street dead ends into Union Station. I came to the [...]

On December 31st, 1759, Arthur Guinness leased a 4-acre piece of property in Dublin, Ireland. That’s where Guinness built his brewery, which he saw as a form of philanthropy. Guinness beer was less alcoholic than gin; it was more nutritious than [...]

Almost half a century ago, Ellen Langer conducted a rather unorthodox experiment involving octogenarians. She called it the Counterclockwise Study. The year was 1979, but she created the world of 1959 by retrofitting an old monastery where those [...]

We wish you a Merry Christmas, we wish you a Merry Christmas, we wish you a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year. We hope you had a wonderful Christmas. Uh, joy to be with you for just a few minutes. This won’t be a long message, just a little [...]

If you were a kid in the '60s, it was an Etch A Sketch or an Easy-Bake Oven. In the '80s, a Nintendo; the '90s, Tickle Me Elmo; the 2000s, man, you need that Xbox, don’t you? And in the '10s, let’s be honest, Apple took over: [...]

On October 28, 1926, Dr. Allan Craig delivered a speech to the American College of Surgeons. If a 150 lb man was reduced to chemicals, claimed Craig, there would be enough iron to make a ten-penny nail, enough lime to whitewash a chicken coop, and [...]

In October of 1902, the Paris Police called a French criminologist named Alons Beron. Beron investigated a murder in a wealthy neighborhood near the Arc de Triomphe. He found a single fingerprint on a window frame that helped him identify the killer [...]

In December of 1874, John M was staying at a cabin nestled in the Sierra Nevada mountains when a winter storm whipped through the valley. In situations like that, most people seek shelter; John M was not wired that way. His desire was to seek [...]

Right now, you have no sensation of motion. It seems like you’re sitting still, but that, my friends, is an illusion of miraculous proportions because you are on a giant merry-go-round that’s spinning at a miles per hour around its axis. Oh, you’re [...]

300 years ago, a visionary named Count Nicholas Ludwig von Zinzendorf founded something called the Order of the Mustard Seed. It was an eclectic group that included the King of Denmark, the Archbishop of Canterbury, Scotland’s Secretary of State, [...]

On April 16, 1963, Dr. Martin Luther King penned a letter from a Birmingham Jail. He was responding to critics who questioned his tactics, and this is what he said in that letter: there was a time when the church was very powerful, a time when early [...]

In 2012, a 14-year-old girl named Lola Anderson was watching the Olympic Games. Two rowers from the UK won a gold medal, and that’s when Lola pulled out her diary and wrote these words: «My name is Lola Anderson, and I think it would be my biggest [...]

You put your right foot in, you put your right foot out, you put your right foot in, and you shake it all about. You do the Hokey Pokey, and you turn yourself around, and that’s what it’s all about. One of my favorite comics is a climber on a quest [...]

Tell me about the best day of your life—that’s the question I want to ask. It would be far more fun than the question I’m about to ask: tell me about the worst day of your life, the hardest day, the most difficult day of your life. Can you access it [...]

This weekend, we kick off a new series called «The Good Life.» Well, what is it? Well, maybe we ought to start with what it’s not. Can we start there? The good life is not no problems; the only people with no problems are six feet under. The good [...]

The world has yet to see what God can do through one person wholly consecrated to Him. Why not you? Why not now? Welcome to National Community Church! What a joy to be here, in person or online, Nova DC! Here we go. One of my heroes is Stanley Tam. [...]

Are you a thermometer or are you a thermostat? Are you being conformed to the world around you or are you being transformed by the Spirit of God within you? Is the loudest voice in your life the loudest voice, or is it the still small voice of the [...]

All right, Jeremiah chapter 45 is where we are for today, and I'm going to read the entire chapter. But don't worry—if you're there, you'll notice it's only five verses. So here we go. Jeremiah 45, verse 1: This is what [...]

So when the Lord saw, this is Exodus 3 and verse 4. So when the Lord saw that he turned aside to look, God called him from the midst of the bush and said, «Moses, Moses.» And he said, «Here I am.» And then he said, «Do not draw near this place. Take [...]

If you’ve got your Bibles, turn with me to Luke chapter 19, and we’ll look at verse 30. This is Jesus speaking. It says, «Go to the village ahead of you, and as you enter it, you will find a colt tied there, which no one has ever ridden. Untie it [...]

Numbers chapter 25 and verse five. So Moses said to Israel’s judges, «Each of you must put to death those of your people who have yoked themselves.» Everybody say «yoked.» It’s really what we’re going to be talking about until the yoke is broken: [...]