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: [...]

2 Chronicles chapter 26. I want to talk to you for a few moments about the wounded healer. Verse 16, but after Uzziah became powerful, his pride led to his downfall. He was unfaithful to the Lord his God and entered the temple of the Lord to burn [...]

Genesis chapter 31. Genesis chapter 31. Matthew 5:41. Jesus instructs us that when someone asks you to go one mile, you should dig deep and not just go the mile that’s requested. You should actually go a second mile. And that’s what I want to talk [...]

Psalms 89:1. I want to speak to the family today about the importance of what you’re doing here, what you’re doing now, and how God sees it—how God makes a covenant with us, not just with us, but with our children and even beyond that. I will sing [...]

Let’s look at verse one. I want to talk to you about starving your mistakes and feeding your miracles. Now the Lord was gracious to Sarah as He had said. And the Lord said to Sarah what He had promised. And Sarah became pregnant and bore a son to [...]

So, if you’ve got your Bibles, turn with me to Leviticus chapter 7. Leviticus chapter 7. You know that the sermon is going to be exciting when the pastor says, «Go to the book of Leviticus.» Yeah. You know, you better get ready to clap. If he reads [...]

Genesis 37:3. Now Israel loved Joseph more than all his children because he was the son of his old age. Also, he made him a tunic, or a coat of many colors. But when his brothers saw that their father loved him more than all his brothers, they hated [...]

Zechariah chapter 1. Let’s look at verse 8. I want to talk to you about the last man standing. Sounds like a good Father’s Day message, huh? So, I’m just going to preach to the men. Everybody else can spectate, but to the men, I’m coming for you. [...]

John chapter 19. As we enter this season of considering Calvary and the cross, I think you have to take some time to acknowledge that Jesus, hanging on the cross, said seven different things. But I want us to focus on one of those things for just a [...]

2 Samuel chapter 21. Let’s look at verse 8. So the king took Armani and Mephibosheth, the two sons of Rizpah, the daughter of Aiah, whom she bore to Saul. Five sons that Michal, the daughter of Saul, whom she brought up for Adriel, the son of [...]

So we're going to go right into the text. There's a few things that we need to cover. And today's message is titled Know Thy Heart. It sounds very like King Jamesish, you know, thy thou, but it's called Know Thy Heart. And [...]

We left off in the message that I shared before Sabbath, talking about the future of our house, the future of the kingdom of God. We talked about awakening happening all over the world. I want to kick off these next few months as we approach the end [...]

This message is titled «There’s Nothing Better Than Jesus.» Amen. Above and Beyond is a special time for our house. It is a time of giving. It’s a time when we give beyond what we normally give so that our house can go further than we typically go. [...]

I don’t know if this is really a talk necessarily today, but the journey that we’re about to embark on has a title over it or a banner over it. And the banner is, «The Future is Now.» Above and Beyond is the season. And I know it’s been mentioned at [...]

We’re in a season at Passion City Church where we’re really just wanting to say to God, «We want You.» Amen. Not, «We want You to do A, B, C, or D.» Although we all need God to move in our lives in certain ways, we’re in a season where we just want [...]

H.G. Wells was a well-known writer and historian in England in the 1800s. He said, «I am a historian, not a believer, but I must confess as a historian that this penniless preacher from Nazareth is irrevocably the very center of history.» That’s [...]

We want You, God. I want You, God. That’s what this collection is about. And there are moments when we’re creating space for that. We had a day of prayer a few weeks ago. We’re going to have another day of prayer coming up in a few weeks that you’re [...]

This new collection that we’re in is called «Desperate.» And I think obviously that’s what we are. I was speaking at a camp in Durango, Colorado a few years back. I was taking a commuter flight from Denver over the Rockies to Durango, and I had [...]

I want to take us to a desperate man who could have been anybody, but today it’s a man named Jehoshaphat. We’ve preached about him a lot at Passion City Church, and if you’ve been around church, you’ve heard his story before. There’s a lot of [...]

Yeah, come on, we can give a big shout for Jesus out here in this place today. No big shout? Come on, yeah! So good, great, so good. Let’s all thank Crowder if you can. My goodness, I love that guy. My wife and I have known him for a long, long, [...]

I’m going to say something, and I want you to hear it: the Holy Spirit is not the only spirit. That’s why 1 John says we must test every spirit and know whether they are of God or not. Not everything you hear is true. He said, «How do we know?» [...]

If you have a Bible, we’re going to be in Joel chapter 2, picking it up in verse 18. We’re in a series of messages that we have called «It’s Going to Be All Right.» If you have ever in your life felt a sense of regret over past mistakes, or if [...]

Welcome to Fresh Life! We’re glad you’re here. Thank you for coming, especially if it’s your first time. We greet you in the name of Jesus at every Fresh Life location, especially those this weekend for the first time in our brand new Whitefish [...]

Well, we greet you in the name of Jesus at every single Fresh Life location, Church Online, podcast streaming audience. Welcome! We’re glad you’re here. Thanks for coming, and thanks for being with us. Whether you’re on YouTube or listening later on [...]

A message from Romans 15:3, and as you’re there, let me start by telling you that when you understand the names of God, you are much better positioned to receive the help He wants to give you. God does not just have a single name; He has many names [...]

If you have a Bible, we’re going to be in Joel chapter 2. We’re in a series of messages, a collection that we began last week called «It’s Going to Be All Right.» I don’t say that flippantly; I don’t say that glibly; I don’t say that like a fortune [...]

And when, as the Book of Joel describes, we go through hard things, we suffer loss, and we face various griefs, there’s a tendency to back down; there’s a tendency to run away because we feel afraid at times. And you know what? It is scary to [...]

You might have been called weak or stupid or dumb or lazy. You might have been made to think that you’re good for nothing or that you’re just too much. But you have been incorrectly labeled, just like Ehud was, and the cross is proof. I was in an [...]

I cannot control the hand I have been dealt in this life. I cannot control the family God has seen in His providence fit to put me into, nor the genetic predisposition He has given to me. I cannot control anything that you are going to do to me. I [...]

Don’t you think that if Jesus, in the Garden of Gethsemane, was contemplating the Cross, falling to his face again and again with blood coming out of his sweat glands, crying out to God, «If there’s any other way for them to be saved,» that if there [...]