So I want to talk to you a little bit today about our "Heavenly Bodies". Take your Bibles and begin finding 1 Corinthians chapter 15. We're going to talk about the resurrected body. I want to fire up your imagination. You say, [...]

Life is a journey that leads home. We do have an eternal destiny. So no day for the Christian is without meaning or purpose. Every day matters! The proverbs say that "the path of the righteous is like the light of dawn which shines brighter and [...]

We're taking time to imagine what it will be like when we stand in His presence, and the Spirit of God in His word has shown us many wonderful things regarding our future with Him. So eternity begins now. Eternity begins today, looking forward [...]

Turn to James chapter 5. Lifeworks is our series and yet we have to ask ourselves the question, what works when life doesn't? When life falls apart, when we suffer, when we're sick, how do we respond? James is certainly interested in that. [...]

The title of the message today is: Wisdom and Your Worldview. Now, everyone has a worldview. The way you see the world. How you view life. Your worldview is your life view. It is your perspective. It is your philosophy of life. It is your way of [...]

Your goal is spiritual maturity, that's what the Book of James is about, growing in your faith and becoming more mature in Christ. That's your goal. A true mark of Christian maturity, life maturity, is how you use your mouth, how you [...]

Martin Luther King had a dream and it was the result of a dream and his heart that America was dramatically changed. You have plans, you have dreams in your life. For some of you, students, college students, high school students, it may be to [...]

Halloween has become the second most celebrated holiday in America. Interesting. Only Christmas in terms of marketing and spending and all the rest that goes with a holiday. Halloween is second. And, I would say for the most part it's about [...]

I want to invite you to take God's word and turn to the Second Chapter of James. We're going to begin reading in Verse 1 through the 10th Verse. James is talking about real religion. Real religion. That is life in Christ. A genuine faith [...]

You know you can read the book of James in less than 15 minutes and yet we are going to spend weeks and months talking about the truths that we discover about how life works in the book of James. It is very personal, very practical and it's [...]

There was a group of students and scholars who were discussing, even debating the nature of God, and specifically Christianity. And the question on the table was: What separates Christianity from all the world religions? And in the midst of the [...]

Temptation is when Satan takes a normal God-given desire and tempts us to fulfill that in a God forbidden way. We all have normal, natural human desires that God has given us. And God has given us His truth to teach us how to fulfill those desires. [...]

Turn to the book of James chapter 1 and the title of the message is: "Turning Your Trials to Triumph". It's really a continuation of the message that we began last week on trials. "What Works when Life Doesn't". We know [...]

This is a brand-new series on the book of James. So many of you as I've seen you out and about tell me you're looking forward to this series. I hope that when you get what you want you want what you get because I'm telling you, James [...]

The title of the message is "The Hope of Easter", and the Scripture is found today in Jeremiah 29:11. Jeremiah 29 and 11 was originally written to Hebrews who were exiled in the land of Babylon because of their own sin and unbelief, many [...]

Now maybe you've come to church and felt like you've been squeezed, manipulated, pushed, pressured. That's not what this message is about, but I'm telling you what it's about. It is about how God wants to bless your life [...]

God has a plan for every life. And success in life is knowing and doing the will of God. If you get to where you're going at the end of your life, where will you be? That's a good question, right? If you get, or when you get because [...]

It's been a long journey really, step by step through Revelation, beginning at chapter one and now we come to the last two chapters: Revelation 21, Revelation 22. We are on our way home! After the millennial reign of Christ, one thousand years [...]

When Christ returns He will establish His kingdom on earth and then in eternity. That's what this message is about, Jesus is coming again! And when He does, enemies will be defeated, evil eradicated and His kingdom established. Eternity begins! [...]

We're asking the question: Is There Hope for America? Beyond that: is there hope for the world? And our hope is in the Lord Jesus Christ, and the promise of His return! The solution to our problems are not political solutions really, though we [...]

Marriage by God's design is a beautiful illustration of the relationship that we have with Christ. We are the bride of Christ, those of us who believe and receive Him, say yes to Him, have a relationship with Christ. We become His bride, His [...]

Take your Bibles and turn with me to Revelation chapters 17 and 18. Today we're going to cover two chapters that are in fact together in Scripture, back to back. But remember these verse numbers and chapters originally were not a part of the [...]

At the end of the age there is coming great wrath, the final wrath of God. In fact, in chapter 15, beginning in verse 1 it says: "Then I saw another sign in heaven, great and amazing, seven angels with seven plagues", these are not chubby [...]

Most people today believe in the afterlife, so when I ask this question, and the message is a question, "Where will you spend eternity", I want to draw you in today to the Scripture because the Bible definitely tells us that what we decide [...]

"Mine eyes have seen the glory of the coming of the Lord. He is trampling out the vintage where the grapes of wrath are stored. He has loosed the faithful lightning of His terrible swift sword. His truth is marching on. Glory, glory, [...]

Now if you are in a driving storm as I was this week and you turn on your GPS system you can get some information as to what's coming down the road. Seems like our tollway has been stacked up recently with accidents and I can click on my GPS [...]

The war to end all wars is really a behind the scenes, invisible, unseen war. My latest book is called Unseen, and the book is about this spiritual and supernatural war that has existed from eternity past and to this very day we are still fighting [...]

The kingdom of God is coming. Do you know why? Because the King is coming. Jesus the Lord is risen from the dead. He has ascended to rule forever and He's returning one day and one day soon. And when He does, He will reign forever and ever and [...]

Have you ever been thunderstruck? In the dictionary thunderstruck is to be affected with sudden astonishment, to be astounded, to be confounded, to be amazed. Now, you know, when Deb met me, she was thunderstruck, and you can take that a lot of [...]

There's a popular television show called "The Blacklist". Here's the story line of "The Blacklist". A former fugitive, criminal by the name of Raymond Reddington (ie Red) surrenders to the FBI and makes the authorities [...]

Chapter 7, if you're taking notes in your Bible, you just may want to write the words "mercy chapter", because this is an interlude, if you will, from the judgment. We push the pause button. God pushes the pause button just a bit and [...]

Terrorism as we're seeing it in the world today is a major sign of the times in which we live, and link to prophecy. Recently New York Times columnist Roger Cohen wrote an article entitled "The Great Unraveling", describing the [...]

"Ghost Riders in the Sky", it's the four horsemen of the Apocalypse. Now chapter 6 begins the action of the book, really the thriller-action portion of the book. Because in Revelation chapter 4 John is catapulted up into heaven and he [...]

What we have here really in Revelation 4 and 5 is like a movie trailer in once sense in that it previews things to come. And once we move by this heavenly scene in which we are raptured up... Remember, John is taken up into the presence of Jesus and [...]

Now in the Revelation, chapter 1, verse 19, God gives us an outline in the Scripture as to what the Revelation is all about. It's really not all that difficult to know the various chapters and dividings of the book of Revelation because [...]

Take your Bibles and turn to Revelation chapter 1, and the title of today's message is "Revealing Jesus". You will never understand the book of Revelation until you know Jesus, until Jesus is revealed. And the Revelation of Jesus [...]

The title of today's message is "Revelation: What it Means and Why it Matters". What it Means and Why it Matters. It matters because first and foremost, this is the Word of God; this is God's Word and all of God's Word, the [...]

Take your Bibles and turn to 1st Corinthians, the fifteenth chapter of First Corinthians, because today I'm going to talk to you about "Breaking the Power of Death". The ultimate enemy is death itself, but Jesus broke the chains of [...]

What is the passion and the purpose of your life? What is the goal? The holy ambition? The one pure and holy passion of your life? What we're about to see for the followers of Jesus is that it is to pace ourselves, to push ourselves, to press [...]

So how do you live one? And how do you give one? How do you live for the things that you're willing to die for as well as live for? Well, Paul tells us here in Acts chapter 20. And we're going to begin reading in verse 17. Again, this is [...]

The Scriptures says that we have been blessed with every spiritual blessing in Jesus Christ. And I'm looking here in verses 3 to 14 of Ephesians 1 at the longest sentence in the Bible. It's just a massive paragraph filled with the [...]

We live in a braggadocios world today, kind of a selfie-world in which there's allot of self introspection and self aggrandizement and there's allot of pride that we're pushing forward in our generation. And that's why it's [...]

Take your Bibles and turn with me to the book of Philippians in your New Testament, the fourth chapter; and I want to speak to you today on the subject, live in prayer equals to live in peace, to live in prayer is to live in peace. Prayer is the key [...]

The Apostle Paul was an incredible man, an amazing man. Once his life was transformed by the power of Jesus Christ, God used him to change the world. You would be hard pressed to point to another individual in all of history that made a greater [...]

I have a wonderful friend, a man that I love and respect very much, and he was sharing a bit of his story with me recently. At midlife he was going through a very difficult season and, in fact, a divorce. And at 37 years of age, though he had grown [...]

Let me encourage you to get your Bibles open now to Romans chapter 1. I want to welcome not only those who are watching on the worldwide web, but those who are watching on PowerPoint Television, and we're grateful for the opportunity to be in [...]

With our Bibles open once again to the Gospel of Luke chapter 23, we find ourselves at the cross. And one by one we're taking a long look at the words Jesus spoke at the Cross. These are often called the last words of Jesus. But, of course, we [...]

We are at the cross as Peter tells us where "Christ suffered once for sin, the righteous for the unrighteous, that He might bring us to God". Jesus spoke from the cross. Remember the cross was basically death by suffocation. It was [...]

So I invite you to take your Bibles and turn with me to Matthew's Gospel, chapter 27. We are at the cross and listening to the heart of God expressed in the cries of Christ in the final sayings of our Lord that He delivered while dying. And [...]

Take your Bibles and open them with me to John, the nineteenth chapter. beginning at verse 26: "When Jesus saw his mother and the disciple whom he loved standing nearby, he said to his mother, 'Woman, behold, your son!' And then he [...]