Let me ask you a question: Do you know for certain that if you were to die today that you would go to heaven? Maybe you wonder: Can you know? Is it possible to know? The answer? Absolutely yes, you can know. In fact God's Word is written: [...]

We are now on our way to Easter. And on this journey to the empty tomb we come to the cross. We're going to spend the next six weeks at the cross, and hear the heart of God. God speaking, Jesus the Son of God in His statements from the cross, [...]

Take your Bibles now and turn with me to Isaiah chapter 54. I want to speak to you today about our future. I want to talk to you about your future, and mine, and the future of this wonderful church. And the title of the message is "Deep and [...]

I always think about the greatest coach of all time, certainly in basketball. One of the legends in American sports history and that is Coach John Wooden. Many studied his strategies and coaching skills. But what many do not know is that when he [...]

Well, there are a lot of foolish things that the world produces. And you know the Bible talks about the foolishness of this world. The wisdom of the world which is foolishness and the wisdom of God which is righteousness. Now when we talk about [...]

Take your Bibles and turn with me, please, to the book of Proverbs. Chapter 29 is where we will begin. And I want to speak to you today on the subject: "Choosing Action over Apathy". Vision is so important to an organization, to a church [...]

And of the choices we make, what we consider today is one of the most important, which is to "Choose Faith over Doubt". I didn't say faith over unbelief, but faith over doubt. And there is a difference in doubt and unbelief. We do not [...]

Can't think of a more needed choice than the one that we consider today which is to "Choose Courage over Fear". A courageous Christian is one who stands on principle, not just preference. He stands upon convictions and not just [...]

We need to make decisions that produce positive outcomes. Now what I'm about to say is more than positive thinking. Now I believe in positive thinking, I do. Positive thinking is so much better than negative thinking. But more than positive [...]

Take your Bible and turn with me, please, to Proverbs 23 and verse 26. We're in a series of messages from the book of Proverbs called CHOICES. Choices are vital, not only for the direction of your life, but for your ultimate destination and [...]

Proverbs is a very personal and practical book, as is all the Bible; real, relevant, relational. And life is a series of decisions that ultimately determine our destiny. The choices we make are the sum total of the life we live. It's been said [...]

Sexuality is a God-given gift. But sexual sin perverts and pollutes this gift. God has established marriage as the way to personal fulfillment, satisfaction and intimacy. One man, one woman committed to one another for life! One man, one woman [...]

Today I'm going to talk to you about letting go of anger and laying down our anger in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ. Well, you know if you are a parent or grandparent of a small child, you probably know by now, can't get it out of your [...]

We want to break free from the power of anything or anyone that would hold us or hold us back. And the subject today is in regard to fear and worry and anxiety; breaking free from the power of fear. Second Timothy chapter 1 and verse 7: "For [...]

Jesus can break every chain, whether it is drugs or alcohol or sex or homosexuality or immorality of any kind, of gambling, pornography, anger, bitterness. Jesus can break every chain, and He will if you will experience His power in your life, if [...]

Most Americans, you know, really don't believe in the Ten Commandments these days, much less practice them. Upwards to 75 percent of our fellow citizens in this great country no longer believe that truth that there is authoritative truth in our [...]

The title of today's message is the "Battle of the Gods". And so I would invite you to take your Bible and turn with me to 1st Kings, chapters 17 and 18. We find our story, it's really a show-down kind of a story. I think most [...]

The story of Esther is one of the most dramatic in the Bible in the sense that it's a story courage in the face of uncertain fears and a future that did not seemingly include God. It is the story of grace and beauty in the midst of depravity [...]

I'm bringing you this message on the story of Gideon today on the subject "The Person God Uses". When we meet Gideon, he is broken, he is beaten down, he is afraid, he is fearful, he is eking out a living with a stick in a hole, a [...]

The story that we have before us is one of the well known, well worn stories of the Bible. And there's even a song about it: "Joshua Fit the Battle of Jericho and the walls come a tumbling down". And we're going to walk with [...]

As we take the story of Joseph beginning in Genesis 37; it's one of the great stories of the Bible. In fact, you may be familiar with a Broadway musical, "The Amazing Technicolor Dream Coat of Joseph", and it truly is a remarkable, [...]

Turn in your Bibles to Genesis chapter 32. One of my fond childhood memories, getting in our car, ah, my dad and my brother and going to Little Rock, Arkansas, there to a coliseum to watch wrestling. And, as a little boy this was incredible exciting [...]

Ninety five million people watched History channel's presentation mini series produced by Mark Burnett and Roma Downey called The Bible, and I enjoyed the series and watched it, and thought it was very well done. It brought to life these [...]

The title of this message is "What Makes God Sick". Revelation chapter 3, verse 14. This is the last of the seven letters that Jesus gave to the churches in Asia Minor. It is a kind of message to Last Days believers. Many believe that [...]

We're in a series called SEVEN, taking a look at what Jesus said to the churches in the second and third chapters of the book of Revelation, so you can begin finding Revelation chapter 3. And the church that we have under the glass today where [...]

Take your Bibles and turn with me now to the third chapter of the book of Revelation. This is Jesus' message to the churches and to the church. "He who has ears, let him hear". So this is not only for the church then, but the church [...]

Take your Bibles and turn with me to the book of Revelation chapter 2. This is our series called "SEVEN: TO THE VICTORS", and it concerns the church and what Christ thinks about His church yesterday, today and forever. In Revelation [...]

We invite you to take God's Word now and open to the second chapter of the book of Revelation chapter 2. And this message that Jesus gives directly. What are the last words of Jesus recorded in the Bible? Right here in Revelation 2 and 3, and [...]

If you will begin finding Revelation chapter 2, let me remind you that these 7 churches are real churches, historically connected, they were really multi-site campuses. 7 churches at multi-locations around the Aegean Sea, surrounded by Ephesus and [...]

We are beginning a brand new series of messages from God's Word called "7 To the Victors" and it is taken from Revelation chapter 2 and 3. So begin finding in your Bibles the second chapter of the book of Revelation. "To the [...]

Stephen was the first Christian martyr, the first one to give his life, to die for faith in Jesus Christ. Many others would follow, including the apostles and the fathers of the church early on and through the centuries, and to this very day there [...]

Jesus is a fighter; He's a warrior. At the cross He conquered sin and death and hell. And he has now commanded us and called us into this battle. Now think of Jesus as a warrior. Consider this picture of Jesus when He comes again. We're [...]

Begin finding in your Bibles the third chapter of the book of Acts, and my topic today is "Hope for the Hurting". We are living in a broken world. As a result, people are broken, people like you and me. Because we're all broken, all [...]

Where there is life in Christ from time to time we need to be revived. And, of course, daily we're renewing our faith and our commitment to Christ, but there are seasons in life and seasons in the church that I believe God wants to do a new [...]

We're asking the fire to fall and we're expecting God to do beyond what we've seen in days gone by. People on fire, a church on fire is a mighty weapon in the hand of God. Because when revival comes and the fire gets started, the [...]

God bless you today as we open God's Word to the book of Acts, chapter 1. We're beginning a series called ABLAZE from passages in the book of Acts. We're asking God to set us on fire; that the fire would fall. We're praying for [...]

My message today from the twenty-fourth chapter of the Gospel of Luke chapter 24, is a testimony of my own faith. Why I personally follow Jesus. I heard about a guy who went on a vacation to the Holy Land. He took his wife and his mother-in-law. Now [...]

Today we come to a very personal and very pertinent question and that is simply: How can I as a Dad, a man, be a "Hero to My Own Kids"? In Proverbs 20 and verses 6 and 7 the Scripture says: "Many a man proclaims his own steadfast [...]

When Does Life Begin? On our STRAIGHT UP series we have desperately attempted to deal with the most explicit and important questions of our times. Life issues. Really, questions of life and death. And we are communicating that there is only one [...]

I want to invite you to take God's Word and turn with me to Romans chapter 12. Then look up here. Our STRAIGHT UP questions and answers are very important, because they give us a biblical perspective, a world view, if you will, regarding the [...]

The title of this message "Is it Right to say You're Wrong?" indicates that we have a message that is very positive but it's also very provocative, because clearly the Scripture tells us that some things are right and some things [...]

Is it possible? Can a person really truly change? There are some who say, "Impossible! You are what you are. Can a leopard change its spots"? The rhetorical answer is apparently not. And we wonder, can we really change? Can a person be [...]

Are same sex relationships really the same? There's a great deal of vitriol, even violence associated with this subject. It is controversial, but it is one of the great moral issues of our times. This is not just a civil-rights issue, though [...]

Whatever you believe, whatever you think about life, about religion, that's okay. And that's what you hear people say every day in the place where you live. So how do we answer that question: Are all religions the same? How do we respond [...]

You know, not everybody enjoys Christmas. Certainly many in the world don't enjoy Christmas and would prefer holidays to Christmas and secular celebrations to the real meaning of Christmas. We know not everyone loves Christmas. There's [...]

I want to bring you a message from Luke 15 called "I'll be Home for Christmas". Now Luke chapter 15 is really the story of why we celebrate Christmas. You know, the story of Jesus is the greatest story ever told. And when Jesus came [...]

One of the great tales of Christmas, of course, is a Christmas Carol, written by Charles Dickens. Great story! But it was Charles Dickens, the author who said, "The greatest short story ever given is the story of the Prodigal Son". Now [...]

So much of the Christmas season is wrapped up in stories and I enjoy the stories about Christmas, around Christmas. And some of these stories have taken have been filmed. Hollywood has recorded these stories for us. I mean, great movies like [...]

If you were to ask me, "What is the greatest spiritual lesson that you learned"? It is the fact that Christ lives in me by His Spirit. That the Christian life is not my human effort or my self effort but it is yielding to the work of [...]

We're calling this message "Training Days" because it speaks of our need to train up our children, to teach our children so that they can face the challenges of a new generation; the generation that is now and next to come. And Psalm [...]