Let me begin by telling you a story of something that happened in history that affects us right now. History lesson, in the ninth century, there was an Anglo-Saxon King named Alfred, Alfred the Great. And he did something that no king had ever done [...]

There is a catchphrase, and it's the best phrase of our generation. It's used millions of times every day. It generates almost 1.5 billion hits on Google. It's completely changed the game in the way that we market products, the way we talk to each [...]

We don't have to worry about being kidnapped from our homes or our workplace, or paraded in front of the world, either to deny our faith or to die for our faith. But at the same time, I just wanna remind all of us, that doesn't mean that maybe we [...]

One of the signs that you have reached full-fledged adulthood is not just when you turn 18 or when you turn 21. You know that you have really reached adulthood when you are asked to sign a contract, 'cause only adults can sign contracts. Now, one of [...]

You know, when I talk to young pastors about preaching and about preparing sermons, I tell 'em, I say, you know, the two most important parts of a sermon are the introduction and the conclusion. And the introduction is the most important part [...]

You know that two million people celebrated September 29th as a holiday, really. Yeah, it's called World Heart Day. In the year 2000, the World Heart Foundation started World Heart Day to raise awareness about heart disease. Whether you know this or [...]

We're in a culture right now that's into nostalgia, and they, we got people wanna go back to the 70's and the 80's and the 90's. It's really kind of a cool thing for me. And there are movies, as you know, that are movies and then there are movies [...]

We're a nation that is afflicted with harmful appetites, unhealthy appetites for things that at worse will kill you and at best will debilitate you. And when you're gonna leave here in just a little while and get in your car. You're gonna drive out [...]

Well, if you know anything about the historical figure named Jesus, anything at all, there's one thing about him nobody denies, even people that don't believe he was the son of God, they don't believe he came back from the dead. It's one of the very [...]

Now, like a lot of men, I was raised kinda the old-fashioned way. I was raised that grown men don't cry, big boys don't cry, and so I haven't really been much of a crier in my life. I had just not given in to that. And, you know, for the longest [...]

I've been thinking probably 10, 11, 12 years actually about doing what we're gonna do beginning today. Lemme go ahead and tell you that for the next nine months, we're gonna be doing this, we're gonna be preaching through the Sermon on the Mount, [...]

Gertrude Stein, you may have not have heard of her. Maybe some of you do if you like to read. She was one of the most popular American novelists in the 20th century. In 1946, she was riding in a car in a city right outside of Paris, and she got [...]

So as we begin today, welcome those who are watching online, those who are in the room. If you walk down the average street in America and you ask two very important questions, you get the following responses. If you were walk down, just take an [...]

If you're new or you're joining us for the first time, we're in a series we're calling, "I Doubt It". And we've been dealing with major doubts that both believers and unbelievers have about God, about Jesus, about the Bible, about the [...]

When I was a small boy, my mom and dad taught me a prayer and I bet a lot of you were taught that same prayer. And it goes like this. "God is great. God is good. Let us thank Him for our food". How many of you prayed that prayer as a kid? [...]

So I want you to take your Bibles right now, get 'em out, get your iPad, phone, whatever. I want you to turn to the book of Romans, Matthew, Mark, Luke, John, Acts, Romans. Lemme tell you about a guy you've never heard of. I didn't know about him. [...]

So here's what we're gonna do today. I'm a fan, I don't know about you, but I'm a fan of detective shows. I watch "Forensic Files," I watch "Dateline". I just kind of get into that stuff. And so this story is something that [...]

Well, again, I wanna say good morning to those who are watching online and those here in the building. And let's just kind of get right into it today. There's an evangelistic organization known as Cru, and they ask college students all over the [...]

A few years ago, the Barna Research Group conducted a poll that found that spiritual doubt is much more common among Christians than we might have considered. About 65% of Christians said they had questioned what they believed about religion and [...]

Lemme tell you what I learned. You know, you get to look back when you do your daily days and you realize that one of the greatest and hardest jobs that parents have is to teach kids to take things seriously. Because one of the things that would [...]

Not long ago, I came across this statement and it convicted me. You see how you respond to it. You could tell what a person likes by what they do, you could tell what a person thinks by what they say, but you can tell what a person is by how they [...]

You know, if you were a child, you know this, and every child knows this, you get asked a question, you get asked it so many times, you get tired of hearing it, and everybody asks you the question your parents will ask you, your grandparents will [...]

I am just glad that you're here. Just before World War II, a school fire broke out in the town of Itasca, Texas. It killed 263 children. It was the only school in town. And because of the war, the town went without any school for seven years. Then [...]

Well, in 2008, a mother named Jenna did what many expectant mothers do. So she had an ultrasound to discover the gender of her unborn baby. But after she discovered the baby's sex, she decided to do something at the time that was novel, no one had [...]

Every year, the Oxford English dictionary declares a word of the year. It's a word that they say, and I'm quoting, has lasting potential as a word of cultural significance. Well, in 2016, the Oxford English dictionary declared that the word of the [...]

There there are some things that I'm sure sometimes I say them and you think I make them up and I'm not making this up. Believe it or not, even as I was putting the finishing touches on this sermon a few weeks ago, the United States Senate took a [...]

We're starting a series today, and I've told you before, it's not for the faint of heart. But I wanna begin by saying something, and I hope you'll hear. This is really important. We're not primarily a church that likes to talk about what we're [...]

How many of you, just curious, how many of you love history? Some people don't even like history. Okay, I'm a history buff. I love history. You can count on one thing: I keep a lot of books going at one time, but I'm always reading about history. I [...]

What we've heard today, and I've gotta preach quick. What we've heard today reminds me of a little poem that I heard a long time ago, and I hope you'll take it to heart. "You have only one life, and it will soon be past, and only what's done [...]

We are in a series we're calling generational discipleship. If you're joining us for the first time, and we're telling you and saying to you there are four elements in that process. Last week we talked about teaching, that it all begins with [...]

I wanna see how many of you know exactly who you are and where you belong. And if you don't know, you may not realize which category you're in, I'm gonna put these up on the screen, don't need to raise your hand, but let's just see kinda where [...]

Let me begin by asking you a question. Who's the one person that affects your life every day? I'm talking about a human. Who's the one person that you'd say affects your life every day? Maybe it's your spouse. Maybe it's one of your children. Maybe [...]

I'm gonna take you back about 120 years to a man that you don't know. If you had lived back in the day, you would've known him. He was very well known. He was kind of maybe, and not in a leadership sense, but more in a philosophical sense, he was [...]

About a century ago, when the tobacco industry was booming in America, you had a choice, every person had a choice. You could either be a smoker or a non-smoker. Very easy to, you know, decide what you want to do. But beginning in 1965, researchers [...]

We are thrilled to have you here in the building today. It is a beautiful day. I wanna go back to a date, before I was born, July the 16th, 1945. The place was Alamogordo, New Mexico. Something happened on that day that affects all of us, everybody [...]

Let me kind of prepare you for the message today, it's gonna be different. Normally I give kind of a brief introduction and then we get right into the major points I want you to learn. We're not gonna do that today, and you'll see why. Today, I want [...]

Alright, what a great day to be here this morning. You know, when you live as long as I have, you really learn a lot about people. And I've learned there are only two kinds of people that go to school. There are people who like going to school and [...]

How many of you are married or you're dating someone and sometimes you have conflict? Just curious. Okay. You know, some people think that I sleep in three-piece pajamas and have a hotline to God and all that. I'm just like you, I shop at Walmart [...]

I'm grateful that you're here. I'm grateful those of you're watching online today. And today's one of those days when there's two books in the Bible that a pastor loves to preach from, simply because there's no excuse not to find it. You know, [...]

There are two dates that are very important to me, personally. They mean a lot to me. And individually, one is December the 22nd, 1952. The reason that date is so important, that's the date of my birth. And I'm at the age and stage of my life where [...]

Let me tell you a story, true story. It is one of the greatest things that ever happened in my life, and I'm being serious, and you'll know why. From the time I started school, my first day before I went to school, my dad told me, he said, [...]

2000 years ago, there was a church in a city in Turkey called Philadelphia. And this song could have been their theme song, because in the midst of all that church was going through and all that church was under, that church stood like a rock. If [...]

Well, I wanna say good morning to those of you who are watching online, those of you are in the room. And if you're glad to be here, if you really are, just turn to your neighbor right now and just say, "I am glad to be here". Would you [...]

Well, I got a question, November the 16th, big day, how many of you know why it's a big day? Anybody here know the significance of November the 16th, anybody? Because if you do, you're smarter than I am and you're certainly smarter than a fifth [...]

Well, how many of you either have heard the story or saw the Brad Pitt movie, Troy? How many of you even read the book or, all right, how many of you don't know anything about that at all? All right, I'm talking to you. When I was a boy the first [...]

Well, I wanna say good morning to those of you who may be watching online, or watching on TV, around the world For those of you who are in the building, and I just wanna begin by asking a question. Everybody kind of laugh when I ask it at the 9:15 [...]

Whenever you fly on a commercial airline was on a plane last week, you could always count on hearing five words over the intercom every single time I heard it last week. This is your captain speaking. Have you ever wondered why they do that? Have [...]

New York Times bestselling author Malcolm Gladwell wrote a book called "The Tipping Point", sold over 2 million copies. Great book. The basis of the book is really simple. Here's what Gladwell said. He said, "Drastic change happens at [...]

So let me begin by telling you today about a man named David that is in heaven, but Teresa and I met him back when we were young. In fact, we had only been married a couple of years. I was in seminary full-time and I was pastoring full-time. I'd [...]

I love so many things about my wife Teresa. If you go to our church, you know that I talk all the time about how even we've been married four decades. I'm more in love with her today than than I've ever been. She's my best friend. She is absolutely [...]