In 2005, Yahoo created what was hailed at the time as a haven for the confused and the curious. It was called Yahoo Answers, it was kind of an online crowdsourcing deal and so what they did was, they just opened, opened up their venue, and they said [...]

Well, I wanna say good morning to those who are watching online that may be watching by television and those in this room, this is a great crowd today, thank you. A lot of you guys that came back, it's great, we're just really, really glad [...]

I don't know why I'm always excited to preach, but I'm pumped today. I don't know why I'm just pumped. So first of all, thank you for coming, thank you for listening, and we're gonna make history today. You know why? I [...]

Well I wanna say good morning to those of you who are in the room with us today, those of you who are watching online or by television, thank you for being a part of our service today. Just to go ahead and get into the message, we're in a [...]

Ralph Waldo Emerson, one of the greatest writers and poets in American history said this, "Every minute you remain angry, "you give up 60 seconds of peace of mind. Well I want to admit something. If that's true, I've given up a [...]

Now I wanna welcome those of you who are watching online, by television, those in our room today, this is the day the Lord has made, I will rejoice and be glad in it. Don't know where you are, but where we are, it is a beautiful day. So [...]

Well, a wonderful and a great morning to all of you here at our room, to those of you who are watching online, watching by TV, computer, iPhone, whatever your iPad, thanks for watching today. Winston Churchill called it the black dog, and years ago [...]

Well, I wanna just say a good morning to all of you here at our room, and those of you watching live, watching by TV, thanks for joining. Just a little quick aside, just before I walked in here, you talking about making my day. I get a text from my [...]

Well, I want to say good morning to those of you who are watching online and those who are watching by television. And, this is one of the largest crowds we've had in a long time. And, I don't get really jacked up too much. I was preaching [...]

Well, I want to say good morning to those of you who are in our room, those of you who are watching online by TV. Thanks for joining us today. If I were to ask all of you right now, how are you feeling today, and you answered honestly, what would [...]

The most celebrated holiday in America, you may or may not know this is not the one we just celebrated last week, Christmas. It's actually New Year's Day. That is the most celebrated holiday in our country. And you can understand it [...]

Well, I wanna say good morning, to those of you who are here with us live and those who are watching online by television, wherever you are around the world, thanks for joining us today. And I wanna begin by asking a very serious question. And you [...]

I wanna begin with a little thought experiment. I don't do things like this often, but so whether you're joining me right now online or you're watching by TV or you're here in the room, I want you to do something for me a little [...]

We're talking about something today that's really, really important to me, and I think it ought to be important to all of you, and it's not, and I hope it will be after the message. So I wanna begin by asking a question. How many of [...]

This past December, Time Magazine released this cover. It said 2020, had a big red X over that number and a simple phrase, "The worst year ever". I'll tell you, that's the story of the year you do not want to ever revisit. And I [...]

One thing that all parents learn, I learned it is a truth that a man named Lionel Kaufman gave a long time ago. Here's what he said. Children are a great comfort in your old age and they help you reach it faster too. I'm telling you, I [...]

So a few years ago, Entertainment Weekly published a list of the 23 worst spoilers in the last 25 years of film. And they said that the most ruined movie plot was the 1999 suspense thriller called "The Sixth Sense". How many of you saw [...]

So, I want to be transparent today. In one of my former churches had a deacon, and from the time I became the pastor of that church, he disliked me. I knew it the moment I met him. In fact, his wife was on the pastor search committee that called me. [...]

Well, I will say good morning. Those were watching online, which are ton of you out there right now, and those who are in our building today. We are certainly glad that you're here and I'm really pumped about the message today. And the [...]

What surprises a lot of people, and we're in the series, by the way, we're calling, "Seeing Red", because we're talking about the times that Jesus got angry. It really shocks people that Jesus got mad, that Jesus got angry, [...]

Good morning to all of you who are watching online, and those who are here with us in our building this morning. As a person matures, hopefully you learn. And it's been a journey for me, to be honest, to be more transparent and to be more open, [...]

Let me begin by telling you a story. During the 1970s, there was an informal prayer meeting that started off in the White House. It was just kind of a spontaneous thing that different believers, mainly Christians got together and decided that they [...]

One of the most powerful governmental bodies in the world is the United States House of Representatives. Now, contrary to popular opinion, let me make something clear to you if you know your civics and history, we are not a democracy. How many of [...]

One of America's historically most popular president is, Theodore Roosevelt. And Theodore Roosevelt said something. And when I read it years ago, I said, you know what? He's right. Here's what he said. He said, "The most [...]

If you have God's word, I wanna turn to it, we're in the book of Colossians, Galatians, Ephesians, Philippians, Colossians Chapter 3. And I want you to hear two words, today I'm gonna say it over and over and over and over and over, [...]

The greatest turning point in my personal life took place as a nine year old boy in a movie theater. And I can remember the exact moment. It revolved around a nail, something like this, about six inches long. It was a spike. And it was being driven [...]

You know, the birth of a child is the beginning of a grand adventure. If you've had children, you know that, and they don't realize as a child what's happening to them, but we do, 'cause we've been there, and we realize [...]

I read a book recently and it had a title, "The Man Who Won't Go Away". When a person dies and I have to break the news to you, 'cause we're all going to die. But when a person dies, it's sad in a way, but almost [...]

We're glad that you're with us today. We're concluding a series that we started at the beginning of this year that we called "Otherwise". And what we've been saying is is that life is basically a series of decisions. [...]

What happens on one side of life really does wind up determining either the success or the failure of the other side of life, because the invisible side of life begins with a problem that everybody in this room and everybody watching faces every [...]

If you've ever been to Washington D.C., or if you haven't and you ever get to go, one of the most important buildings in the world sits in this perfectly circular, well-guarded park in Northwest Washington, D.C. Now, you wouldn't know [...]

You know, one of the things that you learn pretty early in life, even as a child, is it's really easy to underestimate the power of words. It's really easy to take for granted just how powerful the words are that come out of your mouth, [...]

You know, one of the most popular comic strips of all time, in fact, it was my favorite, I didn't read comics much, but I did read one as a kid growing up, and it was "Peanuts" by Charles Schultz. And many of us remember Snoopy and [...]

So Paul lays down a general principle. Here's the principle Paul lays down. He said, look, there were people that were saying, "I have the right to do anything you say". Now Paul's quoting what these people are saying. He says, [...]

I'm a big reader of leadership books, I'm a leader and I try to be a better leader. I don't think you can learn too much about leadership. And since the modern era began there's been about 15,000 books just written on leadership [...]

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 would have 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 though we've been married four decades, I'm more in love with her today than I've ever been. She's my best [...]

If Christianity is so wonderful, I think it is. And it's so true as we believe it is then that has to raise a question. Why isn't everybody a Christian? I mean, I call the gospel the best news that's ever been heard. Well, if the [...]

Well, I wanna say good morning, and first of all, I want you to be encouraged today. You know, there's a lot of discouraging news out there. You kind of get up every morning and you think to yourself, what's next? I just wanna remind you [...]

In case you haven't heard the latest, with everything else that's going on, our society is growing less and less religious by the day. In fact, one of the fastest growing segments of our population is what's called the nones. And when [...]

Well it is Easter Sunday. It's a great Easter. And the reason I know that is because I'm reminded again as you are, that Jesus Christ has been risen from the dead. Now having said that, we all know it turned out That we'd never even [...]

I wanna tell you a sad story I have a dear friend. I actually was his pastor when he was just a teenager, one of the finest young men I've ever known, and he's in prison today. He didn't kill anybody, he didn't rob anybody. [...]

There're certain things we all should be concerned about. For example, if you have children, you ought to be concerned that they get a good education. You ought to be concerned that they hang around with the right kids and the right people, and [...]

I think there are certain things that we deal with and the reason why we get frustrated, and the reason why we get discouraged, and the reason why we get depressed, and the reason why we even can get suicidal is because we're dealing with [...]

Well, good morning, I wanna thank you again for wherever you are for taking time out of what shouldn't be too busy of a day and watching us today. I just wanna welcome you and just thank the Lord that we're at least together virtually, if [...]

Life, if you think about it's kind of like reading a book there's a beginning and then there is an ending. And then there is a, what you've got in between. And it's the same way really when you start out with a book, when you [...]

In the early part of the 19th century, there was an American poet, his name was Strickland Gillilan and he wrote a little couplet that is considered, even today, commonly cited as the smallest, shortest poem ever written. It was titled [...]

If you're a dad, you'll really appreciate the story I'm about to share with you. The name is Dr. Nicholas Wolterstorff. I'm sure you probably haven't heard of him but he is Professor Emeritus our Philosophical Theology at [...]

Somebody has well said that parenting is probably the hardest job that you'll ever love. And I want to just say a word to parents today, and I really want to sympathize with you and I mean it, parenting is hard. It's a hard job. I've [...]

Well, I wanna say again, good morning to all of you who are with us today. And I want you to be aware of something. I prepare my messages weeks ahead of time. I've been doing this for years. And so, I actually prepared this message, it's [...]