And I want to begin by saying to those who are watching online, by television, those at our Mill Creek campus, those that are here in our Sugarland campus, this can happen to anybody and it can happen to the best of us. It happened to a man that I [...]

There was a 35 year old man from California, true story, he has no use for the church. Couldn't care less about Christianity. When we asked why, why you have such antipathy to church? Why are you so just turned off to Christians and [...]

Let me just say thanks for being here. I wanna say hello to our Mill Creek campus watching online, those who are watching by TV, those here at Sugarloaf. I wanna begin with a question and I wanna see how many of you will guess the right answer. [...]

I wanna say good morning to those of you watching online, by television, those at our Mill Creek campus, those here at our Suglarloaf campus. The question is when you walk in here y'all ask a question every now and then, particularly if [...]

If you're a guest of ours we're in a series in Galatians we're calling Free at Last. Because the vast majority of people that live, will live and will die in slavery and in bondage. There are people listening to me right now, [...]

Well I wanna thank you for being here. I'm excited about what we're about to start. For those who are watching online, by computer, by television, at our Mill Creek campus, those who are here, and it's gonna be a great, great time. I [...]

I want you to turn to 1 Kings 19. We're going to study a man today that was absolutely at the bottom of the barrel of discouragement. In fact, it's kind of surprising to see who he was. His name was Elijah, and he's known as one of [...]

Bitterness is harbored hurt hidden in the heart. Let me just tell you why I'm kind of passionate about this. Of all the range of human emotions that we can enter into, fear, depression, lust, anger, whatever, the one that I'm absolutely [...]

It's one thing to experience physical fatigue but I believe there's another kind and other kinds of fatigue that are a lot more debilitating and a lot more difficult to deal with and I'm talking about spiritual fatigue, emotional [...]

If you're like me, for most of us at least, if not all of us, life is full. As a matter of fact, it's more than full. Sometimes it feels like it's overfilled. Now, I'm not looking for sympathy, but let me just give an example. We [...]

I want you to turn to Romans chapter 8, and as you're turning there, this is a letter, by the way, that a man by the name of Paul wrote, and he actually wound up dying in a prison in Rome, even as he was writing this book. And I want you to [...]

I want you to listen again to what this prophet named Isaiah predicted about this baby that would be born 700 years before Christmas ever took place. "For to us a child is born," and, by the way, I'm pretty sure Isaiah didn't [...]

I don't care how successful you may think you are. Let me tell you. Nobody hits on all eight cylinders in every area of their life. It's impossible. You can't do it and the truth of the matter is we just don't have it within [...]

The God that is giving you breath and life right now and the God that can take that very breath away from you right now says to you and me, "I want us to be on a first name basis". That's the series that we're starting today. Now [...]

Brought a copy of your Bible, I'd invite you to turn to Psalm 147, and if you don't know where the Psalms are, right in the middle. Any Bible, pick it up, Psalms, right in the middle. And if you wanna look on your phone or pad or whatever [...]

Well, this month we're in a series that we're calling "Music to My Ears". And what we've been doing if you will is listening to some of the most beautiful songs and those beautiful lyrics that have ever been written in a [...]

There's always somewhere you can turn, and there's always somebody that you can talk to. If you're in that situation right now, you've come to the right place, and God has a Word for you today. As a matter of fact, there is a [...]

Now, if you've ever doubted God, let me just give you some good news. You're in good company. And I'll tell ya, as a pastor, I'll make a very candid confession, I have doubted God in my life. There have been times I've had [...]

Your feet are super important to God. Now, you may not think about that. You may think, "Wait a minute. You mean the God that runs the universe? You mean the God that keeps things flowing and going? You mean that God's concerned about my [...]

Today, I wanna talk about not just how to live right and how to die right, but how to make sure you make the right turn after you die. What we said quite frankly, unapologetically, is that only Jesus can help you do both. If you live right, [...]

Since I'm only going to live once, I think I want to live right. And since I'm only going to die once, at least physically, I want to die right. Now the question is, how do you do that? Well, there was a man by the name of Paul who wrote a [...]

One wrong turn can cost you money, it could cost you a job, it could cost you the opportunity of a lifetime, it can cost you a marriage, it can even cost you your life. So, I'm beginning a series today, and I don't wanna hype every series [...]

Why would we ever be ashamed of the gospel? I mean, why would we do that? And frankly, that's the question that a man by the name of Paul, whose life was personally, radically, and eternally changed by the gospel, addressed in the greatest [...]

We're in a series that we're calling "The X-Factor," because the secret of the explosive growth of the early church was they were not just asking, they were really answering this question. The question they were asking is, [...]

Why is that somewhere between 90% and 95% of believers have never shared their faith in Jesus with anybody? Never. Not one time ever shared their faith with anybody. Now I've thought a lot about it. Wracked my brain. Why is it that so many [...]

Over the next several weeks, and I don't do this very often. I don't try to over polish and under deliver, but over the next several weeks, four weeks to be exact, I'm going to share with you four things that I guarantee you, [...]

Whether or not you worship God at all or if you do, how you worship God is an unfailing, infallible mark of what your spiritual temperature really is. As a matter of fact, if you want to really know how hot your heart is for God, let me just you a [...]

You may take a vacation but in a way you really don't. Most of us have the kind of jobs that even when you're on vacation you gotta call, you gotta check in, you gotta, you know, get on the email. You've gotta do that. You provide for [...]

This was in the newspaper last week: "People are running out of gas in record numbers. Nearly a million motorists a year run out of gas and break down on the side of the road and that number has risen every year since 2011. Drivers are running [...]

We've been in a series, if you're a first time guest of ours, we've been in a series we've been calling "Playlist", and you know a playlist today is, it's a digital collection of songs. If you've got an iPhone [...]

The most used term in the Bible to describe a follower of Jesus, found over 250 times, is the word disciple. And Jesus said that's why He came, to make disciples, and He also said, as He was leaving planet earth, that's the job of the [...]

If you're a guest of ours today, we started a series last week we're calling "The Elephant in the Room". And it really is about those things that people don't like to discuss, and we all have to be honest here, pornography [...]

If you're joining us for the first time, today, we're in a series that we're calling Playlist. Now, if you know anything about computers or phones or iPads or whatever, I have several playlists, you probably do. But a playlist is a [...]

In September of 2006, this British graffiti artist decided that he wanted to illustrate how often we tend to ignore big problems. Problems that are not local or even national but global. And one of the things he wanted to illustrate is global [...]

We are to become disciples of Jesus who make disciples for Jesus. If you want to know why you're here, that's why you're here. If you're not a believer, you're here to become a believer. If you are a believer, you're [...]

Prejudice is when we make a distinction between people that God doesn't make. That's prejudice. So, whenever you make a distinction between people that God doesn't make, that is prejudice. Racism is a level up, because racism is when [...]

We're doing a series this month, I'm really pumped about it. We're calling it "Playlist", and you know what a playlist is. It's an audio or a video file, usually of music, and the young people, especially you younger [...]

We're going to look at Psalm 51 and the reason why we're back in this Psalm for a second week is because the song is a very long song and it basically has two parts. So let me kind of go back and review if you were not here last week, or [...]

Jesus came to earth, and He tells us, for one reason and one purpose, and that is to make disciples. And it was such a big deal to Him that when He left planet earth, He gave the church only one job description. He said, your job is to make [...]

What am I going to do with the life that is still in front of me, however long or short it may be? And oh, by the way, as I'm asking that question let me get deeper. How do I determine what's most important? How do I make the greatest [...]

The topic we're going to deal with is the topic of abortion. Now, before I even get started, I want to ask every woman that is listening to me right now, just listen to me the next two minutes before you decide to tune me out and turn me off, [...]

I want you to turn to John 19. John 19. Let me kind of tell you what's going on. Jesus is nearly dead. And that much was clear to everybody. It might be minutes. It might be an hour but even a Roman soldier, much less a doctor could easily see [...]

Believe it or not, this is a tough time of the year for a pastor. Now, put yourself in my position. Let me tell you a couple of reasons why. If there's one time of the year when people come to church and think they know just as much about the [...]

You are going to make a choice about Jesus, one way or the other. You cannot sit on the fence with Jesus. You may say, well, I'm not a Republican, I'm not a Democrat, I am an Independent. That's fine, politically. Spiritually, you [...]

There are certain days in life that you just never forget. And I'll tell you one day in particular I'll never forget. It literally is like it happened yesterday, and it happened gosh, almost 40 years ago. It was a May morning, midnight, a [...]

I want you to turn to the Third Gospel in the New Testament. It's actually the first four books in the New Testament were all Gospel's. This is the third Gospel. I want you to turn to Luke 23. There's Matthew, Mark, Luke. Luke 23. And [...]

The great writer and journalist G. K. Chesterton once said this, he said, "We spend the first half of our lives fighting with our parents and the second half of our lives fighting with our children". A lot of truth in that. A lot of truth. [...]

Today, we're beginning a series that we're calling the Bucket List because the truth of the matter is sooner or later, we're all going to kick the bucket and there is a difference between the things that you want to do before you die. [...]

We said so far that there are three things that God wants from everybody. Three things God wants from all of us. Okay? Who can tell me what the first one is? Faith. All right; the first one is faith. Okay? God says I want you to believe me. You [...]

Now, if you're a guest of ours today or watching for the first time, we're in a series of messages that we're calling What in the World as in what in the world does God want from us. You know, we're experts at telling God what we [...]