There are millions of dreams that die each and every day because they were never acted upon. There are countless life-changing possibilities that slip silently into the night because they were never seized upon. Why do we miss life-changing [...]

You know, the last couple of weeks we’ve been targeting the heart. We’ve been focusing on the heart because the Bible says everything you do in life flows from your heart. Now, the Bible describes your heart as those internal motivations and [...]

I heard about a small country church in a rural farming community where just about every member of the church was a farmer, and they were going through a terrible drought in the whole area. So, one Sunday, before the pastor started his message, he [...]

We’re in this series I’m calling «Windows of Opportunity.» I have some windows on stage because God wants to unlock the window of His blessing in our lives. Now, when we think of the word «blessing,» what do we normally think of? Financial blessing, [...]

You know this Friday we celebrate Good Friday, and it’s good for a reason. It was 2000 years ago on that day that the Son of God shed sinless blood so we could be forgiven of our sins. This coming Sunday, we celebrate Resurrection Sunday, the day [...]

You know, Chris and I are so excited to be back. Every July, we take some time off, and it helps me because I’m not preparing to preach a message. So, Chris and I can pray, plan, and have meetings with others, really get ready for the fall. But I [...]

Happy Easter, Woodlands Church! How you doing? Yeah, you can be seated. You look great! By the way, as I look out over our auditorium at our Easter services, I’m always struck by all the bright and brilliant colors that you’re wearing. You break out [...]

Have you ever watched one of those extreme fishing shows like River Monsters? How many of you have watched River Monsters or something similar? I love watching the reruns now. It ran for about nine years, and this guy, Jeremy Wade, said the reason [...]

We have 10 adults and 10 grandchildren in our family, and it’s such a blessing that we all get together at our house quite often. But after everyone leaves, our outdoor trash cans, which were empty before they came over, are filled to overflowing-I [...]

How cool is it to be able to drive a steamroller while building a road? Don’t worry about it. Okay, I need to learn how to drive a snowplow. It sounds like a great stress reliever; I can tell you that. You just think about your problems and stresses [...]

You know we’re concluding this miniseries I’m calling «River Monsters» as we’re learning how to overcome the monsters that are in our minds that keep us from swimming in God’s river of blessing. And today we’re going to look at a really powerful [...]

Hey, for those of you who are married, have you ever said to your spouse, «I love you, but I don’t understand you»? Chris and I have said that to each other a lot over the years, and there have been many more times that we’ve thought it. «I love [...]

You know, this weekend, we’re concluding the series we’ve been in called the «Rodeo of Life.» As we’ve been going to God’s Word to learn how to hold on when life tries to knock us down, this is also the last weekend of the biggest rodeo in the [...]

Hey, we’re starting this new series this weekend I’m calling «Detoxing Your Life» because we’re going to learn over the next few weeks some healthy habits for healing relationships. And the Bible tells us that we better recognize and deal with the [...]

What if you could just recycle everything in your life? I mean, just like you recycle plastic or paper products. What if you could recycle anything in your life, and you could do it instantly? What if you could recycle all your stressful thoughts, [...]

In the 1930s, Noah McVicker, the owner of the Coutal Products Company in Cincinnati, Ohio, created this Play-Doh; he developed it as a non-toxic wallpaper cleaner that would clean coal residue off of wallpaper. It was originally called Coutal Wall [...]

Last week, we talked about how important it is to guard your heart and nourish your heart because the Bible tells us that everything you do in life flows out of your heart. Every outward action comes from an inward attitude in your heart. Every [...]

We are in this series that we just started, which I’m calling «Detoxing Your Life,» because we all have these toxic habits as we go through life. We all pick up some unhealthy ways of relating as we navigate through life, and those unhealthy ways [...]

When our kids were little, there were several times that Pastor Ry’s family and our family would go on vacation together. Their oldest kids and our kids were about the same ages, and they all have great memories looking back on those trips-well, [...]

What a great weekend it’s been at Woodland Church! It is Super Bowl weekend. I mean, it’s been super; God has been moving. I mean, over a thousand students at Reality Weekend at Woodland Church — unbelievable! I got a chance with my wife, Chris, to [...]

Kerry Shock : Merry Christmas, Woodlands Church. How are you doing? You can be seated. We are so glad that you are here. The weather outside may be frightful this Christmas Eve, but it is warm and delightful in here, isn't it? Chris Shock : [...]

Kerry Shook : Merry Christmas, Woodland Church. How are you? Chris Shook : Yeah, Merry Christmas. Kerry Shook : Yeah. Chris Shook : Wow, we are so excited to celebrate the birth of Jesus with you. You can be seated. And this year we're calling [...]

We're leading up to Christmas, and I'm really praying that we'll prepare us, in this series, to experience the most meaningful Christmas of our lives. That's my real prayer for you today, that God will help us prepare our hearts [...]

I know a lot of you guys are just like me, you're not yet ready for Christmas are you? You're a member of the last minute crowd, and now you're having to fight the crowded malls, just totally stressed out, looking for those last [...]

It amazes me that Isaiah wrote this prophecy nearly 600 years before Christ was born. Did you get that? He wrote this prophecy 600 years before the first Christmas. Isaiah the Prophet had watched a series of failed monarchies try to rule Israel, and [...]

And I wanna share a very important truth to you today, and it’s this, most of the things we think are so valuable are really worthless. Most people spend their life thinking about, worrying about, acquiring, accumulating things that are totally [...]

Well, Woodlands Church, I don’t know if you’ve noticed or not, but the hit reality game show «Wipe Out» is back. Now, it originally aired on television in 2008 and was brought back because it was wildly popular for 7 seasons, and now it’s back. It’s [...]

I just love the reality game show, «Wipe Out». I just find it hilarious. So if I’m flipping through the channels I get stuck on it. I don’t get enough, I can’t get enough of normal people making a fool of themselves. It’s hilarious to me. You know, [...]

Kerry Shook: Well, Chris and I are kicking off a new series this weekend we're calling "Relationship Games," and we're going to use some classic board games and have a little bit of fun to illustrate some powerful and [...]

Woodlands Church, we are in this adventure that we're calling the Heaven On Earth Challenge, and it's based on the part of the Lord's Prayer where Jesus said we're to pray, "Your kingdom come, Your will be done, on earth as [...]

Kerry Shook: I heard about a burglar who had been casing out a neighborhood in the summer, and he noticed a house where a family had left for vacation. So, late at night he broke into the front door, he walked into a completely dark entryway, and [...]

We just started a new series that I'm calling "Lemonade," and it's all about how God brings something good out of all the sour circumstances, all the bitter disappointments, all the devastating and painful things that can come [...]

You know, life doesn't always go the way we want it to, and many things in our lives are out of our control. They're just beyond our control. There are many things in life we don't get to choose. You don't get to choose most of [...]

Now I have up here a pot of chocolate fondue and I'm telling you this is the good stuff. I mean, see, I just wanna prove it to you. Let me prove it to you. I mean, you need to taste this. So I will. Mm mm, yeah, it's really good. I'm [...]

I have here a table and this is the kind of table Jesus would have eaten at. You know, it's a low table, it's more like a coffee table. In the first century in the Middle East, you would come to the dinner table and you would recline like [...]

It seems there's one thing for certain these days, and that is we live in very uncertain times. We're gonna look at a time in the Old Testament when God's people felt very uncertain about their future. They didn't know what was [...]

I heard about an elderly man who was brand new to a senior living center, and as soon as he walked in the door, he saw across the room an elderly woman who just stared at him, and she just couldn't take her eyes off of him. And then, later that [...]

You know, this weekend we're concluding our series on how God sparks divine and lasting change in our lives. Now, when we are making positive changes in our lives, like putting in a new habit or trying to get rid of a destructive habit, [...]

Conflict is something that's just tearing up Christian families and marriages and churches today because a lot of Christ's followers have no idea how to resolve conflict and that conflict is so important in our lives because you have to [...]

We're in a series I'm calling "Dinner with Jesus," because there's so many times in the Gospel that we see Jesus eating dinner with people. Why is that? Because with Jesus, it's all about relationships, and Christianity [...]

Well, this weekend, we're concluding this series, "Rivers in the Desert," as we're looking at how God wants to bring a river of blessing right to us in the middle of life's problems and pressures, and it's based on this [...]

Kerry Shock : You know, a while back, Chris and I had the opportunity to visit the Negev Desert in Southern Israel, and while we were in the desert, Chris was determined to go on a camel ride. And we heard there was this Bedouin who had camels and [...]

I get to talk this weekend about something Chris and I are so passionate about. In fact, it's really our life's passion, and that is to live our lives and to live out our faith in such a way that our kids and their kids see that God is [...]

There was a pastor who loved to play golf and one Saturday, he noticed that the weather on Sunday was supposed to be just perfect. And so he started thinking, I never get to play golf on Sunday morning. I don't think it would hurt, just this [...]

We're starting a new series this weekend called "The Power of Honor". We're gonna look at one of the most amazing and transforming principles in God's Word. In fact, it's the very key that unlocks the blessings of God [...]

The moments in this life that are just so beautiful and glorious like a sunrise over the Grand Canyon, or the feeling of falling head over heels in love, or the first cry of a newborn baby, those moments, they shout with certainty we have a God who [...]

Last week, Chris and I had the opportunity to go to Jerusalem and meet with some leaders and in between meetings we had the opportunity to explore a little bit, and we've been to the Holy Land several times, and had the privilege of going to [...]

Hey, we're in this series on the "Power of Honor," as honor is the key to unlocking the blessings of God in your life, and dishonor blocks all the blessings that God wants to give you because he wants to bless you. And it all starts [...]

Well, it all started with Discovery Channel's "Shark Week". But now there are shark shows on just about every channel. From "Shark Behavior" to "Shark Attacks," and that's the ones I like. I like to watch the [...]

One of the craziest "Shark Week" specials aired in 2003 when shark researcher Erich Ritter, who said his knowledge of shark behavior kept him from being bitten, lost part of his leg when he was bitten by a bull shark while the cameras were [...]