Drawing from Jesus' Parable of the Talents in Matthew 25, this sermon emphasizes that God entrusts us with limited eternal opportunities—represented by talents—to invest for His kingdom, warning that our brief window of time on earth is [...]

In this message from 2 Kings 13, the preacher uses the illustration of an arrow to show how a divided or half-hearted commitment to God causes us to miss divine opportunities and full blessing, urging us instead to aim our whole heart at God for [...]

Pastor shares the story of a farmer church praying for rain but showing no faith by not bringing umbrellas, then uses Elijah’s “umbrella faith” on Mount Carmel to illustrate that true faith speaks and acts as if God’s promise is already [...]

Pastor explains that God wants to open the window of heaven’s blessings in our lives for true happiness and fulfillment, not just finances. Through Malachi 3, he shows that obeying the command to tithe (giving the first 10%) unlocks that window, [...]

Pastor explains that while we celebrate Good Friday and Resurrection Sunday, the often-overlooked «Saturday in between» represents those painful waiting seasons in life—where hopes die and God seems silent—but it’s actually the preparation time for [...]

Pastor shares excitedly about Cousin Camp with his grandkids and uses the cave experience to illustrate that real life is beneath the surface: we must guard our heart because everything we do flows from it (Proverbs 4:23), and when our heart beats [...]

In this Easter message, the preacher explores the "true colors of Easter"—green for life lost in Eden, red for sin and Christ's redeeming blood, and white for forgiveness and new life—showing how the resurrection turns [...]

Drawing from extreme fishing shows like River Monsters and local alligator gar sightings in Buffalo Bayou, this sermon launches the «River Monsters» series by teaching from Joshua 3 how God enables His people to cross seemingly uncrossable [...]

In this «Recycle» series message, the preacher uses everyday trash and worry as illustrations to show how God recycles our anxieties into peace through prayer, drawing principles from the Lord’s Prayer in Matthew 6 that help us trust God’s plan, [...]

In this sermon from the «Recycled» series, the preacher shows how God, the ultimate road builder, takes our broken paths—like Saul’s destructive road of persecuting Christians—and recycles them into roads of purpose and destiny, just as He [...]

In the concluding message of the "River Monsters" series from Acts 8, where Philip leads the seeking Ethiopian eunuch to faith in Jesus and immediately baptizes him in desert waters, the preacher urges everyone to ask "What prevents [...]

On this Valentine’s weekend, drawing from Genesis where God creates man and woman in His image yet distinctly different to complement each other, and contrasting the pre-fall unity with post-fall shame and hiding, the preacher teaches that [...]

In the concluding message of the «Rodeo of Life» series, drawing from 2 Corinthians 4 where Paul describes believers as fragile jars of clay containing God’s priceless treasure and power, the preacher emphasizes that everyone carries hidden hurts [...]

In launching the «Detoxing Your Life» series on healing relationships, the preacher drew from the unusual miracle in 2 Kings 4 where Elisha detoxed a pot of poisonous stew by adding flour, symbolizing how Jesus, the Bread of Life, is the only one [...]

Pastor Kerry kicked off the new year with a series called "Recycle," imagining how amazing it would be if God could instantly recycle our stressful thoughts, stale marriages, faded dreams, and fears into peace, passion, excitement, and [...]

Pastor Kerry used the story of how Play-Doh was repurposed from a failing wallpaper cleaner into a beloved children's toy to illustrate how God wants to take our mistakes, failures, and pain and turn them into miracles. Drawing from Jeremiah [...]

Building on last week's message about guarding the heart, the preacher encourages believers not to lose heart or grow weary in doing good, drawing from Galatians 6:9's promise of reaping a harvest in due season if we persevere, and [...]

In this message from the «Detoxing Your Life» series, the preacher teaches that many of our toxic thoughts and habits stem from lies planted by Satan, using 2 Corinthians 10:3-5 as the key text to show how believers can take every thought captive [...]

In this message from Woodlands Church, the pastor shares a humorous family vacation mishap with dishwashing detergent mistaken for powdered sugar, then transitions to the serious topic of «toxic loops"—repeated harmful patterns in life—using [...]

In this Super Bowl-themed message titled «30-Second Sermon» from Woodland Church, the pastor uses four Super Bowl commercials to illustrate biblical truths: God’s power is perfected in our weakness (2 Cor. 12:9-10), resting in God’s unconditional [...]

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 [...]