I want to talk to you today about something that changed my life when I was a teenager. Many of you know my story, I was raised in a Christian home, and both of my parents were pastors. My mom was a prolific teacher, my dada preaching machine. So I [...]

There's an interesting teaching in the Bible that I'm going to springboard from today. And I'm going to challenge you, and I pray that you'll take off your religious hat, and that you'll allow the Word of God to provoke you. [...]

As a young child, some of my earliest memories are my parents, teaching me Bible stories. My dad or mom would put me to bed at night, and depending upon my age, it was very age specific. They would teach me the stories of the Bible. Not just the [...]

Today, I want to entitle this message, "Please help me change". Please help me change. It's the cry of so many hearts on our planet, who feel so stuck. Stuck in their emotions. Stuck in, their behaviours. Addictions. Stuck in, awful [...]

Today, I want to talk about an area of Christianity that, that has been one of the biggest causes of failures in people's lives. You see. The enemy of our souls, the devil, there is a spirit world. And that spirit world is filled with beings as [...]

As a young man, as a child actually, my mom and dad, they raised us and taught us the Bible in different ways for different ages. I remember as a little boy, my mom and dad teaching us, I have four brothers so there's five of us boys, so [...]

I want to talk to you today about tough love. Tough love. Years ago, I remember a, Christian psychologist wrote a book to Christians because he just couldn't believe the mamby-pamby way they were raising their kids. And he did an entire book, I [...]

I want to talk about learning to pray. Because if you don't learn to pray, you have all these rights and privileges that you don't know how to access. And so prayer is about our fellowship with God. But it's also about enforcing the [...]

I was teaching in the southern hemisphere of the planet at different conferences, and happened to run into some people who were officials in rugby, and they asked me if I wanted to come and watch an All-Blacks game. And didn't, you know, they [...]

Today, I want to talk about two kinds of wisdom. Two kinds of wisdom. A lot of people think they are unique and free thinkers. That, you know, they're their own man. They're their own woman. But today, so many people are simply seduced by [...]

I want to speak to the young today. I want to speak to teenagers. I want to speak to twenty-somes. I want to speak to those who are new in faith. Because I want to talk to you about a hidden truth that for some reason seems to get covered over in, [...]

You know, the Bible is a very interesting book. That's the way most people might look at it. It's interesting. But what most people need to realize is that the Bible is the authority. It is the power of God's Word. It's [...]

One of our greatest problems as a church. I got to tell you how I really feel, is the message that the church of Jesus Christ worldwide is giving to the world, and it is such a judgmental message. It's such a message that if you do anything [...]

In Psalms 146, it has a unique statement that it makes here. It says that God is going to heal the blind. He's going to look after the righteous. He's going to, He's watching over the strangers. He's the father to the fatherless. [...]

If you've been here for any length of time, you will have heard me say, "I hate religion". I don't say it to be cute. I absolutely detest religion. You need to know that. Religion is a bunch of manmade rules that people add. [...]

The talks multiple times in the New Testament about another judgment not the white throne judgment. This is a judgment for Christians. And it's called the judgment seat of Christ, in the Greek it's the bema seat. Now, everybody gets [...]

Today, I'm going to talk about, "Go Greater". Go Greater. There's a difference when you watch sports between people who play the game and the people you depend upon when it's crunch time. I remember quarterbacking football [...]

So many people do not think for themselves. They are shallow thinkers. Even the people who think they are uniquely different are completely mesmerized by some culture here and, and they just follow after. Edward T. Hall, a professor of Anthropology [...]

Your beliefs determine your perceptions and your ability to understand something. And so many people don't realize that we form beliefs by our own decisions, or people who have raised us. They help us to form beliefs and then these beliefs [...]

I was raised in a pastor's home, both my parents were pastors. And one of the things I've noticed as then and now as a pastor, because a pastor's job is to equip the saints for the work of the ministry. You are an incredible person, [...]

We live in a world where few people think for themselves, and everyone knows it. Edward T. Hall who's a professor of anthropology said, "Man has put himself in his own zoo. He has so simplified his life and stereotyped his responses that [...]

As you look back, in time. There's a word that we don't use much anymore called virtue. Virtue would often mean, I'm going to protect my daughter's virtue. So lock them up at home, don't let them go anywhere, be able to keep [...]

Hey everybody, it's so great to have you with me today on our program. Today is a very interesting message. I addressed our school, and all of the teenagers in the high school classes, and I did a chapel for them. So I want you to hear this [...]

Today, I'm going to talk about, Practicing Joy. This is crucial. Whenever I meet my kids or grandkids or Sally. I always, I'm so happy to see them and I want to show it. Now, the grand kids, I mean, they get the most of this ahhh, when [...]

Hey, everybody. It is so good to have you with me. Today, we're going to do a second part of what I started last time about being a miracle worker. Another words, learning to flow with the power of God. And so if you didn't see the first [...]

Hey, everybody. It is so good to have you with us today. Today, we are going to dive into a topic that I believe can change your life. We're going to talk about being a miracle worker. The word miracle is used so, I don't know, loosely, [...]

Hey, everybody. It's so good to have you with me today. Today, we're going to talk about hopes and dreams. The enemy of our souls would love for you to stop dreaming. As you are pounded with negativity and fear and all the things that have [...]

One of the things I struggled with as a young Christian was, what is a Christian? Do you ever ask yourself that question? What is a Christian? Because there's some pretty crazy answers out there. Like I'd meet people who were so religious [...]

Today, I want to teach you how to dream. I want to teach you how to dream. It's not everybody has a dream. It's, I want to teach how to dream. Because there's very specific things that we need to be aware of if we're going to [...]

Freedom isn't free. Freedom isn't free. There's a lot of talk right now about freedom. A lot of talk about rights. And people think that governments give freedoms. Governments give rights. But it's God that gave the freedoms. I [...]

I've noticed over the years, as a pastor, my job is to equip and train the saints. My job is to equip and train the body of Christ. And I've noticed some things and one of things I want to talk about today is, I've noticed that people [...]

Hey, everybody! It is so good to have you with me today. We've got to deal with something really powerful today that's just been on my heart. And that is helping you to live in this way of being energized, excited, moving forward. Too many [...]

If there's a topic that I have struggled with the most in the Bible and there's not much that I struggle with, I love the beauty of the Bible. And I'm the kind of a guy, I love to see how some people teach on renewing the mind, some [...]

I have a fascinating kind of life story and I'm so blessed that God had me grew up in a home with two pastors, and they were good pastors. My mom and dad, they understood so much of the Word and continually taught me the Word. My dad [...]

I was raised in a pastor's home, both my parents were pastors. And one of the things I've noticed as then and now as a pastor, because a pastor's job is to equip the saints for the work of the ministry. You are an incredible person, [...]

In my studies of leadership and I love the topic of leadership. I found a word that has changed. It's the word virtue. In our world, it means, you know, I want to hang on to my daughters' virtue. I will lock them up in their bedroom. [...]

Today, I want to talk about the forgotten influence of the believer. There's an influence. There is a mandate upon believers that for some reason people have forgotten. It's too easy to be quiet. It's too easy to not raise your head [...]

When I was about 19 years of age, I remember my fascination with something I began to notice in the Bible. You see, I had developed a misbelief, a wrong belief. That Christians were kind of somehow a subgroup on the planet. That we were kind of [...]

Over the years as I've studied the Word, learned to pray, saw the power of God in our lives. I begin to recognize that, people don't know how to pray. And if you pray things that aren't accurate, you increase your doubt. If you pray [...]

Rights and freedoms are not given by governments. Rights and freedoms were given by God. And all of the countries that have a biblical law background and that's where their legal system comes from. It's not Sharia Law. It's not law, [...]

There's a word that we use today that has changed. It's the word "virtue". If you ask somebody, "What does virtue mean"? Well, that's what dads do when they say no to their daughters dating some of these guys, [...]

So many people, and I still try to wrap my brain around this. What is love? And today I want to talk to you about the three quadrants of love. It is an absolute key for you to live in the Saviour's love. This little baby that came to earth and [...]

As a young man in my teens, I began to notice living and growing up in a Christian home with amazing parents that all of those people who call themselves born again. They weren't alike. In fact, I began to divide in my own teen mind people into [...]

Years ago when I first became a senior pastor. There were many things that I had a chance to notice because I was raised in a pastor's home. And so all of my mom and dad's friends a lot of them were pastors. And I get a chance to, you [...]

Our modern culture, like to the youth that are here, and the guys that are here. When we think about the hidden man, you know, a good analogy would be like Spider-man, here's Peter Parker. He goes to high school. He's like any other kid [...]

One of my greatest struggles as a topic, as a man, has always revolved around the word love. But I've tried to live in love. I've tried to teach with love. I've tried to keep my motive love but I had a hard time teaching on it. [...]

Hey, everybody, welcome today. It's good to have you with me. We're on part 2 of Walking by Faith. And last time we talked about and I shared a lot of stories and how it revolutionized my life as a young man, to understand that faith is [...]

It's great to have you with me today as we dive into God's Word. You know, when I was a young man, I was literally 18 or 19 years old. I somehow woke up to a message that hadn't meant much to me before but all of a sudden it changed [...]

We've taught a lot in our church about your individual heart. And that your individual heart is determining your future. Most people, and you don't hear much teaching about the heart because most people just think it's the spirit. But [...]

I want to teach you how to dream. How to dream. A friend of mine bought a book a while ago, and man I want to find it. It was just called, I think it was the 100 greatest speeches in the world. And, one of them of course was Martin Luther King Jr. [...]