In the midst of grief at Lazarus’s funeral after four days in the tomb, Jesus declares «I am the resurrection and the life,» revealing from John 11 that He alone is the creator of physical life, the recreator of dead spirits through rebirth, and [...]

On the climactic last day of the Feast of Tabernacles, amid ceremonies recalling God’s provision of life-giving water in the wilderness, Jesus boldly proclaims His exclusive ability to quench spiritual thirst by offering the Holy Spirit—living [...]

Using the analogy of the fruitless oyster tree and the multiplying banyan tree, Jesus declares in John 15 that He is the true vine—the perfect fulfillment where ancient Israel failed—and believers are the branches; fruitfulness comes only by [...]

In a time of great stress and trouble for the disciples, Jesus comforts them by declaring "I am the way, the truth, and the life," emphasizing from John 14 that He alone is the exclusive path to the Father, the embodiment of absolute [...]

Jesus declares Himself as the good shepherd, using the divine «I AM» to reveal His timeless, self-sufficient nature, contrasting His sacrificial love and care with thieves, wolves, and hirelings. Drawing from John 10, He emphasizes that He lays [...]

In John 10:7-10, Jesus declares Himself the exclusive Door (or Gate) of the sheep, drawing from first-century shepherd practices where the shepherd’s body blocked the enclosure’s opening to protect the flock. This means Jesus is the only entrance [...]

Like a battleship demanding a lighthouse change course only to realize the danger, many today defy Jesus' exclusive claim as the Light of the World in John 8:12, risking collision with God’s truth. In an age undermining His uniqueness, Jesus [...]

Jesus repeatedly declares "I AM" in John's Gospel, echoing God's name to Moses and claiming exclusive divinity as the Bread of Life in John 6, the only source of eternal sustenance. Unlike physical bread, He alone satisfies [...]

In Acts 17, Paul preaches to the religious but lost Athenians about the one true God who created everything and raised Jesus from the dead, calling all to repent before He returns as judge. True religion kills, but Jesus gives life; without [...]

Psalm 24 was sung by the temple priests and choirs every Sunday, remarkably on the very first days of the week when Jesus triumphantly entered Jerusalem on Palm Sunday and rose from the dead on Resurrection Sunday, showing God's amazing [...]

Sometimes I find that the enemies of Christ are far less confused about who Christ is than the professing Christians. The enemies of Christ know the truth about Christ better than so many people who are sitting in the pews. The enemies of Christ [...]

I want you to imagine, okay? This is an imagining time, okay? That a Roman soldier has got all the equipment, everything he needs to be in that battle, and he finds himself in the battlefield, in a very smoke-filled environment. I’m talking about [...]

In Genesis chapter 15, when God asked Abraham to leave home and the comfort of home, God knew this. Asked him to leave the comfort of home and the familiarity, the known, to an unknown location, to a place he knew nothing about. To leave the [...]

I think we all know that when God our Father, who is the Father of all truth, how many of the truth? All truth. Is pushed out of any society or any group of people, the father of lies himself takes his place, and it is, Satan’s absolute dedication [...]

I will be fulfilling a 12-year promise which most of you will not remember, but I do, that one day I’m going to take my time and preach a detailed sermon series on the armors of God from Ephesians 6, beginning at verse 10. Because these are very [...]

I know it’s not gonna come as a surprise to most of you to know that in the West, right now, in this moment in which we’re living in the 21st century, in the West, we have a Babylonian revival of sorts that’s taking place right across the Western [...]

I know that whenever any of us individually, and I can speak for myself, goes through crushing circumstances, we feel that our minds really play havoc on us. Our imagination runs wild, and our hearts sometimes get unglued, for there’s no doubt that [...]

There can be absolutely no doubt in anyone’s mind that we are going through a global upheaval. Globally and nationally, we are experiencing something that we have never seen in our lifetime. I won’t say in history, but I cannot be that certain, so [...]

Blessed Christmas season. You know, we celebrate the birth of our Lord Jesus Christ because he came from heaven to save us and redeem us. And what a privilege for us to know him as Savior and Lord. He said to Thomas, he said, you believe in me [...]

Blessed Christmas, the birth of our Savior, the Lord Jesus Christ. And you just heard from the children the meaning of Christmas. You know, people form their ideas about Christmas from many different places. But what Jesus said about Christmas, how [...]

I think most of us can testify, I know I can, that the times of discouragement and the times of disappointment and the times when we get down in the dumps are the times when we have taken our eyes off of Jesus. I have. In fact, I remember back when [...]

Hindsight is the ability to see things clearly after they happen, to see things clearly after they happen. Now, it's the opposite of foresight, because foresight is the ability to see things before they happen. Just about all of us are good at [...]

Have you ever experienced, or witnessed somebody else experience, something that you immediately stopped and said, "This is totally and truly unfair. This is pure injustice. This is a blatant lie". What compounds the problem is that [...]

Perhaps I have not seen this level of discouragement among God's people, and I know there's a lot to be discouraged about. Continuous discouragement can sap your energy. Continuous discouragement causes loss of hope. Continuous [...]

The year was 1900. The city was Galveston, Texas. And that year, that storm that devastated Galveston nearly destroyed the whole city. Soon afterward, the city fathers sought the help of a very prominent and brilliant design engineer. They asked him [...]

Perhaps more than any time in my lifetime, I'm hearing more and more the statement, "victim's mentality". So many individuals and so many groups are claimed to be victimized. The problem with trivializing victimhood, is that real [...]

There was a Roman emperor by the name of Arcadius, probably less known than most emperors. He was a weak man and he was totally controlled by his wicked wife. It's almost like the Jezebel-Ahab situation. They were in the late 300s. His wife [...]

Back in the days of the Communist rule in East Germany, some of us have lived that history. The younger generation probably read about it in history book, but we lived it. During the terrible years when the Communists were in control of East Germany [...]

Everything in us, everything that we have learned, everything that the world tells us, everything we've been taught, is not to be poor in spirit. Feeling helpless or hopeless or unworthy, feeling totally empty is not what is going to make you a [...]

There are times in all of our lives when sin and pride and self-sufficiency brings us brokenness. There are times in all of our lives when our stubbornness and the stiff-neckedness bring about brokenness in our life. And when that brokenness comes [...]

A man was convinced that he has an inferiority complex problem, and he went to see a psychiatrist. And he told the psychiatrist, "I suffer from an inferiority complex". So the psychiatrist examined him very thoroughly, very thoughtfully, [...]

Today, I don't think you need to be a prophet to recognize that we live in hazardous times. We are watching with our own eyes how good is called evil and evil is called good, how the righteous is scorned and the wicked is praised. We're [...]

Today, I'm gonna show you proof, evidence of David's emerging from the cave of Adullam turned into a prayer closet. He emerges, giving us evidence, giving us proof that in that prayer closet, in that cave of Adullam, David began to develop [...]

We're going to see today how David turned his cave into a prayer closet. But the truth is, I lived long enough, I talked to enough people, whether we're in the church or outside of the church, to learn that there are some people who [...]

Sir Francis Drake was a great world explorer. He sailed around the world several times. And right after his fifth voyage around the world, he got caught, or his ship got caught, in a severe storm at the River Thames when he was almost home. His [...]

Everything I read of late indicates that we live in a time when genuine friendship, becoming rare. The level of loneliness has been so on the increase, and social media that's supposed to help us is making it worse. True, lasting loyalty and [...]

I want to tell you something very important. Listen to me very carefully, there is no such thing as a fearless person. The only difference that you find is between those who take counsel of their fears and those who refuse to do so, the only [...]

Wendell Willkie was a friend of President Roosevelt, that is Franklin Delano Roosevelt. And he came to him one day in the Oval Office, and he said, "Mr. President, can I ask you a question"? He said, "Sure". He said, "Why do [...]

So many people are saying, "This is not the same America I knew". Others say, "I hardly recognize my country anymore". Whatever happened to us, certainly this is not the America as envisaged by the founding fathers. The founding [...]

Hello, Veracruz. So wonderful to be with you. It's a great honor and a privilege to be with you. And I came all this way not to bring you a word from me but from Jesus. And Jesus said you must be born again. And Jesus said those words to one of [...]

The subject of hell is not a very popular subject in many pulpits today. As a matter of fact, not long ago, I read well over 50% of pastors said that they would never preach on hell throughout their ministry. So much so today, the majority of [...]

Our Lord Jesus Christ tells us there's a great deal of difference between waiting and watching. In fact, he makes this very clear distinction between waiting and watching in both Matthew 24 and 25. It's known as the Olivet Discourse. There [...]

You know, we often see the world out of focus, right? We see the world as indecipherable. And we think if we need more light or if we need more power or we need more money or we need more faith or we need more of this and more of that, but beloved, [...]

Today, I'm gonna start by asking a question. What are the four chapters in the Bible where Satan and his works, nonexistent, they're not there, totally, completely absent, four chapters. Well, if you answered the first two chapters of [...]

Most Christians, I'm talking about Christian believers, I'm not talking about people outside, I'm sure some of those too, but don't really think about heaven much. It's not something you've been thinking about all day, [...]

I want you to turn with me to John chapter 3. Keep it open in front of you. Jesus told this religious man who came to him by the name of Nicodemus. What Jesus said to Nicodemus leaves us in no doubt whatsoever as to the answer to the question, [...]

A producer wanted to produce a series about heaven and hell. And so, the first in the series, they were interviewing a clergyman from England and they asked him the question, "How do you know that there is a heaven and there is a hell"? [...]

The one thing that those who love Jesus must always, always, always remind themselves, and literally every waking moment, not just on occasions, every waking moment, that this planet is not our home. That we are eagerly awaiting the coming of our [...]

Jane Robelot : There are so many misconceptions about what it is, but we do know, because the Bible tells us, that heaven is real. And I know, Dr. Michael Youssef, that aside from talking about Jesus, your favorite thing to talk about is heaven. [...]

I don't have three points to talk about the beauty of heaven. No, I have eight, and that is actually condensing from what could have been many. So, fasten your seatbelt as we go on this amazing journey to look at these eight facets of the [...]