Today, I want to do what I always do and that is put 1 Corinthians 13 in its context because 1 Corinthians chapter 13 is a breath of fresh air in the midst of this dizzying set of problems in the church of Corinth. It's an oasis in a desert of [...]

1 Corinthians chapter 12. The King of all kings given to us as a spiritual birthday gift. Each received a very generous spiritual gift. Most of us have more than one gifts from the King of all kings. There are some who have never unwrapped their [...]

Remember the Passover. Remember the crossing of the Red Sea. Remember the crossing of the River Jordan. Remember, remember, remember, it is the theme of the Scripture: remember the past faithfulness of God in your life. Remember the past grace that [...]

Satan never comes out and says, "Hey, I'm Satan, I'm here to confuse you. I'm here to bring division in your home, and church, and in your society". That would be easy. I wish he would, but the Bible said he appears as an [...]

Dr. Michael Youssef: Hello, my friends. You know, I am honored and privileged this morning to introduce to you my son, Jonathan Youssef. You've heard him before, he loves the Lord, he's a great preacher of the Word of God. And you're [...]

If we dig deep into our hearts, we're going to find that at the very core of any sin, the very heart of any failure, the very essence of conflict, there lurks pride and arrogance. There lurks wanting my way. There lurks the insisting of my [...]

A steward is entrusted by God to manage our bodies, our monies, and our possessions, our time, and our gifts. All are managed for God and on God's behalf. The trouble always, always begin whether it be an individual or a community or a society [...]

It's not a surprise to any of us that we live in a time where we are bombarded by information. We are drowning in information, and yet we are starved to death for knowledge. We are plugged into the information superhighway online, and yet [...]

1 Corinthians chapter 7, beginning at verse 8. We are dead smack in the middle of the series of messages of living a healthy life in a sick world. We're seeing how much of the Corinthian culture and the Corinthian church is mirroring our [...]

Sexual sins, like all other sin, promise pleasures, satisfaction, but it delivers nothing but bitterness and wormwood. Read Proverbs chapter 5 when you go home and listen to the man who knows what he's talking about, for he tried it all. I must [...]

1 Corinthians chapter 6 is all about suing and being sued and going to the courts and dealing with those issues for believers, particularly of those who are members of one church. The reason why the apostle Paul is taking time to deal with this [...]

Today we pride ourselves on being called "tolerant Christians," which means that we tolerate every sinful practice and unbelief, meaning baptizing sin into the church, of not being called bigoted, meaning that we actually not only loving [...]

In this age of so-called "toxic masculinity," the age of a ferocious attack on biblical manhood and biblical womanhood, an age where many a father proven to be delinquent in exercising their God-given servant leadership in the home, in an [...]

There are some who think that humility is synonymous with being a wimp, spineless, a doormat. There are some who think that humility means that you are always agreeable with the prevailing culture, with the prevailing thought. Never take a stand, [...]

Any building, any building is only as good as its foundation. I wanna repeat this: Any building is as good as its foundation. No matter how beautiful the building may be, no matter how attractive the building may be, no matter how impressive the [...]

I know that our priorities in life is an indication of our spiritual maturity, that our priorities in life is a barometer of our spiritual temperature, of our spiritual health. Our priorities in life are clear indication, it's a clear picture [...]

Hello, my precious friends. I want to speak to you from my heart. We have a great and mighty, powerful God. And he promised to cover us by his wings. He promised to protect us. Jesus said, "Who of you by worrying can add an hour to your [...]

I don't think there is a doubt in anyone's mind that our world is very sick and is getting sicker by the day. Selfish ambitions, another security of the nation, is blinding so many politicians and even in the church of Jesus Christ, [...]

Jane Robelot : And welcome this special edition of "Leading the Way with Dr. Michael Youssef". We are going to address that falsehood today. You know, when Madison Avenue wants to market something to us, they label it as "new" [...]

Well, you know, the Catechism says that God created man to fellowship with him, and enjoy him forever. And that is why God created man, out of love. That he wanted man to know him as a companion. And that is why man was created uniquely from all the [...]

Probably the greatest concern that I have in my heart is that I am seeing people who once were believers or at least profess to be believers in Jesus, turning their back on the faith. That is heartbreaking. When I hear about pastors or music leaders [...]

I am a person who has said for many years, "I am a pan-tribulationist". You say, "What is this"? I am waiting to see how things are going to pan out. Christians get all bent out of shape, you know, the millennium, or not the [...]

Now for those who say Christianity is declining, they don't know the history of Christianity. I have in the book, "Saving Christianity" some historical accounts of how this deception goes way back in our culture and our society. [...]

In the last message I told you that you should never underestimate Satan's power of discouragement. It is his most effective tool against the believer. By the same token, don't underestimate the power of encouragement. While Satan is the [...]

Human nature the way it is, we have perfected excuses to an art form. I know Adam and Eve started it in the garden, but we have perfected it. I think it was Corrie Ten Boom who said, "The blood of Jesus never cleanses an excuse". You see, [...]

In times when people call good evil and evil good, there is a Word from the Lord. In the times when wrong is called right and right is called wrong, there is a Word from the Lord. In times when millions of people are departing from the truth one [...]

Jesus is a central figure from beginning to end. He is the Beginning and the End, and you can find him in every book of the Bible. If you have the spiritual eyes to see it that: In the book of Genesis he is the Seed of the woman that the Father [...]

I've been saying this for years. I need discipline in my life. So does everybody else. We all need discipline. If you have to get up early, if you have to stay up late, stop watching television. If you look at your life, you're gonna [...]

The Roman god Janus, from which we get the Word, "January," first month of the year, and Janus was considered to be the ancient Roman god of new beginnings. Janus is depicted, as you can see on the screen, two faces. One face looks back at [...]

By now I'm sure you've heard at least 100 times one of the following statements: "Christmas is the season for giving". I'm not gonna ask you to raise your hand. "The magic of Christmas". "Christmas [...]

Beloved, we all need to be appreciated, every one of us. When those who matter to us the most withhold appreciation, our spirit within us begins to wither and die and even the body dies. Hear me out, please. I have never met anyone who does not [...]

In the past few decades, many a church have come to define praise and worship as merely and only as music and singing and in some places being entertained, but this understanding is far, far from the biblical definition of praise and worship. [...]

Emotionally speaking, this is the toughest in all of the ten messages, even in terms of faith, it is difficult to comprehend. And while I don't deny the difficulty, I don't want you to miss the important part. I don't want you to miss [...]

Laughter does the heart good like a medicine, but a broken spirit makes the body sick. I think of all the people in the face of the earth that ought to be joyful all the time regardless of the circumstances are the believers in the Lord Jesus [...]

I find that the older I get, the more I cherish true and genuine friendship, and just let me tell you, let me explain to you what I mean by true and genuine friendship. Definition of friendship are those people who come into your life when everybody [...]

Silence. I know, some people love it. Others detest it. I know there are some people who are not happy unless there's all sorts of noise and sounds, and you can't stand silence, and then there are other who are the exact opposite. They [...]

I want you to imagine with me a baseball team that has found themselves a super-duper pitcher. I mean, he's a wonderboy. He can throw it 120 miles, he can throw every kind of conceivable ball: fast ball, knuckle ball, spinning ball. I mean, he [...]

All of life, if you think about it, there are all sorts of covenants, and all sorts of agreements, and all sorts of contracts. Most of them are agreements between two equals, in marriage, a husband and wife, two equals stand and make an agreement or [...]

Fear of failure keeps many a person from reaching their full potential for God. Fear of criticism holds people back from accomplishing great things for God. Fear of the unknown, my goodness, I mean, it chains some people into what is comfortable and [...]

From Watergate all the way to Monica Lewinsky scandal, from all the other public scandals by public officials, you remember how it's not the lying, but it's the cover up of that lying that got them into deeper trouble. While the Bible [...]

There is a classic Christian book that was written in the middle of the 1600s. The book is called, "Pilgrim's Progress". And the author, John Bunyan, who lived between 1628 and 1688 was thrown into prison for preaching without a [...]

For when God promised Abraham that his descendants would be as many as the stars in the sky, in the heavens, Abraham had none, no children whatsoever, but also, as you look at Abraham's journey of faith, you're gonna see it's not a [...]

Does God Predestine People to Hell? Absolutely not. God does not predestine people to hell. As a matter of fact, when people say, "How can a loving God send people to hell"? I say God is not gonna send anybody to hell; they're gonna [...]

You know, suicide is a big problem in our culture, in our society, in the West. I often say, look at all these people lining up in front of the American embassies all over the world, want to come to America, and the people in America want to commit [...]

First thing you need to realize that you are not the only one who is experiencing doubt. Even the great heroes of the Bible, they all experienced doubt. The question is not whether you have some doubts, it is how long you stay in that doubt. That is [...]

God is unchanging, and God is not different from the old and the new. In fact, God revealed himself fully in Jesus Christ so that those people in the Old Testament who misunderstood God can be corrected. But the Word of God in the Old Testament is [...]

I think this is a great question because we all have people like that. We know people who say, "I'm a Christian," but their life says otherwise. Jesus said something that is absolutely, I found it, it is the truth because Jesus said [...]

The problem with us in the west is that we somehow believe that we are entitled to have happiness, and that we have wealth and prosperity, but the Bible said, Jesus said in the world you shall have tribulation. As a matter of fact, the disciples [...]

You know, some years ago when I was a very young preacher at the age of 26, I used to tell people I was in a very secular culture and I would say to them, "Do you know that all good people are going to hell and all the bad people are going to [...]

Hello my friends. Saying yes to Jesus is just the first step. It's like a baby being born. In fact, Jesus calls it being born again. That baby needs nourishment, needs safety, needs warmth, and security. And the only place where that can happen [...]