This is an excerpt from: It's Always Been In You We encourage you as a pastor, "When you're in an uncertain situation, go back and revisit all of the things God already did for you in previous seasons of your life". Maybe God brings you [...]

Let's give our attention to the Scriptures in Genesis, chapter 50, beginning in verse 14. The verse I've heard the most from Genesis 50 is verse 20. I'm going to read that one, but I want to give you a fresh context around it to help usher the [...]

First Kings, chapter 17, verse 7. "Some time later the brook dried up because there had been no rain in the land. Then the word of the LORD came to him [Elijah the prophet]: 'Go at once to Zarephath in the region of Sidon and stay there. I have [...]

This is an excerpt from: Life After The Let Down So, for all of you who are coming to church for the message that God will never let you down, Peter wanted me to tell you sometimes he does a little bit. See, you keep basing it on your expectation [...]

This is an excerpt from: The Blessing of Both God wasn't just using the stuff that felt good to you, not just the stuff that you praised Him for, not just the stuff that you thanked Him for. Paul finally came to the point where he said, "I [...]

This is an excerpt from: The Facts Aren’t Final I have personal issues. I have a personal God. I have personal fears. I have personal phobias. I have a personal God. I love the phrase we used in the Baptist church: to make Jesus Christ your [...]

This is an excerpt from: My Confidence Is Coming Back The Devil cannot take your calling. The Bible says the gifts and calling of God are without repentance. He doesn't change his mind when you lose your way. Since the Devil can't take your [...]

This is an excerpt from: Blown Away! Invariably, when Holly and I speak to people about dating or marriage, which I don't do too much… The reason for it is I feel like most of what I did right in marriage was in the selection process. I'm like, [...]

This is an excerpt from: Cutting Corners Sometimes what you want isn't the problem; it's the way you go about getting it. There was nothing wrong with David's desire to be king. God gave him that promise, but David knew God can't honor the promise [...]

Get out your phones real quick. Those of you who have an alarm system, put 7:00 p.m. every night for an alarm to go off for the next couple of weeks so you can pray for us for Elevation Nights, because we start our tour of eight cities this Tuesday [...]

This is an excerpt from: The One Who Seeks… Finds! When you put your mind on a mission to find misery, the Devil will help you look. The Devil is rubbing his hands. "Ooh. You want to feel bad. Oh, I'll help you harvest that. Oh, you want your [...]

Beautiful, lift your hands. Jesus Christ, King of Kings, Lord of Lords, Savior of the world, we came today to crown you. Not like you need our crown to be worthy, but we just want to join in with what heaven already knows, what has already been [...]

This is an excerpt from: Setup In The Stronghold we have been taught sometimes that unless we can come to God the right way, we can't come to him at all. The fact of the matter is a lot of us don't pray, don't worship, and don't enter into the [...]

I believe God knows things about your potential that even in your greatest moments of triumph you can only imagine. I believe he speaks to your life from time to time, not from the vantage point of your performance but from the vantage point of your [...]

Verse 21: We had hoped that He was the one who was going to redeem Israel. We had hoped, but now we're headed home. We had hoped that it was going to be different this time. We had hoped that He was going to break our chains. We had hoped that God [...]

Hey, did you hear the news? Elevation Nights spring 2022 tour, April 26 through May 5th. Oh you got to come. I mean you really got to come. I'm going to be preaching. Holly's going to be sharing. Elevation Worship, your favorite songs, old songs, [...]

This is an excerpt from: It Will Come Together See, we don't taste life as a meal. We experience the ingredients in isolation. In God's mind, your life is a meal. In God's mind, your life is Thanksgiving Day. What do you all eat on Thanksgiving? I [...]

This is an excerpt from: Beta Blessings How many of y'all have a beta blessing right now…something God is working on, something God is doing, something God is perfecting, something God is establishing, something he's completing, something he's [...]

Hey, clap those hands if you love Jesus! Be patient with the old boy today. I've been up a long time. I want to mention that Easter is coming soon. Now, we're not waiting for Easter to live a resurrected life, but imagine how many people you might [...]

This is an excerpt from: Backseat DJs: What's Controlling Your Joy? I believe there are some things, that are destroying your joy, that you were unaware of. And James is going to teach us how to develop joy. Very different than discovering joy. [...]

There is a sense in which all of us, I think, could be a little bit more content. No matter our battles, we have a lot of blessings. Paul said, "I've learned the secret of being content in any and every circumstance, whether I have a little or [...]

We're not holding hands. I don't know how we are on the spectrum of being able to… Can we at least touch the shoulder of the person on either side of you? That'll work. Baby steps. Pray this out loud. "Lord, the person I'm touching needs you [...]

This is a compilation of “Be Careful What You Copy” and “Copy That.” So, be careful what you copy from the culture around you that keeps you from discovering the kingdom within you. We copy culture around us, and we don't realize we're copying [...]

This is an excerpt from: Making Peace With Missing Pieces But a lot of us were taught that we had to have the whole thing figured out or it wasn't faith, so we mastered the art of sounding certain. We mastered the art of magnifying your missing [...]

This is an excerpt from: Borrowed Confidence How many of you, your teenage years were kind of a dark part of your life? So, imagine you're there again. You're going back in that. Now, when you're young, you have a commodity that can help you have [...]

This is an excerpt from: Move In What You're Made For. Do you think God just dropped you down in your life and didn't put in you everything you need to do everything he has called you to do? "Break it down, Furtick". All right. If God put [...]

This is an excerpt from: I'm Confused About My Calling You are forgiven if when I say calling, you roll your eyes a little bit. It is one of these terms that is so popular in culture that it almost means nothing anymore, and it can be frustrating [...]

Hey, y'all! Did they put caffeine in your Communion cups in the lobby today? Y'all are wild. Pray for me, eFam. They're wild in the room today. I don't know if I can manage them. I feel like a substitute teacher looking at a fourth-grade class that [...]

This is an excerpt from: Too Grown To Give Up. I am preaching this message to somebody today who is tempted to quit on something God called you to do. I understand how people love to take a sermon and put their initials on it for whatever they want [...]

This is an excerpt from: No Weapon I talk to my kids about everything that is age appropriate to talk to them about, which includes, as much as they hate it, sex. I talk to my kids about sex, as much as it's appropriate for their age, and they hate [...]