So, whatever the Devil is doing in your life, he doesn't get the ultimate authority. It's not about the thorn; it's the story you tell yourself about the thorn. Paul could have just as easily come to the conclusion… Because he said, "It was a [...]

God's love language is trust. If you were to ask me from just studying the Bible for however many years I've been studying, since I was 16, how God receives love… He loves to be trusted. More than he even loves to hear you sing (and I'm not saying [...]

But we are coming to the following cities: Atlanta, Nashville, Tulsa, Fort Worth, Houston, Orlando, Sunrise, and Jacksonville. So get your tickets now. Some are already sold out but maybe you can maybe you can pray and the lord will answer. I have [...]

But it begs a question, doesn't it? Why would a God who has enough power to take down a giant with a rock leave something as small as a thorn? Why would a God who said you could have mustard seed faith and move something as big as a mountain…? Why [...]

How many realize that everything people called you is not something you should respond to at this stage in your life? You have to move past some things and see yourself in a new light. At least that's what God told Joshua when he instated him as the [...]

"I refuse to let unforgiveness in my heart block the future God has for me". He said, "So I want you to forgive, because I'm forgiving. We have to get our minds right". Here's what happened. This is the part of the text I [...]

I believe our faith must survive the invisibility stage. The stage where you maybe, like Elijah, have heard something, sensed something, perceived something, believed something that you do not yet see. I spent like $70,000 on my seminary education, [...]

We want to welcome our eFam, our extended family all over the world right now. We're flinging the doors open, the digital doors. Come on in! The church is open! The Spirit is here! God bless you. Turn to the person next to you and say, "If [...]

Great faith doesn't look like you think it does. I don't care what anybody tells you about how long they pray or how much they believe God or how they taught their children how to knit quilts and pray for missionaries at the same time. That's all [...]

Have you ever wanted to ask God, "Before I do this, before I trust you on this, what level of pressure is it going to involve"? The truth be told, if some of you would have known the level of pressure that came along with parenting, you [...]

Maybe when you feel stuck you're building strength. That's the only way you really build strength. It's to get to that sticking point, to get to that point where you can't push through. I used to have this spotter in high school. He would stand over [...]

I want to go back to Corinth this week. Last week, we were talking about A Troubled Mind and an Open Door, that greatest opposition comes in the moments of greatest opportunity. I believe God gave somebody discernment last week about a door you're [...]

I wanted to remind you about Elevation Nights, starting on October 26, going through November 4. We're going to be in Atlanta, Nashville, Tulsa, Fort Worth, Houston, Orlando, Sunrise, and Jacksonville. If you know anybody who lives near there, tell [...]

I'm so glad you came today. I'm so glad God directed and ordered your steps to be here. I have a sneaking suspicion you're about to find out why you had to come to church today, why you had to log on today, why you had to click that video today. God [...]

How many times have I sent away something God put in my life because I caught a thought that I'm not enough? They wandered around and around and around in the wilderness for 40 years, not because of their enemy but because of their thought. Then [...]

What happens to you over time… It's not that you're not grateful and it's not that you're rebellious. That's not why you run. The reason you say, "I've had enough" is because you don't feel like you are enough. That's why he ran. "I [...]

I believe God wants to give somebody permission to copy the original, permission to do it differently. God is sick of your excuses. He is. He told me to tell you. He didn't say it mean like that. He said, "Tell them they have…" Does your [...]

There's nothing you're fighting against right now that somebody didn't already fight against. That ought to take away a lot of the shame for those of you who don't feel like you deserve to be in church. If what the man said was true, that no [...]

This is a pattern you can copy: to be affirmed by your Father in heaven so that when you are tempted by your Enemy in the wilderness you will have at your core your knowing of who you are. "Then Jesus was led by the Spirit into the wilderness [...]

Anything God does in our lives, all we have to do is go on our phones and find somebody who is "er" than us…better, richer, stronger, happier, thinner, ripped-er, cuter. This is the one that'll break your heart. You think your kids are [...]

Be careful what you copy from other people because you don't see the full picture. I remember watching a documentary last year, and I got so jealous of the person the documentary was about because he had won something like 16 Grammys. The whole [...]

In owning your doubts, you don't disqualify your faith. "I do believe; help me overcome my unbelief". There are a couple of miracles in this passage. One is that the boy gets healed of his condition, and the second is that the man asks for [...]

Change is external. Change could be traffic. Change can be weather. Change can be something that happens in your body. Change can be something that happens globally. Change happens externally, and it is a situation that is imposed by outside [...]

This is how God provides peace and joy and contentment and faith and hope and all the stuff that really matters, the stuff that doesn't perish, the stuff that doesn't get moldy, the stuff that doesn't get old, the stuff you don't have to throw out [...]

I want you to look at this Scripture in Luke, chapter 6. I'm going to share a little story from the life of Jesus. Over the last two weeks, I've been unpacking what it means to examine your examples and think about what you're modeling your life [...]

Do you know what the Lord showed us on our campus pastor call this week? That the glory of the latter house will be greater than the glory of the former house. Well, what in the world does that mean? God said that through the prophet to some exiles [...]

If you're not careful in your life, you will start to believe that you are what you do. One Scripture that got my attention one time was about Jacob in the Old Testament. It just came to my mind when I was studying today, and I thought I should [...]

Inside each mind that is trying to listen to me today is a series of priorities trying to pull you in different directions. That's why I would say if you don't have to use your phone to write notes in church, don't. If you could write them down with [...]

Before we get into the Word, let me mention we're getting really excited about Elevation Nights. We're going on tour October 26 through Thursday, November 3. Now listen up. Let me tell you where we're coming. It's going to be me, and I might let [...]

Mark Chapter 9, Verse 14-29 I want to read this whole passage to you. Let's look at this proclamation God wants to make: You Didn't Lose It. Mark 9:14: "When they came to the other disciples, they saw a large crowd around them and the teachers [...]