Kerry Shock : Merry Christmas, Woodlands Church. How are you doing? You can be seated. We are so glad that you are here. The weather outside may be frightful this Christmas Eve, but it is warm and delightful in here, isn't it? Chris Shock : [...]

Erin Wood, what a treasure you are. Thank you so much, what a gift. As I understand it, I think that's the ninth time in a row she has sung that, and every time it's like the first time, because didn't you sing it like five times [...]

Kay Warren : When Matthew’s mental illness took a huge turn for the worst about five years ago, I found myself increasingly panicked, and I knew I needed some spiritual support. And so, I enlisted a group of confidential, incredible people, who [...]

Now, the fact is, since sin entered the world and evil entered the world, everything was broken, nothing works perfectly on this planet. Now, if you want a chapter of the Bible that explains modern culture, it’s Isaiah 24, let me just show you a [...]

Since mental illness robbed my youngest son, Matthew’s life, one of the passages from the Bible that has really encouraged me has been 2 Corinthians chapter 1, verses 3 to 11. And I wanna begin tonight by reading that passage to you. Here’s what the [...]

We’re starting a message series on Advent. How many of you know a lot about Advent? Raise your hand. A lot about Advent? Online, you can say, «I know a lot about Advent». Or you can say, «I don’t know a lot about Advent». When I was a kid, I had an [...]

I want to talk to you today about Seeing From a Distance. We all have promises in our heart and dreams we're believing for, but sometimes they seem so far off and so unlikely. We don't see how we could get well, or how we'll meet the [...]

Everyone is investing all of the time in something. People wanna use the word "Investment" and isolate it simply to a financial exchange, and it has an application there, but everything in your life is some measure of an investment. [...]

This is an excerpt from: Rescue Your Testimony I realized a long time ago that what the Devil is actually attacking when he comes to me with worry is my ability to anticipate what God might do and that every time I worry, it's a perversion of [...]

Greetings to everyone all over the world, and a special greeting to all the mothers! Happy Mother's Day! Today, I've invited the most amazing mother, the mother of my five children, to read a poem she wrote for all mothers. Let's [...]

Greetings in the wonderful name of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ! Recently, I read an article. There is a phenomenon in Japan called jouhatsu. Jouhatsu is from a Japanese word that means evaporation. It refers to people who vanish on purpose into [...]

Greetings in the wonderful name of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ! Blessed, happy day today! Do you know why? Not only are we worshiping God together all over the world, but I have great news for you all. Praise God for Pastor Ricky! He has been [...]

Would you take your Bibles and turn to Ephesians chapter 4. I'm beginning a series of messages that I'm going to be preaching, God willing, all this month and next month that is going to be a distillation of things that I want you to [...]

Take God's Word and find Titus chapter 2. We've been in a series of Bible studies on the Second Coming of Jesus Christ and this morning we come to the end of this series and today we want to see what that means to us personally. We're [...]

I dunno about you, but these are the most exciting times to be alive as a follower of Jesus on the earth. There is more opportunity to see people saved, because the world has lost its ever loving mind, so people are desperate for hope, and people [...]

Hope is God's gift to the believer. 1 Corinthians 13 says, "Now abideth faith, hope, and love". Say that with me. "Faith, hope, and love". David writes in Psalm 42:5, "Hope thou in God". You put your faith in some [...]

Time is really not your problem. Time is in God's hands, and anything in God's hands can be multiplied. Anything in God's hands can be stretch. Anything in God's hands can be healed. Anything in God's hands can be restored. [...]

There is no person that God cannot save! There is no promise that God will not keep! There is nothing that our God cannot do! Rahab was a woman that had been used and abused by men, and yet God saw her need and God knew her desire to know Him, and [...]

If you brought your Bibles, turn them to the book of Romans 5, beginning at the 1st through the 5th verse, as this morning we begin a new sermon series on a topic that is one of the most vital elements in any human being's existence, and that [...]

Hi, everybody. Have I told you lately that I love you. Welcome back to our special series on principles for living through a pandemic. Now, I wanna start by repeating four suggestions that I gave you last week for getting the most out of these [...]

God is the maker of good days. You know, the Bible says that "He that will love life and see good days," and good days is always plural. "Good days," with an "s". But when it comes to the day that you go through a [...]

If you are suffering mental depression, listen to what I'm gonna say, amen? Just live one day at a time. Get up, just do what you're supposed to do, the next thing, and the next thing, and the Holy Spirit will lead you first step by step [...]

I want to talk to you, I want to share with you about your night seasons. If you're going through something right now, even though right now you're on a high, you don't feel like you're going through anything. You know, you can [...]

If you brought your Bibles, turn them to the book of Hebrews 10:23, as this morning we conclude the series "Hope for a Better Tomorrow" with this message "Holding On to Hope". In this series, we've seen the biblical [...]

Hope is an essential ingredient in the life of every human being. Without hope, you may exist, but you will not live the life that Christ came to give you. According to John 10, it says Christ came to give life more abundantly. And in order for you [...]

The next passage we'll look at is chapter 11:8–10 which deals with Abraham, Isaac and Jacob. I'll translate those three verses and then comment on them. By faith, being called, Abraham obeyed to go out to a place which he was due to [...]

Now, if you'll pull out your message notes inside your program, we're gonna continue in the series, and I'm calling "The Manifestation of Your Life Mission". Now, in the first session I told you that there's three ways [...]

There can be no doubt in any reasonable person, reasonable person, doesn't have to be a Christian, a reasonable person that we are in a crisis. Our crisis is not primarily economic or educational, even though we have great crisis in those [...]

Have you ever stopped to wonder why there are four words that show up so often during this time of the year that do not show up that much during other times of the year? The words hope, and joy, and peace, and love. Like, if a couple of months ago, [...]

The Bible is a book of courage. In Hebrews, you read these words: without faith, it is impossible to please God. And courage is the forerunner of faith. Because courage is never the absence of fear. Courage is doing what you should do in spite of [...]

Well, hey there. Long time no see. Welcome back. I am really, really excited to get to bring a message to you today that I believe is going to help remind us of who we've been called to be. I believe that it will be a message of hope for many [...]

Chris Hodges : Who's glad to be in church today? Anybody? Come on, give Jesus a praise together. Oh, yeah, it's awesome. And a big hello to all of our campuses. Let me just take just a second and say that I love you. I pray for you every [...]

Social scientists, a group to whom I used to belong agree that loss of hope is a devastating condition. In fact, we are seeing so much of it all around the world. And I have to testify that there is nothing worse than feeling hopelessness. It [...]

After rioting rocked an American city in 2015, a state of emergency was declared, a curfew was enforced. And 2,000 national guard troops were called in to assist police. A gang leader was quoted as saying, "Much of the rage behind the rioting [...]

The God, beloved, that you and I serve, the one that has called us by His own grace through Messiah Yeshua, He is the God of hope. People need hope today. They're lost. They're confused. I mean, people don't know which way to turn. I [...]

"[God's] pleasure is not in the strength of the horse, nor his delight in the legs of a man; the Lord delights in those who fear him, who put their hope in his unfailing love." (Psalm 147:10–11, NIV) Human strength and human [...]

This week in our country, millions upon millions of people will celebrate the gift of freedom. That God has blessed us with a freedom from so many of the things that people struggle with around our world. But even more, we as Christians celebrate [...]

I got a really vulnerable and honest question from someone from our church. She wrote this: "I've been diagnosed with clinical anxiety and depression. My doctor says it's brain chemistry, yet I know the Bible says worry and despair [...]

Would you take God's Word and find Second Thessalonians, Second Thessalonians and we're going to look in a few moments in the first chapter. Second Thessalonians the first chapter. You know, the stage is set for the drama of the ages, only [...]

Would you take your Bibles and open to Second Chronicles chapter 7 and verse 14. You will recognize that verse as a time-worn verse. We've heard it over and over again, but we must, in these days, revisit that verse. I wonder if the American [...]

Out of the depths I have cried to Thee, O Lord. Lord, hear my voice! Let Thine ears be attentive to the voice of my supplications. I wait for the Lord, my soul does wait, and in His word do I hope. My soul waits for the Lord more than the watchmen [...]

I'm very grateful to be an American, but I'm sure you share with me that there can be little doubt to any thoughtful person that we're about to celebrate the birth of this greatest nation on the face of the earth in the midst of [...]

If you have ever been in a situation where you looked at your circumstances that's surrounding you, and you have concluded, based on these circumstances, that there is no way out. There is no hope left. There is no possible breakthrough that [...]

Would you find please, Psalm 42? And in a moment we're going to begin reading in verse 5. And what we're going to do today is to have a session on depression. How to get up when you've fallen and think you cannot get up. I'm not [...]

I want to talk to you about the trusting prayer that we learn from the psalmist, particularly in Psalm 121. And I hope you're turning to it in your Bible, your iPhone, your iPad, or whatever you do, and get Psalm 121 as I begin to bring this [...]

The more funerals I attend, the more I'm impressed by the wonderful truth that death is not the end for the one who has faith in Jesus. Imagine life being just this. Imagine losing a loved one and having absolutely no hope you'll see them [...]

You see it in nature all the time, a small bird chasing away a much bigger bird, a dog frightening off a bear, the weak actually being the strong. As in Congress, as it seems, that's the philosophy of good theology, a faulty Christian believer [...]

"It was the best of times; it was the worst of times. It was the age of wisdom; it was the age of foolishness. It was the season of light; it was the season of darkness. It was the spring of hope; it was the winter of despair. We had everything [...]

Well it is Easter Sunday. It's a great Easter. And the reason I know that is because I'm reminded again as you are, that Jesus Christ has been risen from the dead. Now having said that, we all know it turned out That we'd never even [...]

I'm going to show you something that is a puzzle and confused many, many, many believers. I remember years ago somebody challenged this, just threw it in front of me and said to me that not many will be saved, not many will go to heaven, all [...]