I'm not gonna ask you to raise your hand if you grew up in a legalistic church or in a legalistic home or legalistic family. Now, in case some of you have not and don't even know what legalistic or legalism means, very put simply, is the elevation [...]

Beloved, the Bible calls parents to lead their children, not the other way around; and I could not help this week as I was writing my notes and I thought about our first grandson. He was 14 months and he was learning to walk, and he just learned [...]

Luke chapter 15, if you turn to it, beginning at verse 11, where our Lord Jesus Christ tells us what our heavenly Father is like. So many preachers when they preach from this story, they focus on the prodigal, and they stay on the prodigal. [...]

So today I want to read what is perhaps Jesus' most well-known parable to you. And it's a parable about a homecoming. And the brilliance of this parable is lost on most of us because we've heard it so many times. It's iconic. People who weren't even [...]

So let me introduce you to characters for today's story. First of all, help me welcome the father, come on, pastor Jeff Carter who be the father today. Full disclosure, if you were to bet on which one of these three individuals was more inclined to [...]

Hi, I'm Robert Jeffress, and welcome again to "Pathway to Victory". Chances are you can point to a time in your life when you felt closer to God than you do now. Maybe you've had trouble finding time to study your Bible, or you haven't [...]

Hi, I'm Robert Jeffress, and welcome again to Pathway to Victory. Most people think of God in one of two ways. Either he's righteous, just, and full of wrath, or he's loving, merciful, and forgiving. These two polar opposites might offer a fractured [...]

Now tonight I want you to turn with me to the 15th chapter of Luke's gospel. Jesus tells three stories. First he tells the story of a lost sheep. A man had a hundred sheep, and one of them got lost. Now he was lost through his own stupidity, and [...]

You know, not everybody enjoys Christmas. Certainly many in the world don't enjoy Christmas and would prefer holidays to Christmas and secular celebrations to the real meaning of Christmas. We know not everyone loves Christmas. There's some people, [...]

I want to bring you a message from Luke 15 called "I'll be Home for Christmas". Now Luke chapter 15 is really the story of why we celebrate Christmas. You know, the story of Jesus is the greatest story ever told. And when Jesus came to [...]

One of the great tales of Christmas, of course, is a Christmas Carol, written by Charles Dickens. Great story! But it was Charles Dickens, the author who said, "The greatest short story ever given is the story of the Prodigal Son". Now [...]

So much of the Christmas season is wrapped up in stories and I enjoy the stories about Christmas, around Christmas. And some of these stories have taken have been filmed. Hollywood has recorded these stories for us. I mean, great movies like [...]

Well, hey, welcome to Mission Hills on all of our campuses including those of you who are joining us on church online. So glad you are with us for our third week in the Reckless series, where we have been taking a deep dive into probably the most [...]

Welcome to Mission Hills at all of our campuses, including those of you that are joining us at Church Online. So glad you are with us for week number two of our “Reckless” series where we are taking kind of a deep dive into probably the most famous [...]

Welcome to Mission Hills on all of our campuses. So glad you are here for the start of our last summer miniseries we are calling “Reckless”. For the next three weeks, we are going to be taking a deep dive into probably the most famous parable that [...]

Now tonight I want you to turn with me to the fifteenth chapter of Luke's Gospel. The fifteenth chapter of Luke's Gospel and here is where Jesus is telling a story. He tells three stories. He always used stories to illustrate spiritual truth. They [...]

Now tonight I want you to turn with me to the 15th chapter of Luke's Gospel. Jesus tells three stories. First he tells the story of a lost sheep. A man had a hundred sheep, and one of them got lost. Now he was lost through his own stupidity, and [...]

If you want to turn in your Bibles somewhere, we'll be in Luke 15. We're ending a three week series called, "Sons, Not Servants", and this week is a message called, "The Shoes of Sonship". So, we've talked about the three gifts [...]

We're in a series called, "Sons, Not Servants", and we're talking about the Prodigal Son returned, and when he returned, the father gave him three gifts, and those three gifts represent something that the Father gives us when we are sons [...]

So, we're going to begin a three week series. I'll be here all three weeks, and I'm calling the series, "Sons, not Servants". And, I'm taking it from the story in Luke 15 of the Prodigal Son, in that he wanted to be treated like a servant [...]

Jesus was a master story teller, and the parable of the prodigal son is one of those masterful stories. And this is the setting for this passage of Scripture that I want to read and it is a setting for the message I want to bring. And if you'll turn [...]

Jesus was a master story teller. Not only that, He knew exactly who His audience was. When you look at the fifteenth chapter of the Gospel of Luke, which is where our text is, you'll note that He knew exactly who was in the crowd, who was listening [...]

This weekend I want to share with you the father's battle. And I'm actually not going to tell you what the father's battle is, until the end of the message, alright? But let me show you some things in Luke 15. I'm starting with, here at three [...]

I'm beginning a new series that is going to be great, just to let you know. Not because I'm speaking it, but because the Holy Spirit is speaking it to our church. But the name of the new series is "Lost and Found: A Prodigal's Journey". [...]

My brothers and sisters what a joy, what a blessing it is to share the Word of the Lord with you today. I'm so honored to be in your home and part of your life and God's allowed me to share his word with you. We're showing some T.D. Jakes classics, [...]

Well, I continually meet people who are miserable in life. They come from all walks of life. Some of them are rich, some of them are poor. Some of them dress well, some of them don't dress quite as well. Some of them have real standing in their job, [...]