Would you be finding the little book of Micah! Micah chapter 5 and in just a moment I'm going to be reading verse 2. The title of our message today, Christmas in the Old Testament. The book of Micah is a small book and in the book of Micah, in [...]

There are two times every year when even people that don't go to church, they know what the preacher's gonna talk about. They know it. In the spring, we call it Easter. So they know the preacher's gonna be preaching on the [...]

One of the many things I love about Christmas, I love the decorations. Anybody else at all? Type in the comment section, "I love the decorations". Now, to be clear, I don't like putting them up at all, and it's my job to get the [...]

Take your Bibles and turn with me to the Gospel of Mark, chapter 14. And today's story from God's Word is recorded in all of the Gospel accounts. The title of this message is "Mary's Christmas". Probably not the Mary [...]

Would you take God’s precious Word and be finding, please, John chapter 3. Right away you remember that that is a very significant chapter in the Word of God, and one that, if you’ve been a Christian very long, you’re very, very familiar with; it’s [...]

A Luke chapter 2, verse 1. And I wanna title this message, "Don't Miss Your Moment". Don't Miss Your Moment. Turn to someone next to you and say, "Don't miss your moment". The story of Christmas is a story of time. [...]

Most of us are familiar with the story. If we didn't read the book written by Dr. Seuss, we certainly saw it in the movies or in the cartoons. And just in case, there's somebody in here that doesn't know anything about Mr. Grinch, the [...]

Peace be with you. Friends, we come to this wonderful Feast of the Epiphany, and that great accountant in the Gospel of Matthew, of the journey of the Magi, of the three kings. What is it about that story that's so beguiled the poets, and the [...]

Peace be with you. Friends, we come to Holy Family Sunday today, wonderful feast day. And over the years, I've certainly preached on the dynamics of the Holy Family. I've preached on Mary. I've talked a lot about the Lord, of course. [...]

Upon other occasions I have explained the main part of this verse, "The government shall be upon his shoulders, his name shall be called Wonderful, Counsellor, the Mighty God". If God shall spare me, on some future occasion I hope to take [...]

You know, we're starting a new series leading up to our Christmas Eve services, and the whole series is based on Jesus's words in Matthew 6:33. So, would you open your Bibles there? And would you stand in honor of God's Word, [...]

How about that? Come on give Jesus all the praise, everybody. Oh, that's not good enough, come on give God the praise he deserves. Isn't that awesome? What a joy it is to be a part of what God's doing on planet Earth, that he allows [...]

Merry Christmas, everybody. Since 2020 was such a difficult year with so many difficult problems, this Christmas I want us to look at the theme of the light of Jesus for your darkest days. We certainly had a lot of dark days in 2020, but one of the [...]

Well, what's up Bible nerds? Christmas is less than one week away and I am so excited for it. Food, family, fun times, relaxing in my PJs, playing a whole bunch of video games. Yes and amen. But why do we really celebrate Christmas? What makes [...]

Well, Thanksgiving is behind us, Christmas is just ahead of us, and has been said by poets and songwriters more wise than I am. It is the most wonderful time of the year. If you are excited for Christmas season, you are not alone because literally [...]

All right, who's glad to be in church today? Anybody? Yeah, me, too. It's so good to see you guys. A big hello to all of our campuses, our locations all across the great state of Alabama. I love every single one of you guys. To the men and [...]

Thank you for tuning in this morning. My name is Frankie. The title of the message is "He's On Your Right". He's On Your Right. Now, this is a Christmas message for you. And I wanna just say that there are two scriptures that we [...]

Jesus, who went into the grave so broken, so bloodied, so damaged, He came out glorious. He came out immortal. He came out indestructible. He came out with the old body, the same old body, but restored, made new, resurrected. And the same promise, [...]

If you had to state the meaning of c in one sentence, what would you say? How would you describe what Christmas means to you in just one sentence? Would you say that Christmas is the birthday of Jesus? That's probably what most people would [...]

Well, what better place to celebrate the birth of Mashiach Messiah into the world than from the land of Israel? That's where we are today. As you can see, the great city of Jerusalem behind me. Now, this direction is Bethlehem, Yeshua's [...]

— Well, we're right in that special time of year when a lot of things are changing. Businesses, they've just had a big year or a little one, depending on how they ran their business and who their God is. And there's, uh... you know, a [...]

— Hello, everybody and happy after Christmas, before New Year's. I know from the supernatural way the Lord's been leading us. He's setting up 2024 and we'll go into this aware of certain things that I no more intended came out [...]

— Well here we are between Christmas and New Year's. This fun time, but we're going to get into something today that I knew it in my heart all along, but couldn't prove it. But thank the Lord for Rick Renner and we're going to [...]

— Did you finally get the living room cleaned up? Probably not and a lot of good things are happening around the house. But I want to talk to those of you that didn't have much of a good day yesterday. Let me talk to you for a moment. [...]

— Merry Christmas. Praise God. I'd like to have been the first, but I probably wasn't. It's Christmas morning, glory to God, hallelujah! I know everybody is having a lot of fun and thank God for all of you that DVR this broadcast all [...]

I don't know all of you, or where you come from, or where you've been, but I have a hunch, no matter how hard you try, no matter how intentionally you attempt to plan, Christmas just ends up being crazy. And I bet that's true in one [...]

Now, all these professors and teachers that I had in Bible college and in Seminary, they taught me that at the very heart of the Christian faith is a God who flips it. But if you honestly look at the things that Jesus said, and the people to whom he [...]

"So, Mike," the radio host asked me once we were live on the air, "Why do you stink at prayer"? I was blessed with an opportunity to talk about this book that I had co-written about prayer and the host asked me from the very [...]

In the last month, I had two conversations with two very different women from two very different backgrounds, but the conversations ended up being about the exact same thing, doubt. Doubts about the faith that I believe in, doubts about the book [...]

Well, today we're concluding a message series on fear. 'Cause there's a lot of things to be afraid of in the world today. And we've been looking at the story of the birth of Jesus and amazingly, three different times, an angel of [...]

This is an excerpt from: The Path of Peace What would you give your stress level, 1 to 10, just in this moment? I'm hearing a "3". Who said 3? You're not old enough to have a 3 stress level. You're supposed to be like 80 [...]

Be finding, if you would please, Luke chapter 2. When I was a little boy, we learned a nursery rhyme, I think you learned it too. "Mary had a little lamb, his fleece was white as snow". I want to talk to you today about Mary's little [...]

Take your Bibles and turn, please, to the Gospel of John chapter 1. And hardly a Christmas goes by that we don't come back to this wonderful text. Now, the title of our message and our thoughts today is, "What Child is This"? You know [...]

Find the Christmas story, please, in Matthew chapter 2, and we're talking today about Christmas wisdom, how you can have some wisdom in your Christmas. Now let's read this story here, Matthew chapter 2 verse 1 and I'm going to read [...]

Take God's Holy Word and turn to Isaiah chapter 53. In my estimation, this may be the greatest chapter in all of the Bible. Martin Luther, the great reformer, said that this chapter should have been written on a parchment of pure gold, studded [...]

Well that was fun, wasn't it? Hey welcome to National Community Church, all seven campuses. The countdown to Christmas is on, T minus 10 days, but who's counting? So excited about our Christmas eve services, at our Capital Hill campus, [...]

The days have gotten noticeably shorter and the nights are getting noticeably colder, which we all know means it is the season for, say it with me: Hallmark Christmas movies! Can I talk to you about Hallmark Christmas movies for just a second? You [...]

So maybe you picked this up already, but one of the four most popular words during the holiday season is the word joy. If you take all the instances of joy that you find in Christmas letters, and on Christmas cards, and in Christmas carols, and in [...]

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, [...]

Well, who's having a good time, tonight, anybody? And how about a big hand for all these wonderful musicians? Come on, give them a good hand, everybody. God bless you guys. And, boy, it takes a whole group of people that you don't see to [...]

Merry Christmas, everyone. I hope you're enjoying the service. You know, our teams have worked so hard to prepare this for you, and I think they've done an incredible job this year. In a few minutes, we'll get back to another song and [...]

Joy to the world! And Merry Christmas! I want to welcome you to a very special broadcast of PowerPoint. It is Christmas. It is a very special day because we are celebrating the greatest day in history, the day God became man and lived with us. [...]

We began during this advent season looking at why Christmas is most wonderful time of the year. It's one thing to say it's the most wonderful, but why? And then first of all, we saw the reason it's the most wonderful time of the year [...]

C.S. Lewis wrote an introduction to his novel, "The Screwtape Letters" and in fact, in that introduction he said, "There are two extremes. One is believing that the devil does not exist and the other is excessive fear of the devil, [...]

One of the most popular Christmas songs that you hear everywhere you go, in fact, as soon as Halloween hits, sometimes even before Halloween, you start hearing this song, "It's the Most Wonderful Time of the Year". "It's the [...]

Back in November of 2019, Instagram decided to change what every picture and post would look like on your feed. Let me show you with a picture from my Instagram. It's a goofy picture of my family I recently took. On the bottom, you see that? It [...]

Back when I was growing up in the 1980's as a kid, I used to get really, really hyped about these: Star Wars action figures. I was born in the year 1980, which means I grew up with my older brother, Chris, playing with all of his old school, [...]

Just ask my mother. When we went back to Appleton here five years ago and I started to pastor this church, we began a tradition in our family that we call FamFest. Every Sunday for lunch, me, my wife, our two kids, my mom, my dad, and my [...]

Would you take God's precious, inspired, inerrant, wonderful Word and turn to Second Thessalonians chapter 1? We're talking today about the unfinished Christmas story, or as Paul Harvey would say, "The rest of the story". Now you [...]

Serious words in 2 Timothy chapter number 3. So many times we listen to Scripture and we don't apply it. I want you particularly this Christmas Eve, especially this Christmas Eve in this moment of history in the world in which we live, see if [...]