— 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 In this Christmas message, Pastor Steven Furtick tackles stress and the search for peace, pointing out that our biggest stressors usually fall into places, pace, problems, or people. Drawing from the [...]

In this Christmas message from Luke 2, Pastor Adrian Rogers presents Jesus as Mary's little Lamb—born in Bethlehem as prophesied, the perfect, sinless Passover Lamb who was slain to save sinners. He traces the Lamb from Old Testament prophecy [...]

In this Christmas message from John 1, Pastor Adrian Rogers asks the vital question: "What Child is This?" He shows that Jesus is far more than a great man, moral teacher, or prophet—He is God the Son, fully divine, part of the eternal [...]

In this Christmas sermon from Matthew 2:1-12, Adrian Rogers highlights the wise men's true wisdom in seeking and worshiping Jesus despite great difficulty, danger, and distance. He explains how they were led by the Spirit, Scripture, and the [...]

In this sermon on Isaiah 53, Adrian Rogers calls it perhaps the greatest Bible chapter—a prophetic biography of Jesus written 700 years before His birth. It reveals Christ's supernatural virgin birth from dry ground, simple ordinary life [...]

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 [...]

In this Christmas message from 2 Thessalonians 1, the preacher reminds us that the story of Jesus is unfinished—the baby born in Bethlehem is coming again as King. The First Coming brought redemption through humility and sacrifice; the Second [...]

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 [...]

How many of you have a passport? Would you hold your hand up? Do you have a passport? Okay. Then you may remember. I got to thinking back to the time when I got my first passport. And I believe it may have been, don't remember, but I believe it [...]

When you live in America, nobody has to tell you it's Christmas time. You don't have to read it in the paper, don't have to go on the internet, don't have to listen to the radio, you know it's Christmas time. And we love to [...]

Well, I want to say good morning to those who're watching online today and those who are in our building this morning. I want to begin by saying Merry Christmas. It is that time of year, and we're really grateful that you have joined us [...]

Merry Christmas to one and all, okay? To your families, from my family to yours. I'm so glad you've come. And for those of you who are here for the first time, a blessed welcome. You are in to smack dab right into the favor of God, amen. [...]

Every Christmas, many people spend money they don't have thinking that this will make the loved ones speechless. I read just a couple of weeks ago, in fact, that 28% of the populations in America are still paying the debt that they incurred [...]

Hello, my friends. In a year dominated by crisis, chaos, and confusion, we have arrived at Christmas week. Thank God. Christians all over the world as well as non-Christians are celebrating the birth of the Lord Jesus Christ, the only hope for [...]

Now at on Christmas, we, we do our best. All of us who are parents, grandparents, we, our uncles, aunts, anybody who's got kids, you know, involved in their life. We all do our best during the Christmas season to engage the imagination of our [...]

Dr. Charles Stanley powerfully explains why the virgin birth of Jesus matters immensely—it proves His full deity as God incarnate, ensures His sinless humanity without inherited sin nature, and makes Him the only perfect, acceptable sacrifice for [...]

— Hello, everybody we're back again. So this is Kenneth Copeland, Greg Stephens and the entire group and the Holy Spirit is here representing Jesus. And those of you that are in the same position that Gloria and I were in, we were both [...]

— Welcome everyone, once again to the Believer's Voice of Victory Broadcast. And we're talking about Christmas, Christ Mass. The celebration of the anointed One and his anointing. Excuse me. And so let's go back to the book of [...]

— Hello and merry Christmas everybody. I'm Kenneth Copeland, and this is Greg Stephens. And this is the class. And this is the Believer's Voice of Victory broadcast. Praise God. So it's Christmas. And 2023 is in the rearview mirror. [...]

— Hello, everybody, and Merry Christmas. I've had this on my heart, and so I want to share it with you on our break this morning as we're taping these. This came up very, very powerfully in my spirit and I referred to it, but let's [...]

— My favorite time of the year. Whew! Hallelujah. — Amen. Yes. I'm telling you, my mother, you know, my birthday being the first week of December. And so she always had the Christmas tree up by my birthday. Not realizing what torture that was [...]

Dr. Charles Stanley explains why Christmas feels like the happiest season, especially for believers—it's all about giving, starting with God's incredible gift of His Son Jesus to save us. From Mary's brave surrender of her body and [...]

All right so sometimes in church it's just good to get real, right? How many of you agree? So what I wanna do today is with your permission, I'm gonna get kind of real. Do you think you can handle a confession? I'm just gonna tell you [...]

This is an excerpt from: The Restriction Has Been Lifted Pastor Steven Furtick delivers a powerful Christmas message centered on God's unchanging presence—Immanuel, God with us—through the tabernacle in the wilderness pointing to Jesus [...]

Well, I have to admit that I have a love, hate relationship with Christmas. I really love Christmas as a Christian and a pastor because you are all here. It's like my Christmas present to look out and see zero seats available; to know that [...]

So if you had to finish the sentence here on the screen with just one word, what word would you pick? Christmas is a time for blank. If I gave you just one second to think it in the back of your head, could you come up with a one-word answer? [...]

The other day, I was cleaning out a desk in my basement and I stumbled across a picture of my babies when they were just babies. And apparently, when they were totally terrified of the photographer at the mall. It made me so happy when I saw this [...]

So if you had to describe Christmas with an emoji, which emoji would it be? I'll give you a couple options. You could choose from stressed, kind of sad, and super happy. If you ask most people in our culture, the ideal answer, what Christmas [...]