Take your Bible, find John chapter 4, and look up here. In these climatic days in which we're living in the life of our church, I have been trying to distill and focus on the things that I have told you for 32 years. What kind of a church [...]

Be finding John chapter 14 and verse 12. We have been in a series of studies together talking about the kind of a church that we want to be, the new horizons, what God has for us, and what I've tried to teach you to do and be for over 30 years. [...]

Be finding Nehemiah chapter 4. We're in a series of Bible studies, things that I want to say to the church. What kind of a church should this church be? What kind of a church have I been trying in these past years to allow God to lead me to [...]

Does the local church have the right to establish rules for membership, such as refraining from alcohol, et cetera? This is a very good and important question. We've got to distinguish between rules in two ways. Rules as a means of achieving [...]

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 [...]

The reason that the world we live in is so chaotic, so confused, and has a culture that would embrace a lie instead of a truth is because the church has forfeited its responsibility of shining. Listen to the conversation that Jesus is having here [...]

Jonathan Bernis : Shalom and welcome to Jewish Voice. I wanna thank you for joining me today. I'm Jonathan Bernis and I'm joined once again by my co-host, Ezra Benjamin. Have you ever looked at the clock and it was exactly 11:11? Well, [...]

Hi, I'm Robert Jeffress and welcome again to "Pathway to Victory". There was a time in American history when you could find a busy church on every street corner, but today, more and more churches are shutting their doors for good and [...]

Years ago I had the opportunity to go to China with a group. I took my son, Andrew, he was in the ninth grade at the time, so this is many years ago. And while we were there, we had the opportunity to tour a factory, not in a large city, but in a [...]

Now, as most of you know, my dad was a pastor and he would often say to me when he knew I was going into ministry he would say, "Andy, if you preach from your weakness, you'll never run out of material". And I didn't know whether [...]

I wanna welcome all of our Atlanta area churches, those of you're watching online from all over the country and all over the world. It is so great to have you with us and for those of you with us all the time, that's fantastic. And I hope [...]

So it comes as no surprise that I love church. I love the local church. I love like the big C church, the universal church, the worldwide church. And I love our church. I don't know what comes to mind when you hear the word church, maybe the [...]

In fact, in this sermon series as we study these letters that Jesus wrote in Revelation 2 and 3. Did you know that there's one topic that comes up in the first letter and the third and the fourth letter. The only topic repeated by Jesus that [...]

I can't think of a single book cover that moves me emotionally quite like this one. This is my personal copy of Eusebius's "The Church History". Have you read it? Have you heard of it? No, I didn't think so. Eusebius was a [...]

If I'm making eye contact with you right now, that means you're not live here at our church, it means you're watching on TV, it means you're livestreaming on your favorite device. It means that I'm looking to you through the [...]

Few years ago, there was something, there was a big craze. It was known as extreme sports. What is it? Well, it was a sport that was taken to an extreme. That's extreme sports. But then they get to the bottom line. Always get to the bottom [...]

In today's letter of Jesus, the glorified, magnified Jesus in heaven, to the believers in the church of Philadelphia, it's about the open door. It's all about the open doors. So, we're looking at the glorified Jesus in heaven [...]

In the 20th century, I was taught from childhood that one's reputation is one of the most prized possessions. One's reputation is really more important than money or power or prestige, that one's reputation is more valuable than even [...]

If you forget everything I say today, if you forget everything, there's one word I beg you and I pray to God you will never forget, not just this week, not next week, not just, for the rest of your life, and that word is discernment. If you do [...]

I want you to imagine with me this fictitious scenario. He's a 25-year-old young man who is very healthy; and, therefore, he would say, "You know, all this healthy eating and exercise, it's just so overrated. I don't do any of [...]

Every day, it seems to me, I am hearing some news of somebody being fired because of their faithfulness to Christ and his Word, every day. Now, I would be standing here literally for hours and just telling you one example after another. By the same [...]

The first letter that our glorified Jesus, our glorified Lord sends, he sends to the church in the city of Ephesus. Remember, John the apostle, the revelator, was given the revelation, was privileged to be lifted up and to see not only the glorified [...]

Think about this with me, please, just think with me. The Bible makes it very clear that the church is the bride of Christ. We're the bride of Christ. And as sometimes the case, a wife, after being married for a few years or many years, it [...]

...At 11:14am, in what would've been the middle of my message. Our lives have revolved around her ever since, for which we are grateful. But fortunately, that weekend we had someone on deck, Dick Foth, who pitch hit for Pastor Mark. The tables [...]

If you're in the house this weekend, it feels like you're sitting still, and you are, but you aren't. All of us, including those online, are on a planet that is spinning around its axis at a thousand miles per hour. But, we're [...]

When I was in high school, I drove a car affectionately referred to as the Batmobile. Batterson, Batmobile. But don't let the name fool you. It was a 1984 Dodge Colt, black and white, but I got into fender bender. Only part we could find for [...]

Warm welcome to National Community Church. You are not here by accident. Even if it's your first time, in person, online, "Welcome Home". I hope you feel seen, heard, loved, big hug today, amen? Psalm 92:13, "The righteous will [...]

It's a privilege to be with you today. We're gonna conclude our study on "The Church In The Earth". You know, the heart of this whole discussion is that our faith isn't just about eternity, it's not just about a [...]

It's an honor to be with you today. Our topic is "The Church in the World". You know, I remember learning years ago that the sea in a ship is a bad thing, but a ship in the sea, that's a good thing. Well, it's true with the [...]

It's an honor to be with you today. We're gonna conclude our study on false prophets, false apostles, and the false church. Sounds a little negative, but not really. The devil's an imitator. He's not an originator, and in order [...]

I wanna begin a study with a very positive title. "False Prophets, False Apostles and the False Church". On that happy note, I would point this out, you can't have something false unless there's something true. And so I [...]

If you are wounded, if you are hurting, if you've messed your life up, if you have consequences today, guess what? You're welcome in this church. We're glad that you're here. If you feel far from God, if you feel unworthy, when I [...]

It's a privilege to be with you today. Our topic is "Church on Purpose". You know, my academic career began in the basic sciences, and one of the things I learned is that our universe is in crazy intentionality. There's a [...]

The topic for the weekend is "The Church of the Redeemed". Church of the Redeemed. On a typical weekend around here, we'll have people from between fifty and sixty different Christian traditions, denominations. All the way from the [...]

Would you take God's Word and turn to First Corinthians chapter 12. Find verse 12, and when you've found it, look up here. The title of our message, "You Are Somebody in His Body". Now, there a lot of terms for the church, a lot [...]

Hi, I'm Robert Jeffress, and welcome again to "Pathway to Victory". To most Christians, the church is something that has always been around. There are new churches, historic churches, large churches, small churches. You name it. But [...]

I hope you have your Bible in hand. Matthew 4:1 following: Then Jesus was led up by the Spirit into the wilderness to be tempted of the Devil. After He had fasted forty days and forty nights, He then became hungry, and the tempter came and said to [...]

Now, no surprise, I love the local church. I love the church for lots of reasons. I'm a preacher's kid, so it was a big part of my life growing up. And preacher's kids, we see the best of church and we see the worst of church. And any [...]

This is an excerpt from: True And False Church - Part 2 And then we look in Revelation 19 in verse 8, a picture of the Church ready to be married. And notice all heaven is excited. I think heaven is much more excited than the Church at the moment [...]

This is an excerpt from: True And False Church - Part 2 Now, let's turn for the latter part of this session to a picture of the true Church. I'm going to try to pick out those aspects of the picture which particularly distinguish it from [...]

This is an excerpt from: True And False Church - Part 2 All right, let's go on with the picture of the false church. The next statement is found in Revelation 17, verse 5. Revelation 17, verse 5. On her forehead a name was written, a mystery, [...]

It's good to be with you again. Our topic today is "America, the Essential Church". You know, during COVID when we were all struggling to find our way forward, we had a lot of things closed. Our businesses, our lives, our restaurants, [...]

It's an honor to be with you again. Our topic today's "America: The Essential Church". It was during covid that somebody, some politician somewhere declared that the church was non-essential; they closed our buildings and told us [...]

This is an excerpt from: True & False Church - Part 1 Our theme this evening, and it will be in two sessions, is: True and False Church. The most important thing for you to carry away from these sessions is the fact that there is a true Church [...]

Good morning. Would you bring... would you bring your Bibles. The Bibles that you did bring, would you turn in them to the book of Ephesians, chapter 2, the book of Ephesians in your New Testament, chapter 2. If you know the name John Newton from [...]

Hi, I'm Robert Jeffress, and welcome again to Pathway to Victory. 1 Corinthians 13 contains some of the most well-known Bible verses on love, yet many Christians have allowed the poetic beauty of this passage to obscure its true meaning. Today [...]

This is the second session on the theme of True and False Church. We've been examining how it comes about that there is a false church and we looked at the warning that Paul gave to the Corinthians in 2 Corinthians, chapter 11 in the first [...]

Our theme this evening, and it will be in two sessions, is: True and False Church. The most important thing for you to carry away from these sessions is the fact that there is a true Church and there is a false Church. And if you don’t understand [...]

A great church is a church that recognizes the faithfulness of God. Why do we come to service each and every Sunday? Not so that we can be blessed, but so that we can bless Him for his goodness and His mercy and His grace in our life. We must [...]

Jonathan Bernis : Shalom and welcome to Jewish Voice and thank you for joining me today. I'm Jonathan Bernis. My co-host, Ezra Benjamin is with me again today as we open a discussion on whether or not the church is ready for the return of the [...]