This is our second session on the theme of 'The Cross at the Center.' In our previous session I pointed out three major reasons why we have to keep the cross at the center, why God's plan and our salvation really doesn't work when the cross is [...]

Today I'm gonna talk about the value and importance of having concrete long-term goals for your life and how this is a major thing that God wants for us and also it's a major cure to the sickness that so many of us face in life today. It's the [...]

Peace be with you. Friends, the Gospel for today is that wonderful and familiar story of Martha and Mary. But the Church sets us up for this in a really interesting way by giving us a first reading from the book of Genesis. We're in chapter 18; it's [...]

This is an excerpt from: The Cross At The Center - Part 1 Now let's look at one other statement by Paul in Romans 8:31 and following. Again, Paul emphasizes the all sufficiency of the sacrifice of Jesus. Romans 8:31 and following. What then shall [...]

Dominique : Alright guys, today's big question is how do we not just focus on negative things? James Meehan : That is a wonderful question. Dominique : Yeah. James Meehan : Especially considering that there's a whole lot of negative things out [...]

Prioritize first things first. This is the real foundation. We mess up, we have problems, because you don't know how to prioritize things first. There is a Chinese saying called "Look at the importance". Do you know this? You have to learn [...]

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 [...]

This is an excerpt from: Fix Your Focus In any relationship or in any season of your life you choose what you magnify. I hear single people talking about they're lonely. I hear married people talking about they're lonely. I heard a married couple [...]

You've been around, and you think for a moment everybody needs a life coach. The secular world, you could spend a hunk of money bringing in someone to coach you into life. Everybody needs a life coach. We decided that. And then we decided, [...]

This is an excerpt from: My Future Is My Focus Everything God wants to do next in your life is connected to what he is calling you to do now. It took Joseph's attitude in the prison to interpret someone else's dreams while he himself was still in a [...]

Why don't you just take 23 seconds, since it's the year 2023, and praise God for the opportunity to be in his presence today. You can do it online. By the way, we're probably coming to a city near you this spring. Elevation Nights 2023, April 18-27. [...]

This is an excerpt from: The Power Of A Better Question I want to speak that over every area of your life right now that God has promised. The question isn't… Has God given it? Joy, peace… all the fruit of the Spirit… love, patience, kindness, [...]

Good morning. I wanna thank all of you for being here, especially this crowd because you braved the rain, and the fire, and the storm. Amen, that means this is the backbone of the church, amen? Solid. You all remind me of Pastor Mark. Now you all [...]

In the book of Matthew chapter 14, we read about the very familiar story of Yeshua, of Jesus, walking on the water. The disciples were on the boat and they saw Jesus at night walking upon the water. And we know Peter's personality, very impetuous. [...]

This is an excerpt from: But Now Be Strong You have to learn how to focus on what is left, not what is lost. Sometimes the distraction is you thinking about something you had in the past that you don't have right now. Sometimes you are missing [...]

Shalom. We're looking to the Lord's word today. In the wisdom literature of Scripture, Solomon, as most of us know, had a supernatural weight of divine wisdom upon him to such a degree that the Lord said that there never been anyone on the earth [...]

What an awesome privilege. Let us know right now in the chat where you are. Are you in Tulsa, Oklahoma? Grand Rapids, Michigan? Are you in the grocery store? Are you in Walmart? Are you in Target? Where are you at? "I'm in my car, so I'm typing [...]

This is an excerpt from: Backseat DJs: What's Controlling Your Joy? I believe there are some things, that are destroying your joy, that you were unaware of. And James is going to teach us how to develop joy. Very different than discovering joy. [...]

How can God be so good and make such a way and then we doubt him. Our doubt bites at him, it bites at him. It's a painful thing to be doubted, your integrity disrespected. It occurred to me that this doubting was not just about God, they had a [...]

Well, happy new year to you. It's great to have 2020 behind us. Not that that makes a whole lot of difference, but we're gonna do the best we can with what we have. If you're new with us, we're crazy passionate about building leaders, and we have a [...]

This is an excerpt from “Stop Crying, It's Coming!” When you find yourself in a period of reinvention and nothing seems familiar and nothing seems normal and nothing makes sense and nothing matches your prior map of meaning or knowledge, nothing [...]

When you're living in it, you don't even know what you're looking at. That's why we really have to be careful not to wish away stages of our lives, because that was in your backyard. It took 2020 to get some of us to see that showing up early to get [...]

You can’t control everything that happens out here. You can’t control who walks by. But I can, give me camera one. This is what is called a tight shot. That means that this shot on camera 1 is only designed to show me. We can zoom in, zoom in until [...]

Thank you, Lord. We are believers in this place. We love you this morning, amen. When I was a little girl, I loved to go to the beach with my family. We would get to the beach, and I remember so well we had this huge red umbrella that we'd drill [...]

The maestro was born in the northern Italian city of Modena. His mother was a cigar maker, his father was a baker and amateur tenor. It was the amateur tenor part that most touched young Luciano Pavarotti. He loved hearing his dad sing, and he spent [...]

Everybody say, "Shift happens"! I want to walk you through it, it picks up in verse 18. The Bible has put in these verses for us, but originally there weren't verses breaking up the different letters. It's just there so we can find it. But [...]

Take me out of focus. You can tell I'm out of focus. Because when he takes me out of focus, I blur. The more out of focus I am, the more blurred I become. Is your life blurred and you've been blamin' devils and demons and witches and mama and daddy [...]

Greetings, in the name of Jesus Christ our king. I'm so glad to have the opportunity to share the word of the Lord with you, and particularly, this word, "Destiny From the Perspective of Focus". You can't pursue real destiny until you [...]