Grace is not natural. What is natural is this. Do your best to please God, and one of these days, if God sees that you are sincere enough, you are earnest enough, you know, maybe you’ll be more complete than John over there, than Lucy over there, [...]

Go with me to the book of Matthew, chapter 11, and verse 28 and 29 in the Message translation, and I wanna, this first lesson in this series today is gonna be a lot of teaching and foundation because this is literally gonna blow your mind. It’s [...]

Pursue holiness. What does «pursue» mean? It means to chase after with the intent to apprehend. He cannot be speaking about positional holiness here; he must be talking about behavioral holiness. Because look at what he goes on to say: «Without [...]

I’m going to go into Romans. I have preached around this area, and I will continue along this path I spoke about this Sunday. However, I am going to go a little bit deeper than I could in a preaching setting; I can do more in a teaching setting than [...]

So this message is not just about scandalous grace; it’s about how you find the grace to go on when your life has turned into a scandal. How do you find the grace to keep on living when you’ve made mess after mess and bad choice after bad choice? [...]

God has given us a message of hope and we’re calling this message series LIVING HOPE, because it shows up right in the first sentences of 1 Peter chapter 1, that we have this living hope in Jesus Christ in the midst of a hostile world; filled with [...]

Listen, a spiritual son of mine died years ago. And I went and I said, «Well, I’m just gonna raise him from the dead». Now, I’m gonna compare that to when one person was raised with nothing, and me trying to do it with works. So I was in Alabama and [...]

All right, now here it is. So everything that’s been made available, we access this through what? We access this through what? All right, real quick Romans 5 and 2 and Romans 4:16 in the NLT. Romans 5 and 2 and Romans 4:16. We’ll come back to this [...]

I believe over the next month as you hear these teachings, and listen, I’d love to be able to teach the whole series in one thing, but it’s like an onion, I gotta peel this back. But what’s going to happen is as we begin to discover and get detail [...]

Once again, we are together, amen? Worshiping our Lord Jesus Christ and hearing the Word that he has for us at this time. I want to share about what God is doing around the world today. Therefore, you can also interpret what God is doing in your [...]

The apostle Paul was a zealous, Old Covenant person. He was law-based. He was a Pharisee. He was Jewish. I mean, he was very zealous about the law. And you would think, «Why would you call somebody that was so law-based to teach the gospel of [...]

Peace be with you. Friends, we come to the fifth Sunday Ordinary Time, and the church gives us a wonderful pairing of readings. The first reading from the sixth chapter of the prophet Isaiah and the Gospel from the fifth chapter of the Gospel of [...]

If you have your Bibles, go with me again to the book of Galatians chapter 5 and verse 4, We started a teaching last week, dealing with and answering the question, «What Does It Mean To Fall From Grace»? Now, when you hear people talk about falling [...]

Go with me to the book of Romans, chapter 11, and verse 6, I’m gonna read it in the King James, the NIV, and the Amplified. We’re gonna talk about what it means to fall from grace, but there’s some things we have to establish first, and the only way [...]

Being under law and grace is a matter of life and death. It’s a matter of being healthy, being strong. Many years ago, the Lord asked me a question about the centurion who had great faith. He wasn’t a Jew, all right? And he was a centurion, Roman [...]

1 John 4:10 NLT. «This is real love-not that we loved God, but that he loved us and sent his Son as a sacrifice as a propitiation to take away our sins.» Well, somebody said, well, people are still saying, please listen to me. What separated you [...]

Look at Romans 11 and 6 in the NLT. Romans 11 and 6 in the NLT. And then Romans 4 and 4 in NLT. Now watch this in NLT. «And since it is through God’s kindness, then it is not by their good works. For in that case, God’s grace would not be what it [...]

If you have your Bibles, go with me to the book of Saint John chapter 1, verse 14 and verse 17. I’m gonna read out of the King James and the NLT. This morning, I wanna lay a structure and a foundation and I call this «Living the Grace Life.» How do [...]

So, the text today is Matthew 2, and we’re gonna see wonder all through it. Beginning in verse 1 it says, «After Jesus was born in Bethlehem in Judah, during the time of King Herod Magi,» or your translation might say, «Wise men from the east came [...]

Blessed merry Christmas to all of you! From the bottom of my heart, from our family, from the leadership, may I greet you a blessed, blessed merry Christmas and advanced happy new year. How have you been celebrating Christmas? Can you whisper to [...]

So what’s the topic today? Be grateful for God’s sovereign grace. I want to highlight three important truths. God’s sovereign grace involves God’s election. The word «election», you all know, you choose. That’s the word for election. God chooses. [...]

Sometimes we talk as if sin is greater than grace. Sin is not greater than grace. We have more faith in sin to send us to hell than faith for grace to send us to heaven. Somehow or another we think sin is more powerful than grace. "Oh, you know [...]

If you are a man, and this may not just be men, it may be everybody. But you found yourself struggling, with sin, and you feel like every time God looks at you, he looks at you and sees the sin in your life. And that's a very interesting thing [...]

Ephesians 2:8-9 says this: "For by grace you have been saved through faith". And even the faith that saves us, Paul tells us, is not the result of our own works. It's the gift of God. Sometimes people get a funny idea that faith is a [...]

I have here a table and this is the kind of table Jesus would have eaten at. You know, it's a low table, it's more like a coffee table. In the first century in the Middle East, you would come to the dinner table and you would recline like [...]

Saint John chapter 3 and verse 17 through 19. All right, now read this carefully. He says, "For God sent not his Son into the world to condemn the world; but that the world through him might be saved". And part of that salvation is saved [...]

If you have your Bibles, we're gonna be studying tonight the book of John chapter 4, you're gonna really, really enjoy this. Saint John chapter 4 and I wanna start off tonight reading it. I wanna handle tonight more scripture by scripture [...]

We continue our study on the book of John, pulling out of it all of the amazing things that John saw concerning the revelation of our Lord Jesus Christ and this revelation of grace. And so tonight, we're gonna deal with something pretty [...]

Tonight, I want to talk to you about something that's pretty fascinating. I call this, "A Living Revelation of God Versus A Letter Written In Stone," "A Living Revelation of God Versus A Letter Written In Stone". And I wanna [...]

Tonight, we're gonna talk about the glory of grace and what that is, and then, we're going to move into something that, I just gotta be honest with you, I just probably, a few, about an hour ago closed my Bible, because I was like, I ran [...]

It's one thing that Jesus has come and grace and truth has come, but here's the one thing we gotta get. Man must accept it. He's got to accept Jesus, him being full of grace and truth. And I wanna read out of, let's start at John [...]

Look at John 14:6. Look at all of these keys, look at all these about the deity of Christ. Look at what he was saying. We're never gonna understand this grace and truth until we understand the preeminence over Moses, over the law. The nerve of [...]

We are looking at the Gospel of John, and last week we talked about the mosaic law versus the grace that came by Jesus. And so, tonight, what we're gonna talk about, we're gonna talk about, continue that grace and truth and see what [...]

I know it sounds so simple, but Jesus came to obliterate every misconception that man had accumulated about God over 4000 years of human history. Four thousand years of human history, man had come up with all these beliefs and distorted views of [...]

Last week we talked about getting ready for the return of Christ. What will help you stay ready? Today I want to share with you the importance of God’s grace. What does God’s grace mean? Because Acts 22 is Paul's personal story and he talks [...]

Have you ever tried to fill up a gas can at the gas station? You're trying to fill it up to the top, but the next thing, you know, gas is overflowing and it's just spilling all over your hands and your shoes. And then you get in the car [...]

Peace be with you. Friends, for this Fifth Sunday of Ordinary Time, the Church gives us a wonderful juxtaposition of two readings. I'm talking about this passage from the sixth chapter of the prophet Isaiah and a passage from the fifth chapter [...]

Well, I wanna say good morning to those of you who may be watching online, or watching on TV, around the world For those of you who are in the building, and I just wanna begin by asking a question. Everybody kind of laugh when I ask it at the 9:15 [...]

Satan is attempting a worldwide spirit of poverty. You hear me? The years that I tried to prepare the Body of Christ in the area of prosperity was always met with demonic force. Huh. It's here now. What are you prepared to do? Who will you [...]

Sometimes it's knowin' the joy that's ahead of you that can help you go through certain things in life. Sometimes it's the pain that you experience here, and you think about the things that are above. You think about the things [...]

If you have your Bibles, open your Bibles up with me to the book of St John, chapter 8, verses 3 through 11. We've been talking about God's way versus man's way, and there are some things that I believe you'll get a hold of today [...]

Have you ever felt the weight of other people's expectations just bearing down on you? Maybe your parents expect you to be really well-behaved and also make stellar grades in school, but you're feeling so overwhelmed that you're [...]

Well, what's up, Bible Nerds? James Meehan here for another edition of Words of the Bible. This time, we're talking about the word grace. Grace is a big deal in the Bible. And it's a big deal in our lives as Christians. But because [...]

We are all flawed, and the only way that we can stand here and sit here, or me standing and you sitting, and to declare anything else is because of Jesus. You don't get into Heaven because you "all that," please, throw your list away. [...]

Self-righteousness is motivated by the fear of punishment, the fear of punishment and the fear of consequences from man. The problem with being self-righteous, the problem with you trying through your own agenda to be right with God by what you do, [...]

Isaiah chapter 55 verses 8 through 9. Now, this is gonna be interesting. You know, I'm often, again, asking God, "Give me the utterance. Show me how to say the thing that I see". And, this is big. This is big. This is, I don't [...]

Do you enjoy waiting in line at the checkout counter, big grocery chain, when there are about four or five people in front of you with baskets just loaded with groceries? Do you enjoy that? Enjoy that kind of wait? Do you enjoy waiting at that [...]

One of the most daunting issues that we've had to grapple with as a country and as a culture is the issue of race. The problem of race has dominated us from beginning to end, and every day in one form or another it hits us in the face, and we [...]

It's good to be with you today. We are together so that we can open up the Bible. We'll go to God's Word and flip through its pages, and ask God to speak to us and expect that we'll be blessed as He does. This is special time; [...]

In the fall of 1516, a 32 year-old theology professor named Martin Luther was teaching through the Book of Romans at the University of Wittenberg. He got to Romans 1:17, the just shall live by faith, and he had a revelation that turned into [...]