Peace be with you. Friends, during this B-cycle of the liturgical readings, we're reading from the Gospel of Mark, and there's something about Mark that's just, I don't know, kind of bracing. It's the first of the Gospels. [...]

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 [...]

This is an excerpt from: The Path of Peace for so many years, I have thought that the thief of my peace was other people, or certain places or the schedule of my life, which is kinda funny 'cause I'm the one who said yes to all that stuff [...]

Vladimir Putin called it a special military operation, and the rest of the world called it the largest ground invasion in Europe since World War II. In the early hours of February 24, explosions erupted across Ukraine. Russian airborne forces [...]

Our Heavenly Father desires that all of us have peace. In fact, He desires that we have a three-fold peace: peace with Him, which is the result of having the gift of eternal life and knowing it; peace with others, which is the capacity to have a [...]

We're going to see today how David turned his cave into a prayer closet. But the truth is, I lived long enough, I talked to enough people, whether we're in the church or outside of the church, to learn that there are some people who [...]

Would you consider the environment in which you live, in which you work a peaceful environment? Or would you have to say, "No, it is an environment of conflict, there's contention. There is a sense of resentment that I feel. There's [...]

When is the last time that you could ever remember experiencing absolute peace in your heart? How long did it last? Why did you lose it? Is that kind of peace something that just comes once in a while in your life, or is it something that is there [...]

Did you ever have anybody steal something from you? Well, how did you respond? Were you angry because of the person or at the person who wronged you, or did you blame yourself because you felt like maybe you were just a little bit careless, and it [...]

You know, when I talk to young pastors about preaching and about preparing sermons, I tell 'em, I say, you know, the two most important parts of a sermon are the introduction and the conclusion. And the introduction is the most important part [...]

How could God expect me to have peace in my heart or expect you to have peace in your heart when everywhere we turn there is greed, political corruption, anger, hostility, war, bloodshed, disease, sickness, doubt, domestic violence, the whole idea [...]

A few weeks ago, one of our staff members and myself were seated in a restaurant on the West Coast and the young lady who was waiting on us was doing a great job and she looked like she was in her twenties or somewhere thereabouts. And so the second [...]

Well, thank you for joining me on, "Enjoying Everyday Life". I'm excited about sharing God's word with you today and I hope you're excited about hearing it. I started yesterday talking about ways to increase your peace. [...]

Thank you for joining me today on, "Enjoying Everyday Life". I really am glad that you've decided to spend this time with me studying God's word. I believe it always helps us every single time we hear it. And I think you're [...]

Well, thank you for joining me today on, "Enjoying Everyday Life". The last two days I've been talking about ways that you can increase your peace. Peace is so wonderful, and turmoil and anger and frustration and upset are just so [...]

Let the peace of Christ rule. So, you know when we want like how can I say, how can I say? Speed dial. You know when we need a speed dial? In other words, we need quick access. This is the one to remember. So, say your waters, those waves are [...]

Now, I wanna look at our working definition of peace. And as I do, I wanna ask you to turn to John chapter 7, John chapter 7, so that I can show you where we are drawing this metaphor. A couple of times in the Old Testament God speaks about wanting [...]

Here's the premise I want you to take down because this is where I want us to go from here. This is what I'm presenting to you as a foundation for us to build on, right here. The cost of going on and on without experiential peace is [...]

You may be seated. Would you turn with me, if you have your Bibles, to John chapter 14. If you didn't happen to bring your Bible, that's no problem. I'm gonna read you everything that we are going to need to hear from the scriptures. [...]

Before we start today, I wanna ask you a question. And we'll consider this kind of like your public service reminder. Fair enough, everybody needs a little help every now and then. How many of you have a will prepared for when you die? Raise [...]

Well, hello, and welcome to Bible Nerds. My name is James Meehan, and today we're talking about shalom. It's a Hebrew word that means peace, but it means so much more than just peace. For most of us, peace is what we call it when [...]

I don't know how you feel, but I feel proud tonight to be an American. This year, most of our crusades have been abroad, and we have been in various parts of the world holding evangelistic crusades like this Next year, We are staying the entire [...]

I'm going to share with you a scripture now that most of us have heard before. But when I read it, I want you to take it as a command rather than as a pleasant suggestion, or rather than accepting it as a little something that would appear on a [...]

Hello everybody. Welcome back to week seven of our special study during this COVID-19 global pandemic. I'm Rick Warren, Pastor of Saddleback Church, author of "The Purpose Driven Life" and teacher for the Daily Hope Broadcast. Now in [...]

When you train your heart to say things like, "But God". Yeah. This is bad, it's scary, this is freaky. I don't know how this is going to turn out, but God is still on the throne. Or like some of you say, God's got this. I [...]

I want to talk to you about three things, three double-barrel pillars. The first one is a double burden; and the second, the double invitation; and thirdly, the double blessing. I want that to just sink in in your mind so you don't forget it, [...]

I am so glad you got to enjoy and be blessed by what we get blessed with at the Church of the Apostles almost every Sunday with Mac Powell, when he's not on the road, yeah; truly anointed man of God. You know, this event was supposed to take [...]

Donna and I were staying in the hotel in New York City in front of which a man drove his car up over the curb and ran down over 20 people. One 18-year-old girl was killed as she was walking along with her sister, and many were sent to the hospital [...]

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 [...]

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? [...]

There were people who went to church and they prayed the prayers and they read their Bibles at home and then one day, things changed. There were kids who sat in these same chairs, they went to these same churches, and they said they believed in [...]

Let's begin by talking about the benediction or the declaration of God's goodness of our lives, which has to do with God's peace, the peace of Christ ruling in our hearts. "Let the peace of Christ rule in your hearts, to which [...]

I want to talk to you today about Leave It Alone. We all have situations that we're believing will change: a child is off course, someone's not treating us right, a door is closed. We feel this pressure to fix it: I've got to [...]

Pray for the peace of Jerusalem: they shall prosper that love thee. - Psalm 122:6 KJV God requires all His people from every nation, every background, to be concerned about the peace of one particular city. That city is Jerusalem. Those words of [...]

Would you take God's Word and be finding John chapter 6. In a few moments we're going to begin reading in verse 16. But we're going to be talking a little bit about troubles, heartaches, tears, disappointments; what we would call the [...]

Great peace have they, O LORD, who love your law, and nothing can make them stumble. - Psalm 119:165 The Bible here promises not just peace, but great peace. In the world today we tend to have a very low view of peace. If two nations are not [...]

Well, let's give peace a chance for one more weekend. Then we can go back to our cantankerous selves next week. It's been such a wonderful series to be in. I've enjoyed being able to plow through the scripture to see what the Bible [...]

What a fine, fine day it is today. Welcome to church. Glad that you are here. I do want you to know that we do pray for your peace. I was praying for you this morning, just that God would fill you, your family, all that you are working through, with [...]

OK, break out those Bibles. Let's open those things up. Colossians chapter 1. Let's turn to Colossians chapter 1. I just want to apologize to you that the government stole an hour of your sleep today, but they'll make it up in the [...]

I'm applauding for you. You came to church. Way to go. Good to see you. You happy to be here? Good, because I'm happy to be here, and I'm happy to see you here. So would you turn in your Bibles, please, to the book of Philippians, [...]

Good morning, again. Did you bring one of these? Yeah, these are really important, I have discovered, to have. So let's turn in those Bibles, shall we, to the Book of Isaiah. It's the biggest book in your Bible, longest book in your Bible [...]

Good morning. Hey. Would you grab your Bible? Well, not grab it, take your Bible and turn to Matthew, chapter 5 in your New Testament as well as a marker in Genesis, chapter 32. So the first book in the New Testament, first book in the Old Testament [...]

Good morning. Great to see y'all. Great to have you in church and we're looking forward to this new series, Give Peace A Chance. Shout out to the team in doing such a great job with the graphics, very Yellow Submarine I love that whole [...]

Humility is required in order to live in peace, probably the most difficult of the Christlike virtues to gain and maintain. Pride was what caused Satan to fall. And trust me, he tries to trip us up with the same thing. Humility means to be [...]

If there's anything that the devil works at really hard, it's trying to keep us upset. Make you mad. Get you mad at somebody. Get you frustrated. Get you to worry. Jesus said in John 14:27, "My peace I leave with you: I give it to [...]

In the beatitudes we've been looking for, I just wanted to reemphasize this was not a smattering of ideas and teachings but it is a progress. First step, of course, is you come to the place where you're poor in spirit, you realize that [...]

We're going through a series, if you are here for the first time, just to give you some background, we're talking about the Beatitudes that you find there in the Sermon on the Mount, and it's in the Gospel of Matthew chapter 5, the [...]

I read that a few years ago, the magazine "Psychology Today" did a survey and they asked 52,000 Americans, "What will it take to make you happy?" And most of the answers that were varied basically said their happiness would [...]

Thank you, Lord Jesus, hallelujah. Praise the Lord. God is good, amen? Now, we are now in the year of Jubilee. Jubilee is proclaimed just like the healing of God just now. God proclaims it. Back then, it was through a ram's horn. The trumpet [...]

If you're able to visit the Karnak Temple Complex in central Egypt, you will view some of the oldest ruins in history decayed temples, chapels, and residences. On the wall of one of the temples you'll see Egyptian hieroglyphics which have [...]