Peace be with you. Friends, we're continuing our reading of the sixth chapter of the Gospel of John, all about the Eucharist, the source and summit of the Christian life. And we're looking at different dimensions of it. So it's a very [...]

This is an excerpt from: Tired On The Inside The direct route is sometimes the divine route. Instead of hiding the fact that you're tired, you just say, "God, I'm tired". Somebody was yawning during my sermon one time, and I [...]

It seems there's one thing for certain these days, and that is we live in very uncertain times. We're gonna look at a time in the Old Testament when God's people felt very uncertain about their future. They didn't know what was [...]

Men especially, you need to know this. Kindness is actually an expression of strength. Unkindness is weakness. Unkindness is weakness. It means because it means you can't bridle yourself. You can't tame your tongue, you can't control [...]

Ah, it feels so good out here. Again, I'm in the fall season here in the Columbus, Ohio area. It's so gorgeous. Fall day, blue skies, warm temperature. You can smell the leaves in the atmosphere. Really rare day here. And it really reminds [...]

Dean Karnazes stumbled as he reached the front porch of his San Francisco area house. He had just spent an evening celebrating his 30th birthday, and he was really drunk. He had a successful job in corporate America, but he didn't know what his [...]

Hi, everybody. I'm Rick Warren, pastor of Saddleback Church, author of "The Purpose Driven Life," and speaker on the Daily Hope broadcast. You know, because Daily Hope is heard on hundreds of radio stations around the world and on [...]

All right, who's glad to be at church today, anybody? Come on. Come on, give God some great praise, everybody. Oh, it's good to see you. Really, really good to see you, and a big hello to all of our locations that are joining us right now. [...]

If you have your Bibles open them with me to the book of Hebrews 12. Hebrews 12 is where I wanna go this morning. Let's go down to verse 27 of Hebrews 12. "Now this, 'Yet once more,' indicates the removal of those things that are [...]

If you have your Bibles open them with me to the book of Hebrews 12. Hebrews 12 is where I wanna go this morning. Let's go down to verse 27 of Hebrews 12. "Now this, 'Yet once more,' indicates the removal of those things that are [...]

Hi everybody, and welcome back to our series that I'm calling A Faith That Works When Life Doesn't. We're going through the book of James and we're actually in part 29. This week we wanna look at a faith that can transform [...]

Would you take God's Word and be finding, please, the Gospel of Luke chapter 22. The passage that we're going to look at today takes place right after the last supper that our Lord had with His disciples. It was Passover. He had talked to [...]

I want you to repeat after me eight words, "When I am weak, then I am strong". Does that make any sense at all? It's a paradox. Weakness, strength. When we're weak, then we are strong? Doesn't that sound like nonsense, silly [...]

Would you be finding Luke Chapter 7? Luke chapter 7. And may I tell you that you could discover no greater truth than the marvelous, wonderful truth of kingdom authority. You could enjoy no greater blessing than to enter into the truth of kingdom [...]

I got a really vulnerable and honest question from someone from our church. She wrote this: "I've been diagnosed with clinical anxiety and depression. My doctor says it's brain chemistry, yet I know the Bible says worry and despair [...]

I want you to find the book of James, if you will, and I want you to find the first chapter in that book. And we're going to think today about what God teaches in that wonderful book about learning to endure. I'm going to tell you [...]

This is an excerpt from: Hear Your Way Out Of Every Weakness How many of you heard this? "There are people who come to church on Sunday, only on Sunday, and sit down there, and then they hear, and hear, and hear. New Creation Church [...]

This is an excerpt from: Power To Renew Your Youth God wants you strong and healthy and living in the supernatural. All this is natural. So, it's true, if you are natural, right, when you are one month to five, you are still weak, all right? [...]

Oh, I would submit to you that we have to learn to be God's people; and that's more than just learning to be saved, that's more than just learning what it is to be converted. I believe that's important. With all my heart, [...]

It's an honor to be with you today. We're doing a study on "Determined Faith," and in this session we're gonna look at strength and courage. When God recruited Joshua, he told him he would need strength and courage. Joshua [...]

This is an excerpt from: Making Peace With Missing Pieces You might have to move forward in this season of your life without preparation, and you might have to figure it out as you go. You might have to read books at night. You might have to read [...]

Most of the time when we're facing a difficulty, we're praying, "God, get me out of this challenge. Get me out of this trouble at work. Get me out of this financial setback. Get me out of this sickness". There's nothing [...]

Most of us have faced a challenge that left us thinking, "This is just too much". Too much pressure, too much heartache. It's in those moments God whispers, "You're stronger than you think". The scripture says, [...]

I know a woman who has struggled with depression for years. She's always been so strong, so determined, but when I saw her recently, she was very discouraged. She said, "I don't know if I have any fight left in me. I can't do it [...]

There are a lot of voices in life trying to define us, tell us who we are. Sometimes they're uplifting, like a parent telling us that we're talented. We can do great things. Other times they're negative. "You're not [...]

As we go through life fighting the good fight of faith, one challenge we all have to face is weariness. It's easy to get tired. You can be raising great children, but because you're weary, you're not enjoying them. You can have the [...]

In Mark chapter 5, the Bible tells about a lady who had a bleeding disorder for 12 years. She'd gone to many doctors, spent all of her money, trying everything she could to get well, but nothing had helped. Then one day, Jesus came passing [...]

We've all come through challenges and difficulties that should have stopped us. There have been problems that seem too big or obstacles that looked insurmountable. Somehow we made it through. We've seen doors open that shouldn't have [...]

We all have things we're believing for. A promise in our heart, healing in our bodies, the restoration of a relationship, but sometimes it feels like nothing's happening. We prayed, we believed, we're standing in faith, but everything [...]

Hear the Word of God now from the book of Joshua, chapter number 1, verse number 9. Have I not commanded you? That's a strong word the Lord is using there. Commanded. Overcoming fear, beloved, is not an option. It's commanded. God hates [...]

My flesh and my heart may fail, but God is the strength of my heart and my portion forever. - Psalm 73:26, NIV You see, there’s a difference between the internal and the external. The external is fading, it’s temporary; but there’s something inside [...]

This excerpt is from the sermon, Practical Benefits of Seeing Jesus in the Word, preached on Sep 18, 2022 Let me show you what hope, Bible hope, is like. Bible hope it's not like, "I hope so... I hope it will happen. I really, really hope [...]

So many people today are living with chronic stress, pressure. In fact, so much that we're breaking down, we're burning out, and yes, Christians have stress, too. The purpose of this message is to help you understand how to turn that [...]

We live in a pressure cooker world, don't we? When I was a little guy my mother cooked with a thing called a pressure cooker. Some of you remember these things. I think it's good that they no longer exist for the most part because I can [...]

The Apostle Paul was an incredible man, an amazing man. Once his life was transformed by the power of Jesus Christ, God used him to change the world. You would be hard pressed to point to another individual in all of history that made a greater [...]

I've noticed over the years, as a pastor, my job is to equip and train the saints. My job is to equip and train the body of Christ. And I've noticed some things and one of things I want to talk about today is, I've noticed that people [...]

Greetings, church. Welcome back to the study of God’s Word. The most exciting study that you can ever be involved in. You know, I want all of you to become like people like revelation addicts, you know, you are looking for fresh revelations from [...]

Christmas. Now, if you've ever heard me speak any time at the end of the year, you know I absolutely love Christmas. I've just been raised that way, I love everything about it, from buying presents to sitting on Santa's knee, to all [...]

How are you doing, Chris? Have you recovered from tour? Fully. I was recovered last Sunday. I felt good last Sunday. Yeah, last Sunday was crazy. Were you here? God is so faithful. I wanted to mention really quickly how good of a timing this is for [...]

You know, it's interesting that there's so much information out there bombarding us on how to take care of our physical bodies. How to eat right, what supplements to take, if you read articles, they're saying you need to get in this [...]

And so when we pray the types of prayers that the apostles prayed, that are recorded in the Bible, we know that we're praying according to God's will, and that we can be a hundred percent assured that God is performing and doing those [...]

I want to talk to you today about Special Strength is Coming. We all have times in life that we feel tired: we've been doing our best, standing strong, but it's been so long, nothing has changed - now, we're fatigue. We don't [...]

We're gonna talk about physical wholeness, about physical health. I am gonna talk to you today about your body. How would you like that? I'm gonna do it anyway, so you might as well like it. Are you an investor or a gambler? What kind of a [...]

Well, thank you for joining us today on "Enjoying Everyday Life". You know, I don't know what you might be dealing with, but I'm sure that there's a lot of people watching, as well as people here in the studio with me, that [...]

I've always been a high energy person. You can ask my wife or the people that work with me, they will tell you that's true. And when I was a boy, I often heard my mother say this, "David Paul, where do you get all of that [...]

The greatest thing that Jesus left behind to the church is this justification by faith gospel, is the gospel of being righteous by faith, not righteous by your works which is the crux of the gospel. Okay, having said that let me just tell you this, [...]