Sometimes God will put you in a situation because he put something in you that that situation needs. So, all of the prayers of "God, get me out of this; God, get me through this…" There are things God wants to do as you go through them [...]

Do you know that the reality of pain and suffering is something we cannot avoid? Many times people will honestly ask questions like: If God is love and God is almighty why does He allow suffering? Have you ever thought about that question, if God is [...]

Why do bad things... Bite my tongue, I bit my tongue. Why do bad things happen to good people? That's what we're talking about today. Let's talk about this. Why does God allow evil and suffering? Why do bad things happen to good people? That was the [...]

This is an excerpt from: The Cross At The Center - Part 1 Paul makes some amazing statements along this line. 2 Corinthians 12. Have you ever noticed that a lot of people today are busy with 1 Corinthians because it's got all the gifts of the [...]

Peace be with you. Friends, I'm always delighted when the Church gives us the opportunity to reflect on the book of Job. The book of Job is one of the profoundest, most difficult, challenging books in the entire Bible. I might encourage you to read [...]

I want to talk to you today about Grace for Gethsemane. The word Gethsemane means a place of pressing. It was an olive garden in Jerusalem, workers would put olives into a press. They were squeezed, and under that pressure the oil would come out. [...]

Take your Bibles and turn with me to the book of Genesis. We have been telling the story, the amazing story of Joseph. It concerns destiny; his destiny for sure, and yours as a follower of Christ as well. GOD'S FAVOR AND YOUR FUTURE. That's what the [...]

Last Friday, I got to have a conversation with a guy I had never met before. Someone who watches our church services online. I'd given him my number. I picked him up on the phone on a Friday afternoon. And before I hung up the phone, I found out [...]

I've learnt over the years of being a pastor that when you're in pain, the most natural question for you to ask is actually the most dangerous question for you to ask. "Why"? "Why is this happening? Why am I going through this? Why is [...]

You know, one of the really cool, really amazing, and really humbling parts of what we do is that people tend to come to us, to the church, and to pastors, normally, when times are really, really good or when they're really, really, not. Alright, [...]

It's a serious question to start a sermon, I know. But if you were the devil, how would you do it? We sometimes think of the devil, Satan, demons, as being these dark forces that try to, like, horror movie style freak us out, keep us up at night, [...]

If you questioned my Christian faith, that wouldn't be crazy. I'm not saying that because I'm hiding some dark, sinful secret or leading some double life. I pray here in church, and I pray when I'm at home. I put on worship music and praise here in [...]

No one can deny the universality of pain and suffering, no one. We all experience it, we all experience it. Even the believers in the Lord Jesus Christ, those who are redeemed by his precious blood, they suffer. Why? Because we still live in this [...]

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 guy who lived [...]

Around the turn of the 20th century, a psychologist named Alfred Adler coined something called the theory of compensation. Adler believed that what we perceive to be disadvantages often proved to be incognito advantages, because they forced us to [...]

We're in questions for God part three. Where we're wrestling with the question, if God is real and God is good then why do evil and suffering exist? This is actually the question that started me on my journey away from faith. When I was younger, [...]

Question for you. Have you ever held an unpopular opinion? Like maybe you have loved something dearly that a lot of people just don't or maybe it's something that not a lot of people understand as I was preparing for this moment getting ready to [...]

Find Romans chapter 8. And in just a moment, we're going to read verses 18 and 19. Let me ask you this question: do you know sorrow? Suffering? Pain? Disappointment? Fear? Frustration? Confusion? If you don't, just wait a while. You will! You will [...]

The problem with us in the west is that we somehow believe that we are entitled to have happiness, and that we have wealth and prosperity, but the Bible said, Jesus said in the world you shall have tribulation. As a matter of fact, the disciples [...]

I'm standing in the old city of Jerusalem. It's a bright, beautiful day. It's also a busy day. It's a Jewish holiday. So if you hear cars and children and horns and motorcycles, don't panic, that's just life in the big city. I'm actually standing in [...]

I wanna go to the book of Exodus, I'm going to the book of Exodus 8, Exodus 8:20. "And the Lord said to Moses, 'Rise early in the morning and stand before Pharaoh as he comes out to the water. Then say to him, 'Thus says the Lord: Let My people [...]

I wanna go to the book of Exodus, I'm going to the book of Exodus 8, Exodus 8:20. "And the Lord said to Moses, 'Rise early in the morning and stand before Pharaoh as he comes out to the water. Then say to him, "Thus says the Lord: Let My [...]

It was in Topeka Kansas-a guy was going to visit churches all across America and write a book! While in Topeka, he saw on the side of a wall in this church a golden telephone. It says "For Ten Thousand Dollars, one minute call to God". He [...]

Hi, I'm Robert Jeffress and welcome again to Pathway to Victory. Have you ever noticed that suffering, and loneliness tend to be a package deal? When you're going through a tough time, it can often feel like you're facing the battle alone and that's [...]

I want you to turn to John 19. John 19. Let me kind of tell you what's going on. Jesus is nearly dead. And that much was clear to everybody. It might be minutes. It might be an hour but even a Roman soldier, much less a doctor could easily see that [...]

Turn to Psalm 105:17, as we continue our sermon series on "Joseph's Journey: From The Pit To The Palace" with this sermon "The Darkest Hour". Listen closely. Your darkest hour is conquered by your dream about your future. A dream [...]

Well, welcome to the "Power to Change Today," and today I want to share with you in the form of a one-on-one Bible study from the recent podcast that I call "Think Like A Champion". And today's topic is all about how to face dark [...]

Good morning. Would you turn in your Bibles to the book of 2 Corinthians. 2 Corinthians, pretty easy to find. It's right after 1 Corinthians. Very good. So turn to 2 Corinthians, chapter 12. There was a ship out at sea in a storm, and the ship sank [...]

Today, we begin this sermon series with the message, "Lord, I don't deserve this". And we look at the life of Job: that if he could testify to you today, he'd say, "The Lord is good and his mercy endures forever". Read with me [...]

We're about to read the lyrics essentially of an ancient worship song. That's what the psalms of David and the other psalms in this book were used as. They were used as part of the corporate, public worship of ancient Israel. But what is amazing to [...]

You can imagine how puzzled some were in the community when they opened up the newspaper and saw in the little want-ad section, the lost and found section of want ads, an ad that read the following: "Lost dog with three legs. Blind in left eye. [...]

Take your Bibles and turn with me to Romans 8, the great 8 chapter of Romans. Many believe that Romans chapter 8 is the greatest chapter in all of the Bible. And if Romans chapter 8 is the greatest chapter in the Bible, many also believe that their [...]

Take God's Word and turn with me to the fifth chapter of the book of Romans, chapter 5. And we are in a series called THE ESSENTIAL GOSPEL. There's nothing above or beyond the Gospel of Jesus Christ. The Apostle Paul said, "I'm not ashamed of [...]

Thou hast taken account of my wanderings; put my tears in Thy bottle; are they not in Thy book? - Psalm 56:8, NASB There is a cry of a desperate soul, someone who knows what it is to be a wanderer, a fugitive, an exile. Someone who knows what it is [...]

This is It Is Written. I'm John Bradshaw. Thanks for joining me. For many people it's a troubling book of the Bible. It's twice as long as the Gospel of John and almost as long as Ezekiel at 42 chapters. In 41 of those chapters, 98 percent of the [...]

Hi, I'm Robert Jeffress, and welcome again to Pathway to Victory. When tragedy strikes, it's only natural to look for someone to blame. Many times the cause of an accident can be traced back to human error. But in the case of terminal illness or a [...]

Mark 14:29 through 31 in the NLT. Let's see this. Verse 29, he says this, "Peter said to him, 'Even if everyone else deserts you, I never will.'" This kind of sounds like Satan. Somebody says, "Well, how you figure that sounds like [...]

Today I'm going to try to finish this series up. We've been talking about the trial of faith and understanding the trial of faith. And let's just believe God that we're going to get to that. It's just an amazing end to this story here. Let's begin [...]

Let's go to Luke 22. Let's get started. Luke 22:31 through 33 in the NLT. Let's look at Peter's trial and let's look at the trial of faith that Peter had. Luke chapter 22, verse 31 through 33. All right, now watch this, 31 through 33. "Simon, [...]

Go with me to the book of 1 Peter chapter 1, and verses 6 through 7. 1 Peter chapter 1, verses 6 through 7. We have been in a series entitled "Understanding the Trials of Faith," answering that question, "Why is it that believers have [...]

Our faith is being challenged. Our faith is being challenged to the core, because suffering now seems strange to us. Suffering now becomes a question that I have to respond to in the press because of the complexity of how could God be good and allow [...]

We are in this series, this is week two, "The Way of Suffering," and we're seeking to harmonize what the four Gospels have to say about Jesus's passion week, about Jesus's deliberate way of suffering, how He approached His suffering. And [...]

Well, welcome to Mission Hills, so glad to have you with us today. If you’re just joining us, I’m gonna you caught up real quick. We are in the midst of our Boundless Series. We’re working our way through the Book of Philippians in order to uncover [...]

When we belong to HaShem, when we belong to Father God, we are so immersed in His love that when we go through something in life that breaks our heart or crushes us in spirit, a broken relationship, the death of a loved one, the loss of a job, [...]

Isaiah chapter 61, verse one is a messianic prophecy that illuminates the work that Mashiach, that the Messiah would do. So, let's read it together now, hear the word of God. "The spirit of the Lord is upon me," it's Messiah himself [...]

We love to start our services this way. I say "God is good". You say, "All the time," I say, "All the time," you say, "God is good". Let's try it. God is good. All the time. And all the time. God is good. [...]

I really want to encourage you, beloved one, to take this word very, very seriously. The Bible tells us that God is love. And the Song of Songs more than any other book in the Bible reveals to us the love of God in the emotional sense of the world. [...]

Instead of concentrating on all of the moments it didn't go your way this year, flip the flow. What went right? What did work out? Who did stay? Who did give you a hug? How did he meet your needs? How did he come through? Did he come through for [...]

Hi, I'm Robert Jeffress, and welcome again to Pathway to Victory. If you've ever watched a family member suffer through a serious illness or struggled through a season of financial hardship, you've probably asked yourself the question, if God is [...]

So here are three phrases that, well, they're not my favorites, and I own the fact that, well, 100% of this is on me, okay? These three phrases, they fuel my selfishness, they feel like an interruption, they force me to detour, they impede my [...]