When we first met God, we met Him at the water. In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth, and the earth was without form and void, and darkness covered the face of the deep. The first thing God moved on was the Spirit of the Lord, [...]

It is not the text itself that I am contemplating; it is the text against the times we are living in. We are currently experiencing a period of emptiness. I’m wondering if there’s anybody watching me who has been feeling empty. Now I must take the [...]

Several years ago, in 1967, a very popular movie came out. It starred a cast that included Spencer Tracy and Sidney Poitier, along with Katharine Hepburn and her niece, Katharine Houghton. It was a very interesting film, and you have to understand [...]

What I’m trying to tell you is that you have a whole lot of Passover but not enough Pentecost. You have a whole lot of Passover but not enough Pentecost. If I’m outside, yeah, oh excuse me, you have a whole lot of Passover; you have that part [...]

Have you ever been visited by him? Have you ever had him stop by your house while you were running your sweeper, and he just came in the house with you? You start looking kind of crazy to the kids because the next thing you know, you’re rocking your [...]

God found Moses on the backside of the desert and said, «They call you a convict and an outlaw, but I have a plan for your life.» He tells him, «I am the God of Jacob; I am the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. So don’t run off, you convict, you [...]

I want you to understand that God is Father in creation, Son in redemption, and Holy Spirit in regeneration. The whole triunity of who God is, and yet He is one, has been so perplexing that the Church has been arguing about it for hundreds of years. [...]

I want you to go to 2nd Corinthians, chapter 1, verse 1. There, we’re going to have an honest, deep, intrinsic conversation as the Apostle Paul writes to the church in Corinth, sharing a very transparent yet transformative moment in his life. I pray [...]

God took Ezekiel on a field trip to see a future conflict that was so terrible and overwhelming that even God’s prophet did not know whether these bones could live again. He said, «Lord, I don’t know.» What I love about the text is that Ezekiel [...]

There Hannah is. Let’s go back to Hannah, laying on the altar. Eli, who would later be beheaded, would almost break his neck, falling backward. It’s significant that he broke his neck; headship is changing. His daughter would hear about it, go into [...]

And it was painful when I started reading the text. My next point is pain. I talked about being provoked, and I’m going to talk about pain. Pain plays an important role in the process of destiny; pain was a catalyst. This woman was bitter; she was [...]

Now the man is gone, and the morning has started wailing; sounds of murmuring and complaints used to resonate. The morning has begun with the weeping of women and children; grown men are crying like babies because Moses, God’s man, is dead. To lose [...]

It is with great spiritual deliberation that we approach this text, not in the traditional sense of merely exegeting the text itself. Though the text is extremely profound, it comes at a time when we observe a widow whose husband, now deceased, had [...]

Holy things are not human things. Holy things are not human things, and, uh, I think you’re going to receive a blessing from this in your life and in your spirit. I’m going to pray that God opens up your understanding. Get a pen, get a pad, get your [...]

«Come see a man,» they ask me all the time. «What is it about you that people follow you?» I said, «Nothing. There’s nothing special about me; I’m just a country boy from the hills of West Virginia, born on the side of a house. His daddy was a [...]

Whenever you’re stubborn and refuse to hear God, He has just said something worse to get you to turn around. America, hear me; if we don’t hear God here, it’s going to get worse. If we don’t stop bickering politically, it’s going to get worse. If we [...]

So today, I want to talk to you this morning on the subject «Bother Me.» I believe that’s what God is saying to us. I want you to bother Him. Somebody shout «Bother Me!» Holy Spirit, fall in this place. Descend upon us like the morning dew falling [...]

It says that Jesus noticed how they were fighting for the best seats. So this tells me that while they are watching Jesus, Jesus is watching them. He is observing them, and while he watches them, he notices them rushing to get the high seat. Now, [...]

So, he comes down to the Jordan. This time it’s the Jordan, not the Red Sea. The conditions have changed, but it’s still the same thing: the water is an obstacle. He approaches the water with the promise of God, reaching the Jordan River, and yet [...]

When we look at this text today, we understand that this particular young man has had paralysis all his life. From his mother’s womb, he has been lame. He doesn’t know what it is to walk; he doesn’t know what it is to ride a bicycle; he doesn’t know [...]

This is respect, and this is reverence. If you don’t learn, Leviticus and Hebrews will cause you to be arrogant. When God said, «Just be bold,» do you understand the difference? Arrogance is entitlement. I’m Aaron’s son; I don’t know what you’re [...]

We spent a lot of time, especially charismatics and Pentecostals, talking about the gifts of the Spirit. Oh my God, the gifts of the Spirit! Oh, and they spoke; it’s the Spirit God gave utterance, and they prophesied, and I’m a prophet—everybody’s a [...]