And so Joseph does not look like he's been in a pit, and he has risen to a position that defies his background. He has not gone to Yale or Harvard, nor Princeton, he has not applied for his CPA, and yet he has taken over the accounting for a nation [...]

So in my text today... it is not lost on me that there are only three characters in the parameters of the text. Philemon, who is a disciple of Christ, who is also a convert of the apostle Paul, and Onesimus, who has become a disciple of Christ, but [...]

He had to fight lions and bears to protect sheep, altercations that could have killed him, to get to this moment. But all of that was preparation for this moment, because it was with dealing with the bear and the lion that gave him the skillset to [...]

But often when you ask God for objects, he answers with chance. And then, as God oft answers with the chance, you, at your own discretion, have the opportunity how you respond to that chance. The kingdom, Jesus is teaching us here, is about the [...]

What does it mean to be a man today? - We're always talking about the greatest men in history, and so we set ourselves up to want to be a great man. - Being a man today is challenging because of the times that we're living in. - You want to be [...]

Jacob, really, to me, this is just my opinion, was not a great leader, okay? He didn't balance his love, and he was very overt in letting the other brothers know that, "That's my favorite one right there". Well, what am I, swiss cheese? [...]

It's not Gucci, baby, it's remnants; it's not Louis Vuitton, baby, it's remnants; it's not even Nike, it's remnants. It's remnants, it's something that, she took something that almost was forgotten and made something out of it, she valued it. She [...]

This is what God says about Ishmael. "'Up! Lift up the boy, and hold him fast with your hand, for I will make him into a great nation.' Then God opened her eyes and she saw a well of water. And she went and filled the skin with water and gave [...]

When Moses gets ready to embody and say, "Who shall I say sent me"? God said you can't even handle it, you don't even have a word, you don't have a word to describe what I am, I am so much. All I want you to do is go down there to tell [...]

Stability, to be, "Steadfast, unmovable, always abounding in the work of the Lord". So I want you to write down "Retention," and I want you to write down "Reciprocity," because both of them are intrinsically in the [...]

He betrayed him with a kiss, so people who are carnal doesn't necessarily mean that you are sinful, it just means that you take things on a very surface level. You go by what you see, you go by how you feel, you go by what you can touch, that's [...]

This woman is surrounded by masses of people. She's surrounded by a crowd of people. We like to be in this atmosphere where we are engulfed with people. This woman is surrounded by masses of people. None healed her. The disciples were present, the [...]

This text before us today is not just here to exercise our energies in the historicity of a theological exploitation of a private conversation between Abraham and God. No, this conversation is before us today to show you how far God will go to calm [...]

He had a moment with God, a moment with God that disrupted everything he knew about himself. He was of the tribe of Benjamin. He knew that about himself. He was a Pharisee. He was a Pharisee, the most conservative group. He was a Pharisee. [...]

Some people live their whole lives complacent, and you might get by with it until God's purpose, watch this, this is until God's purpose is compromised by your complacency. You can live your whole life being complacent, and you might be married to [...]

Reaction creates response. So the men are coming home from battle unexpectedly, and they're expecting the little boy to run out to meet them. And maybe the women will dance and sing, and maybe they'll smell the smell of fresh bread or venison being [...]

So it is, in our text today, Moses has sent 12 spies, one representing each one of the 12 tribes of Israel, each one of them as an ambassador of their tribe, to go over and sample the promised land. They are spies sent over to get a taste of [...]

John has raised the bar so high that he has taken us to the pinnacle of the mountaintops of a greater understanding of that which we are beholding is of God and not just men. That's why the wedding is so strange, because in the 1st chapter John [...]

Very few people look behind for the why; they pray for the what. Elijah has the insight to understand the driving force of the famine is a result of the drought. So, he sticks his head between his knees and he prays for rain, and when the answer [...]

This term as we use it today, born again for conversion. You know, you must say I'm a born again christian. Who are you? I'm a born again Christian. Bless God, I'm a born again christian. Are you born again? Yes, I'm born again. Glory to God, I'm [...]

Being a pastor who started in a building in a hole in the wall with no help, no support, no money, was the Minister of Music and the President of the Deacon Board, Jamar and Jermaine were the choir, and Serita, they all sang, and I played the piano. [...]

From president to president, from government to government, we flip back and forth. Sometimes we don't even recognize our own country because once entitlement sets in, it's infectious. It will draw what it is. You always attract what you are. If [...]

How do we end up in Adullam? Adullam, by the way, means refuge, and you find yourself in a place living like a refugee, running from a kingdom that doesn't want you and an enemy that's trying to kill you. He is in a cave, alone, a ruler without a [...]

And when we enter into the text, there is a famine in the land, and Jacob has told his sons, you will not defeat the famine looking at each other. Did you hear what I'm saying? Watch how Jacob handles the famine. Because my first point is the [...]

You know the story Moses goes down there and tells Pharaoh to let his people go, he starts leading over a million people out to the Red Sea, the Red Sea's parted, and now he's out in the wilderness and he's doing something that he's never done [...]

This is Jesus preparing them for his final week, he doesn't even mention it at all. Instead, he mentions the argument about who's gonna sit on the right and who's gonna sit on the left. They are more preoccupied with who's going to get a position in [...]

And I want to go back to that whole topic tonight, I'm gonna call it "Insights on Influence". Insights on Influence. And where did you get that from? Well, Joshua had just taken over as leader over a group of people that he was amongst. [...]

When Moses gets ready to embody and say, "Who shall I say sent me"? God said, "You can't even handle it. You don't even have a word. You don't have a word to describe what I am. I am so much. All I want you to do is go down there and [...]

"Our Father which art in heaven, hallowed be thy name. Thy kingdom come, thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven. Give us this day our daily bread and forgive us our trespasses as we forgive those who trespass against us. Lead us not into [...]

Noah found grace in the eyes of the Lord, and God saved him because Noah walked with God, because God saw himself in Noah, because Noah was a righteous man. He wasn't trying to keep up with the culture. The culture was drowning, and Noah was [...]

The second dispensation is called consciousness, and it is from the fall of man, when man fell in the garden, to the flood. Because all of that period didn't have laws, didn't have rules, all it had was conscious. It had conscious ruling the era. [...]

Misplaced rage makes you a victim of something that you had nothing to do with. Oh my. Now, tonight, I'm talking about recognizing God's answers because, to a large degree, God's answers don't often look like our prayers. Okay. Recognition could be [...]

In the story, we have a certain man who had his servants to sow good seed in the field. And while they slept, and I used to preach against them sleeping until I realized that everybody has to go to sleep sometimes. It is impossible for you to stay [...]

This is the first day of the holy week, what we would call holy week today. They didn't call it holy week then, they didn't have that term at the time. This would be normally what we would call Palm Sunday. They didn't call it Palm Sunday then, [...]

I don't care if I fail playing the organ, that's not my greatest competence; I play, but I don't play well enough to have an ego attached to it. But if I fail in the area of my greatest competence then it challenges how I see myself. Joshua fought [...]

Now instead of the ark of the covenant being brought into captivity, the people of the covenant have gone into captivity. I don't know which one is more astounding, that the ark of the covenant would go into captivity up under the Philistines or [...]

Some things God will show you and take you through so that you can have a firmness of faith and become a cornerstone, and they're not always pleasant things. This is an intermediate stage. He has risen from the dead, and yet he has not yet ascended [...]

The problem in the text is they've been trying to fix a spiritual problem with physical restraints and it has not worked. His problem is affecting his body but it is not his body, yet the text is diagnosed in the opening phrase that says, [...]

This morning, I came to preach with a symbol. This is not particularly valuable to anybody who doesn't know what it represents, it's just a rag. What good is a rag? It's just a symbol. You might not recognize the value of this rag but this rag is a [...]

I saw a man running over in Acts, and I wonder where he was going. And he was running down the road, down this winding road, hollering and yelling. I caught up with him in Acts 8:30. His name was Philip. Philip was running dither to him and heard [...]