And how do you manage the conflict and the contradiction when bad and good live in the same house? How do you manage the conflict when the psalmist, the sweet psalmist of David, the sweet psalmist of Israel, and set up a murder, and took a man's [...]

I wanna talk to you about going around in circles because God is a God of circles and cycles. He's a God of circles, and he's a God of cycles. That's why Ezekiel called him a wheel in the middle of a wheel. Imagine that, a wheel in the middle of a [...]

There are some things that come that kill your dream that you never noticed in your life. They're not wicked or evil, in fact, I've divided them down into three categories that I think you want to jot down, three wonderful additions in your life [...]

Genesis 2:7-9 is where we first are introduced to our God and we find him playing in the dirt. He was the Potter and we were the first pot. God stepped out on nothing and said, "Let there be light," and there was light and it was good. The [...]

I had a thought this week, I will share with you. I think it is noteworthy and worth perhaps writing down or tweeting. It is amazing what God will hide from a man. When Saul woke up that morning, he didn't know his life was about to be changed. When [...]

I want to talk to some people today who are living in controversy. You got your lovers and you got your haters. You're standing in the middle of so much noise. Jesus was the only one who could be the mediator, and had he not been able to function [...]

One day, while he was out there taking care of the sheep, the Bible says that a lion crept out and snatched one of the sheep. And David said, "Not on my watch," and he took his slingshot and killed the lion without tearing the sheep. Y'all [...]

What I love about Jesus is that he was just as much God's Son in isolation as he was in consecration, as he will be an altercation. He was still the same. Whether men clapped or didn't clap, whether they were there or weren't there, whether they [...]

"The Curious Convergence of Thirst". And Jesus says to her, "Give me to drink". He introduced the thirst quencher, the thirst quencher says, "I thirst". "Give me to drink," that's what he says. He doesn't say, [...]

In the particular texts before us tonight, Samuel is not ready. He knows the order of the house, he knows how to dress the lamps, that's why the Bible says that ere the lamp of God went out in the temple, part of his responsibilities as an adjutant [...]

What I'm trying to get you to see is Isaac is all Abraham's got. It's his ticket to the promise. Isaac is to Abraham his access to everything else God has ever done in his life. He has to have an heir to possess the land. He has to have a son to [...]

This is the inaugural reign of the Holy Spirit as he sets up residence in the earth realm to rule and control. And anytime you go to an inaugural service there's gonna be a processional, so the wind comes first, and then cloven tongues of fire come [...]

There were three things that God gave Joseph in the prison that that helped him through the prison. Number one, the Bible says the Lord was with him. The Lord was with him. He gave him company in the prison. He said if you're in it, I'm in it with [...]

God defines greatness by humility. Oh, y'all lookin' at me kinda funny this morning. God defines greatness by how low can you go? God says a little child shall lead them. God says unless you become like little children, you will not inherit the [...]

This is the opiate of theological understanding. It is the apex of intellectual wisdom and understanding of the purpose and the mandates of God. It all climaxes in these two words: "Jesus wept" at how Lazarus loved him enough to go first. [...]

I wanted to spend a little time dealing with the guilt and the anxiety that I hear people talking about when it comes to fear and faith. They are not like hot and cold, day or night. They're not equal opposites, one to the other, they're completely [...]

In our text, we are in the middle of a crisis. It is a faith crisis. No bombs have fallen. No plagues have been released. No disaster is depicted. No chaos is obvious, but yet it is a faith crisis. Because these 12 men who started out walking with [...]

Those were the choices for the disciples, either get out and have fellowship and be killed, or stay in the room. And they were locked up in the room by themselves and Jesus was crucified. And there were little rumors, there were all kinda rumors, [...]

Now you must realize, my brothers and sisters, just to put the text in context, that they have come to the feast of the Passover, and the feast of the Passover is an annual memorial moment for every respectable Orthodox Jew to commemorate the great [...]

And so, I thought I would start the sermon by talking about the potter's hand. For the potter's hand has reached down into the ground and extracted from the dirt the clay he thought most usable. And the reason I want you to see this image of the [...]

The Great Download, he shall take of mine and show it unto you. The greatest download that has ever been done came before Apple, came before Microsoft, came before technology, came before electricity, came before lights. The greatest download came [...]

He has made himself comfortable in an uncomfortable situation, oh, God. He has made himself comfortable. He has made himself comfortable in an uncomfortable situation. He has made the uncomfortable work. He has made the uncertain a resting place. [...]

Everything wonderful that ever exploded in my life came in a place of not knowing. I was willing to be scared. I was willing to have my heart beating in my chest. I was willing to walk into rooms where I didn't know what to say. I was willing to [...]

Touch three people and say, "I got a devil to fight". Now, you must understand that we are not wrestling against flesh and blood, but powers and principalities and spiritual wickedness in high places. You must understand, when I said thy [...]

I've been to the Sea of Galilee, it's big, but it's not like that big. It's big but it's just not that big, and I've seen fishing boats and they're not that big. And Jesus says to him, you're close to it but you've been casting your net on the wrong [...]

When his brothers came in after betraying and throwing him into a pit and allowing him to be sold by the Midianites into slavery and telling his father that he was dead and taking 20 pieces of silver, they sold their brother. They sold their [...]

I want to talk to you about trauma, triggers, and triumph. "Trauma, Triggers, and Triumph". The word "trauma" is often used in hospitals to describe the severity of an injury. When a psychologist uses the word [...]

This is the seed of unselfishness that is planted in him from the earliest of his existence. Parents, hear me well. If you don't plant quality, don't plan to reap quality in adults. If you don't plant the seeds of unselfishness, if you don't plant [...]

When I read the text amidst the magnitude of powerful things, prolific things, that stood out to me, it was the one word "when" that captivated me the most. "When", the time capsule. "When", the ambiguity of it; [...]

They were captives, and they were bound. And when we step into our text, we step into the text of people who have carried their bloody, beaten body away from the holy city of Jerusalem and found themselves in a strange place called Babylon. Brothers [...]