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 [...]

He's on his way out, he's walking away and one woman, who was in the midst of all of this idolatry and this chaos, she makes the decision to go after Jesus. Now, you have to understand, you think the miracle is in the healing of the daughter, but [...]

The truth was dependent on a lie, if Rahab didn't lie they would have murdered the truth and so Rahab lied and told them that they were gone. And she said, "Look, I got you out of this, I got you on this now," but Rahab was used to doing [...]

He stands up and says to Jesus, "What must I do to inherit eternal life"? Now, this is an innocent question. It is a question that any sinner would ask. It is a question that Jesus came to answer. But it is a trick question. It is a trap. [...]

The importance of balancing the extremes, he is the Lord of glory, but he is sitting on a horse. The extremes of the donkey waiting and the master's urgency, a waiting donkey and an urgent master. This text is full of extremes, the coronation, [...]

God will give you strength that is not visible. He will cause you to be successful when the odds are against you, when there is no outward evidence that you are as strong as you are, and yet you can do feats that succeed people's impression of you [...]

Put me in the place that you want me to be, because God has a place for you where the blessings will flow. Often the blessing is only in that place. If you forsake that place, he said don't leave where I put you, because once I put you in a place, I [...]

Everything is going wonderful, and then Sarah, the Bible says, looked out and saw Ishmael, Hagar's son by Abraham, mocking Isaac, and the party was over. She stopped laughing. Put the cake back, take the hot dogs off the grill, put the party hat [...]

When Jesus was preaching in Gennesaret and he comes down to Simon, Simon is not yet called Peter, he's not even a disciple, he doesn't even know that much about who Jesus is or what's goin' on. Simon is just a fishermen. When Jesus encounters Simon, [...]

These porches are a shelter from the elements. Five porches. There are shade from the Palestinian heat. It gives them some comfort while they wait for the miracle moment to happen, which only happens annually, once a year. Up until then, they're [...]

What is common in both texts is common in our society today. It's the perpetuation of deception. The wise men, you see, were from the east, and they were brought by Herod to go after Jesus that he might worship him, but they were deceived. The [...]

You see, if you intellectualize life you will be frustrated, you will be confused, you will be upset. It is like the line that Shakespeare quotes in Macbeth, that, "Life is a tale told by a fool," I think he said, "Told by an idiot, [...]

So Jehoram, who is the king of Israel, and has not wholly followed the Lord, he's been better than his father, Ahab. He's torn down the statues to Baal, and he's torn down the high places, but he has not wholly follow the Lord. He hooks up with [...]

It brings out all kinds of emotion, because Adam said, "I was afraid. I was naked. I hated myself". I want to talk about men that hide. I hid myself. I showed you who you wanted to see. Ooh, it's gonna get quiet in here. I showed you what [...]