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 [...]

When we go into the tent we've left the Altar of Sacrifice, we left the Laver, both of which were made out of bronze or brass. Remember that? The women's looking glasses making the Laver, both of them were made out of bronze. When we go in the tent [...]

What does it mean to be branded? I'm glad you asked me that. All kinds of soup is coming off of the shelves right now in the factories, they're passing down the line, but they'll never let 'em go out the door without putting a label on it, because [...]

He said, "When I went to Asia, I was pressured in a way like I have never experienced before". This is Paul, baby. He's been stoned. He's been left for dead. He's been shipwrecked. This isn't a wuss talking here. When he talks about [...]

Paul says, I know both how to be abased and I know how to abound, everywhere and in all things. I am instructed. Oh, God. I am instructed, both to abound, we do good teaching that part, but I'm also instructed to suffer, need, loneliness, [...]

On one end of the story, we see fear, we see anxiety, we see pressure, we see humanity, which is very important for you and I. Because we don't need a God who cannot be touched by the feeling of our infirmity, and we don't need a God who doesn't [...]

God's promise is so strong that it doesn't matter how weak the circumstances are, that when God gets ready to make something happen, he can make that happen. Now, we brethren, as Isaac was, are the children of the promise. You've got it because [...]

When the ministrel began to play, the spirit of prophecy came into the atmosphere. The word of knowledge came into the atmosphere. An uplifting spirit came into the atmosphere. A prophetic utterance came into the atmosphere. And as the ministrel [...]

We have come down to the 13th chapter, and then the writer carefully notes to us that Jesus died without the camp. And I want you to take the time to understand that Jesus did not do all he did so that he could get into a building, he did everything [...]

House stands for God. He has just gotten through killing 450 prophets of Baal, slaughtering them. And then he tells Ahab, "Look at that". Now the prophet is bossing the king. And it was the king that was gonna kill him, but God has given [...]

"It is written, 'Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceedeth out of the mouth of God.'" Now, "Every word that proceedeth out of the mouth of God". One translation just says, "Every word of God," [...]

Let's take this in context. Whatever better is to you, you have to sow into it. Lord, I need the Lord to bless my marriage, I need the Lord, if I don't get a miracle in my marriage I'm gonna choke him. Did you sow into it? Because if you don't sow [...]

Now watch this. The paralysis has been there longer than the presence of God. So paradigm shifts, though desired, become difficult when the paralysis is more normal than the shift. This is one of the hardest miracles in the Bible, you got two [...]

He has spent years and years first in Potiphar's house, nothing that was his own, taking care of things that was not his, managing things that were not his, only to be tossed out and then thrown into prison. And there he is, running the prison, but [...]

Fear does stuff to the body. Living under constant fear, though it is an emotion, it actually takes toll on the body. It affects your physical health. It even weakens your immune system, affects your digestive tract, does damage to your [...]