Our faith is being challenged. Our faith is being challenged to the core, because suffering now seems strange to us. Suffering now becomes a question that I have to respond to in the press because of the complexity of how could God be good and allow [...]

Paul says that Jesus died to raise us up together and make us to sit in heavenly places in Christ Jesus. By grace are you saved. And I want you to look at that Scripture, and I want you to look at that Scripture closely and see how many times you [...]

And it's the clashing of kingdoms. A true evangelist disrupts things, changes lives, marriages are reconciled, people are gettin' breakthroughs, people are getting delivered, people are getting help. You got these gunslingers with Bibles who will [...]

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 [...]

And when the angel came to get in, he found him in the wine press. The wine press is the strip club of grapes. It is the place where grapes disrobe and uncover themselves, for it is not the skin of the grape that is the most important thing. It's [...]

Let's talk about the historic feasts and parties of ancient Israel and understand that the harvest seasons were huge events, not just work events. They were moments of elaborate celebrations, and people would come from miles and miles around to [...]

And so it was amazing for me that, in the same year, the first time I made my first trip to the motherland, to the land of my ancestors, when I first got off the plane, to hear the gentlemen say in a deep, African accent, "Welcome home," [...]

Not long ago, my wife had a medical problem that slipped upon us like a thief in the night. In the midst of doing our daily tasks and going through our routines, she collapsed on the bedroom floor, and we had to call 9-1-1, and it was just the [...]

So the Lord called me, and I became aware of it around 17, though I didn't say, "Yes," to him until I was 19. And it's funny because, when we talked about the Lord calling us, it's like it's this one-time experience like he calls you one [...]

The Bible says that we are "A chosen generation, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a peculiar people," that we didn't just wander in to him. We were chosen. He said, "You have not chosen me. I have chosen you. I picked you out. I [...]

This is the end. You're going to lose everything. You won't come out of this. You're not smart enough. You're not bright enough. You waited too late. You start should have started younger. Those are the kind of voices that we all live with. For me, [...]

When I was 17 years old I laid down and went to sleep, and while I was sleeping I dreamed I was reading a verse that I didn't know existed at the time. God was saying to a young man, before I formed thee in the belly, I knew thee or I ordained thee [...]

I remember when I was a little boy, my father, our idea of a vacation wasn't like... we didn't go, like, to Disneyland or anything like that. We didn't go to Rome or London or Paris or even the Bahamas or anywhere like that. We went to Alabama to [...]

In law, there's a term called "discovery," and the definition is this is the formal process of exchange of information between the parties about the witness and evidence that is submitted that they'll present at trial. Discovery means not [...]

The people who brought you here may not be the people who can take you there. Doesn't mean you'd leave 'em, doesn't mean you hate 'em, doesn't mean you don't appreciate 'em, doesn't mean you don't honor them, doesn't mean you don't go to lunch and [...]

The two texts I have chosen are dealing with how these two men met an appointment with destiny. It is about the passing of the baton. See them as bookends. The first story is one part of it, and the last text is the end of it. The first story shows [...]

The temple to Diana was one of the most elaborate temples that was ever built in all the world. It took some 200 years to build that temple. It was powerful, it was amazing, it was significant, it was creative, and it was the offspring from which [...]

Integrity, loyalty, friendship, and don't give it to everybody, 'cause everybody ain't worth it. Find somebody that is worth the investment of the level of what you have. When I buried Holloway Gray the other day, we'd been friends 60 years. Noel [...]

How can God be so good and make such a way and then we doubt him. Our doubt bites at him, it bites at him. It's a painful thing to be doubted, your integrity disrespected. It occurred to me that this doubting was not just about God, they had a [...]

Read Romans 1:16, just so I have a scriptural reference for it. Put it up on the board, the Romans 1:16. "For I am not ashamed," this is Paul talking later. "For I'm not ashamed of the Gospel of Christ, for it is the power of God unto [...]

All through Ephesians, you keep hearing about the riches of his mercy, the riches of his grace. It is no accident that God keeps using this term, rich. Don't-don't-don't sleep on that word rich. "The riches of his grace and his kindness toward [...]

All of us have gone through something that caused us shame. Have you ever lost something that kept you up at night? A job, a car, or a relationship, or a person, and you wondered, "Is it my inadequacies that has caused me to have this [...]

I love the holidays, any kind of holiday, Thanksgiving... I'll make up a holiday. I love holidays 'cause you have great food, and you have great fun. People come over. I like to entertain and have a good time. Fourth of July is one of I recognize [...]

So I was building my church, the church of my dreams, the church beyond my dreams, the church that I never thought I would ever get to build, the church that was valued out at millions and millions of dollars that I didn't have, but I had the faith [...]

It is a misnomer to think that if you walk with God, and serve God, and do his will and work, that you won't have any trouble. The reality is: they that live godly shall suffer persecution. And you don't get to pick when or how or what the suffering [...]

You know the funniest thing to me is that poor people think that rich people don't get crushed. They think that if they had money, they'd have everything. But crushing is the one thing in the world that you can count on to be totally unbiased. It is [...]

And so I had sat on a plane for about 12 hours, left the beautiful city of Dallas, flew to London, got out in Heathrow, walked the corridors, made the change, and then flew another 9 or 10 hours to Lagos, Nigeria, and then, by car, I traveled out [...]

He fell amongst thieves, people who catch you vulnerable. If I was up on my feet I could handle you, but I fell and now you're able to take advantage of me in a way that you couldn't take advantage of me if I was on my feet. You met me when my [...]

And the Bible said that Paul fastened his eyes on the man. And he yelled out at him, and when he yelled out at him and told him to get up and walk, he asked him to do something for which he had no point of reference. It's one thing to ask a man to [...]

You have to mature to consider consequences. By the time you are in your 30s, you oughtta be grappling after something, tryin' to build something, tryin' to do something, tryin' to become something. That's why I love what we're doing and what we're [...]