Summary In this sermon on controlling the tongue from James 3, the preacher warns that our words can either bring heavenly life and blessing or hellish destruction and pain, reflecting whose influence—heaven or hell—controls our speech. He calls [...]

Summary In this message on James 5:16-18, the preacher uses Elijah's prayers for drought and rain as an example of how ordinary believers can powerfully birth God's will from heaven into earthly reality through earnest, fervent prayer. He [...]

Summary Drawing from James 5:19-20, the preacher urges believers to actively pursue and restore those who have strayed from the truth, emphasizing that such intervention saves a soul from spiritual death—separation from God—and covers a multitude [...]

Summary In this sermon on the Lord’s Prayer from Matthew 6, the preacher emphasizes that God is our loving heavenly Father who provides daily, forgives willingly, and protects us from overwhelming temptation. He stresses the importance of [...]

Summary In this sermon, the preacher teaches that communion is far more than a memorial—it is an active participation in Christ’s body and blood that brings believers into deeper intimacy with Him, allowing His victory over Satan to become our [...]

Summary In this sermon, the preacher urges believers to resist the world’s pressure to conform to its godless values and instead present themselves as living sacrifices—fully surrendered to God in holiness. Drawing from Romans 12:1-2, he explains [...]

Summary In this sermon, the preacher uses the powerful analogy of popcorn popping under heat to illustrate how God’s Word transforms us when it penetrates the heart, causing inner growth and expansion that breaks through outer resistance. Drawing [...]

Summary In this sermon, the preacher stresses that true victory over the devil comes only through first submitting fully to God, then resisting the enemy with the authority of God’s Word, as outlined in James 4:7. He draws from James 4:7-10, [...]

Summary In this sermon, the preacher emphasizes that Christians exist to represent God in the world, and since God is love, we must express biblical love — agape, a deliberate decision to compassionately, righteously, responsibly, and sacrificially [...]

Summary The preacher emphasizes constant communication with God in every moment: pray when suffering, praise when cheerful. Key passage is James 5:13–14, where James instructs the suffering to pray, the cheerful to sing praises, and the weary to [...]

Summary Drawing from Romans 8, Galatians 5, and Ephesians 5:18, the preacher explains that Christians must continually «keep on being filled with the Spirit» because the filling isn’t a one-time event—like gas that gets burned up as soon as you [...]

Summary In this exposition of James 3, the preacher contrasts heavenly wisdom—which comes solely from God, brings peace and order, and is rooted in fearing the Lord—with earthly wisdom that is demonic in origin, producing conflict and chaos. He [...]

Summary Based on James 5, the preacher stresses that in times of deep suffering, sickness, or overwhelming burdens, believers must pray specifically and earnestly to connect with heaven—cute, rote prayers won’t cut it when life weighs you down. If [...]

Summary Drawing from James 2, the preacher distinguishes between justification by faith (for eternal salvation) and justification by works (for experiencing God’s tangible intervention in everyday life and history). Using Abraham and Rahab as [...]

Summary In this message from Isaiah 58—the longest biblical passage on fasting—the preacher emphasizes that God desires a true fast marked by genuine repentance and humility, not mere religious ritual or self-centered motives. The people were [...]

Summary The preacher stresses that Christians are called to be visible lights in the world, doing «good works» that not only benefit people but also glorify and advertise God, rather than just performing good deeds like anyone else. Drawing from [...]

Summary The preacher warns that Christians are redeemed for God’s kingdom, not this passing world, and we must not conform to its pressures or values, as doing so jeopardizes our intimacy with the Father. Drawing from Romans 12:2, 1 John 2:15–17, [...]

Summary The preacher emphasizes that God must be the sole source in our lives, with no competing idols allowed—any person, thing, or idea we rely on for our needs becomes an idol that displaces Him. Drawing from 1 Samuel 7:3, he stresses the need [...]

Summary The preacher drives home that God's Word is powerful and true, but it only changes us when we act on it—not just hear it. He bases this on James 1:22-25, comparing the Word to a mirror that reveals our true self, urging us to gaze [...]

Drawing from James 2:1-13, the preacher condemns elitism in the church—favoring the rich over the poor based on class, race, culture, or other illegitimate criteria—as a serious sin of partiality, warning that God chooses the poor to be rich in [...]

Jesus concludes the Lord’s Prayer with a doxology— «For thine is the kingdom, and the power, and the glory, forever. Amen» —to evoke an eruption of praise, recognizing God’s sovereign rule, omnipotent power, intrinsic glory that lasts eternally, [...]

John explains that every believer has already overcome the world legally through Christ, yet Revelation repeatedly calls individuals to overcome in practice. To experience this victory, we must see Jesus as the exalted, sovereign Lord revealed in [...]

In 1 Timothy 6, Paul teaches that those with basic needs met should be content and grateful, warns the rich against arrogance and trusting uncertain wealth, and urges them to be rich in good works—generous actions that glorify God and expect no [...]

In 1 John 3, the apostle teaches believers that true love is demonstrated within the family of God by sacrificially meeting needs we see, feel, and can address; failing to do so keeps us in spiritual darkness, blocking fellowship with God and [...]

Peter recalls the Transfiguration where the Old Testament met the New around Jesus, causing heaven to open and God’s voice to be heard; he declares that paying close attention to Scripture, the more sure prophetic word, allows the living Christ to [...]

In Luke 9, Jesus confronts three potential followers, revealing that true discipleship demands putting Him first—above comfort and popularity, worldly security, and even family ties—because auditing Christianity for information without commitment [...]

I want to challenge you to ask a question, to make a request: «Lord, whatever you do, make me more like Jesus». So God allows circumstances external to conform us in order that he might transform us internally. So if he’s pressing you, stretching [...]

What we have today is secularism, humanism, and all forms of idolatry that have invaded our culture and our world. And God has called his people not to sit on the sidelines, but to get in the game. This goes beyond a candidate or a group of [...]

In Matthew chapter 22 we have Jesus being put in a trick bag. It sets the stage for where we wanna go today. We've talked about the individual life. We talked about the family as it relates to government. Now we want to talk about the church as [...]

God tells Hezekiah in 2 Kings 20, "It's time to say goodbye". Through the prophet Isaiah, he comes and he says, "God told me to tell you, 'Set your house in order or get your affairs settled. Make sure your will is intact. [...]

We've been talking about "Kingdom Voting". What we're doing is we're trying to challenge Christians to think heavenly even though they have earthly preferences. That in spite of the conflict, when an election comes up and is [...]

Happy Mother's Day. Thank you, ladies, for the magnificent job you have done and are doing to raise up children who love God, who are good citizens, and who, off of your leadership, can build strong families for the next generation as you have [...]

Proverbs 3, verses 9 and 10. Proverbs 3, verses 9 and 10, "Honor the Lord from your wealth and from the first of all your produce, so your barns will be filled with plenty and your vats will overflow with new wine". A preacher one day was [...]

We are doing an exposition of 2 Peter 1, verses 1 through 11, calling it "The Triumphant Trip to Glory". And our goal is to be in sync with Peter's goal. Peter had a twofold goal. He states it in verse 8. "If these qualities are [...]

Sometimes things go from bad to worse. Sometimes when you think things are on the upswing, they go south. When that happens, you become disappointed, you become just irritated because hope is dashed when things go from bad to worse. In 2 Kings [...]

Many of you remember many years ago, there was a TV show called "Early Edition," and that's where a man would get tomorrow's newspaper today, so he knew what was coming because he got the future given to him in advance. And so he [...]

The mystery of godliness. If you'll flip back a page to chapter 3, let me read verses 14 to 16 of 1 Timothy chapter 3. He says, "I am writing these things to you hoping to come to you before long. But in case I am delayed, I write so that [...]

Once you become a Christian, you are to grab heaven and draw it down to earth. When you live from a heavenly perspective, even though you have to live it out in a hellish location, you become useful and fruitful to God and then you await, verse 11 [...]

We're regularly in seasons of election. The word "election" you're going to be bombarded with, because it will involve a choice related to the political environment. This concept and theological truth is a big deal in the Bible: [...]

I regularly tell couples that your first year of marriage is going to be tumultuous. Because after you make the legal declaration and start living together, and all that stuff that was hidden while dating begins to manifest itself, you will now have [...]

McDonald's offers to supersize it, Sonic offers to Sonic-size it, Whataburger offers to whata-size it, and Wendy's offers to bigga-size it. In other words, what they say is "We can give you so much more". They offer to supply you [...]

Peter's concern is that believers maximize their experience with God in time and have an overwhelming entrance into eternity. He doesn't want us to wait to heaven to experience some of it now. And so he has told us in the first four verses [...]

Peter has two concerns. His first concern is that we live useful and in fruitful lives. He says in verse 8, "For if these qualities are yours and are increasing, they render you neither useless nor unfruitful in the true knowledge of our Lord [...]

The apostle Peter over the next number of weeks wants to tell you and I how to enter heaven with a celebration. He calls it in verse 11 entering heaven abundantly, entering heaven victoriously, entering heaven excitedly, entering heaven joyously. [...]

Laodicea was a wealthy city known for three things. Some 45 miles southeast of Philadelphia, our last city and last church, Laodicea was known for its finance industry, its banking industry. It would be akin to our common day Wall Street. It was a [...]

One of the most daunting issues that we've had to grapple with as a country and as a culture is the issue of race. The problem of race has dominated us from beginning to end, and every day in one form or another it hits us in the face, and we [...]

We're now at the sixth church that the apostle John has written: the church at Philadelphia. This is the first Philadelphia, the city of brotherly love. This Philadelphia, in verse 7 of Revelation 3, is located some 30 miles southeast of [...]

We are studying overcomers as John the Apostle writes the seven churches of Asia as a template for all the churches that would come. Today we take a tour to Sardis, Sardis Bible Fellowship, located some 50 miles east of Smyrna, and some 30 miles [...]

Well, today in Revelation chapter 2, the Lord is going to talk about the intolerance of an overcomer. If you are going to be an overcomer and not an under-comer, if you are going to be a winner and not a loser, if you're gonna be victorious and [...]

Let me tell you a little bit about Pergamum. Pergamum was a city some 45 miles north of Ephesus, a very wealthy city, but a city controlled by the devil. A very progressive city, a very noted city, but it was a city run by hell. Jesus starts and he [...]