James, Chapter 2, verses 1 through 13, I’m talking today about the sin of elitism. Now, what is elitism? Elitism is an attitude of superiority that lifts yourself or somebody else up while demeaning people who you do not feel worthy to be [...]

We call it in theology a doxology taken from two Greek words. One is doxe, which means praise, and then logos, which means a word or an expression. So, a doxology is an expression of praise. There are many doxologies in the Bible, but there are many [...]

Revelation, written by the apostle John. In chapter 2, verse 7, we read, «He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the churches. To him who overcomes». In verse 11, «He that hath an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the [...]

Paul wrote 1 Timothy to Timothy. There were three classes of people, like there are today. There’s the poor, the middle class, and the upper class. There are three classes. The first class, the lowest class, was the slave class. Now, if you were a [...]

First of all, to love God with all of our heart, mind, might, strength and soul, to love God first. We’ve already seen that week after week. God wants to be in the front of the line of your life. He does not wanna be an afterthought when you’ve [...]

Today, I want to talk with you about experiencing God’s Word first. He’s given you a program, called the Bible, which is half of the equation. In 2 Timothy, Chapter 1, verse 16, «For we did not follow cleverly devised tales when we made known to you [...]

A lot of folks come to class on Sunday because they wanna get the information. They wanna hear what’s preached and enjoy what’s sung, and so they come to class. Many will even take notes during the message. But we’ll call it «Audit Church» because [...]

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 [...]

God has a major problem with part-time Christians who don't wanna be full-time saints, who want to identify when it comes to a blessing but not when it comes to a struggle, who want the benefits of heaven but not the trouble that heaven brings [...]

The first church we come to is the church at Ephesus. It was well known throughout Asia as the place to go. It was an economic boom town. It was like a wall street, it dealt in significant financial matters because of its strategic location. It was [...]

When players go to sports teams, those teams just don't talk about being on the team. They're told to dream big. It's not just about one game, it's about a season. And they want them to think big, to dream big, to maximize their [...]

Did you know one of the greatest sins noted in the Bible is ingratitude? When we are not grateful, when we are thankless rather than thankful, we have insulted God. Romans chapter 1, talking about men abandoning God. He says, "And neither were [...]

Perhaps there have been situations in your life where you've had to raise the question, "Is there any hope"? Where things look so bad, so discouraging, so desperate that hope was lost. Perhaps there have been times in your life or in [...]

On my roof there's a satellite. Satellite dish is on my roof. That satellite dish on my roof receives a signal from a satellite up there in the ionosphere that I do not see, but it sends an invisible signal to the dish on my roof that's [...]

Today I want us to look at a situation that happened in the life of Jesus so that perhaps we can open up our communication more and hear from heaven more clearly and not try to communicate in a frozen environment. I want us to see a situation where [...]

There are far too many people and far too many women who do not know what they're worth, and therefore, they have allowed themselves to be devalued by the culture, by men, by other people, because circumstances have stripped them of their true [...]

Today I want to help all of us to look a little clearer, to be able to be more precise in our perspective, to put on the set of glasses that will help us to see with new eyes. That's why I'm calling this, I want you to see me to see and [...]

I wanna call our attention today to Nehemiah chapter 1, Nehemiah 1. Because here is a man who had to develop kingdom vision. Because kingdom vision is not just about you, your future, your career, your salary, your desire, your education, it is [...]

God wants us to have a set of glasses on as we look at life that are colored with kingdom lenses. Lenses that are seeing things as he colors them, as he, God, perceives them, as God directs them, as God wants them understood. Far too many of [...]

When you're facing a medical challenge that won't go away and where over the counter remedies are not working, that will drive you to the doctor because you need a professional analysis of your crisis and your cure. Inevitably, the doctor [...]

One of the most challenging questions that all of us have faced, many of us have verbalized it, most of us have thought it, is to ask God why? Throughout the scriptures there are numbers of people, great people, people that we admire, respect, and [...]

Many of us need a verdict for us to relieve us from the guilt of the accusations against us. Many of you know what it is to need a not guilty verdict, to need mercy in the court. To release you because what happens with the verdict affects your [...]

To enjoy the fragrance of perfume, you've gotta break the cap for that fragrance that is inside to be able to be smelt. To enjoy chewing a peanut, you've gotta break the shell so that the nut can emerge and you can eat it. For a butterfly [...]

I am sure that many, most, if not all, particularly if you have lived for a while, know what it is to have lost your dignity, to have done something for which you are ashamed, that you regret. And perhaps it's not only something in the past, [...]

We've all either been in a courtroom or seen on television a judge stop the proceedings, bang his gavel, and call for order in the court. The judge is going to do that because there has been a disruption in the proceedings. There has been [...]

All of us have seen either live or on TV, an implosion. We've witnessed, mostly a downtown building being brought to the ground in a mere matter of seconds by explosives. That which took many months or years to construct, become dismantled [...]

God created you and redeemed you with a purpose in mind. It is your spiritual enemy's job and goal to cause the purpose of your life to break down and to not be realized. As I stated earlier, he comes to destroy. He comes to destroy dreams, [...]