This is an excerpt from: Breaking the Bondage of Wrong Belief You have a Midian in your life, an external enemy that you so badly want to see God drive back. He can, and he will, and he has plans to do it and to use you in the process, not just for [...]

A few weeks ago, one of our staff members and myself were seated in a restaurant on the West Coast and the young lady who was waiting on us was doing a great job and she looked like she was in her twenties or somewhere thereabouts. And so the second [...]

What do you worry about most in life? Is it your health, your marriage, your children? Maybe you worry most about what other people think about you. Maybe it's because you're worried because you don't know what God thinks about you and you're [...]

In the aftermath of World War I, the Red Cross recruited American young men to travel to Europe to help the suffering masses over there, and one farm boy from Missouri caught the vision. He was too young to apply, but he forged the date on his birth [...]

Revelation 12:1, "Now a great sign appeared in heaven, a woman clothed with the sun, with the moon under her feet, and on her head was a garland of twelve stars. Then being with Child, she cried in labor and in pain to give birth. And another [...]

I wanna give you just a quick, easy, simple overview of the Book of Revelation, and one verse, the Bible gives us one verse that lays out the thesis or a simple outline of the whole book, and that's verse 19. It says, "Write the things which [...]

Numbers 11, numbers 11:1 mentions how the people began to complain and God heard their complaints, and his response in verse 4 is, "The rabble with them began to crave other food, and again the Israelites started wailing and said, 'if only we [...]

My goal today is to encourage you on the fast if you've not decided to fast, then hopefully, I can help you with that. If you have decided, I'll encourage you in your fast. But Daniel 9, let's look at verse 3, "Then I set my face toward the [...]

This message was inspired in a way by watching an interview, I saw recently of a middle schooler, who was talking about his experience through the pandemic. He was sitting next to his mom who had divorced her husband. So, he had divorce in his home, [...]

There's all kinds of us in the room today. And I think that the best thing we can do today is to maybe all just move our hearts a little bit towards this idea of expectation. That you didn't come to a show today, you didn't come to a thing, you [...]

So, "What have we witnessed"? That's the question. Cause as soon as we witness something, that story is gonna travel. One of the crazy things, the crazy good things about Passion, there were so many, and I know we're talking about Passion [...]

Is anybody excited about going to Heaven? It's an easy question at church because you're hoping the people here are counting on going to Heaven. I've met a few people in my life that told me, "I don't wanna go to Heaven. Don't care, happy to go [...]

Well, it all started with Discovery Channel's "Shark Week". But now there are shark shows on just about every channel. From "Shark Behavior" to "Shark Attacks," and that's the ones I like. I like to watch the [...]

One of the craziest "Shark Week" specials aired in 2003 when shark researcher Erich Ritter, who said his knowledge of shark behavior kept him from being bitten, lost part of his leg when he was bitten by a bull shark while the cameras were [...]

Alexander the Great, in his quest to conquer the world, had to face the Persian army, he had to face the whole Persian Empire. So, in 334 BC, Alexander led a fleet of ships across the Dardanelle Strait into Asia Minor, and when he reached the shore, [...]

We're in a series we're calling, "Set Your Sails," and we're learning how to live with divine momentum and clear direction, because if there was ever a time when we need clear direction, it's in these confusing times. Several years ago [...]

Today we're gonna be in Psalms 1:25 beginning with verse one and we are going to look at the entire Psalms, only like six or seven verses. Verse one, "when the Lord brought back". Other translations read "when the Lord restored our [...]

Open your Bibles again to 2 Chronicles, chapter 20 in verse one. And verse one begins, "It happened after this". Now, if you know your Bible, you know that Jehoshaphat started strongly. When he became king after, I believe it was Asa, he [...]

How many believe God's omniscient, omnipresent and, yeah. Yeah. So omniscient means you know everything, everything. So God don't even have to think. We have to think, uh, no God knows. That's, I don't even know how to do that. I don't know what [...]

Today we're gonna talk about freedom. Harriet Tubman said, "I've freed a thousand slaves. I could have freed a thousand more, if they only knew they were slaves". So as we talk about freedom, it's a powerful assignment and we're gonna back [...]

This is the interesting thing about all conflict is we want exactly what the person we're having the conflict with wants. We actually, both parties want the very same thing. Both parties want to be heard, right? I wanna be heard, and more than [...]

If you don't feel good about yourself, it's hard to let others feel good about themselves, right? And if there is something in you that has a hard time allowing them to stay in the spotlight without stepping into saying, well, you know, when I was [...]

Men especially, you need to know this. Kindness is actually an expression of strength. Unkindness is weakness. Unkindness is weakness. It means because it means you can't bridle yourself. You can't tame your tongue, you can't control yourself. [...]

Love. This is my favorite word. I, I, this was my word as as a parent when my kids were going through middle school and high school, that I had to learn that love absorbs that sometimes you have to sit and just take it in and just take it in, not [...]

To be honest, you don't have to answer this out loud, do you? Do you enjoy catching your fiance? Do you enjoy catching your girlfriend? Do you enjoy catching your spouse messing up? Is there something that's in you? It's like, okay, I'm gonna bring [...]

Love is not self-seeking. We don't use that phrase. Here's how we say it. Love is not selfish. Love puts the interest and the needs of others first. Love puts the interest and the needs of others first. Love puts the interest. What are you [...]

Peace be with you. Friends, our first reading for this weekend is taken from the marvelous book of Proverbs. You can find that in your Bibles right after the book of Psalms. It's part of the so-called "wisdom literature," so these texts [...]

Peace, be with you. Friends, what is it about mountains that's just so compelling to us? Now, maybe it's because I'm from Chicago, where everything is flat, but whenever I've seen mountains, I'm just drawn to them. I remember the very first time I [...]

How many of you know that you are actually far more than you might think you are? For me, when I was growing up, I always wanted to make a difference. I wanted to be seen as significant. I did not want to be average. And it could be because I [...]

Well, it's pretty common as Christians here in the US of A to talk about how blessed we are to live in a nation where we can practice our faith without the fear of persecution. Because there are actually places in the world today where public [...]

Well, if you know anything about the historical figure named Jesus, anything at all, there's one thing about him nobody denies, even people that don't believe he was the son of God, they don't believe he came back from the dead. It's one of the very [...]

Now, like a lot of men, I was raised kinda the old-fashioned way. I was raised that grown men don't cry, big boys don't cry, and so I haven't really been much of a crier in my life. I had just not given in to that. And, you know, for the longest [...]

We're gonna continue straight away, my beloved friends, in our series today. And we're gonna be talking about God's personal name as revealed to Moshe, Moses, Yahweh, a breathy Yahweh. Now this name, this personal covenant name of God, Yahweh, [...]

Now here's a very good one. It's a little bit long but I'll try and read it. What surprises me is I'm reading without my glasses. I didn't think I could do that. Somebody must have prayed for me. It sounds like, in chapter 15 of Romans, we're almost [...]

I'm still here, I haven't been stoned. Please ask Brother Derek to deal with the two questions on Page 20. I'll do that last, that's the two questions I left. Since God's law is love, please explain Luke 14:26. This is a good question. If any man [...]

We ought to stick out in our workplace because we're filled with the Spirit, and we're empowered. Listen, he's very, very good at real estate, very. If you're a real estate agent, you can honestly say to him, "You know, I need to be smarter [...]

What our premise is this weekend is about getting it deepest down. At the deepest conviction we have, way down in that soil, is that we are immeasurably loved by Jesus Christ, and not just we but I and you, immeasurably loved by Jesus Christ. Now, [...]

I want you to listen to these words. I'm going to read to you these measurements that are immeasurable. I'm gonna read them to you out of the NIV. Listen to the wording. It says, "And I pray that you, being rooted and established in love, may [...]

Would you turn with me to Ephesians chapter 3, please, Ephesians chapter 3. Our text for our theme this weekend will be found in verses 14 through 21. Ephesians 3, "For this reason I bow my knees before the Father, from whom every family in [...]

How many came for a word from God today? God's got you. Remain standing for one moment. I'm going to be sharing today from Romans 5:1-9, and then I'm going to go to one other Scripture as well. Fair warning. I overstudied this week. Better than the [...]

Be finding John chapter 14 and verse 12. We have been in a series of studies together talking about the kind of a church that we want to be, the new horizons, what God has for us, and what I've tried to teach you to do and be for over 30 years. And [...]

Hello, my name's Frankie. The title of today's message is "Stay Where the Water Stirs," stay where the water stirs. Let me just kind of dive right into it straight away. In John chapter 5 we discover that there was this massive pool and [...]

Thank you for tuning in today. My name's Frankie Mazzapica. The title of today's message is "What Does Your Ministry Look Like"? What does it look like? I wanna say this. If your assignment were over, your assignment on what God has put on [...]

Now, 1 John 2:5, 1 John 4:12, 1 John 4.15-18, perfecting the love of God, casteth out fear. Now, look in the fifth chapter. Let's look at 4:21, Verse 21 of the fourth chapter. "This commandment have we from him, that he who loveth God loveth [...]

We want to go back into our seven steps to never being afraid again. And we were down through the fifth step. The first one, come to the absolute understanding that we are already delivered from fear. Fear has no right nor authority over us. Hebrews [...]

At the beginning of the week, we began building a study outline entitled Seven Steps to Never Being Afraid Again, of anything, praise God. The process of coming to the place where there's no fear here and you can boldly announce to the devil, praise [...]

At the beginning of the week, we began building a study outline entitled, Seven Steps to Never Being Afraid Again of Anything. Praise God. The process of coming to the place where there's no fear here and you can boldly announce to the devil, praise [...]

We've been delivered from fear. We're not trying to come to the place where in some strange way we can cope with fear. We don't cope with fear. We attack it. We've been delivered from it. Now turn over there to the eighth chapter of the book of [...]

Father, you've said when two or more are gathered together in your name, you're there in the midst of them. Now, as we open up your Word and talk about matters of eternity, the meaning of our lives, I pray that you will speak to people's hearts, [...]

There is no person that God cannot save! There is no promise that God will not keep! There is nothing that our God cannot do! Take your Bibles and turn with me to 1 Peter chapter 3. The title of this sermon is "A Man and His Marriage". If [...]