You know the scripture we read, if you wanna be my disciple, you gotta forget about yourself, take up your cross and follow me. If you want the high life, you gotta give up the low life. And the low life is living selfishly and self-centered. The [...]

I’m gonna call this one, «This Hurts Good!» 'cause, you know, when you really understand, when you’re maybe going through a tough time, that it is actually working something good in you, you can say, «This hurts good. It hurts: but it’s digging [...]

You know, how many of you, it irritates you when you do something for somebody and they don’t even say, «Thank you»? Well, see, then you have to look at it like God’s having me look at it now. We shouldn’t do it, just, they should thank you, but [...]

You know, I thank God for books because it was a lot of books that helped me in the healing that I needed when I began a relationship with Jesus. And one of those books was… I read a lot of old books. I read a lot of books that were written in the [...]

And verse 23, «They certainly,» God says about those who didn’t believe, «They certainly shall not see the land of which I swore to your fathers, nor shall any of those who rejected Me see it». If you don’t believe, the land is ready for you. The [...]

Today we’re gonna talk about the one ingredient that is missing for most people’s goal setting plans. And it is the one ingredient that has the potential to make you 10 times, I’m not exaggerating, 10 times more likely to actually accomplish the [...]

There's a power available to us that it can orchestrate a change of heart and may that change of heart begin within those of us who gather in the church. 2 Timothy 3 and verse 5, Paul is describing a lengthy set of characteristics of human [...]

I think the greatest need for transformation is within the church. I believe that those of us who imagine ourselves to be Christ-followers, can cooperate with the Spirit of God, he would bring about the changes that would bring transformation to our [...]

All right, anybody glad to be in church today? Anybody, anybody? Me too. I love the local church, and we're so glad that all of you guys are here. We're in week number six of a seven-part series that we're calling [...]

Come on church. How about we give Jesus all the praise everybody? And I want to say thank you to Libby and her family who right now are at the Greystone campus. They're attending this service. Can we just say thank you for the courage, come on [...]

Alright, who's glad to be in church today? Anybody? Anybody? Oh, give God all the praise, everybody! That's awesome! Oh, it's so good to see you. You look absolutely great, and I wanna say a big hello to not only all of those here at [...]

Come on, give God all the praise, everybody, and let me say thank you to you as well for the difference that we all get to make together. Let me look straight in the camera and say hello to all of our campuses across Alabama and Georgia, to the [...]

Well, no matter who you are, would you stand with us? Hold your hands out like this as a way of receiving from the Holy Spirit. Let's say this together, I'm not what I do. I'm not what I have. I'm not what people say about me. I [...]

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 [...]

There's a battle taking place inside each one of us. It's a battle between the flesh and the spirit. The flesh shows out in things such as jealousy, pride, compromise. Your flesh is the easy way to live. You don't have to be [...]

I want to talk to you today аbout: Feed Your Faith. You get to choose what grows in your life. What you're feeding is getting stronger. If you're feeding doubt, thinking about what you can't do, and how the obstacles are too big, and [...]

A few years ago, one of my daughters asked me a seemingly simple but actually very complicated question. We were all carrying buckets, wearing our gardening gloves, going around our property, trying to stop the weeds from their hostile takeover [...]

Back in the year 2010, a very wealthy man named Forrest Fenn hid a million-dollar treasure. First, Fenn apparently owned an art gallery and had become wealthy in the process. But around 2010 he was diagnosed with terminal cancer and so he decided to [...]

There are some moments in the Christian life that are powerful and they're beautiful and they're memorable. When you can feel like the momentum of the people around you, it like trainwrecks your heart in all the best ways. Those are great [...]

In my opinion, one of the most exciting things that Jesus ever said was that God's word is like a seed. Now, I don't know a ton about gardening, but here's the little bit that I do know. A seed is one of the smallest things that you [...]

We all remember the day that Jesus Christ came into our life, right? It's a big day, a day you don't forget. It was like we went from darkness to light. It's like we went from black and white to color. I remember, I'm old enough [...]

Would you take God's precious and holy Word and turn with me this morning to First John. And if you're new in the Bible, that's back toward the end of the Bible. First John chapter 2, and in a moment we're going to read there. [...]

I want you to know that in 40 years, preparing this particular message, was the single most difficult message in my life. And here's the reason. Because in my mind, I really wanted to share with you all of the major lessons that I've [...]

If you were going to cook a pot of beans you'd sort the beans first so that you didn't inadvertently cook bad beans or lumps of dirt; squeeze lemons and you'll likely separate out the seeds. This is Proverbs 17:3, "The refining [...]

2 Peter chapter 3:15. In chapter 3 they're talking about the coming of the Lord, and they're getting ready, they're talking about all the things that are happening as a result of the coming of the Lord, and I tell you, we're [...]

We're gonna pick up with the series on "Emotional Maturity" and this is gonna be pretty good for you tonight, I think you can really eat it good. "Emotional Maturity," just in review, it's all about your ability to [...]

Would you take God's precious, holy, inerrant, infallible Word, the Bible, and turn to one of the great, great chapters in that book, Romans chapter 12. And look up here and let me ask you a question: Why do we exist? Have you ever wondered? [...]

I've been saying this for years. I need discipline in my life. So does everybody else. We all need discipline. If you have to get up early, if you have to stay up late, stop watching television. If you look at your life, you're gonna [...]

Would you take God's Word and be finding Romans chapter 4, and as you're finding Romans chapter 4, I want you to imagine something. I want you to imagine two letters that have been placed in the mailbox. One letter is on crisp, embossed [...]

When a child is born, you expect that child to grow. And after a few weeks, maybe, or a few months and you think, something's wrong, this child's not growing. Because it's natural for them to grow. When you were born again as a child [...]

Do you remember the first time your first child took their first step? Oh, you called your friends and your family and you just said it's wonderful. It's just so awesome that they'd taken their first step, and it was all just [...]

You'd be amazed how many times people ask me, how you stay so passionate about life? How do you stay fired up all the time? You seem to have fire in your belly! How does that happen? Ladies and gentlemen, I decided a long time ago that I was [...]

It's an honor to be with you again. It's growing season in Tennessee, and it's growing season for our spiritual lives, too. I love all the vegetables that come with the summer season, but I'm far more interested in growing [...]

We don't just do Bible studies about first century culture, we desperately need to understand our faith in light of the 21st century culture. And that's not always simple, or easy, or straightforward, it's much easier to have a polite [...]

Thank you. Good evening. It's always a joy and privilege to come to Gateway. We are forever grateful for your pastor, wife, and family as they have been so close to us, as well as this great church, and how you have walk with us through some of [...]

You notice in the letters to the seven churches in Revelation that Jesus affirms and chastises most of the churches. To the church at Pergamos Jesus says as he does to each of the churches, "I know your works", and then he points out [...]

This is what God says about Ishmael. "'Up! Lift up the boy, and hold him fast with your hand, for I will make him into a great nation.' Then God opened her eyes and she saw a well of water. And she went and filled the skin with water [...]

In Revelation, Jesus tells the church in Ephesus they're in danger of losing everything, spiritually speaking, but that they can retain their standing with God. Jesus says, "Remember therefore from whence thou art fallen, and repent, and [...]

If you have your Bibles this morning, go with me to the Book of Colossians the New Living Translation. In fact, I want to put this on the screen, guys. I want to... this is a long text, but we need to spend some time in it. We're going to pick [...]

This has been an amazing journey this week where this morning's message is concerned. I knew it was important. I knew that maybe I needed to get a little deeper with it and that if I would just step out by faith and begin the series, then God [...]

This morning, we will continue in the subject of, "Maturity Through Pressure". And we've been telling you not to be afraid of trouble, don't be afraid of pressure, that we're learning how to trouble our trouble amen. And so [...]

1 Peter chapter 1 verse 6 through 7. We're gonna talk about mentality... maturity, excuse me, "Maturity through pressure," "Maturity through pressure". Now, there's probably no one in here who would say to me, "Oh, [...]

Over the next several weeks, and I don't do this very often. I don't try to over polish and under deliver, but over the next several weeks, four weeks to be exact, I'm going to share with you four things that I guarantee you, [...]

Father, thank you that you brought us together. I'm honored to be with brothers and sisters in this atmosphere of faith and love, and, Lord, honoring your name, that's such a positive and such a rewarding venue and place and time to be [...]

I'm so glad that you joined us again, I'm loving this series on being "Developed, Not Discovered". And of course we're focusing around the life of king David, who was anointed in 1st Samuel 16, to be the king of Israel. But [...]

Hey, everyone. I am so excited that you've joined us again this week. I'm so glad that you have tuned in. You are not here by accident. I know that God is going to speak to you in a mighty way today. You know, last week we finished off [...]

Hey everyone. I am so excited to be with you today and I am pumped about our subject matter. We're gonna talk about what it is to be developed and not discovered. We got a generation that is waiting to be discovered. Whether it's on the [...]

"Seven Steps to Stronger Faith," we're going to get right to it. This is one of the most important things I think that we could talk about because faith is essential in being saved. Now, when I went to school, I love history, I [...]

I'd like to begin by just sharing a little amazing fact. You know, we like amazing facts here. The bristlecone pine that you find in the White Mountains of California, is the longest living tree in the world. And dendrochronologists have done a [...]

I heard about some tourists that were visiting a number of sites around Europe and they were traveling together in a van and they'd stop at the different locations, and they didn't have a tour guide with them but they'd inquire about [...]