131 - POWER OF MEDITATION
doing what is required is a piece of cake if you meditate.
Sun, 22 Sep 2024 - 14min
130 - TO BE OR NOT TO BE
Life decisions are a choice most of the time.
Sun, 15 Sep 2024 - 15min
129 - JUDGMENT AND MERCY
Judgment. Mercy. Is it both/and?
Or, is it either/or?
Sun, 08 Sep 2024 - 15min
128 - THE DEVIL MADE ME DO IT
Until we can learn to take responsibility for our own actions, we will never be free.
Sun, 01 Sep 2024 - 21min
127 - MODERN WARFARE
In modern warfare it is difficult to determine where the battlefield is located.
Sun, 25 Aug 2024 - 20min
126 - THE WILL OF GOD
Knowing tghe will of God for your life is really easy
Sun, 18 Aug 2024 - 14min
125 - BE LIKE GOD
Some would calll the title blasphemous, but Paul says it is something we should aspire to.
Sun, 11 Aug 2024 - 16min
124 - BURY THE HATCHET
As long as we view the world in black and white, in or out, good or bad we will continue to have hostilities. Now is the time, though, to bury the hatchet.
Sun, 28 Jul 2024 - 15min
123 - THE POWER SOURCE
You cannot connect yourself to the power source any more than the electric wires can connect themselves to the power box.
Sun, 21 Jul 2024 - 11min
122 - BLESSED BEYOND MEASURE
Paul is so excited thinking about what we have in Christ when he writes the Ephesian church that he can hardly contain himself.
Sun, 14 Jul 2024 - 14min
121 - PAUL'S THORN
People argue incessantly over the nature of Paul's thorn in the flesh, but the WHY is much more important than the WHAT.
Sun, 07 Jul 2024 - 12min
120 - THE GRACE OF GIVING
Special offerings were a part of the early church, but they did it differently than we do today.
Sun, 30 Jun 2024 - 17min
119 - RIDERS ON THE STORM
The storms of life will either crush you or propel you.
Sun, 23 Jun 2024 - 13min
118 - SEEDS OF THE KINGDOM
You do what you do and you say what you say, but it is God who gives the increase.
Sun, 16 Jun 2024 - 10min
117 - GRACE ABOUNDING
Paul saw and wrote about it in his day, but then it slowed to a trickle. Today there is a tsunami of grace sweeping the world.
Sun, 09 Jun 2024 - 18min
116 - DOWN, BUT NOT OUT
Trials and tribulations are a part of our existence on this plane. What is the secret for getting through them?
Sun, 02 Jun 2024 - 18min
115 - FREEDOM FROM FEAR
Fear may be crippling or it may save your life. Dealing with fear is something many people grapple with, but can it be overcome and eliminated?
Sun, 26 May 2024 - 21min
114 - IS BELIEF ENOUGH
Is believing in Jesus enough for your salvation? What does it mean to believe?
Sun, 12 May 2024 - 15min
113 - APOKATASTASIS
A single Greek word used only once in the NT has caused much consternation within the Church.
Sun, 14 Apr 2024 - 17min
112 - LOVING PROPITIATION
What does a pagan concept have to do with NT biblical Christianity?
Sun, 07 Apr 2024 - 15min
111 - RESURRECTION HOPE
If in this life only we have hope, we are to be pitied above all others.
Sun, 31 Mar 2024 - 19min
110 - MIND MASTERS
Don't be caught up in the Popeye Syndrome.
Sun, 24 Mar 2024 - 13min
109 - DECIDING FOR CHRIST pt. 2
It may appear that we must make a decision for Christ, but if He does not first move toward us, we would never move toward Him.
Sun, 17 Mar 2024 - 18min
108 - DECIDING FOR CHRIST
Most evangelicals teach that making a decision for Christ is within the realm of our free will and we should be smart enough to make that decision. Can we? Are we?
Mon, 11 Mar 2024 - 14min
107 - MY PEOPLE ISRAEL
ISRAEL—which is MOST IMPORTANT—country or people?
Sun, 25 Feb 2024 - 13min
106 - A BAPTISM CONUMDRUM
BAPTISM—Who, what, when, where, why and how.
Mon, 19 Feb 2024 - 15min
105 - GREAT EXPECTATIONS
Our expectations of how others should treat us or speak to us can be the root cause of much conflict.
Sun, 11 Feb 2024 - 19min
104 - WHEN IN ROME...
When you are secure in your identity, it matters not what others may think of you or what you do.
Sun, 04 Feb 2024 - 14min
103 - GRACEFUL AUTHORITY
Is your authority legitimized by those under you?
Sun, 28 Jan 2024 - 18min
102 - THE VOICE OF GOD
People may think they have never heard God's voice, but it may just be that they didn't know what they were hearing.
Sun, 21 Jan 2024 - 16min
101 - MYSTERY SOLVED
We love a good mystery, but it must have a solution, because our intellect cannot stand ambiguity.
Sun, 07 Jan 2024 - 14min
100 - THE HOUSE OF GOD
Let us not miss what the first Christmas was meant to teach.
Sun, 24 Dec 2023 - 12min
99 - SHOW ME
Believing "nothing of what you hear and only half of what you see" may be a good policy to protect us from our political leaders, but it does not serve us well when it comes to growing in the grace and knowledge of the Lord Jesus.
Sun, 17 Dec 2023 - 22min
98 - SEEING GOD's GLORY
In order to be able to see God's glory, there are some things that may need to be changed.
Sun, 10 Dec 2023 - 18min
97 - NOT GUILTY
We do not have to wait for Judgment Day to hear the verdict.
Sun, 03 Dec 2023 - 14min
96 - HOW TO SEE JESUS
When and where do you see Jesus?
Are you able to see Jesus in the face of a strung-out meth addict?
Can you see Him in the face of the street beggar trying to con you out of a dollar?
Sun, 26 Nov 2023 - 13min
95 - STAYIN' ALIVE
Do you know how to escape the Great Tribulation?
Mon, 20 Nov 2023 - 17min
94 - THE RAPTURE
There is only ONE reason the Rapture has not yet happened.
Mon, 20 Nov 2023 - 20min
93 - THE GIFT OF GIVING
GIVING needs your heart. Tithing needs your head. God wants your heart.
Sun, 22 Oct 2023 - 23min
92 - PRESS ON
Have you achieved all that God has given you?
Sun, 08 Oct 2023 - 21min
91 - INEFFECTIVE BAND AID
People try all sorts of things to repair a life that is out of balance, but most of those things never work.
Sun, 01 Oct 2023 - 14min
90 - GREAT EXPECTATIONS
Expectations are the number one cause of disappointment
Sun, 24 Sep 2023 - 19min
89 - FORGIVENESS
A failure to forgive might possibly be a factor in the many ills facing our society.
Mon, 18 Sep 2023 - 21min
88 - WHOSE IMAGE
There are some images planted in our brain which we can never unsee.
Tue, 12 Sep 2023 - 18min
87 - PEACEFUL COEXISTENCE
You alone hold the key to a peaceful co-existence with others.
Mon, 04 Sep 2023 - 20min
86 - MAKING DISTINCTIONS
In at least five places in the NT we are told to realize that we are one with everyone, and yet we continue to classify others as to their level of righteousness.
Sun, 13 Aug 2023 - 23min
85 - WHAT DO YOU HAVE?
Stop looking at what you DON'T have. Let God use what you DO have.
Mon, 07 Aug 2023 - 19min
84 - DEFINED BY DNA
Can your DNA be changed? What would happen if it were?
Sun, 30 Jul 2023 - 21min
83 - LESSONS OF THE KINGDOM
Is our western understanding of a kingdom the only possible reality?
Mon, 24 Jul 2023 - 19min
82 - A BIG THREE LETTER WORD
People like to say that they believe the Bible from cover to cover, but when this word is used, they have to make changes to what is meant.
Tue, 11 Jul 2023 - 16min
81 - THE MULLIGRUBS
Have you ever been so low that it felt impossible to look up?
Mon, 03 Jul 2023 - 19min
80 - A LICENSE TO SIN
Some folks believe that teaching grace gives people a license to sin, but the exact opposite is true. Grace takes away the license to sin.
Mon, 26 Jun 2023 - 17min
79 - THE WAY WE WERE
It is sad that so many believers still live in the past when God says they have left all that behind. You are not your past.
Sun, 18 Jun 2023 - 22min
78 - TRUE RELIGION
Is it possible that we have the idea of religion all wrong?
Is what we do in line with God's desire?
Mon, 12 Jun 2023 - 18min
77 - MISSION IMPOSSIBLE
IF the Great Commission is for all believers, then we are doing it wrong.
Sun, 04 Jun 2023 - 19min
76 - THE DAM IS BREAKING
Man-made restrictions on the Spirit of God has never worked long-term, because God simply will not be bound by rules and regualtions.
Sun, 28 May 2023 - 21min
75 - BUT GOD
If it weren't for the many times that God intervened on my behalf, I would be in a completely different place.
What about you?
What would've happened to you if it were not for the contradiction of "BUT GOD"?
Sun, 21 May 2023 - 19min
74 - YOU CAN'T GET THERE FROM HERE
Is the Christian path the only correct one? What about those who have chosen another way?
What will happen to them?
Sun, 07 May 2023 - 18min
73 - THE GOOD SHEPHERD
We probably know more about cattle than we do shepherds. However, we do know about Jesus being the Good Shepherd.
Sun, 30 Apr 2023 - 14min
72 - A RATTLING OF BONES
The resurrection of Lazarus and the resurrection of the house of Israel have something important to teach the Church.
Sun, 26 Mar 2023 - 18min
71 - BUY A LOVE COVER
Owning and using a Love Cover requires that we see things differently from the norm.
Sun, 19 Mar 2023 - 18min
70 - WHEN I WAS SAVED
When I could not give the exact time and date of my salvation, I was made to feel as if I had never truly been born again. That is utter nonsense and something I hope you have not experienced.
Sun, 12 Mar 2023 - 14min
69 - MUST and MIGHT
These two words go to the heart of the gospel. The two words do not mean what we usually take them to mean.
Sun, 05 Mar 2023 - 20min
68 - A CASE OF MISTAKEN IDENTITY
Murder, adultery, drunkenness, lying, stealing are not sins, but symptoms.
Sun, 26 Feb 2023 - 17min
67 - JESUS ONLY
There is something significant about Moses and Elijah and their disappearing act on the Mount of Transfiguration.
Sun, 19 Feb 2023 - 17min
66 - THE GOSPEL OF YODA
In one of his most famous lines, Yoda manages to utter the heart of the gospel.
Mon, 13 Feb 2023 - 20min
65 - THE MAGNANIMOUS MYSTERY
God, in His magnanimous all-inclusive love has included you in the divine dance.
Mon, 06 Feb 2023 - 16min
64 - NO BRAGGING ALLOWED
Is it wrong to brag? If not, then what should we brag about?
Sun, 29 Jan 2023 - 16min
63 - UNIFIED DIFFERENCES
Why does Christianity have so many branches? Differentiation and variety have been markers of Christianity since the very beginning. Apparently, there has never been a united Christianity.
Sun, 22 Jan 2023 - 17min
62 - THE LAMB OF GOD
John the Baptist had no idea what he was saying when he first saw Jesus on the banks of the Jordan River. What did the Jews who heard him think?
Sun, 15 Jan 2023 - 14min
61 - BATTERED, BRUISED and BROKEN
May your heart be softened so that a bruised reed you will not break.
Mon, 09 Jan 2023 - 18min
60 - GRATITUDE FOR THE GIFT
It is a strange idea to consider suffering to be a gift.
Sun, 01 Jan 2023 - 21min
59 - JUST JOSEPH
Joseph, the foster father of Jesus was declared to a righteous man even though he did not follow the letter of the law.
What are we to make of that?
Mon, 19 Dec 2022 - 17min
58 - PATIENCE
Having patience doesn't mean you learn to wait. We ALL wait. It's HOW we wait that reveals the patience or impatience of our character.
Mon, 12 Dec 2022 - 18min
57 - THREE MONKEYS
What are the three monkeys really telling us?
Sun, 04 Dec 2022 - 18min
56 - WAITING FOR NOAH
While many will point to terrors in the world as being a sign of Christ's soon return, Jesus said these signs meant nothing in the grand scheme of things.
Sun, 27 Nov 2022 - 14min
55 - THE KING OF PEACE
Our guilt and debt for sin has been canceled. Once we realize the truth of that, we will have peace in our world.
Mon, 21 Nov 2022 - 14min
54 - NO STONE UNTURNED
When will the temple be rebuilt in Jerusalem?
Sun, 13 Nov 2022 - 15min
53 - RESURRECTION—A FOUNDATION OF FAITH
Skepticism and cynicism often accompany any talk of a future resurrection of humans.
The idea of living again after one has died goes against the rational mind.
However, for Christians, belief in the resurrection of the body is part of the foundation of our faith.
Sun, 06 Nov 2022 - 17min
52 - A NEW COVENANT
There has never been anything like this covenant before, because it completely eliminates any responsibility on our part.
Mon, 24 Oct 2022 - 15min
51 - TRUE RIGHTEOUSNESS
Being right with God has nothing to do with us or our behavior, but it has everything to do with Him.
Sun, 23 Oct 2022 - 14min
50 - THE DESPISED TRIBE
Systemic racism is nothing new. Prejudice is nothing new. That fact, however, does not make it acceptable. Jesus was confronted by those for whom racism was a way of life. How did He deal with the problem?
Sun, 09 Oct 2022 - 16min
49 - TOO GOOD TO FORGET
The downward spiral into which the mullygrubs sends us can be stopped if we will recall one of the great promises ever given to the people of God.
Mon, 03 Oct 2022 - 15min
48 - NO CROSSING ZONE
Parables were stories that Jesus told to help His audience better understand concepts about Himself and the kingdome of God. They were never meant for the church to build doctrines of separation between believers.
Sun, 25 Sep 2022 - 19min
47 - GOD'S DESIRE
To say that a desire is just a wish that something might happen cannot be appled to God and His purposes for mankind.
Sun, 18 Sep 2022 - 18min
46 - THE PRODIGAL FATHER
These 18 minutes may just cause you to change your mind.
Sun, 11 Sep 2022 - 17min
45 - ACCEPTABLE SACRIFICE
What does God want from us?
What kind of sacrifice is pleasing to the Lord?
Must it be painful for us to offer our sacrifice?
Sun, 07 Aug 2022 - 18min
44 - VANITY
Vanity of vanities; all is vanity.
Is everything really a vanity and a chasing after wind?
Sun, 31 Jul 2022 - 16min
43 - LIFE PRESERVERS
God's life preserver has nothing to do with escaping what is to come. He has designed everything for you to be able to survive the Great Tribulation, not run from it.
Mon, 25 Jul 2022 - 19min
42 - THE PRE-EMINENCE OF CHRIST
Jesus is not simply a historical figure who lived some 2000 years ago. He is the exact representation of God. Anything you believe about God must be found in Jesus, or it is a faulty concept.
Mon, 18 Jul 2022 - 19min
41 - HEART SURGERY
Spiritual heart surgery is more necessary than one might believe.
The recovery rate and extended life as a result makes it all worthwhile.
Mon, 11 Jul 2022 - 17min
40 - EXPECTATIONS
Have you ever become angry over the way you were treated at a restaurant or grocery store or some other place of business? How we respond or react to our disappointment will reveal much about our character.
Sun, 03 Jul 2022 - 17min
39 - SLAVERY IS NORMAL
In our country, where freedom is cherished, exalted and honored, there are still multitudes who are enslaved. Any form of legalism is dangerous to the life of faith. It is a mistake, then, to think that we need laws, rules and regulations to make sure that a Christian remains a Christian.
Sun, 26 Jun 2022 - 19min
38 - PIG FARMING
2000 pigs were not able to contain what a single individual had held within his being.
(a little longer than usual due to a beautiful five-minute hymn at the end.)
Wed, 22 Jun 2022 - 22min
37 - WHAT DOES GOD THINK?
What does God think of you and what you do?
Are you constantly looking over your shoulder to see if you are about to be struck by a lightning bolt?
In this brief (16 min.) encouraging message, you will discover something that many people are afraid to believe.
I hope you will find something here to make you smile from the inside out.
Tue, 14 Jun 2022 - 16min
36 - A LACK OF FAITH
What is the difference between unbelief and a lack of faith? Does God require you to have faith in order for you to be healed? Is God obligated to perform according to your faith?
Sun, 22 May 2022 - 18min
35 - CONVERSION
What does it take to be converted? How can we aid the process for someone to be converted to our beliefs? Should we even be trying? The apostle Paul gives us much understanding as we consider his life and teachings.
Sun, 01 May 2022 - 20min
34 - HAPPY HEARTBURN
Have you lost hope? Has the world situation with all its uncertainty caused you to feel lost? Are you not sure of what it is that you are feeling in this time? This is common, but not necessary. There is a bigger picture than what we see directly in front of our eyes.
Tue, 26 Apr 2022 - 19min
33 - RESURRECTION SUNDAY
The resurrection of Jesus is the focal point of the Christian faith. Many in the course of history have tried to disprove the fact of Jesus being raised from the dead. If the resurrection did not happen as told, then our faith is useless and we are fools.
Sun, 17 Apr 2022 - 12min
32 - US AGAINST THEM
Division in our society is more marked today than ever before. Christians should not be a part of this division, but we are. Do we just accept this as that’s the way it will always be? Is there anything that can be done about this?
Sun, 03 Apr 2022 - 18min