Sermons

Francis Chan challenges the celebrity culture in churches, arguing that focusing on the pastor and programs distracts from the true purpose: encountering God's love. He emphasizes the importance of scripture reading, communion, and experiencing God's presence together as a church body.

Key Points
- Pastors should prioritize facilitating encounters with God over personal fame.
- The church service should be centered around scripture reading, communion, and experiencing God's presence.
- The focus should be on God's love, not on performance or fear.
- A younger generation desires authenticity and experiencing God's glory, not celebrity pastors and gimmicks.

In this impactful sermon Walter Colace navigates through 2 Chronicles 15, offering a message of hope, courage, and divine guidance for today's Christians. He encourages an earnest search for God amidst societal challenges, advocating for a steadfast faith that shuns idolatry and embraces spiritual renewal. Highlighting historical parallels and personal reflections, the sermon underlines the importance of committing to God's path for peace and restoration. It's a call to action for believers to deepen their relationship with God, ensuring His presence and blessings in their lives.

Key Points:
• Urgent call to seek God amidst contemporary challenges
• Emphasis on turning away from idolatry for spiritual renewal
• Lessons from history and scripture for living a faith-filled life
• Importance of courage, endurance, and commitment to God
• The role of the Holy Spirit in transforming and guiding believers

Pastor Gary Wilkerson delivers a passionate message about rekindling your first love for Jesus. He challenges listeners to move beyond the routine and distractions to experience a deeper, more intimate relationship with Christ. 

Here are some key points from this sermon: 

• The message focuses on the importance of prioritizing Jesus and letting him be the center of our lives. 

• Gary Wilkerson shares a personal story about his own struggle with distraction and his desire for a deeper relationship with Jesus.

• The message emphasizes the importance of spending time in prayer, studying the Bible, and worshipping God. 

• It challenges listeners to remove distractions and obstacles that hinder their relationship with Jesus.

In this powerful message from the Fire in Our Bones conference in San Diego, Pastor Tim Dilena dives into Acts 16:6-26, exploring the story of Paul and Silas imprisoned in Macedonia. He draws compelling parallels between their situation and the challenges we face in our own lives, reminding us to avoid "bad math" – miscalculating God's plan and presence in difficult times.
 

The Lord is a God of justice and wrath, but he also is full of mercy and grace that has spared his followers from destruction. King David was keenly aware of this throughout the psalms as he reflected on his failures and God's goodness. In this sermon, Gary Wilkerson examines the history behind this particular psalm but also this man of God's heart as it is expressed through the ancient lines. As believers, we can all find a guide for falling on the Lord's mercy when we have stumbled then repented.

The voices in our lives can change the trajectory of our lives. The voice of the Lord can utterly transform our hearts and minds. In this teaching, Gary Wilkerson looks at how the psalms show the real impact and importance of hearing God's voice. There are so many misconceptions about what it means to hear from God, but the scriptures give us instructions on how to open ourselves to the Lord's instructions and blessings.

The Bible talks about God's great love at great length, but how does this truth weave together with God's judgment and his commands for us to not love the world? In this sermon, Joshua West explores why God's holiness means he does not accept any way of living that is apart from his law. As followers of Christ, this means that we will love righteousness and not excuse sin, no matter how tempting it may be to adopt worldly ways.