One of my favorite personalities to study in the Bible is the Apostle Paul. We see the apostle Paul as a great theologian, church planter, writer, and apostle, but in his day, he was not thought very much about by the mainstream church. Paul had to defend his apostleship throughout his ministry and declare to […]
Your Choice
James 4:8 says, “Draw near to God, and God will draw near to you.” James’s statement is one of the most powerful statements in the Word of God. James was the brother of Jesus who did not believe in Jesus until after the resurrection when Jesus revealed Himself to His brother. James makes this statement, […]
Gone but not Forgotten
I have been the lead pastor of SDC for over eighteen years, and one of the downsides to being a long-term pastor is that you end up doing a lot of funerals. I have done over sixty in my years here at the church and have almost witnessed a generation of the church pass away. […]
Revive us Again Oh Lord
As we look out over the church today, we are experiencing a move of God that has come to our nation. Universities like Asbury and Lee experienced sovereign moves of God as students gathered for spontaneous worship and prayer. I want to share a few things about Revival, what it brings, and how it comes […]
Revival is Meant to Spread
In the last few weeks, we have all experienced, some of us from afar, the great move of God happening at places like Asbury University and Lee University. Over the last couple of days, the administration of both schools and others has changed how they hosted the revival. They have said it is for the […]
Anointing, Presence, and Glory
One of the things that I have learned over my thirty-plus years of serving Jesus is that there is no limit to how much God will reveal Himself to those that hungry after Him. There is no limit to the depth that we can go in God, and the only thing that can hold us […]
What I Learned from the Prophets
In the last several weeks, I have been reading through the prophet books of the Old Testament. I have been reading about the men that God used to share hard truths with the people, and as I read through these, there were some common threads that I came away with that I want to share […]
You have to Listen
At the end of Paul’s letter to the Colossians, there is a mention of the epistle of the Laodicean church (4:17). Now, do not worry if you have not read Paul’s Epistle to the Laodiceans. It is not in the Bible, and As a matter of fact, there is no copy of the letter, which […]
Absent of Leadership
One of the things that I see us losing in our society is excellent leadership. Finding men/women that will lead is becoming more and more difficult in our culture. In this canceled culture, more and more people in leadership positions do not truly lead when dealing with conflict. Maybe it is due to all the […]
Preach to me Preacher!
In 2 Timothy, Paul is at the end of his life and knows that his time is about up, so he writes a letter to his spiritual son Timothy. Paul tells Timothy that there is coming a time that people will no longer want to hear true sound doctrine preached but rather will want to […]
The Purpose of Man
In our Wednesday night Man Church, we have been talking about purpose. The main purpose of every man who is a husband and a father is to be the spiritual leader of the home. Now any man that has been in church on Father’s Day knows that we get told this every year. We often […]
The Steps of a Good Man
I was talking to a young man the other day that has faced a disappointment, and he asked me a question, “Does God still promote men who are faithful on the backside of the desert because it seems those that get promoted these days are those at the king’s table.” As I ponder on that, […]
Priest of the Home
One of the issues we face today is that we have an all-out attack on masculinity. We have somehow concluded that being masculine is wrong, and society needs to change the very definition of a man. We have so many men even in the church who are not operating within God’s role within the family […]
Guarding Unity
The book of Ephesians can be broken into two parts. The first three chapters talk to us about being a Christian and what that means to us. Then Paul takes the last three chapters to tell us how we are to live as Christians. In chapter four, Paul begins to share what we do as […]
Giving the Right way
I had a conversation today, and afterward, I was drawn to read Matthew 6, in which Jesus is talking to us about how we are to act when we give to those in need. Now in our social media world of today, most people seem to post their entire life online. I mean, everything they […]
We need Fellowship
The great Red Woods of California can be as high as 300 ft tall and some as much as 40 around. They only grow in grooves, and they get the great mass because the root system is intertwined. So, the massive tree truly lifts one another up, and the groove is the reason they grow […]
Welcome to Disappointment
Throughout life, we have moments, many of them, where we must deal with disappointment. I mean, we lose our job, or a relationship ends. We lose the big game, or we lose someone we love. Disappointment comes when we expect one thing and get something totally different and far worse. The Bible tells us that […]
Death of Cultural Christianity
Just last week, I celebrated thirty years of preaching the gospel, and this week I will have been in the pastorate for twenty-seven. With that said, one of the most dangerous things that I have seen in that time is the rise of the “cultural Christian.” The truth is the very title is an oxymoron […]
Lukewarm Church
In Revelation 3, starting with verse 14, Jesus addresses the last of the seven churches of Asia Minor, the church of Laodicea. Most know this is the church that has been called the lukewarm church. For a church, there is nothing worse than being lukewarm. A lukewarm church is because the members are lukewarm and […]
Fighting without Purpose
One of the greatest tactics that the enemy has against the church is something that most churches never think about or even consider. Yes, the enemy does tempt people in the church to sin and fall away from the faith, and he is out to destroy the men and women of God leading the church. […]
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