My teaching on Psalm 1. MP3    PDF Audio 2. 

“Preaching that rightly glorifies the intent that God has for every passage will indicate how the text (in context) discloses the gracious character of God that is ultimately and fully revealed in Christ.” - Bryan Chapell

History is not wandering aimlessly - a great confrontation between the holiness of God and the depravity of man is coming. But instead of a "post-apocalyptic grey zone", the Day of the Lord will result in "a new heavens and new earth in which righteousness dwells." (2 Peter 3:13)  -Joshua Hawkins

Clear the way of Yahweh! Make a highway smooth in the desert! Every valley be lifted up, every mountain and hill lowered; the rough ground like a plain, and the rugged ground like a valley. The glory of Yahweh will be revealed, and all humankind together will see it.

[Isaiah 40:3-5]

Dear nations:

"If you have raced with men on foot, and they have wearied you, how will you compete with horses? And if in a safe land you are so trusting, what will you do in the thicket of the Jordan?” (Jeremiah 12:5)

These are the easy days. The heavy stuff is yet ahead.    -Dalton Thomas

“...His winnowing fork is in his hand, and he will clear his threshing floor and gather his wheat into the barn, but the chaff he will burn with unquenchable fire.”

- John the Baptist Matthew 3:11  

“The Gospel itself is the revelation of God that all flesh will see Him and He will vindicate Israel and Zion. And will rule (the earth) from Zion by His Mighty Arm...” -John P. Harrigan

The Resurrection is the supreme vindication of Jesus' divine identity and His inspired teaching. It's the proof of His triumph over sin and death. It's the foreshadowing of the resurrection of His followers. It's the basis of Christian hope...the miracle of all miracles. -Lee Strobel

God never gave Job an explanation. He basically just said, “I’m the Creator of the universe and I live in a different dimension than you, so trust Me.”

We think it would help us if God told us “why.” This is wrong. The only thing that can help us is a vision of His Glory. 

-Travis M. Snow

We idolize and idealize comfort, and work so hard to fabricate a version of God who promises to always procure it for us, yet I have found that comfortable believers are rarely the most joyful or fruitful - myself included. - Stephen Venable

The goal of our preaching is not to make the gospel acceptable to sinners. It is to make sinners acceptable to God. -Dr. Micheal Brown

 My teaching on Colossians 1:15 - 20. Audio 1.  Audio 2. 

The Holy Spirit is your Helper. A helper is not a surrogate—doing it for you. You’ll need to exercise yourself mightily, but He’ll help when you call on Him. -Bob Sorge

 If we look to anything other than the cross as our way forward, it’s idolatry. - Venetia Carpenter  

You found me 

I was lost

You won me on the cross

You gave it all for me

Now I belong to You

You chose me to be Yours 

That I might love You Lord

You gave it all for me

Now I belong to You. 

I am not my own.

Jesus emerged from the tribe of Judah, (of the house of David), not merely to satisfy past prophetic criteria, only then to be shed. He did so specifically in order that He could then step forward into His legitimate prophetic destiny as the King of Israel (and of the World). -Joel Richardson

People of Jesus must return to Jesus. To the simplicity of wholehearted devotion. To spiritual disciplines of prayer, Bible reading, fasting, giving. To losing our lives in Christ so we can find them. The good life still comes from living the Jesus-life. It’s love and self-giving. -Beth Moore

“Jesus promised his disciples three things: they would be completely fearless, absurdly happy, and in constant trouble.” 

(G.K. Chesterton)

“He makes the nations great, then destroys them; He enlarges nations, then leads them away. He deprives of intelligence the chiefs of the earth’s people and makes them wander in a pathless waste.” Job 12:23-24

"Jesus said, ‘Young man, I say to you, arise.’ And the dead man sat up and began to speak.” Luke 7:14-15  

The point then and now is: Follow me and death will never have the last word. We will go on together in joy forever. -John Piper

“Their inner thought is that their houses are forever and their dwelling places to all generations. They have called their lands after their own names. But man in his pomp will not endure. He is like the beasts that perish.” Psalm 49:11-12

Both Daniel and John the Apostle predicted events about a coming structural temple(s) during a time when a temple in Jerusalem did not exist. Daniel (539 BC) predicted future temple events in Daniel 9:24-27. John (AD 90s) predicted future temple events in Revelation 11:1-2. 

-Micheal Vlach

So therefore, any one of you who does not renounce all that he has cannot be my disciple. Luke 14:33  

Luke 14 has always been the most challenging chapter in the Bible for me. Apocalyptic is the only way I've been able to cope with it.

Abandon this life.

-John Harrigan

“God is looking for those who are fighting lions and bears, not those reading training manuals on how to fight Goliath” -Caleb Edwards 

The Transfiguration: Matthew 17:1-2

After six days Jesus took with him Peter, James and John the brother of James, and led them up a high mountain by themselves. There he was transfigured before them. His face shone like the sun, and his clothes became as white as the light.

Habakkuk 3:4-6

His brilliance is like light;rays are flashing from his hand.
This is where his power is hidden.
Plague goes before him,and pestilence follows in his steps.
He stands and shakes the earth;he looks and startles the nations.
The age-old mountains break apart;
the ancient hills sink down.
His pathways are ancient.

The final words of the Didache:

"then shall the world behold the Lord coming on the clouds of heaven."   

He was the first man to conquer death. Jesus is the prototype, and the first member of a new order of people who triumph over death. He is the pledge, or guarantee, that His people will receive a resurrected body like His (Phillipians 3:21). -Mike Bickle

We’ve all read “God will shake everything that can be shaken” and delightfully shuddered at His sovereignty. We didn’t quite think He might be coming for us. But “woe to him on whom the rock falls.” 

-Stephanie Quick

Jesus the Carpenter made yokes for oxen, handles the devil like a piece of wood (Isaiah 10:15), makes of people oaks of righteousness, and did His greatest work ever with the wood of a cross. -Bob Sorge

What would you say to someone who said your praying for the same thing day after day was a sign of unbelief? Ask once and trust! They say. You would confront human "logic" with Bible: "We pray most earnestly night and day that we may see you face to face." 1 Thessalonians 3:10 

-John Piper

"Those who sow in tears

shall reap with shouts of joy! He who goes out weeping, bearing the seed for sowing, shall come home with shouts of joy, bringing his sheaves with him.” Psalm 126:5-6  

The harvest of joy comes from sowing without fail, not sewing without tears.

-John Piper