A Transforming Word

If you’re trying to give everything away or you’re volunteering hours at your local church to get God’s approval, stop. Today Pastor Bill will encourage you to check your heart. Although all those things are good, they’re not going to make God love you more. The greatest gift you can give to the Lord is you. No amount of materialistic things or money could matter more. No large amount of works of...

As you listen to today’s message with Pastor Bill, allow your spirit to be challenged. When you find yourself constantly saying, “I can’t”, it’s usually not because you can’t. Rather, it’s because you won’t. You see, God has given you the Holy Spirit to help you do more than you could ever think or imagine. You are able to overcome your flesh…but not on your own. Through the blood of Jesus, and by...

You may think the darkness of this world is new, but did you know the darkness began long before you were born? Throughout the ages, people have walked with and then run from God. The temptations of the world can be strong and the enemy seeks to destroy anything that’s good. But as you’ll learn in today’s message with Pastor Bill, you don’t have to give in to the world. The Bible says that if you...

Jesus…there’s no other name more meaningful or being more redemptive. As you listen to today’s message with Pastor Bill, take a moment and be reminded of the grace of God. Think about all the good and bad in your life. Then think about all the ways God has redeemed you. The Bible says that Jesus lives to intercede for you and me. This means, that even when you do mess up and sin, you’re forgiven i...

Have you ever been reading through the Bible and found a section that confused you? Or maybe you started to read the genealogy of Jesus and skipped over it because you thought it was boring? In today’s message, Pastor Bill will encourage you to not skip…even when sections of the Bible seem unimportant or boring. In fact, that couldn’t be further from the truth! Every part of the Bible is living an...

Leprosy was an incurable disease in Biblical times. If you had it, it would eventually lead to death, and you couldn’t even spend time with healthy people anymore if you had it. Pastor Bill’s going to take you to the book of Leviticus today to show you how deadly and life-changing it was for the worse. Sin is the same way. It leads to death and a life isolated from the joys you had before in life....

In Biblical times, if you ever got leprosy, you had to isolate yourself from the rest of society. Life was completely different. You couldn’t see your family, you had to be expelled from the camp, and you had to make sure everyone else knew you were unclean. Just like leprosy, sin separates, too. It separates you from God and enjoying life in His presence. Sin will eventually lead to death, Spirit...

Leprosy was a serious ailment in Biblical times. When it first showed up on your body, you’d have to see if it was just a spot or under the surface of your skin. If it was deep, it was leprosy. Today, Pastor Bill’s going to show you that sin is the same way. Oftentimes, it starts under the surface of your life in ways that others can’t see. As you fall deeper and deeper into it, it’ll be more evid...

Even if you stumble in your walk with God, you can still confess any sins in your life and be right with God again. There’s no sin too great for God to forgive. Pastor Bill wants you to know today that there’s not a point where you can’t turn to God and be forgiven of your sins and live in His presence and will again. The Israelites sinned against God over and over in the Old Testament, but God al...

God gave Israel very specific rules for what kind of animals they could and couldn’t eat. Even though they might not have known all the reasons behind it, they were still commanded to follow Him. Today, we know it was for their health and that they’d be far better off abstaining from certain types of food. Pastor Bill wants you to know that today, even if the purpose behind it might be unclear, Go...

God’s Word is meant to be read, remembered, and meditated on. Today, Pastor Bill is going to show you the diet requirements God gave Israel in the book of Leviticus. Just like a cow eats grass and chews its cud later to break it down and get as many nutrients out of it as possible, God’s Word should be reviewed and meditated on time and time again. You’re meant to “chew” on God’s Word when you rea...

God has gifted you with many things in this world. From food to drink. From housing to jobs. This life is full of luxury. This life is also full of freedom and choice. You see, God has given you the freedom to choose how you want to live. In today’s message, Pastor Bill will warn you not to abuse that freedom. Just because you have all the luxuries this world has to offer, that doesn’t mean you sh...

When reading through Old Testament books like Leviticus, it’s easy to see the Lord as this angry God who kills anyone who gets in His way. But that couldn’t be further from the truth! As you’ll learn from Pastor Bill in today’s message, God holds those in leadership to a higher standard. If you have the knowledge of God’s Word and you choose to not follow, that deeply grieves the heart of God. And...

The Bible says that ‘to whom much is given, much is required.” Pastor Bill will expand on this in today’s message, but simply put, it means that if God has given you knowledge of His Word and His ways, you shouldn’t waste that. In fact, the Bible also says that if you do waste the privileges God has given you, your punishment is great. Now don’t let this scare you. Let it motivate you to follow th...

Sharing the good news of Jesus can be intimidating. What do you say? How do you say it? When do you share? But the beautiful thing about sharing your faith is that there’s no one way to do it. What reaches one person may be different than what reaches another. Pastor Bill will challenge you in today’s message to think about how often you’re telling people about Jesus. If you’re not, what’s holding...

So often serving the Lord becomes a chore, just something you have on your to-do list each week. Go to church, give your offering and fill in as Sunday School teacher once a month. Check. Check. Check. But as Pastor Bill shares in today’s message, serving God should be seen as a blessing. It shouldn’t be viewed as something you have to do, but something you get to do. So how do you keep a fresh he...

Have you ever allowed the entanglements of this world to cause you to put serving God on the back-burner? The cares of this life can become suffocating, and when you put your focus on the temporal instead of the eternal, you start to grow unfulfilled in this life. Today, Pastor Bill will be challenging you to seek first God, and to make serving Him your primary purpose in this life. When you fix y...

As Pastor Bill continues his teaching series through the book of Leviticus, he'll be exhorting you to focus on the heart of God when learning about His commands and instructions. The Lord was raising up a new nation, and He started them off by understanding the holiness of God, and the importance of having good motivations. It's not enough to just offer God a gift, He desires your heart and for yo...

There is a common theme throughout the Bible, that you can never out-give God. You can always trust that as you serve Him, your needs will always be met. Today, Pastor Bill will be encouraging you to have faith that God will meet your needs while you sacrificially serve Him. The Levitical priesthood was always busy serving the Lord in the temple, and God made provisions for them to be taken care o...

As Pastor Bill continues his teaching series through the book of Leviticus, he'll be explaining how damaging and costly sin is. Sin is the reason the world is in a fallen state, sin is the reason man was separated from the presence of God! God commanded His people to bring an offering for their sin to the temple because sin costs something. A sacrifice was always needed to be brought to the temple...

The devil is called the father of lies in the Bible, and when a child of God bears false witness and tells lies, they are aligning themselves with the character of Satan. Today, Pastor Bill will be challenging you to be a light in this dark world, and to take upon yourself the characteristics of your Father in Heaven! God gave His chosen nation Israel very clear instructions which included being t...

Voting, even participating in peaceful rallies for specific causes, and other forms of civic engagement can be good things. They can be a part of your responsibility as a citizen. But, there’s a danger that you’ll malign people and point the finger of blame at a specific group when all of us are responsible for our sin as a nation. We also risk creating division that works against our most importa...

In everything you do, you can worship God. Everything. Attending church on Sunday morning, singing songs, and hearing the Word of God preached are essential forms of worship, but God desires much more than just that. Throughout your week – at your job, in your home, in your private time - the posture of your heart in all of those things deeply matters. As Pastor Bill will remind us in today’s mess...

The Church, through the centuries, has added all kinds of rituals and conditions to the simple practice Christ demonstrated as He met with His disciples that last time before His crucifixion. Scripture only portrays Him saying “this do in remembrance of me”. He didn’t add any extra rules and regulations to it. It should be something we take seriously, but as Pastor Bill will point out in today’s m...

Listen to the news or scroll through your social media feed for long enough and it becomes apparent that we live in a broken, hurting world. The peace of God is absent in the hearts of humanity. We’re really good at distracting ourselves with momentary pleasures and putting on a good face, but deep down, we’re falling apart. As Pastor Bill will encourage us in today’s message, God can provide the...