Bethel Christian Center

Apart from the Resurrection, the feeding of the 5,000 is the only miracle recorded in all four gospels, which shows its significance. C. H. Spurgeon says that it’s in all four gospels so that we won’t forget how much the Lord can do with little things that are yielded to Him. The feeding of the 5,000 precedes Jesus’ discourse on being the living Bread that comes down out of heaven to give His life...

In the matter of faith and unbelief men may be divided into four classes.

You see this witness thing was a big deal in Jesus’ culture. It was one of the central concepts of Jewish law and society. So when Jesus makes this statement, about himself, the Pharisees start to freak. Jesus is going against the grain of one of the core ideas in their belief system. Or so it would seem. But if we look a little closer, at John chapter 5 in particular, we see five sources of testi...

God sees all, even when you think no one is watching! God's measuring scales are most important!

This is the third of the seven signs in John. The first three signs show how a person is saved: salvation through the Word (water to wine), by faith (healing of the nobleman’s son), and by grace (healing the impotent man). The last four signs show the results of salvation: satisfaction (feeding the 5,000), peace (stilling the storm), light (healing the blind man), and life (raising Lazarus). Warre...

Pastor Don ministers the second message in the series of the miracles of John's Gospel

Final session of the 2017 Southeast Regional Conference of the Fellowship Network - Keynote Speaker from London Harvest Church Pastor Jo Naughton

Early Afternoon of the 2017 Southeast Regional Conference of the Fellowship Network -Rev. Mike Manuel and Dr. Zachary Lewis dialogue on the truth claims of both Creation and Evolution.

First Morning session of the 2017 Southeast Regional Conference of the Fellowship Network - with Pastor Randy Estelle from Exalt Church in Bradenton, Florida

Second morning session of the 2017 Southeast Regional Conference of the Fellowship Network -with Pastor Mark Evans from Believer's Church in Douglasville, GA

Opening night of the 2017 Southeast Regional Conference of the Fellowship Network - Keynote Speaker from London Harvest Church Pastor Jo Naughton

In the gospel of John, the miracles are called “signs.” As you drive on the highways, you will see all kinds of signs. One particular sign is painted red. The sign simply says, “Stop.” It is a stop sign. You never think that this is a piece of metal with red and white paint on it. You simply read the message. “Stop.” So it is with the signs in the Gospel of John. You ask, “What is the message of t...

The Sunday Morning following VBS "Galactic Starveyors" Michael Britt and Todd Going share God's Word

I can’t imagine where my life would be without the Christian church. I don’t know where I would be. When the Christian church gets it right, it’s the most powerful force for God and for good on the planet. The problem is a lot of the time it doesn’t get it right.

All liberty is precious, but political and physical freedom, are freedoms merely of the second order. Freedom of the first order is spiritual freedom, and this is transcendent! No man in this world attains to freedom from any slavery except by entrance into some higher servitude.

Last year, the BBC asked a question that many of us are still asking: “Why Are Americans So Angry?” According to a CNN/ORC poll from a year ago, “69 percent of Americans are either ‘very angry’ or ‘somewhat angry’ about ‘the way things are going’ in the US.” In a recent article for the Atlantic Monthly, Peter Beinart writes that the absence of faith in some people’s lives has arguably impacted the...

Anger can and will surface at the strangest times, brought forth for the strangest reasons, and exhibited in the strangest way. Anger is the most dangerous of all emotions. It’s like a boomerang—you throw it out at someone, and it comes right back at you. It is one of the hardest emotions to deal with. “Whatever is begun in anger ends in shame; anger is never without reason, but seldom with a good...

Sermon about Lazarus on Father's Day

Increasing deception will mark the "end time". At a certain point, these deceptions are even going to be augmented by signs and wonders—miracles of certain kinds. And, if we are not careful, even the elect—if possible—could be deceived. A major theme throughout the entire New Testament is that God’s people need to develop discernment so that they can avoid spiritual deception. The key to understan...

The words in Matthew 7:24-27 conclude one of the greatest sermons ever preached. Jesus Christ brings to culmination the great Sermon on the Mount, and he does so with a poignant truth about two men. These two men raise the question, what kind of foundation are we building on? These two men can be seen in terms of a comparison, a contrast, leading us to a clear conclusion.

This weekend not only marks the unofficial beginning of summer, it is the time we set aside to remember those who gave their lives serving our nation during times of war. We also take this opportunity to thank those who are serving and have served in our military because we can never say thank you enough but we have holidays to help us honor these special people. As we honor the brave men and wome...

As the power of God continued to be poured out on the early church, incredible things were happening, even to the point of people being healed by Peter’s shadow as it passed by. The high priests and his sect of the Sadducees were becoming jealous of these uneducated followers of Jesus. When they had the apostles arrested, an angel of God came in the middle of the night and released the men, tellin...

We live in a time of great transition, in the world/Church. Life is never stagnant. A greater part of our success as a Christian, and as a Church is how we manage the Season of Transition. First of all, we need to understand the nature of transition. Transition is a process, not just a change. A transition is moving from one point to another point. It is essentially moving forward. We need to reme...

Today we celebrate Palm Sunday, the Sunday before Easter. Christians around the world recognize Palm Sunday as the day Jesus made His triumphal entry into the city of Jerusalem. On this day, prophecy was fulfilled; the prophet Zechariah had recorded this event some 400 years earlier (Zech 9:9). The Lord orchestrated the events of His ministry in Jerusalem in detail. As the sovereign King, He left...

Wind serves as a particularly good symbol of the Holy Spirit. Wind by its very nature is invisible and unpredictable. The original Hebrew and Greek words for “Spirit” can be translated as “wind.” The wind that appeared on Pentecost (Acts 2:2), was reminiscent of the wind that blew over the waters at the beginning of Creation (Genesis 1:2). The word Spirit means breath or wind, so that the Holy Spi...