Dream City Church

So many Christ-followers have taken themselves off the hook because they’re not clergy. The Holy Spirit came at Pentecost to say to each of us , “I have removed the distinction between Clergy & Non-Clergy” and you just have to be a fired up Christ follower who understands the power of the Holy Spirit is available to you and step out in faith and do what the Holy Spirit says to do in the market...

Over the past 40 years Dram City Church has been known around the world as the church with a heart. What exactly does that mean? We know that a heart has 4 Valves that support it and keep it functioning. So, over the next four weeks we are going to lay out four values that make up a church with a heart. Support the show

Everybody wants to be blessed, but we often don’t hear about God’s side of the blessing. Why would God want to bless us? Support the show

One of the reasons why we have a hard time recognizing the goodness of God is because we confuse the vehicle through which goodness is delivered with the God who provides it. Sometimes we think if it doesn’t drop from heaven into my lap then it didn’t come from God, we mix up the vehicle with the source. Support the show

We can overcome division in our world, in our homes, our communities, our churches and more, if we practice the scriptural admonition to welcome strangers. A stranger is anyone who seems strange to you. Or to whom you may seem strange. This could be someone you do not know or who does not know you, whose background, worldview, or lifestyle may seem strange to you. Jesus did not just welcome His mo...

In 1959 the clarion call of the civil rights movement was, “We Shall Overcome.”  It was a song of protest!  Over the past 50yrs that song has become the go-to song for those who are trying to overcome something they perceive to be wrong that needs to be made right.  There is a need to protest today, but this protest is a protest against the evil one who is holding people in bondage. Support the sh...

Most of us believe God exists, and if you’re a follower of Jesus then you have believed in Christ’s redemptive work on the cross to save you, and yet there seems to be a disconnect from our faith in Christ to get us to Heaven and our trust in Christ to help us navigate the road of life on Earth, and I’d like to suggest that the disconnect is that we believe in a God that we don’t really trust. Sup...

Every bully that has ever lived has used that phrase, “What Are You Going To Do About It?” From Cain bullying Abel, Pharoah bullying Moses and Haman bullying Esther, the spirit of intimidation has always sought to paralyze God’s chose warriors with fear! Support the show

2 Corinthians 8:12, “For if the readiness is present, it is acceptable according to what a man has, not what he does not have.” Support the show

God says, “I want you to do unto others as I have done unto you. I want you to get your relationship skills from Me, your heavenly Father. And as I have treated you that’s how I want you to treat one another.” It seems pretty easy when you just hear it. It becomes tough when you try to do it. Because I want to treat other people the way they treated me. Support the show

1 Corinthians 15:31 says “I die daily.” It doesn’t sound real attractive, but when you die daily and wake up every day and take your remaining days, talents, resources and say “Here God, I yield them all to you!  And I’m expecting that because of your goodness, you are going to lead me into a future that is better than I could have planned for myself,” there’s something very high adventure about t...

Matthew 23:23 - “Woe to you, teachers of the law and Pharisees, you hypocrites! You give a tenth of your spices—mint, dill and cumin. But you have neglected the more important matters of the law—judgement, mercy and faith. You should have practiced the latter, without neglecting the former. You blind guides! You strain out a gnat but swallow a camel.” Support the show

It’s amazing isn’t it, with your imagination you can go places without moving a muscle. You can replay past memories, dream about what you’d like to be doing vocationally in 10 years, maintain a spirit of stability during turbulent times because you can imagine what life will be like beyond the challenge, what an awesome gift from God, the gift of imagination. But, as you might suspect, there’s al...

Many people have the misconception that being “called” by God is something only missionaries, pastors, and other church leaders experience. But the Bible says everyone is called to serve God by serving others. Support the show

Jesus is fully aware of our human tendency to mentally lynch each other up from tall oak trees with few, if any questions asked, and he's going to encourage us to establish a kind of “Mental Due Process” before we make judgments about people or situations that we encounter in our lives! What did Jesus meme when He said "Do Not Judge”? He was saying there’s a much better way to live and t...

Jesus was a master communicator and sometimes in the process of teaching some of the deepest spiritual truths He would paint a word picture that was downright hilarious, pigs wearing pearls, planks in people’s eyes, germ freaks swallowing dirty camels and over the next few weeks we are going to look at some of these Jesus memes and talk about what they actually mean. Support the show

Elijah was a man subject to like passions as we are, and he prayed earnestly that it might not rain: and it rained not on the earth by the space of three years and six months. And he prayed again, and the heaven gave rain, and the earth brought forth her fruit. -James 5:17-18 Support the show

There’s a big difference between being part of a crowd and being an actual participant. The crowd watches, a participant engages. The crowd can be amazed for a moment but a participant is somebody who's committed to a way of life. Support the show

The older I get, the more I find myself celebrating the gift of life. The fact that you’re alive is a gift. God is the author of life, men can't make it, scientists can't engineer it and once it's gone nobody can recreate it, it’s a gift and it ought to be celebrated!      If you read the data, you see that crimes against children, women, minorities, the aged and the handicapped are...

Freedom is what attracts so many people to the United States, that grand hope that there would be the freedom of religion, the freedom away from the tyrannical governments that govern them, a land where they would have the freedom to choose.  And so, they came here, and they came by the boatload. "We hold these truths to be self-evident that all men were created equal and that they were endow...

Dr. Caroline Leaf is a cognitive neuroscientist with a PhD in Communication Pathology and a BSc in Logopedics and Audiology, specializing in metacognitive and cognitive neuropsychology. Since the early 1980‘s she has studied and researched the Mind-Brain connection and did some of the initial research back in the late 80s showing the neuroplasticity of the brain. Support the show

More and more the very concept of masculinity is being viewed thru the lenses of what is problematic. What I want to argue today is that it’s a lack of biblical masculinity that has led to a lot of the turmoil and brokenness that we see in our culture today. Support the show

Which Spiritual Leader has had the greatest impact on our world from the beginning of time until now? This week Pastor Luke identifies and ranks four spiritual leaders Confucius, Buddha, Muhammad & Jesus Christ and ranks them based on Teaching, Morals, Prophetic Power and the power to overcome death. Support the show

Perhaps you’ve heard people say things like “Christians are intolerant to atheists or agnostics or people of other religions or people who don’t hold to a biblical view of sexuality.  If Christians were more humble, they wouldn’t claim to know absolute truth, they would let everyone have their own version of truth, and that would lead to tolerance and acceptance because nobody would call anybody e...

A World War II veteran was once quoted saying, “Many people view us as heroes for doing what we did!  I don’t view it that way. We were soldiers. We were just carrying out orders.” We non-military types struggle with statements like that.  Most of us are very cautious of authority structures, we try to avoid them like the plague. We don’t take orders very well, we don’t know much about the discipl...