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In this final episode of the series, we are going to be looking at the power of taking a step of faith by looking at person in the Bible that people don't talk much about. This person made a HUGE step of faith and in doing so, He saw God's hand move through him to accomplish the otherwise impossible. What can God do through you when you take a step like that? You'll have to take that s...

Sacrifice is a powerful word that can conjure up powerful images and feelings.  When you hear that word, you might think about an animal being slaughtered on an altar.  You might think about soldiers fighting to defend others.  You might think of police officers or firefighters.  You might think of a mother or father who works to provide for their children.  When you think about sacrifice, there a...

What does it take to move the hand of God?  What does it take to activate His power in your life?  What kind of human action can cause a divine response?  We are in a series called “Activating the Hand of God” focused on answering these questions.  This is a follow-up to the series we just finished dealing with spiritual warfare.  In this series, we are looking at what we can do that will activate...

In the last series, we looked at tools of warfare that we can use to fight the enemy.  Some of those tools were simply corrections to flawed perspectives.  Some of those tools were defensive in nature.  Other tools were offensive in nature.  Today, we are starting a new series focused not on how we can wage war, but on what we can do that will activate the hand of God to move on our behalf. Each e...

In this final episode of the series, we talk about possessing the land. Jesus has given us the victory.  He defeated sin.  He set us free.  He brought us to the Promised Land and He has given us the land…so to speak.  He made us new.  That said…there are still parts of our lives where carnality exists.  There are still areas in our lives where battles need to be fought.  Spiritual warfare is not k...

The Bible is full of incredible stories of faith and of miracles.  Of all miracles described in the Bible, there is one that seems to really stand out as especially incredible.  That miracle is found in the passage we are exploring …when a man addressed the sun and addressed the moon and they obeyed.   We are going to go back to the story we talked about last episode because there is a powerful mo...

Deception is a very common tactic in battle and make no mistake…the enemy of your soul is an expert at it.  He is a master deceiver…a master manipulator…and a master distracter.  He deceived Eve in the garden.  He deceived many throughout scripture, history, and he has even deceived you and me at different times in our lives.  The world we are in right now has been deceived thoroughly to the point...

How does your faith handle it when you lose a battle?  What happens when you fall into an old pattern and sin?  What happens when you fall short?  What happens when that person you were praying for, that you thought was coming around, turns and walks away again?  We have talked about the incredible battle that happened at Jericho and how God gave them victory.  In this episode, we are going to con...

Using the example of the Israelites marching around Jericho, it's time to talk about aggressive spiritual battle tactics by looking at how our thoughts and words play a part in spiritual warfare.

Just before the people of Israel took the promised land, there were a few things that happened. In this episode, we'll discover that there is something really valuable here that we need to take some time on…a lesson that is far too important to miss…a lesson that has generational impact.  That the same God who did miracles for previous generations can and will do miracles for our generation an...

In this series, we are going to talk about spiritual warfare.  We are going to look at the spiritual war that is raging on around us at all times and we are going to explore what it means to struggle against rulers, powers, forces of darkness and spiritual forces in heavenly places.  We are going to look at oppression, strongholds, faith, prayer, and much more. Over this series, we are going to go...

In this series, we are going to talk about spiritual warfare.  We are going to look at the spiritual war that is raging on around us at all times and we are going to explore what it means to struggle against rulers, powers, forces of darkness and spiritual forces in heavenly places.  We are going to look at oppression, strongholds, faith, prayer, and much more. Over this series, we are going to go...

Special guest speaker: Jeremiah Scroggins

*Special live preaching episode* The one role of the Holy Spirit is to fill us with boldness.  Do you another word for boldness?  Confidence.  The Holy Spirit fills us with confidence to believe that with God all things are possible.  He fills us with boldness that transforms how we act, how we pray, and how we believe.  When that happens, we are filled with fresh power that flows through us.  Ima...

We are going to be looking at the word “achieve.”  The Holy Spirit leads us not just to receive gifts from God and not just to disconnect from the world and connect to God.  He also leads us to achieve great things.  These things are often very different than the kinds of things this world holds as the grandest of achievements. These achievements are the kind that will have eternal value.  They ar...

To "cleave" means to both split/separate and to connect two things together. The Holy Spirit leads us to do both of these things. First, He leads us to split/separate from the sin and darkness of this world and our past. Second, He leads us to connect to God so deeply that we become reflections of Him. In this episode, we're going to look at 4 different ways He leads us to do this.

God has so many incredible gifts for us.  These gifts include things like salvation and spirit baptism along with a whole host of spiritual gifts that are listed in 1 Corinthians 12.  The gifts listed in that chapter are wisdom, knowledge, faith, healing, power to perform miracles, prophecy, discernment of spirits, speaking in tongues, and interpreting tongues.  This is not the only place gifts ar...

What happens when you receive a touch from Jesus that is not what you expected? What if God works in a way that isn't instantaneous? In this episode, we review some of what happened at "Outpouring" and explore the answers to these questions by looking at a blind man who was healed by Jesus in a very unusual way.

A special Father's Day message

As strange as it may sound, desperation is a really good thing in the spiritual life. Desperation causes us to be open to radical solutions, willing to take all manner of risk in order to find what we are looking for. Desperate people seek with an all-consuming intensity, knowing that everything depends on it. To pursue God with desperation is to seek after him with all-consuming intensity. Why? B...

We make plans for our lives constantly…yet are those plans the right plans?  Are they the best plans?  Are they God’s plans?   The simple fact is that our plans might not be God’s plans and because of this, they might not be the right plans.  That’s why it is important to have the right vision for our lives…not our vision…not our parents’ vision…not our friends’ vision…not our spouses’ vision…but...

Pastor Appreciation Day. Guest speaker: Pastor Randy Scroggins.

What do you do when the storms of life hit?  What do you do when the task ahead of you seems overwhelming?  What do you do when you have crashed into your rock bottom? Where do you go when the very things you have built your life on…your marriage, your job, your friendships, your reputation, etc…are no longer stable?  What do you do when God puts something in your heart to do that feels impossible...

It’s easy to go through life and think that you are lacking in some key area...that you should be better at this thing or do more of that thing.  This is especially true in the world we live in today, where we compare the fullness of our lives against the snapshots of someone else’s life.  We see a perfect picture and assume that we aren’t as good as that person, but the fact is that they are prob...

Electricity requires very specific things in order for it to flow from one place to another.  There are things called insulators that completely stop the power flow. These are things like rubber or wood.  There are also things called resisters.  Those are types of material that allows electricity to flow, but not really well…effectively taking a lot of power and turning into a lot less power on th...