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Why do you do good? Sometimes we do good just to make ourselves look good or to impress somebody. Sometimes we do good out of guilt. And sometimes we do good in hope that good would come back our way. But Jesus encourages us to do good for another reason. For us to be the light and do right. Are we living our lives in such a way it causes people to ask, “Why?” Are we living a questionable life?

Christianity has an image problem. If you’ve lived in America for very long, I doubt this surprises you. Over the past few decades, Christians have lost their influence in culture because they’ve handled it so poorly. They had power. They had dollars. But instead of using power and the dollars to reach out and love people well... Christians used power to make a point and dollars to demand their wa...

The resurrection is what separates following Jesus from every other belief system on the planet. The resurrection is what makes following Jesus inclusively exclusive. How do we know that for sure? Simple: Truth is discovered, not invented, because truth exists independent of anyone’s knowledge of it. Here is the truth - We know that God is for us because He gave us Jesus.

What we often refer to as love is really no more than infatuation. We become enamored and enraptured. Sometimes, our “falling” in love is no more than turning ourselves over to what we want. Could this be why we tend to stray from our first love...Jesus?

People are spiritually lost until they receive Jesus. We cannot earn a right relationship with Jesus. There’s nothing we can do to impress God enough for him to save us. However, because of His love and mercy his gives us grace and He saves from our sinful selves and brings us into this great family called the church. What are we doing with this awesome message?

How people respond to what we communicate depends a lot on how we communicate. Approach matters. We can say the right things and have the wrong approach, and people will ignore the message. Our goal at oneChurch.tv is to present Scripture in a way that is so helpful and compelling that the audience leaves wanting to engage the scriptures more, and try it out in their lives. THE BIG IDEA: We will d...

Vision is a picture of the future that produces passion in you. - Bill Hybels

Controversies arise in churches for many reasons. Some important. Some seemingly trivial. One tension that arose in the early days of the Church and that continues to surface over and over is the issue of grace and truth. Namely, how good does a person have to be in order to be part of the church?

“We tend to overestimate what we can do in a year or two, but we underestimate what God can do in 10, or 20, or 100 years. " - Mark Batterson

The voice that spoke the cosmos into existence is the same voice that parted the Red sea, and made the sun stand still in the midday sky. That voice is God’s voice, and what we learn from Scripture is that He often speaks in a whisper. Not to make it difficult to hear Him, but to draw us close. But how can we hear from God? How can we know exactly what He is whispering to us? Most of us have heari...

"Miracles are the byproduct of prayers prayed by you or for you. That should be all the motivation you need to pray." - Mark Batterson

If you’re going to live your life with great purpose, one of the most important skills you can develop is learning how to say no. That’s a tough discipline to foster, especially if you want people to like you. We’ll look at a biblical story that clearly explains the problems with saying yes to everything, and we’ll look at how you can learn to say no to the things that matter less... nicely.

What time is it? Where did all the time go? Does time really fly when you’re having fun? There never seems to be enough time to get it all done. How can we possibly accomplish all that we need to do? At the end of the day, week, or month there always important things left undone. Maybe we think about time so much because there never seems to be enough of it. Maybe there’s only one question we need...

While everyone might get 24 hours a day, not all hours are created equal. Your energy ebbs and flows throughout the day. Sometimes you’re on top of the world, other times you struggle to stay awake. What’s with that? Surprisingly, even Jesus dealt with the limitations of human existence in his time on earth. This week, we’ll show you how to make the most of your limits.

Ever wish you had more time? And yet you’ve probably noticed that when you get more responsibility at work or you decide to have another child, no- body gives you any additional time. No matter how complicated your life gets, all you get is 24 hours a day. In this message, we review three gifts God has given everyone and explore why simply managing time is never the solution to your time managemen...

So many people think the key to beating feeling overwhelmed is to find balance. What if it isn’t? When you look at history, meaningful lives are rarely characterized by balance. Jesus and other biblical figures that changed history could hardly be described as balanced people. Instead they’re lives were characterized by something far greater. It could transform your life too.

It would be really easy to approach the home stretch of 2017 with the blues. So, we want to cheer you up! We want to party! Everyone loves a good party and what better reason to celebrate than Jesus? In fact, we believe that Christmas can change the world because Christmas is all about Jesus!

Christmas doesn’t always feel like the most wonderful time of the year. Obligations, money, family drama, and loved ones who are not around can make us feel sad and stressed out. But what if there was a way for us to have a deep joy that overcomes all of these circumstances?

"When you get excited about God, don't expect everybody to get excited about your excitement. You intensity confronts their passivity...Some people will be inspired by what God is doing in your life, but others will mask their conviction with criticism. After all it's much easier to criticize than it is to change ourselves... We criticize in others what we don't like about ourselves." ― Mark Batte...

Most people don’t have a problem with God. After all, plenty of people show up for church on Christmas and Easter. But unfortunately people do have a problem with the church. Over the centuries Christians have made Christianity so complex that people simply write it off as irrelevant and confusing.

“You are my Lord, because You have no need of my goodness...You converted me to yourself so that I was no longer seeking a wife or any other hope of worldly success...I was standing firm on that rule of faith on which you showed me to her in a vision so many years before.” ― Augustine of Hippo, Confessions

What does it mean to be the church? What change does the Holy Spirit cause in our lives? Today, we’re looking at the expansion of the church through the lives of the first generation of Christians—a group who, much like us today, hungered for an encounter with God.

As the first century believers grew in numbers, so did the Jews’ determination to stomp out the church, but God used their vain attempts to strengthen and spread His message. The enemies of the early church designed to scatter and lose them, yet God designed to scatter and use them. Are you experiencing problems and difficulties today? Maybe God wants to use them so that you can be used by Him.

Most people don’t have a problem with God. After all, plenty of people show up for church on Christmas and Easter. Unfortunately, people do have a problem with the church. For centuries Christians have made Christianity so complex that people simply write it off as irrelevant and confusing. In this session we’ll see how this problem surfaced in the very early days of the church, how they dealt wit...