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This is that time of year when we become painfully aware of where we are not, who we are not, and what we need to do differently. Traditionally, the new year is a season of self-absorption. It’s all about what we can do to make ourselves better people. The result is that churches, health clubs, debt counselors, and vitamin shops do a booming business. But we tend to forget that the people we respe...

This is that time of year when we become painfully aware of where we are not, who we are not, and what we need to do differently. Traditionally, the new year is a season of self-absorption. It’s all about what we can do to make ourselves better people. The result is that churches, health clubs, debt counselors, and vitamin shops do a booming business. But we tend to forget that the people we respe...

n the movie, the Grinch who stole Christmas, we get a glimpse of what happens when we let our holiday traditions become the reason for the season, rather than doing things that connect us to the true meaning. When a tradition loses its meaning, it can do more harm than good. The Hero of the story, Cindy Lu, is a picture of the courage, hard work, and risk it takes to celebrate the true meaning of...

Here’s the truth: Despite all the happy hoopla and sentimental songs, Christmas can be one of the most stressful and tangled times of the year. Why? Because Christmas is often a time spent with family. Have you ever had a specific moment when you realized that your family was complicated? In Matthew 1:18-25, we see that God’s family had drama—a lot of drama. Obviously, our all-powerful God chose i...

Life isn’t easy. We experience problems and setbacks everyday. But during the hardest parts of life, when the bottom seems to fall out, where do we turn? Although God doesn’t offer any easy solutions, he does offer himself and his presence as an anchor of hope.

“Saying, ‘Please’ and ‘Sorry’ and ‘Thank You’ aren’t just good manners: They are the key to spiritual maturity. Never stop saying ‘Sorry.’ Never stop saying ‘Please.’ And never stop saying ‘Thank You.’” – Mark Batterson Do you forget to show thankfulness? Do you forget the benefits of God?

“Words can never adequately convey the incredible impact of our attitude toward life. The longer I live, the more convinced I become that life is 10% what happens to us and 90% how we respond to it.” – Chuck Swindoll Where do you turn when it seems like life itself is kicking your butt?

Psalm 1 compares a righteous person to a fruitful tree and a wicked person to chaff, and the psalmist contrasts the behaviors leading to each. In our fast moving world, with lots of distractions that pull us away from the things of God and steer us into the possibility of chaff. How do we get on and keep on track in pursuing the place of righteousness of which the psalmist speaks? This message mak...

What kind of person do you want to be? When people have to stand and talk about you when you’re gone, what do you want them to say? Do you realize that’s up to you? What if you decided to be—extraordinary?

Chances are your greatest regret can be traced back to a decision where your body wanted something that your heart knew was wrong. An appetite was raging. You saw something or someone you wanted—even though he, she, or it wasn’t healthy for you. But you gave in to your body anyway. You yielded to the little kings that want to replace the Creator King who calls you to live from the inside out. What...

You think you want to be like everybody else. But everybody else takes their cues from everybody else. Being like everybody else just makes you average—worried, in debt, bored, and dissatisfied with what you have. If you knew that living like everybody else on the outside would leave you feeling like this on the inside, you would have done what you suspected was right in your heart instead of doin...

The bottom line, the kind of thing that’s driving our time together around this series, is we’re looking at sort of like the underbelly of the American Dream, sort of that unspoken part of the American Dream that goes like this, “I wanna do what I wanna do. I wanna do what I want when I want with whom I want. I wanna do what I want, when I want, with whom I want”. And then there is a little footno...

There’s an unstated part of the American dream. It goes like this: “We have the freedom to do what we want, when we want, with whom we want, and nobody can tell us what to do…as long as it doesn’t hurt anybody.” But what if life doesn’t work that way? What if you can’t do what’s right in your own eyes without eventually hurting someone?

Lets talk about the people who surround us—our friends and unfriends. With todays craze on social media, we have added many new words in our dictionary and one is unfriend. Have you ever unfriended someone or unfollowed someone on Instagram? If so, we want to talk about friends and unfriends. If you think about it, we sometimes friend those we should have unfriended and we unfriend those maybe tha...

At oneChurch.tv , we believe that you are just one community away from changing the course of your life. Why? Because being in community allows you to grow further and grow faster than if you did life alone.

Friendships are powerful things. They’re great, but dangerous. You drop your guard with your friends. You become less careful. And as a result, you’re easily influenced, drawn toward the acceptance you find. Many of us don’t realize the importance of the people we choose to surround ourselves with. Our friends determine the quality and direction of our lives.

Friendships are powerful things. They’re great, but dangerous. You drop your guard with your friends. You become less careful. And as a result, you’re easily influenced, drawn toward the acceptance you find. Many of us don’t realize the importance of the people we choose to surround ourselves with. Our friends determine the quality and direction of our lives.

Everyone seems to have an answer about how to improve the country. As the political landscape grows increasingly impassioned during this election season, there is no shortage of opinions as to how the next President should lead. What Would Jesus say to the next president? What conversations might Jesus have with Hillary Clinton? How might Jesus interact with Donald Trump? Republican, Democrat, lef...

The issue of sexual identity and Christianity is one of the biggest hot buttons for today’s culture. Questions surface such as “What does the Bible have to say about same-sex issues?” and “How can we balance grace and truth?” Jesus is the definition of truth and grace, and He will never be found partial towards one person or another. You don’t have to agree with someone’s decisions in order to sho...

Charleston. Ferguson. Baton Rouge. Minneapolis. Dallas. As our country reels from one tragic confrontation to the next, what does Jesus have to say about the racism issue that plagues our country? How would Jesus speak into this volatile situation where both police officers and civilians are being gunned down, and where every week, another video about shootings goes viral? The first-century church...

America’s dad Bill Cosby took a hard fall when allegations of sexual abuse began to surface. Everyone has different opinions, and many wonder, “Guilty or Innocent?” “Is he the victim, or did he victimize others?” In the court of law, we are innocent until proven guilty. However, in the court of public opinion, judgments are often concluded long before a judge’s gavel drops. The bigger question is,...

Who are you? What defines you? Your appearance fitness level health style tattoos, piercings Your job or career title or rank profession: lawyer, teacher, nurse, policeman, pilot, medic, hairstylist, etc Your relationships? boyfriend/girlfriend husband/wife father/mother brother/sister children denomination or church membership fraternity/sorority 5th group or some other unit MOPS Titans fan/UT/Al...

The world is in great crisis…but too often we only hear about the crisis involving celebrities and American politics. If we are not careful, we will adopt a mentality of only helping local, visible people in need and ignoring the great needs in our world today. That’s not what God wishes for us to do…and a brief look into his teaching and the real world news should help us to change our focus, hop...