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As Jesus was being crucified, His followers fled in fear. Three days later, these men huddled together in a room and hid fear from the Jewish authorities. Peter had betrayed Christ, most of the rest had abandoned Him, and worst of all they thought that Jesus was gone forever. The only Person that could help to revive them was God Himself. In today’s message, Pastor Terry teaches us that when the r...

Satan loves to create contention and strife within the family of God. We know that the enemy is at work when cliques form, churches split, and even whole societies become litigious. In today’s message, Pastor Terry encourages us to love each other in unity. Just as parents feel joy when their children get along, Papa God is pleased when His people love each other and put others first. Furthermore,...

When Jesus lifted up His eyes to His Father to pray one last time before going to the cross, He prayed fervently for the unity of His people. In today’s message from John chapter 17, Pastor Terry points out that when Christ prayed for unity, He was not asking for God to make all His people the same. In fact, God Himself created the diversity of mankind. Instead, Jesus’s heart was to make the Body...

In John chapter 17, Jesus prayed for His people. The Lord prayed specifically that that we would be sanctified. In today’s message, Pastor Terry teaches us that when something is sanctified, it is set apart for special use. As Christians, the Lord has set us apart for God’s special use. The Lord’s people are to be in the world but not of it. God’s people are to be preserving salt in a world where...

The Lord Jesus Christ is our great High Priest. Scripture says that He continually prays for His bride. Even at this very moment we know that the Lord is interceding for the church. This fact should bring us great comfort and joy. In today’s message from John 17, Pastor Terry unpacks Jesus’s final prayer for the church just before He was arrested and crucified. Amazingly, the Lord prayed for our e...

Do you know that your soul is eternal? All souls will forever exit. However, Jesus defined everlasting life as knowing Him. Christ fervently prayed that His people would know Him so intimately that His Bride would be one with Him. In today’s message from John chapter 17, Pastor Terry teaches us that eternal life according to the Bible can only be found through Jesus Christ. Those that have put the...

When Jesus was on earth, He lived a life of prayer. In fact, He prayed so much that the disciples specifically asked Him how to pray. In today’s message, Pastor Terry reminds us how Jesus prayed and how much Jesus prayed. Christ’s prayer life was alive. He prayed to stay close to His Father and to do the will of the Father. Jesus prayed fervently for the disciples and for the church. Even now we k...

Satan is an entirely defeated foe. Jesus reigns victorious and has triumphed over death, hell, and the grave. However, God’s people are still waiting to witness the fullness of Christ’s victory and to be united with Jesus. In today’s message, Pastor Terry reminds us that because we are still waiting for the consummation of all things, we must continue to live in a fallen world where the enemy prow...

From the fall of man until the birth of Jesus Christ, man could never undo the sin problem. Even after God chose a people for Himself and gave Israel the Law, man could not keep the Lord’s commandments. But then Jesus came. In today’s message, Pastor Terry triumphantly declares that when man could get victory over sin, Jesus Christ emergent triumphant. Christ lived perfectly and overcame sin on th...

Life is very hard sometimes. Seasons of trail and suffering can leave us feeling confused, alone, or even abandoned by God and men. In today’s message, Pastor Terry encourages us to run to the Lord when we are hurting. The last thing we should do when we are in pain is to run away from Jesus or get mad at Him, because Jesus is the only One who can provide hope and peace. Pastor Terry also reminds...

Just before Jesus was crucified, the disciples were grieving, disoriented and confused. Jesus knew their hearts and began to answer their unspoken questions to calm their hearts and impart wisdom. In today’s message from John chapter 16, Pastor Terry encourages us to go to the Lord when we have questions and fears. Jesus paid a very high price for a relationship with us and gave His life to restor...

God the Father is flawless in His absolute perfection. This makes Him totally holy. However, all of mankind has missed the perfection mark because of sin. In today’s message, Pastor Terry teaches us that one of the primary roles of the Holy Spirit is to convict men of their sinfulness. It is this conviction that leads the sinner to understand his need for a Savior and to ask for forgiveness. When...

Today, Pastor Terry asks us to remember and fully embrace the fact that as followers of Jesus, we will sometimes face persecution! We need not be discouraged by this fact, however. We know the truth of Jesus’s life, death on the cross, and resurrection from the dead that forever forgives us of our sins. When we live lives dedicated to this truth, it will be natural to share where our hope and joy...

Today’s message discusses the uncomfortable but necessary topic of persecution. Pastor Terry reminds us that when we follow Jesus with our whole life, we will face opposition from people in this world! There will always be someone who is adamant that God is not who we say He is, and that He can do nothing to help the world. While we know the truth and can live it out despite these differing views,...

This Christian life is not one that is meant to be lived privately. Because of Jesus’s gift to us of a forgiven life, we are free to live under the truth of grace! This incredible gift is powerful enough to cover every person on earth, and the love that motivated its giving should also motivate us to tell others about it! In today’s message, Pastor Terry reminds us that Jesus calls us to go into t...

People will come and go in our lives, some staying for a while and others passing quickly through. The unpredictability of life also makes relationships with other people unpredictable. No matter where our road leads us, there is always one friend we can count on in any situation, at any time in our lives. This friend, Pastor Terry tells us today, is Jesus! As we cultivate a deeper relationship wi...

The only way we can produce effective and lasting results for Jesus is if we are rooted in His message. Just as a branch in and of itself can’t produce anything, we too can’t serve God without being connected to Him! Pastor Terry reminds us of this in today’s message, and encourages us to anchor deeply in the grace and love of Jesus’s Gospel message. The more time we spend getting to know God, the...

In today’s message, Pastor Terry brings us to a passage where Jesus compares us to branches on a vine. Jesus Himself represents the vine, and we are simply extensions of Him, bearing the fruit that comes from His message of hope and grace. God, the keeper of the vine and branches, is a meticulous and loving caretaker. He takes the time to trim the dead parts of our branches away, allowing us to gr...

The peace that Jesus provides to us is completely unexplainable! This peace tends to come at times when we are at our limit, when the trials we face seem completely hopeless. Pastor Terry shares with us today that this peace that Jesus provides in those moments is a way of Him reminding us that He is still there! He promises to never leave us, no matter the circumstances. He is standing beside us,...

People tend to think of peace as an absence of violence or stress, whether in the world as a whole or in an individual life. They think that if everyone just got along and went about their business, all would be well and peace would finally be had. Pastor Terry tells us today that this is not the peace that Jesus’s promises in the Bible. Jesus is not talking about a physical state of being when He...

Have you ever wondered why the Holy Spirit is in your life? There's been so much confusion and wrong teaching about His purpose in the life of the Christian, that many don't even want to think about it. The emotional excesses exercised by some portions of the church have simply scared a lot of people away. But in today's study, Pastor Terry lays out clearly and concisely several very practical way...

There seem to be a lot of Christians who struggle with the word of God. Many of them shy away from reading it for themselves because they don't feel they can understand it. But as Pastor Terry will point out in today's teaching, the Holy Spirit is the One Who will illuminate the scriptures to us and help us to get out of them what He wants us to. We often feel like we should have far more insight...

When we hear the testimonies of people who have done horrible things before they got saved, or who were hopelessly addicted to drugs or gambling, we may think our testimony is not all that great. But as Pastor Terry reminds us today, whether our sins were great or small, Jesus Christ died for all of them. And not one of them was so small that it didn't require His blood to cleanse us from it. If w...

When we hear the word “obedience” it usually does not make us want to listen any further. It is not in our nature to want to submit to any authority but our own. Our innate selfishness causes us to cringe at the thought of having to allow someone else to control our lives, even if that Someone is the Lord. What does it mean to obey? How am I supposed to be obedient and still have the freedom in Ch...

The presence of the Holy Spirit in our lives is something that many Christians are not even aware of. God the Father has chosen to dwell in us by means of His Holy Spirit, and through Him, we become effective and fulfilled in our Christian lives. As Pastor Terry so clearly reminds us, the Holy Spirit is that person of the trinity that lives in us and empowers us to do all those things that God wou...