THE WORD

Drawing his opening illustration from the year 20/10, Pastor Alan Latta encourages the hearers to exist for far more than just the mediocre norm and to go for "less-limits" living with faith, hope and love.

In this 10 minute sermon, Pastor Alan draws his text from the angel's command to Joseph, when he said,"...you shall call His name Jesus, for He will save His people from their sins." This fulfillment of this promise is the greatest blessing that the first Christmas brought to us, which is in having our sins forgiven. To forgive the sins of others as we have been forgiven is the greatest gift we ca...

In the excitement and busyness of Christmas Holiday Celebrations, Pastor Alan reminds us in this 11 minute sermon to not lose sight of the real reason for this important season.

Drawing lessons on hearing God from Paul's list of spiritual gifts in 1 CORINTHIANS 12, Ron Campbell teaches on how to live more godly lives and to think, talk, walk and work like God.

When we as a people acknowledge God Almighty for Who He is, we honor Him by giving Him place to show Himself strong on our behalf. In this powerful message, Ron Campbell challenges the hearers to beware of distractions that would hinder them from acknowledging God.

Those who are called to great things will often suffer great things as the process of God changes us so that our walk lines up with our talk. In this first of 4 conference messages, Ron Campbell tells it like it is for those who desire to live a life of obedience to God, which means to hear intelligently.

Ron Campbell declares the truth to his hearers, that if we will plug into our God given assignment, all the grace we need will there for us to fulfill it.

Drawing insight from the question Jesus asked when He said, "Why do you call Me 'Lord, Lord' and not do the things I say?" Gary Stewart boldly declares what it means to be as radical disciple, i. e. rooted and departing from the ordinary.

With passion, Greg Harrell exhorts the church to believe in and follow the real Jesus Christ, as revealed in the Bible, the King of kings and Lord of lords.

Having established in an earlier sermon, why we believe the Bible is true, Pastor Alan plainly declares what the Scriptures have to say about Jesus as the only way to eternal life.

In dealing with a very important question, this sermon brings hope to the true believers in Jesus Christ while bringing strong warnings to those who live hypocritical lifestyles.

In dealing with this difficult question, Pastor Alan shares the truth that we are not in Heaven yet. Meanwhile, there are 8 powerful truths - to remember from ROMANS 8 - that can empower us all to move forward toward God's predestined purpose.

Speaking from his heart, Pastor Alan shares 10 solid reasons why he believes the Bible is true. Seeking to answer an important question about the inspiration of the Scriptures, he leaves the hearer with his own question, "How do you know the Bible is not true?"

In this sermon, Barry Jenkins encourages us to learn how to find our purpose even in the hardest of times. From the story of Job, Pastor Barry communicates on how when he stopped defending himself that God began to restore Job's life; for it is only in our total yielding to God that we can begin to find restoration and purpose.

Beginning with the story of Nehemiah, Pastor Lee Lebsack exhorts the Generations congregation to work hard and take advantage of their opportunities, while exercising faith that flows from knowing God.

In Jesus' School of Leadership, everything begins with following Him, which leads to learning from Him and then to serving Him and His people, resulting in becoming a leader for others to follow.

In an effort to encourage and increase the number of encouragers at Generations Church, Pastor Alan exhorts the congregation to look for opportunities to give Godly encouragement and to follow the examples of Jesus, Barnabas, Paul, Tychicus and Timothy.

Yvette Latta inspires the hearers to expand their level of courage by being confident in Christ, cutting off their past, comforting others as they are comforted, becoming conscious of other people's needs, and cultivating confidence in our calling.

While drawing lessons from the promotion of Joshua, Pastor Alan challenges the congregation to serve courageously and to be willing to be promoted and take on more responsibility as God sends his blessing.

In preparation for The Alpha Course this sermon encourages the hearers to be more relational with unbelievers in their lifestyles. Because listening to people can make them more willing to hear us and because many will not care about how much we know until they know how much we care, it is imperative that we learn how to identify with unbelievers for effective evangelistic ministry.

Pastor Alan communicates the call to make more than converts and to preach more than life after death. Disciplemaking is what Jesus commissions as well as life transformation rather than life extension only.

From the words of Jesus when He commissioned his disciples to "be wise" as they go out to minister "in the midst of wolves", Pastor Alan strongly challenges Generations Church to be wise in evangelism, in being both relational and conversational, as well as not being unscriptural nor unreasonable.

This strong exhortation encourages the hearers to pursue knowing God with all their hearts, because we are all as close to God as we want to be. In addition to knowing God, Pastor Alan motivates the Generations congreation to reach out to make Him known to this generation and beyond.

Here at the end of a sermon series - which asked some very soul searching questions - comes an outward focused question, from this Letter of Jesus to the Messenger of the Church in Sardis. "Are You Alive?" preaches evangelism from the primary signs of life as well as a very important sign that a fiancee' is ready for marriage.

All the way from the U. K., Noel Richards brings us a very encouraging word about the treasures we have in Jesus and how we can share them - as we go about our daily lives - with those who have not yet received them.