Youth First Podcast

Have you ever heard the phrase, "If you know better, you do better?" I wish this was true but unfortunately there are many of us who don't always choose better and sometimes we entertain the fool in us. We all have to come to the honest conclusion that there is a fool in all us whether we want to believe it or not, but God has wisdom and God wants to give wisdom to those who ask.

In Psalm 1:1-3, we see what it means to blessed biblically, and if we don't learn what makes us blessed we will live in a constant state of stress and depression trying to get there. Stress is often a symptom and a sign of chasing the wrong things. We want you to pursue God. Why? Because when you think things make you blessed you can have a lot and still not have enough. You can have more than eno...

Jesus tells Thomas, "Blessed are those who cannot see." What does that mean? It's because even though Jesus said those words to Thomas, we believe in Him without having to see Him for ourselves. We don't have to see Him to know He is working on our behalf. We don't have to see every part of the plan to know that it is good. All we have to do is lean on Him and trust that He has everything under co...

Blessed and happy are not the same thing. In this message we look at the verses that are a written record of the first public sermon and teaching of Jesus. Believed to be the greatest sermon ever preached knows as the Sermon on the Mount. The introduction of this message is called the Beatitudes which translate as meaning the Blessings or supreme blessedness. Deeper than just happy, it means deepl...

Being salt and light in the world is not a compliment, it's a responsibility. They are not optional, but rather obligations for the believer. It's important to be salt and light because it helps us spread the Gospel not only with the way we talk, but more importantly in the way we live.

Every relationship is either pushing you toward the Kingdom of God or pulling you away from it and Jesus, and we want you to do relationships the Kingdom way! We don't want you to know how to cheat, but give you cheat codes in how to succeed in your relationships so that you won't prematurely commit to vows and a covenant that you're not ready to keep or have no intention of honoring.

There has to be a point in our walk with the Lord where there is no turning back. Where our prayer is, "More of You and less of me God, where I am nothing without You." We can't hold on so tightly to our will, our dreams, our plans, or our lives that we completely shut out God. If we never accomplish another thing in this life but we have God... We have everything.

The Kingdom of God is the culture of heaven expressed through the character and the life of the believer. The Kingdom is what life looks like when God has His way and will. It's the rule of God, exercised through the Spirit of God in the people of God for the glory of God. That's what it's like.

First Things First simply means having proper priorities... Ensuring that your life is in order. Order gives us the freedom to respond to God quickly. Order is putting God first and everything else in its proper place.

There is nothing more consequential to your life than choices. There is nothing more detrimental t your life than decisions. Decisions can develop you or destroy you. Either way it's your choice: Decisions, decisions.

Forgiveness is the first and greatest act of generosity. It is the purest form of giving because it gives without return. God modeled this with Jesus. In other words, forgiveness gives freedom to people who deserve it and that's the Gospel! That's what being generous means and we can't talk about being generous without talking about Jesus!

In our series we've talked about the importance of time, eternity, perspective, assignment and purpose. All believers have a common mission, it's called the Great Commission! It's a commanded mission and we must be actively doing it. But in order to do that we must live disciplined lives as disciples of Jesus and that means having holy habits. It's putting ourselves in positions, places and a hear...

If you want your life to change, you have to change how and where you spend your time... And if you want to be with God, you must be willing to go where time doesn't matter. Where nothing else matters but Him, because spending time with God is never time wasted, it is always time invested. And yes it's true that we don't have as much time as we think, that time is running out, but we still have ti...

We are in a series called It's Time to Ride and we've been talking about living with eternity in mind. In this message we look at a moment in time where Isaiah the prophet encounters the divine, supernatural presence of God. In this we see the reality that in the presence of a most holy God is where we realize how unholy we truly are, and as a result we have one response that can be summed up in t...

Grace justifies us... "Just-as-if we never sinned." This is known as justification. It makes us in right standing and right relationship with God, also known as righteous. It's His freely given grace that frees us. We're talking about this idea, this concept of grace because it seems to be one of the most misunderstood, least used and most abused gifts God has given us. As a result, there seems to...

God is the MASTER of HIDING and we must become MASTERS of DISCOVERY . Maybe you've heard it said before or maybe you've experienced this truth in your life but it's true... "God works in mYSTERIOUS ways." Meaning God does things at times that we don't understand because His ways are not our ways and His thoughts are not our thoughts. Also revealing to us this truth that God is a God of secrets and...

God loves family even though sometimes we don't. He loves family so much that it was one of the first things He created in the beginning, however family can be a trigger. Why? Because some of us have momma drama and daddy issues... At the end of the day though we all come from family, and all of us have dysfunction in our families. The only difference is, your dysfunction is different from mine. B...

Trust is belief and confidence in something or someone. That's what it means to entrust someone. To place your confidence in someone. Trust is an expression of faith. It is believing with confident expectation, but trust issues are when you lack reliance, assurance, and confidence in a thing, a person or God. When trust is solely in people it is misplaced, however trust should always be rooted in...

Have you ever looked at someone and thought, "Who raised you?" Or said, "You ain't got no home training!" Those statements reveal one common truth and it's this... How you love is learned, and your family is the key contributor to the thing you learned good or bad. However, one of the most consequential relationships in your life is your relationship or the lack thereof with your father. Let's jus...

Questions... All of us have them. All of us ask them. Questions are natural. Questions are normal, and if God did not allow us to ask questions we would've never arrived at the answer (Jesus). God answered our questions with Jesus... He is everything we need and He is everything we are not. For every need in our life God gave us a name, and for every question in our life, God gives us an answer......

Have you ever asked God why? Have you ever wondered why? Why would a loving God create an eternal hell? Why does God allow "bad" things to happen to "good" people? One of the undeniable, identifiable traits of people is our proclivity, our predisposition, our tendency and frequency to ask questions... And not just any question, but our favorite and most asked question is... Why? Listen as we learn...

The Bible tells us to remember God's miracles and obey His commands, but it also says to forget the former things. That can seem a bit contradictory... However, the lesson is this, the past is where we go to learn, but never to live. It's a place of reference, not a place of residence. We don't forget the past, we are just more focused on the future. We must all come to the conclusion that if we d...

We have a tendency, a natural proclivity to leave. Our knee jerk reaction is to run. To leave the Church, to leave community, to leave Christians, to leave the group and go out on our own... To run away from the place and people you should run to. We want independence without inheritance, we desire resources without relationship, we want God's hand on our life, but not His involvement in our life....

Have you ever asked yourself... Why am I here? What my purpose in life? What is my reason for living? We think the answer to those questions is found in God's Word. Everything God made was intended to survive in the environment that God placed it in, and anything outside of God's intended environment dies. With that being said, the answer to why you are here, your purpose can only be found in the...

There has been a misconception, misinterpretation, and a misunderstanding of what love is. Love is probably the most misinterpreted, misconstrued, misunderstood word in our language. It's deep, it's intricate, it's detailed, it's complex and at the same time it's simple. It's only four letters long but it has a deep meaning. We dare say, love is the most overused and the least understood word in t...