A couple of months ago I was given the honor to go back and be a speaker at the school that changed my life. I cannot explain how much of an honor it was to be remembered by the great staff and members of the school let alone be allowed to speak there. Being at Austin Graduate school of Theology changed my life and the lives of many others. Here is my path to Austin Grad and how God used them to change my life!

Satan is a crafty and cunning adversary.  His goal is to cause chaos in what God has stated is good.  In this sermon we see how this smooth criminal operates and also how sin cannot be accomplished without an accomplice (us). 

This is the first sermon from our 2019 One Word Series! Check out the message from Bro. Peter Martin of the Agape Church of Christ!

The idea of hypnosis has always been intriguing to me. I remember seeing cartoons as a child where someone would take a watch a have it sway back and forth continuously providing a focus for the person being hypnotized and then someone would snap their finger after making a command and the person would do as told without much effort from the person hypnotizing. Seems unreal and unlikely that beings as intelligent as humans could fall into such a trance but there is a smooth criminal on the loose whose goal is to distort, destroy, and demoralize.  He doesn't use a pocket watch to hold our attention but he does use something just as shiny, our desires. Desires are things we long for, crave, or want very badly. And there's nothing innately wrong with having desires. So how does one turn what is good to bad? It takes a Smooth Criminal!

In our first sermon in the new Gospel series we use the song We are the World by Michael Jackson to explain God’s original intent for mankind. By first understanding the original intent for humanity we will be able to understand the need for the Gospel.

For the month of July on every Wednesday we have our second annual One Word series. It is an opportunity for our guest speakers to share a word with you every Wednesday that will bless your life! The theme for this year is God and Your Ipod: The Playlist of Life. Each speaker will choose a song to present a message. So I decided that for every Sunday I would take a song from the King of Pop to express the message of the Gospel. The sermon series is titled The Gospel: According to Michael Jackson. The first sermon will be titled “We Are The World”.

In this final sermon in the series “The Bible Doesn’t Say That” we examine the idea that suffering always comes from sin. We look at the man Job and how he was seen as a faithful man and yet was still exposed to an extreme amount of suffering.

This past week I was invited to attend 3 events/meetings. I was shocked to get these invites because I do not often think that I am on many folks radar. But this week was different. The Salvation Army next door invited leadership from Ave. G to a lunch and meeting. The city of Temple invited Ave. G leadership to a focus group. And the coordinators for an event called The Gathering invited us to attend. There are many of us who live within the city limits of Temple Texas and often times our needs go unmet. We lack the parks we want, the grocery stores, the activities for our children, and many other things. But what if I told you the reason why we lack is because we have no voice… It is not because it has been taken away, it is not some scheme by big brother, and it is not by accident. Our voice is not heard because we are often times not present to speak!

As we continue in our series “The Bible Doesn’t Say That” we examine the phrase “Do Not Judge” and if it holds any biblical truths. We see the phrase stated by Jesus in Matthew 7:1-6 but does our ideals in today’s culture match with the ideas expressed by Jesus? Our culture is set on repeating the phrase of “Do Not Judge” but I’m convince that it is better translated as “Do Not Tell Me I’m Wrong”. We exist in a culture where no one wants to be under the watch, submission, or authority of anyone! Including God! But would God have us as Christians live in a society without accountability? Listen to find out.

The statement made by Jesus in Matthew 7:1-6 should be enough to end the conversation on whether or not Christian brothers or sisters should judge. There’s no need for a sermon on the topic, right? The word judge (krino (Greek)) means to determine salvation of a person. To judge means decide guilt or innocence and to arrive at a verdict. That is being both lawyer and judge and in this passage Jesus is primarily speaking to hypocrites. But from this we have a culture that exists today where people have taken this saying of “Do Not Judge” to mean “Don’t tell me I’m wrong”.

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This year for Mother’s Day this year we examined the mother and grandmother of Timothy and how they influenced him to be the man of God that he was. We encourage and challenge our mothers to encourage their children to spread the Gospel, be persistent in their own paths toward God, and they dedicate their children for the purposes of God.

After being a part of the Bible class this evening. We must continue the conversation, ask difficult and scary questions, and educate ourselves on what it is that God wants reflected in the church. Listen to this awesome sermon series for things to think about.

Remember back to some of your darkest moments. Are you there? They are usually very easy to remember and recall. They are kind of like scars. Once they heal over and “get better” there is still a reminder that they happened. In those moments we reach out to people and they in all sincerity may tell us the famous one liner “God won’t give you more than you can handle.”. Well in this sermon/podcast we examine this phrase on how Paul proves that God will allow some pretty tough things to come in our lives, but these moments make us better! God will allow more than you can handle, so that we don’t rely on us.