
Trusting God When You Don’t Understand
The message confronts how easily we quote Proverbs 3:5 while regularly breaking it: we worry instead of trusting God with all our hearts. Using Hannah’s long season of barrenness in 1 Samuel 1, the…
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The message confronts how easily we quote Proverbs 3:5 while regularly breaking it: we worry instead of trusting God with all our hearts. Using Hannah’s long season of barrenness in 1 Samuel 1, the…

Pastor Craig unpacked why “trust in the Lord with all your heart” is both the most-quoted and one of the most-ignored commands in Scripture. Using Hannah’s long wait for a child in 1 Samuel 1, he…

Truth is hard to spot in a world of headlines, life-hacks, and “my truth.” Yet real truth, though it may sting, always brings freedom. Looking at Nicodemus’ three appearances in John’s Gospel,…

Pastor Sam continued the “Think Ahead” series by challenging the church to pre-decide, “I will seek truth no matter the cost.” Using Nicodemus’s three appearances in John’s Gospel, he showed that…

Every one of us wants to get life’s decisions right and fears getting them wrong. Abraham’s story in Genesis 22 shows what happens when a person pred-decides to obey God before knowing the…

We all want to get life’s decisions right and fear getting them wrong. In Genesis 22 Abraham models a single, freeing resolve: answer God’s call with “Hineni—here I am,” then obey. Pastor Tim showed…

Less than ten percent of people can name a clear, God-given purpose, and only half of those actually live by it. Using Joseph’s sweeping story in Genesis, the message outlines four predictable…

We closed the “Think Ahead” series by asking, “What would life look like if you woke up every day gripped by the one reason God put you here?” Looking at Joseph’s long arc in Genesis, Pastor Chris…

On Easter Sunday the pastor announced a six-week series titled “He Promises,” beginning with Jesus’ promise of personal, specific love. Using John 3:16 and the parable of the lost sheep, he pressed…

Easter celebrates an empty tomb and a living Savior, but Pastor Craig narrowed the focus to one stunning promise: God’s love is not only global, it is personal. “You are the one Jesus loves.”…

Being a Christian is simply about following Jesus—trusting His life, death, and resurrection, learning from the way He loved God and people, and putting that same love into daily practice. The video…

Jesus promises that He is the Good Shepherd and that His sheep can recognize His voice. Decisions, confusion, or fear do not have to be met with guesswork; God still speaks, and we can learn to hear…

Jesus promises that He is the Good Shepherd and His sheep can recognize His voice. Pastor Craig unpacks how we move from wishing we could hear God to confidently discerning His direction. The…

Prayer is the simplest and most personal way to be known by the God who created and loves us. Though it can feel awkward—like talking into the air—Jesus modeled and taught a straightforward pattern…

Jesus ends the Great Commission with a promise: “I am with you always.” The sermon shows how that promise moved from theory to lived reality for the disciples in a violent storm on the Sea of…

Jesus’ final words in Matthew 28 carry a double promise: He has all authority and He is always with His people. Pastor Sam Roberts anchored that promise in the story of Jesus calming the storm (Mark…

Worship is the natural response that rises when we experience awe—whether it’s a breathtaking sunset, the birth of a child, or Jesus saving His disciples on a storm-tossed sea. The video explains…

Jesus put you in His last will and testament, leaving you something specific: His peace. That peace is unlike the temporary relief the world offers and is available even in the middle of storms,…

Jesus wrote you into His will. On the cross He entrusted His mother to John, His spirit to the Father, and—astonishingly—His peace to you. In a world of frantic schedules, bad news, and inner…

The Bible is a diverse collection of God-inspired writings that tells one sweeping story: God created humanity, humanity rebelled, and God set a plan in motion to restore the relationship. Although…

Jesus promises that, because God is good and always provides, His people never have to live in worry. From Matthew 6 He shows three anchors that break the cycle of anxiety—remembering our Father’s…

Jesus promises that because God is good and always provides, we don’t have to live trapped in worry. From Matthew 6 He shows us how anxious thoughts poison peace, stunt joy, and never solve a…

Following Jesus changes us inwardly, yet Scripture shows that transformation happens best with other believers. The early church lived, worshiped, and served together, proving faith is never only…

Life often feels like a treadmill stuck on high speed—no matter how hard we run, the list only grows. Today’s message confronts that exhaustion and points us to Jesus’ promise in Matthew 11: if you…

Life moves at treadmill-speed—faster and faster until we feel we might fly off the belt. In this final message of the “He Promises” series, Pastor Craig shows that Jesus answers our exhaustion with…

God values rest so deeply that He modeled it at creation, built it into Israel’s law, and embodied it through Jesus. In a culture that prizes hurry and productivity, we are invited to resist…

On this Mother’s Day message, the pastor contrasts two realities: without Christ we are dead in sin and never “enough,” yet in Christ we are God’s own masterpiece, created for specific good works…

Craig Groeschel launches the series “Who Do You Think You Are?” on Mother’s Day by confronting the gap between how we see ourselves and how God sees us. We often feel inadequate, yet God declares…

There is no such thing as a “normal” Christian. If you are in Christ, you have been made new and dispatched into the world as Heaven’s representative. The Apostle Paul calls that role “ambassador.”…

If you are in Christ, nothing about you is “normal.” The old is gone, the new has come, and God has appointed you as His representative on earth. Pastor Craig shows why every believer is an…