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Life.Church celebrates a year of “irrational generosity,” showing how your giving of time and resources is transforming lives locally and around the world. The update highlights three arenas of…
Waiting feels like wasted time, yet Jesus shows that delay can carry divine purpose. John 11 recounts Mary, Martha, and Lazarus—close friends of Jesus—who expected a quick healing. Instead, Jesus…
God can fix an air-conditioner with one prayer and yet appear silent while a teenage girl fights for her life. The gap between what He could do and what He actually does forces us to wrestle with…
The sermon centers on one word—healing. Starting in the Garden of Eden, Jefferson Bethke traces the human story of wounds, hiding, and exile “east of Eden,” then shows how Jesus steps into that…
Christmas marks the moment God entered history in human flesh, splitting time into “before Christ” and “the year of our Lord.” Yet many still live in an AD world with a BC mindset. Craig Groeschel…
Standing on the first weekend of a new year, Pastor Sam Roberts urges the church to “get started.” Looking at Moses’ calling, he shows that God moves ordinary people into extraordinary purpose when…
“Whoever Finds God Finds Life” – The Birth & Rise of Life Church Opening Moments • First memories flood in from a “small little bicycle factory,” rough-edged yet crackling with “excitement,…
On Life.Church’s 20-year anniversary, Pastor Craig looks back to the same passage—and even the same sermon title—he used in the garage on opening Sunday. Acts 2 paints a picture of believers who are…
Life.Church celebrates how God is using the church’s “irrational generosity” to reach people and build faith. The update highlights new facilities that widen ministry reach, revisits Craig…
This worship moment centers on a corporate declaration of absolute devotion to Jesus. Repeated refrains celebrate His limitless love, commit the gathered people to follow Him whatever the cost, and…
Most of us pray safe prayers—“bless me, protect me.” David’s prayer in Psalm 139 is anything but safe. Craig challenges the church to make it a daily, “dangerous” prayer that pulls us out of comfort…
Craig Groeschel continued the “Dangerous Prayers” series by challenging the church to pray, “God, break me.” He warned that this is the hardest of the three prayers—far from the…
Most of our prayers revolve around what God can do for us, yet Scripture shows a far riskier posture: offering ourselves for whatever God wants. Building on Isaiah’s cry, “Here I am, send me,” the…
Life.Church pauses to celebrate why it exists: leading people to become fully devoted followers of Christ. Through stories, numbers, and one man’s testimony, the video highlights three snapshots of…
“Do not judge, or you too will be judged” is quoted more than almost any other verse, yet Jesus was not banning all discernment. By looking at the context of Matthew 7, comparing Scripture with…
Jeremiah 29:11 shows up on coffee mugs, graduation cards, and even Nana’s cross-stitched pillows, yet Pastor Craig reminds us it was first a letter to Jewish exiles in Babylon—not a blank check for…
Paul’s words to Timothy expose the real danger we face: not money itself, but loving it. Craig Groeschel shows how the craving for “a little more” quietly steals our contentment, twists our faith,…
Life.Church celebrates its “bet-the-farm” commitment to reach people far from God. The update spotlights three arenas where that risk-taking generosity is bearing fruit: a student leader who treats…
Parents often grade themselves highly while spotting shortcomings in others, yet common blind spots remain. In this talk the speaker names three frequent errors—shielding children from failure,…
Parents often sabotage their children’s growth without meaning to. Today’s segment highlighted three common pitfalls—being inconsistent, rescuing kids from consequences, and exaggerating their…
This segment walks through Parenting Mistakes 7–9: sheltering children from struggle, giving them unearned rewards, and praising the wrong qualities. Real-world stories—from U.S. classrooms to a…
Pain, effort, and delayed gratification are not enemies of childhood; they are tutors for adulthood. In the final three “parenting mistakes,” the speaker shows how over-protecting, over-doing, and…
On Easter weekend Pastor Craig asked one piercing question: “What does it take to be made right with God?” In a culture that says all spiritual roads lead to the same place, Jesus makes an exclusive…
Forgiveness is at the very heart of loving like Jesus. On the cross He prayed, “Father, forgive them,” displaying a supernatural mercy that now shapes how His followers respond to hurt. Craig…
The night before the cross, Jesus stunned His disciples by stooping to wash their dusty feet (John 13). Pastor Craig shows that the Son of God noticed proud hearts and dirty feet and said, “I can do…
This update celebrates how Life.Church joins the global, capital C Church to reach people for Christ. Through free resources, church-to-church partnerships, the Bible App for Kids curriculum, and…
Jesus not only came to save us—He came “eating and drinking,” showing that life with God is meant to be shared at a table, not lived in isolation. Acts 2 gives a picture of first-century believers…
Michael Jr. weaves stand-up comedy with a simple but weighty message: life is not first about discovering what we should do but why we do it—and ultimately who is speaking into our lives. Through…
We once lived as hostile, self-walled neighbors toward God—“drowning in the mortgage of our flesh’s home.” Now, because Jesus first moved toward us, we are free and responsible to move toward…
Jesus’ story of the Good Samaritan frames Pastor Craig Groeschel’s call for Christians to lead the way against racism. Racism is not merely a social problem or a skin issue—it is a sin issue that…
