I don't know about you but sometimes when people say The Lord spoke to me I wonder What exactly do they mean If you struggle to understand what and how God is speaking to you then don't miss this program As he picks up in his series Trusting Jesus No Matter What Chip will teach us how to hear from God and the way it can strengthen our faith [... more]

The letter from ldquo Jason rdquo an inmate surprised my wife and me We ldquo foster rdquo puppies to become service dogs assisting people with disabilities One such puppy had graduated to the next training phase which was run by prisoners who have been taught how to train the dogs Jason rsquo s letter to us said ldquo Snickers is the seventeenth dog I rsquo ve trained and she is the best one When I see her looking up at me I feel like I rsquo m finally doing something right rdquo Jason isn rsquo t the only one with [... more]

We tend to think of people who do big things as invincible but everyone is susceptible to trials Even Elijah who called fire down from Heaven faced the burden of depression Pastor Greg Laurie speaks of what to do when your emotions are in disarray Notes If we want to see God work we must do our part Don't wait for the fire of God to fall on you again You need to repair your altar first If you have lost the spark the romance the love in your marriage then do loving things again God is never asleep at [... more]

In the Ecuadorian volcano Sangay erupted The BBC described the ldquo dark ash plume which reached a height of more than m rdquo The discharge covered four provinces about acres in gray ash and grimy soot The sky turned dingy and grim and the air was thick mdash making it difficult to breathe Farmer Feliciano Inga described the unnerving scene to El Comercio newspaper ldquo We didn rsquo t know where all this dust was coming from We saw the sky go dark and grew afraid rdquo The Israelites experienced a similar fear at the base of Mount Sinai as [... more]

We stared at the piles of donated shoes as we entered a local homeless shelter The director had invited our youth group to help sort through the heaps of used footwear We spent the morning searching for matches and lining them up in rows across the concrete floor At the end of the day we threw away more than half of the shoes because they were too damaged to give to people Though the shelter couldn rsquo t stop people from giving poor quality items they refused to distribute shoes that were in bad condition The Israelites struggled with giving [... more]

In this Sunday morning message Pastor Greg Laurie examines how Moses models the intimacy you can experience with God Turn in your Bible to Exodus and follow along as we continue to look at the life of Moses in a series called Water Fire Stone Notes So the Lord spoke to Moses face to face as a man speaks to his friend Exodus Moses offers himself in the place of the people Prayer is not getting your will in Heaven but God's will on Earth Moses asks for Divine direction Moses asks for confirmation The Lord replied to Moses 'I [... more]