One summer night the birds near our home suddenly erupted into chaotic cawing The squawking intensified as the songbirds sent piercing calls from the trees We finally realized why As the sun set a large hawk swooped from a treetop sending the birds scattering in a screeching frenzy sounding the alarm as they flew from danger In our lives spiritual warnings can be heard throughout Scripture mdash cautions against false teachings for example We may doubt that rsquo s what we rsquo re hearing Because of His love for us however our heavenly Father provides the clarity of Scripture to [... more]

Pastor Greg Laurie's continuing in our Walk This Way series He's taking us into the book of James where we find instruction and direction for walking in the way of Jesus Don't miss this Notes God is angry with me and wants to ruin my life I have loved you with an everlasting love Jeremiah God loves me and accepts me as I am this is the opposite of the first one and is also wrong in a different way God does love you and accepts you as you are but He does not want to leave you that way [... more]

ldquo Will the real person rsquo s name please stand up rdquo That rsquo s the familiar line at the end of the game show To Tell the Truth A panel of four celebrities ask questions of three individuals claiming to be the same person Of course two are impostors but it rsquo s up to the panel to discern the actual person In one challenging episode the celebrities tried to guess ldquo the real Johnny Marks rdquo who wrote the lyrics to ldquo Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer rdquo The celebrities found out just how difficult it is even with [... more]

Jesus said If you remain in me and I in you you will bear much fruit In this message we'll discover how good fruit is produced by a life that's rooted in Christ [... more]

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Jesus offers us His enduring power His disciples were common people of the land who could understand His metaphor of fruit-bearing for the spiritual life In this message we discover the first of three portraits from the vineyard The resulting fruit is sweet to the Father who tends His garden carefully to grow the harvest Click here to listen Duration [... more]

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A man walked into a convenience store in Wollongong Australia put a bill on the counter and asked for change When the clerk opened the cash drawer the man pulled a gun and asked for all the cash in the register which the clerk promptly provided The man took the cash from the clerk and fled leaving the bill on the counter The total amount of cash he got from the drawer Fifteen dollars We all act foolishly at times mdash even if unlike this would-be thief we rsquo re trying to do the right thing The key is how [... more]

Cross the Bridge - [... more]

When World War I erupted in British statesman Sir Edward Grey declared ldquo The lamps are going out all over Europe we shall not see them lit again in our lifetime rdquo Grey was right When the ldquo war to end all wars rdquo finally ended some million had been killed million of them civilians and another million injured While not on the same scale or magnitude devastation can also occur in our personal lives The home workplace church or neighborhood can also be shrouded by the dark specter of conflict This is one of the reasons our God calls [... more]

But the wisdom that is from above is first pure then peaceable gentle and easy to be intreated full of mercy and good fruits without partiality and without hypocrisy James [... more]

But the wisdom that is from above is first pure then peaceable gentle and easy to be intreated full of mercy and good fruits without partiality and without hypocrisy James [... more]

But the wisdom that is from above is first pure then peaceable gentle and easy to be intreated full of mercy and good fruits without partiality and without hypocrisy James [... more]