Life is learned, and we're all learning how to live from someone.
At the end of the day, we will live our lives in one of three ways, by default, by drift, or by design. Today we wrap up our Sermon on the Mount series. We'll explore two philosophies of life, one religious and one secular, and compare these to a third way, the way of Jesus.
Stay with us. From Chicago, welcome to The Moody Church Hour with Pastor Philip Miller. In a moment, a time of worship and teaching as we conclude a series on the upside-down kingdom. From the Sermon on the Mount, we'll learn about being built for life. Here now is Pastor Philip, along with worship leader, Tim Stefford.
Well, good morning, and welcome to The Moody Church. We're wrapping up our very last message in the Sermon on the Mount, the upside-down kingdom today. It's been a long run, but the Lord has been with us. And I'll tell you, this thing ends with a bang, as Jesus shows us ultimately how his way of life triumphs over every other possible way we can live. So let's stand, let's pray, and we'll begin. Heavenly Father, we thank you that you sent us Jesus Christ to brilliantly, insightfully, and powerfully show us the way to live, to have a life that is built for life, to endure, to last.
It's better than every other kind of life we can construct for ourselves. So Father, would you give us a durable, lasting life through the power of Jesus Christ today? We want to follow him. And it's in his name we pray.
Amen. He is a fortress for you. A mighty fortress is our God.
A bulwark never failing. Our helper, our King, amid the flood, abhors all his prevailing. For sin our ancient foe, doesn't seem to hurt us all.
His craft and power are great, that I'll give through a vane. On earth is God his evil. Did we in our own strength of power, our struggling would be losing? Word of the Lord is right there on our side, the man of God's own choosing. Let's ask who that may be.
Christ Jesus, it is he. What sorrow is made from age to age the same. And he must live in the man of God. And though this world may never see, should nothing to undo us. We will not fear for God our King. It's truth to triumph through us, that brings all darkness near. We tremble out for him, his face we can't endure, for all is to be sure.
One day is all one shall ever be. Oh, that voice of the old earthly house, both thanks to that man of God. The spirit of heaven is your voice, turn him who with us I know.
We'll take him home, his heart of our own soul. The body made, brought to the violent sin, his kingdom is forever. The greatness of our God, worship the Lord today. Jesus is our sure foundation.
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But if you ignore my words and try to build your life on any other word, any other foundation like the religious moralism of the Pharisees, for example, you'll discover in time that it is a life built on sand. It's unstable. It's vulnerable. It's faltering. Jesus is telling us that His word is the only firm foundation for life. That all other words give way in the end. That He's the solid rock and everything else is sinking sand. And it was true in Jesus Day and it's still true in ours. In the first century, Jesus' teaching was the solid rock that showed the Pharisees teaching to be sinking sand, the sinking sand that it really was. And here in the 21st century, what I want to show you today is that Jesus' teaching is still the solid rock against which every other life philosophy ultimately turns out to be sinking sand. We're going to look this morning at three life philosophies. We're going to look at two life philosophies that are arguably the two central dominant life philosophies of our day. One is religious.
One is secular. But both turn out to be sinking sand when compared with the solid rock of Jesus' teaching. So we're taking the Sermon on the Mount and we're bringing it full contextual to our moment today. And the presentation that Jesus gives us is build your life on the rock of my teaching. Everything else will give way.
Everything else is sand. So this morning we're going to see three things. First, three life philosophies. Moralistic, therapeutic deism.
Are you awake here this morning? Second, expressive individualism. And third, a gospel-centered life in Jesus.
Moralistic, therapeutic deism, expressive individualism, and a gospel-centered life in Jesus. Don't worry. We're going to define all of these this morning. But before we do that, let's pray together.
Would you bow your heads? Let's pray. Father, we need to learn how to live today. And we look to Jesus. Teach us where to put the roots of our life, the foundation, the pylons of the structures of our life. Help us to embed them in the durable rock of the teaching of the word of Jesus Christ, the immovable, enduring, lasting rock. We pray this in Christ's name. Amen.
Amen. So first of all, moralistic, therapeutic deism. It's a term you hear every day. It was actually coined by a sociologist named Christian Smith with a co-author, Melinda Lindquist Denton. They did research. This is back in 2005, a very groundbreaking bit of research in a book called Soul Searching, the Religious and Spiritual Lives of American Teenagers. All of these teenagers are now adults.
So this is millennials, late millennials, early Gen Z. And they were doing research on the actual personal beliefs of American teens, not what their churches taught them, but what they personally believed about God. What was their functional religious commitments? And in the research across states and denominations, they kept running into the same set of theological views, doctrinal views, but they didn't line up with traditional Christianity.
And so they didn't know what to do with this. They eventually labeled it, they created this title, moralistic therapeutic deism. This is what they write, we have come with some confidence to believe that a significant part of Christianity in the United States is actually only tenuously Christian in any sense that is seriously connected to the actual historical Christian tradition, but is rather substantially morphed into Christianity's misbegotten step cousin, moralistic therapeutic deism.
Now you have to break this down. Let's look at each of those three words, moralistic. So in this world view, this philosophy of life, moralistic, I have to be a good person. Moralistic. Therapeutic, because that's the only way to have a whole and happy life.
What I really want is to be whole and happy and if I have to be good, I'll do it because apparently that's what God requires. Deism, because this is how God built the world to work. Deism is the view that God made the world and then kind of left it to run on its own.
He's not personally involved very much. So it's like God wound up the clock of the universe, it runs by particular sets of rules that he determined and it just ticks, ticks, ticks away. And if you can figure out the rules of the system, you can figure out how to live well in the system, but God's basically at a distance.
Okay? Does that make sense? Deism.
So you put it all together. Moralistic therapeutic deism says God set up the world, deism, to reward good people, moralism, with good lives, therapeutic. So moralistic therapeutic deism. The researchers identified five core beliefs in this worldview. Number one, a God exists who created and ordered the world and watches over human life on earth. Number two, God wants people to be good, nice and fair to each other as taught in the Bible and by most world religions. Three, the central goal of life is to be happy and to feel good about oneself. Four, God does not need to be particularly involved in one's life except when God is needed to resolve a problem.
Five, good people go to heaven when they die. The researchers write, this is not a religion of repentance from sin, of keeping the Sabbath, of living as a servant of sovereign deity, of steadfastly saying one's prayers, of faithfully observing high holy days, of building character through suffering, of basking in God's love and grace, of spending oneself in gratitude and love for the cause of justice, et cetera. Rather, what appears to be the actual dominant religion – listen, the actual dominant religion among U.S. teenagers is centrally about feeling good, happy, secure and at peace. It's about obtaining subjective well-being, being able to resolve problems and get along amiably with other people. That's what moralistic therapeutic deism looks like.
We can summarize it this way. God set up the world to work best for those who live rightly. So if you want a whole and happy life now in heaven when you die, be good. Be good.
Bottom line, be good. The researchers tell us that for a huge number of Christians in the U.S., this is actually their belief system, their actual lived belief system. This is Christianity at the popular level. And it's deceptive because it's partially true, isn't it?
It's partially true. God did make the world to work best when we live His way. And we do find ourselves more whole and happy and joyous when we obey God. But it's not the gospel, is it? It's not the gospel. Moralistic therapeutic deism is sand. If you build your life on it, it is shifting, shaking, sinking.
Let me show you why. First of all, it gives you an identity that's like a roller coaster. Your identity is like a roller coaster. If you're trying to be good enough so that God will bless you with the good life that you want, your life is built on your own performance. And on your good days when you read your Bible and you say your prayers and you go to church and you give a little money to the poor, when you start to feel good about yourself and you get self-assured and you get entitled and you look and say, see God, I did good today.
And you're doing well and you sit a little higher. And then on your bad days, when that sin you're fighting creeps up and it gets you again. When you sleep in and miss your Bible reading and you don't say your prayers and you walk past the poor person, you're full of self-reproach and misery because you failed. And you're like, don't look at me God today. Look at me on my good days.
Don't look at me on my bad days. See in moralistic therapeutic deism, you have really high highs and extremely miserable lows. And you never really know where you stand with God. It gives you a heart that's dominated by pride and fear.
When you're doing well, you get a little self-righteous and you look down with condemnation on other people who can't get their act together. When you're due poorly, you're full of self-loathing and crippling fear. And you're scared you're going to get found out. And so you run and you hide. And it leads to a life that wears a mask. You end up wearing a mask.
You're a hypocrite to use Jesus' language. You wear the mask. You're always posturing, projecting, betraying yourself the way you wish you were. But underneath you're haunted by the sense that you're a fraud, scared that the real you will be found out. And then when hardship comes into your life, it creates a crisis. Because when the storms of life hit you and they hit everybody, if you've been a relatively good person, like all your siblings broke your parents' heart, but you've been keeping your nose clean, and you think God's blessing your life because you've been good, the moment something hard hits your life, like you get sick or lose your job or go through a messy breakup, you have a crisis. Because either God's not holding up his end of the deal or you have somehow failed. But either way, you don't know how to handle the suffering when it comes. And the foundation starts to chip away and erode. And in the end, friends, moralistic therapeutic deism is crushing. It is utterly crushing because you will never be good enough. It's a never-ending treadmill to nowhere. It will not impress God in the end. You're only setting yourself up to fail.
And I'm amazed at how well the heart of moralistic therapeutic deism was captured by Elsa in the movie Frozen. Listen, I have young daughters, okay? But listen to this line. Don't let them in. Don't let them see. Be the good girl you always have to be.
Conceal, don't feel, put on a show, make one wrong move and everyone will know. That's moralistic therapeutic deism in a song. And if you try to build your life this way, it simply cannot support the weight of your own soul, of your own life.
You will not be able to handle the pressures that come your way in life and in the end it collapses. Moralistic therapeutic deism is sinking sand. Okay? Number two. I told you we're going to look at two central life philosophies. One religious moralistic therapeutic deism.
We just did that. And now one secular. Expressive individualism. Expressive individualism. In his masterful book Habits of the Heart, Robert Bellah traces the development of expressive individualism from its seed form in Jean-Jacques Rousseau and his concept of the inner psychological autobiography and the poetry of Walt Whitman as it has advanced now to the kinds of slogans that just simply saturate our world.
Things like be true to yourself, find yourself, follow your heart, be yourself or my favorite, you do you. Yuval Levine says in the Fractured Republic, this term expressive individualism suggests not only a desire to pursue one's own path but also a yearning for fulfillment through the definition and articulation of one's own identity. It's a drive to be more like whatever you already are and also to live in society by fully asserting who you are. The capacity of individuals to define the terms of their own existence by defining their own personal identities is increasingly equated with liberty and with the meaning of some of our basic rights. And it is given pride of place in our self understanding. Charles Taylor in A Secular Age writes that the understanding of life which emerges with the romantic expressivism of the late 18th century that each one of us has his or her own way of realizing our humanity and that it is important to find and live out one's own as against surrendering to conformity with a model imposed on us from outside by society or the previous generation or religious or political authority.
As Mark Sayers puts it in Disappearing Church, the highest good is individual freedom, happiness, self-definition and self-expression. In expressive individualism, life is about finding our deepest inner self and expressing it authentically in the face of all expectations. So if you want a whole and happy life, be yourself.
This is how it goes. Be yourself. Look inside yourself where I don't know but just look in and find the inner spark of who you are. And in the face of everyone's expectations, family, societal, moral, religious, whatever, express that identity to the world and say, this is me.
And of course there's two criteria embedded in here. Whatever identity you find has to be contrary to the expectations of the traditional authorities in your life and it has to fit with the progressive culture of the moment because if you don't do it quite right, you get cancelled. So it's got to be different from what your parents would want or your religion would want or traditional culture would want. It's got to be different and it's got to be in conformity with the societal expectations of the moment which are ever-changing, right? But it has to conform or you get cancelled.
So those are the two criteria. And again, Elsa, Frozen, depicts this so well in another song, Let It Go, right? As she casts off – you guys think it's hilarious that I even watch this movie, right? As she casts off the moral structures of her upbringing and lets it go, listen to these words, it's time to see what I can do. To test the limits and break through. No right, no wrong, no rules for me.
I'm free. Do you see? That's a religion there. That's a whole life philosophy. That's our cultural moment. You'll see it in marketing and advertising, in music, in cinema. It's inescapable. And it's so deceptive because it's partially true.
Because God did make you with unique beauties that are personal to you that are meant to be shared with the world. It's true that moralism engenders a kind of fear that makes people run and hide. And there is real freedom in coming out into the light and being known. And yet this is not the gospel.
It's not the gospel. Expressive individualism is sand. If you try to build your life on it, it's shifting and shaking and sinking. For example, it gives you an identity that is full of endless searching. It gives you an identity that's full of endless searching. Friends, if you look down inside yourself, what you will find is not a neatly ordered, unified self. Like you can just go down there and go, ah, there I am.
This is me. No, it's not that simple. What we find on the inside of ourselves is rather fragmented, robustly complex, and actually highly conflicted. Deep down, for example, deep down, I want to be free. I want to be utterly free and unencumbered.
I don't want anybody telling me what to do. And I also want to be loved and to love in return. And I can't have both. If I'm in love, I have to surrender part of my freedom because love requires sacrifice, doesn't it? I have to give up freedom for love. So which one am I? Am I the guy that wants freedom or the guy that wants love?
Another example. Am I the guy who wants to be skinny? Or am I the guy who likes deep dish pizza? Or am I the guy who kicks himself after he eats deep dish pizza?
Or am I the guy who makes light of it by telling a little bit of a joke on Sunday morning? Am I who I am today? Or am I who I was 10 years ago? Or am I who I will be in 10 years? How many of you look back on yourself 10 years ago and go, oh, man, what a... I'm so glad I'm not that guy anymore. Well, you know that your 10-year-old future self thinks that about you right now, right?
So which one do you build your life on? Am I fixed and immovable inside? Or am I malleable and growing? I mean, if we're honest, we have good days. We have bad days. Sometimes I want to party. Sometimes I want to be alone. Sometimes I'm feeling super creative. Sometimes I'm like super highly logical.
Much of the time, I don't even know which way is up. I'm super confused about whoever I am. I don't know why I did what I did.
I don't know why I feel the way I feel. And I find myself thinking far too often, I've just found myself today. If you're not yourself, who are you?
Here's the point. You'll never get to the bottom of yourself. To know yourself is an endless search. And it's pretty lousy to do it on your own. If you try to build your life on what's on the inside of you, it's sinking sand. It's not a great place to build your life.
And it leads to a heart that's dominated by anxiousness. Your life is full of anxiousness. Listen, if your task in life is to build your life on your own self, you're always going to be wondering if you're enough. Am I special enough? Am I real enough? Am I authentic enough? Am I unique enough? Because we're all filtering, you can't be everything that's inside of you because you're mutually conflicted, contradictory. You're always filtering and then you wonder, did I let the right part of me out?
Did I choose well? And that culture is always changing and who I was in one moment that was celebrated might be taboo next year. Which leads to a life of loneliness. It's a life of loneliness because listen, if you reject outside acceptance by definition and you're left with an expressive individualism, by definition, you're by yourself. You're alone. It's like Elsa tells Anna, I'm alone but I'm alone and free. Right?
You still can't believe I'm doing this. All right. But eventually the loneliness catches up to us. And in the end, when hardship hits our lives, it triggers despair. Because whatever inner spark you build your life on, friends, one day we'll get lost.
What do I mean? You build your life on intellect or beauty or artistry or sexuality or athleticism or your wit or your creativity. Eventually age and infirmity and mental decline will come and take it all. And that means the end is crushing. Friends, it's an enormous way to carry your own self-definition all the way through to the end of your life. It's an enormously crushing way to have to be yourself and be successful in whatever that means. We're always haunted by the self we could be. We're never enough. If you try to build your life on yourself, it simply cannot support the weight of your own soul.
It won't be enough to handle the pressures in life that come your way and in the end it collapses. Expressive individualism, friends, it's sinking sand. You say, well, that's rather depressing so far. Can't you give us some good news?
I'm glad you asked. Third point, the gospel-centered life in Jesus. The gospel-centered life in Jesus. If moralistic therapeutic deism is about building my life on what I do, then it's all on me and I have to do enough, right? And if expressive individualism is building my life on who I am, then it's still all on me to be enough, right? But a gospel-centered life in Jesus, if I'm building my life there, I'm building my life on whose I am.
Whose I am. And it's all about Jesus. It's all on Jesus and Jesus is always enough. Jesus is always enough. Friends, we were made for abundant life with God. A relationship we lost because of sin, but one that Jesus gave himself to restore. So if you want a whole and happy life with God now and forever, believe in Jesus.
This is the gospel. Believe in Jesus. The Bible tells us that we were made for abundant life with God. That you were handcrafted in his image and likeness, fearfully and wonderfully made to have a relationship with God. Each one of us is unique and special, a gift from God to be shared with the world and with himself for eternity. But in our sin and selfishness, we've invited decay and ruin into ourselves, into our lives, into our world, into all of our relationships, including our relationship with God. And the wages of our sin is death. But God so loved the world that he gave his one and only son that whosoever would believe in him might not perish, but have everlasting life.
Friends, Jesus came and lived a perfect life, loving God with all of his heart, soul, mind and strength and loved his neighbor as himself. And then he went to the cross to die in our place and for our sake, to bear all of our sin and shame, to exchange his life for ours and rise again to give us his own perfect righteousness to make us sons and daughters of God now and forever, which means friends, we have an identity that is inherently stable. It's an identity that's inherently stable. Instead of an identity that oscillates based off my moral performance that's up one day and down the next, or an identity that's built on the squishy, ill-defined inner life of myself, in Christ, I have been given by grace an identity that is founded on the character of God in the finished work of Jesus Christ on my behalf. Do you realize how durable and unshakable, it's as resilient as Jesus is?
And that identity does not waver based off of what I do. On my good days, Jesus is enough. On my bad days, Jesus is enough. When I act like myself, Jesus is enough. When I'm not myself, Jesus is enough.
Do you believe that? It also gives us a heart that's fully secure. It's a fully secure heart. In Christ, friends, we have nothing to fear, nothing to hide, and nothing to prove. Our lives are hidden in Christ. We are called, beloved, and kept for Jesus Christ. And nothing can separate us from the love of God that is in Christ Jesus, our Lord, which gives us a life that is both known and loved. We are known and loved. Friends, do you realize in Jesus, you are fully known.
You're known completely. And you are loved utterly to the very bottom of who you are, and you are forgiven entirely for everything that's gone wrong. And in the hardships that inevitably come your way, you have a God who will never leave you, who will never forsake you, who will work all things together for the good of those who love Him, who are called according to His purpose, to conform us to the image of Jesus Christ, which is the life we were meant to have in the very beginning. It's the person we were meant to be all along. The hard things of life press us deeper into the arms of a God who will never let us go, which means in the end, we have life.
We have life, eternal, abundant, everlasting, overflowing, unending life, beginning right now in Jesus' sacrificial love, continuing daily as we walk by the Spirit and live by His power, and forever in glory with our Father, fully one day. This is beautiful. It's interesting. I've got to go back to Elsa again, all right? If you think about it, the story of Frozen is how Elsa moves from like a therapeutic moralism, right? The deism, if you're struggling with that, think of her parents, her parents who loved her but are gone. It's kind of like, that's God. That's the picture of deism, okay? God's there, but He's gone. Moralistic, therapeutic deism.
Be the good girl you always have to be. She moves to what our culture believes is life, expressive individualism. No right, no wrong, no rules for me, I'm free. And that's the song, if you think about it, that our culture grabbed a hold of and said, this is the movie. But if you look at the plot line of the story, it's at the moment of tragedy because love is an open door and Elsa slams the door in defiance, right?
It's the opposite of love. And the world is frozen over just like her heart. How does everything get put to right in the story? Anna pursues her sister in relentless love, bearing the ice curse in her own flesh, throwing herself between Elsa and death, laying her life down in sacrificial love and rising to life because of the power of her act of true love. And Elsa says, you sacrificed yourself for me? And Anna says, I love you. And then love becomes the ethic of Elsa's life as she finally learns to use her power in loving service of other people around her. Whose story is that?
Whose story is that? You say, I can't believe Disney made a movie like that. Well, they didn't really.
They tried hard not to. But it's based off of Hans Christian Anderson's The Snow Queen, and he was a follower of Jesus, and he wrote a gospel story, and you can't resolve the plot line without this moment. And it's pointing, don't you see, it's pointing to Jesus who pursued us in relentless love, who bore our curse in his own flesh, and threw himself between us and death and laid down his life in loving sacrifice to rise again victorious over sin, death, and Satan forever so that we might learn to walk in love as Christ loved us and gave himself up for us.
This is a beautiful gospel story. So the question at the end of the day for all of us, friends, is on whom is your life built? On whom is your life built? If I'm building my life on what I do, moralistic therapeutic deism, then I'm building a life on who I am.
Do you see that? On what I do. It's on me. Or if I build my life on who I am through expressive individualism, I'm still building my life on myself. In both ways, I'm building life on myself, and I'll never be enough.
Either way, I'll never be enough. It's a life of sand. But if I build my life on whose I am, on the life of Jesus, at the end of the day, my life is built on Jesus Christ and he will always be enough in this life and in eternity. It's a life built on a rock.
And the rain fell and the floods came and the winds blew and beat against that house, but it did not fall because it had been founded on a rock. Jesus says, repent for the kingdom of heaven is at hand. Stop your whole way of living and rearrange your life around this amazing offer to follow Jesus.
You, come, follow me. Let's pray. Father, teach us to live in this upside down kingdom where unrighteous people like us can be righteous in Christ. Where lost selves find themselves forever in Christ. It's a life lived by grace through faith in Christ alone. This is the upside down kingdom of God and the right side up way of life. Help us, we pray, in Christ's name.
Amen. On today's Moody Church Hour, we heard Pastor Philip Miller telling us about being built for life. This has been the last in a 24 part series from the Sermon on the Mount in the book of Matthew. The central theme of the book of Malachi is found in chapter 3 verse 7.
Return to me and I will return to you. As people whose hearts are prone to wander, we need the words of Malachi to comprehend God's tough love and tender mercies for our doubting hearts. Next time, we focus on doubting God's love. The Moody Church Hour is a listener supported ministry. We count on the ongoing financial support of listeners like you. Together, we share solid biblical teaching that transforms lives across America and around the world. You can call us at 1-800-215-5001.
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