Family Talk
If an unbelieving friend walked into your church on Sunday, what would he or she discover? A place of joy and love or a place of discontent? Unity in the congregation or cliques and social castes? Stephen warns us that if the local church isn't a place where unbelievers find a reason to believe, it will be a place where they find reasons not to.
Drifting
Confession to God is the key to a connection with God. When we're not confessing . . . we're probably not connecting.
Ordinary Prayers from Ordinary People
It's easy for us to think that God hears only the prayers of the most devout Christians, isn't it? But in this message, Stephen proposes that if God only paid attention to the saintliest of saints . . . none of us would ever be heard! Join him now as he encourages us with the truth that God accepts "Ordinary Prayers from Ordinary People."
Does Prayer + Oil = Healing?
What does the Apostle James mean when he says, "The Prayer offered in faith will restore the one who is sick and the Lord will raise him up?" Does this verse support the existence of faith healers? Is it a promise that strong Christians will never need hospitals and health clinics? Stephen gives us some much-needed insight.
Honest to God ... and Everyone Else
If Christianity rises and falls on Christ's integrity, then our testimony of Christ to others rises and falls on our integrity.
Following the Footprints
Consider Job. He wrestled with doubt, depression, and frustration with God, yet he didn't fall into the trap of blaming God like we so often do. So what was his secret? What kept him faithful even in the midst of intense suffering? The Apostle James tells us.
Observations from a Farm
When you think of the word "endurance," what comes to your mind? A marathon? A battlefield? A hospital room? When the Apostle James wrote about endurance, he thought of a farm. Stephen tells us why.
True Confessions, Part 2
Have you ever had someone apologize to you and you knew they weren't sorry? On the other hand, have you ever had someone apologize to you and you knew they were sorry? What was the difference between the two confessions? What made one real and the other false? Stephen gives us the answer from Scripture.
True Confessions, Part 1
Have you ever had someone apologize to you and you knew they weren't sorry? On the other hand, have you ever had someone apologize to you and you knew they were sorry? What was the difference between the two confessions? What made one real and the other false? Stephen gives us the answer from Scripture.
Under God's Good Hand
If you want to please God then be good as He is good. Be a good employee, a good boss, a good parent, a good student, a good mechanic, a good doctor. In this message Stephen challenges us to demonstrate to a lost world that God doesn't just save lives . . . He changes them as well.