The Book of Chronicles: How Trusting God Wins Your Battle
This land will not be healed unless God's people once again trust God and cry out to him. The solution is to go to Almighty God in faith and seek him in prayer.
The Book of Chronicles: How to Turn Pain into Blessing, Part 2
Prayer is not magic. We do not seek to manipulate a god with certain styles of speech—that's a pagan way of thinking about it. Jesus speaks against that when he says: do not pray like the pagans, who think they'll be heard because of their many words. Josh Moody says that prayer needs to be on the top of our list of priorities, and we must learn better how to pray.
The Book of Chronicles: How to Turn Pain into Blessing, Part 1
We live in a day when we are very much aware of the opinions of others about us, on social media and elsewhere. In 1 Chronicles, what makes Jabez different is that he was willing to go against the flow of his brothers and peers.
The Coming of the Lord: Asking and Urging
If you're thinking to yourself, "I can't keep on going," that's not the issue. The issue is that God will keep on going. "He who called you is faithful; he will surely do it."
The Coming of the Lord: Encourage One Another, Part 2
We are looking forward to a new heaven, a new earth, a new body, and a whole new universe. Our focus on Christ's second coming gives a whole new purpose to our lives today.
The Coming of the Lord: Encourage One Another, Part 1
Our mortality is real, but Christians do not die in the sense that they will not be separated from God. We may become physically dead, but we're spiritually alive. Pastor Josh teaches how Christians can approach their physical death in a very different way.
The Coming of the Lord: A Life That Pleases God
Some people spend their whole lives looking for a church that fits their preferences—but that's not the point of church! When we love people who are very different from us, it says to the world that these are Jesus' disciples, because the only reason we'd do so is because God is teaching us to.
The Coming of the Lord: An Exemplary Ministry
It can seem like you're not making any difference in ministry whatsoever. The most important parts of ministry are hidden within our hearts—only God knows. As we seek to serve, this passage sets out an encouraging pathway on how we can have an authentic, Christlike, God-honoring ministry.
The Coming of the Lord: An Exemplary Church
When you're a leader, it's very easy to always be thinking about the problems you need to fix and the people associated with those problems. But that's not Paul's approach; he has thanksgiving on his mind. Pastor Josh encourages us that the church can lift Jesus up and build us up in our faith.
Living in Exile: Celebration and Honor
Every person on the face of the globe lives with the shadow of the grave. But a real Christian also lives with the light of the empty tomb. The purpose of the book of Esther is ultimately to point to Christ, but with the story of a rescue and a joyful feast of celebration.