Discover The Book MinistriesGHS-27 041114AM Perhaps the most fruitful servant of the Lord in the New Testament was Paul the Apostle. Perhaps the most afflicted, pressured, troubled man in the New Testament was Paul the Apostle. Perhaps the most useful servant of the Lord in the New Testament was Paul the Apostle. Do you see […]
Growing Mark
GHS-26 041107AM What does God the Father want from each of us believers today? Life long growth in abiding fruitfully in Jesus. When your body stops growing—your abiding fruitfully should not. When your financial worth stops growing– your abiding fruitfully should not. When your power and influence on earth stop growing– your abiding fruitfully should […]
How Does God Help Us Grow?
GHS-25 041024AM Most of us long to have something from our earthly existence — that will endure. Life is so fragile, time is so fleeting, and things are so temporal. What are you involved with that is bigger than you? What are you doing that will last forever? What are you seeking that […]
Who Controls You?
GHS-24 041017AM MARK -67 ABIDING SATISFIED Fruitfulness Explained: John 15.1-8 Abiding Fruitful “Who controls you?” There in one word that determines everything about your future – control. Who is going to control your life – you or God? Who is going to take up your time – you or the Lord? What is going to […]
The Good Heart From the Inside Out
GHS-23 041010AM Jesus compared Himself to a grape vine, us to branches growing out of that vine – and God our Father as a Gardener walking up and down the rows of branches growing out of Christ our Vine. What I just said is the heart of Christ’s message to His disciples and to us. […]
The Good Heart Grows In Clean Soil
GHS-22 041003AM How far down the road of life have you walked? Most Americans die at about 75 years old. Are you halfway or more through a normal lifetime yet? How much of last week was deposited in Heaven? How much of your time and energies were used by the Lord for His purposes and […]
Abides Satisfied
GHS-21 040919AM Mark -64 Fruitfulness Explained: John 15.1-8 Abiding Satisfied I carry with me a reminder of the incredible plan God has for me, everywhere I go. It is a piece of gold. Most of you here this morning have one too. It is a ring. If you have anything made of gold, silver, or […]
Abides Sanctified
GHS-20 040912am Mark -63 Fruitfulness Explained: John 15.1-8 Abiding Sanctified We need to do a self-checkup of our spiritual health. Are you distant these days from God? Can you hardly remember the last time your life was fruitful? Do you feel far from joy and peace, victory and blessing? Do you hope that no one […]
Abides Crucified
GHS-19 040829AM Mark -62 Fruitfulness Explained: John 15.1-8 Abiding Crucified This morning the key to all you and I will ever be is summed up by two words “in Christ”. Our identification with Him in His work on the Cross brought us salvation. Our continuing with Him brings everlasting rewards. When we were saved we […]
Run the Race, Look to Jesus
GHS-18 040822AM Mark-60 Fruitfulness Explained-3 Fruitfulness Explained: John 15.1-8 Run the Race, Look to Jesus This morning we are looking at what God wants from everyone of us who live in the body He made for us. This body is His Temple and what we do with this temple will be the basis for our […]
Christ Abides in My Actions
GHS-17 040815AM Mark -60 Christ wants to Abide in my Actions Fruitfulness Explained: John 15.1-8 Christ wants to abide in my actions As Paul sat to write the words we will read this morning, he may have glanced out the window of his room along the busy streets of Corinth, watching the flow of athletes […]
God is Faithful
GHS-16 040808AM Mark-59 God is Faithful Learning God’s Faithfulness Lamentation 3 One of the greatest blessings of life is to know God. Knowing God means that He also knows us. God knowing us means He knows life hurts at times. When ever I go through hard times, sad times, dark times, discouraging times – I […]
Christ Abides in My Attitudes
GHS-15 040725AM Mark -58 Christ Abiding in my Attitude Fruitfulness Explained: John 15.1-8 Christ wants to Abide – In my Attitude This morning God expects fruit in the life of His children. That fruit comes from a good heart. That good heart is made good by God in a process called the new birth. We […]
Christ Abides in My Time & Treasures
GHS-14 040718AM Mark -57 Fruitfulness Explained The Good Life – Bears Fruit Mark 4.8 & 20 Fruitfulness Explained: John 15.1-8 Christ wants to Abide – In my Time & Treasures God has big plans for you this morning – if you are His child. He wants to “yield a crop” in you and in me. […]
The Good Heart Bears Fruit
GHS-13 040711AM Mark -56 The Good Heart Bears Fruit For Jesus The Good Life – Bears Fruit Mark 4.8 & 20 God has a big plan for you and me; He wants us to make something out of our time. Time like electricity flows around us and remains unseen and useless — unless it is […]
The Good Heart Lives for Jesus
GHS-12 040704AM Are you living the “good life” this morning? For many that idea of the “good life” would evoke financial security, great health, abundant pleasures, and constant freedoms. But sadly most of those pursuing that ‘good life” never find it; and what they thought was lasting fades; and what they thought was secure gets […]
The Good Heart Accepts the Word
GHS-11 The Good Heart Accepts The Word 040627AM The Good Heart – Accepts the Word Mark 4:20 Open with me to Mark 4.20 where Jesus explains that the Good Heart – Accepts the Word. With the death and burial of our 40th President there has been a national resurrection of discussions about the greatness of […]
The Good Heart
GHS-10 The Good Heart 040523AM The Good Heart Mark 4.1-20 One day, in one verse — Jesus describes everyone in the world that will go to Heaven. And in five other verses He describes those who will not. Have you ever reflected on His descriptions? Jesus said the words we are about to read as […]
The Crowded Heart
GHS-09 The Crowded Heart 040516AM The Crowded Heart Mark 4:7, 18-29 One day Jesus compared life to a field, people to soil, the Gospel to seed, and eternal life to a crop of harvested righteousness. Jesus also classified everyone on Earth as either – “Wayside” or The Hard Heart, “Rocky” or The Shallow Heart, “Thorny” […]
The Shallow Heart
GHS-08 Shallow Lives 040509AM Shallow Lives Mark 4.1-20 Today we come to the second soil in Christ’s parable. This second soil illustrates a second heart. Last time we saw the wayside or hardened heart. This time we will examine the stony or shallow heart. Please open your Bibles with me to Christ’s sermon about The […]
The Hard Heart
GHS-07 The Hard Heart 040425AM Wayside Hearts Today we return to perhaps the greatest story Jesus ever told. The depths of the message of these few words, is astounding. Christ’s insight into human nature is piercing. His analysis of human responsibility is sobering. And His explanation of life around us should make us pay much […]
Four Hearts-One Soil
GHS-06 Four Hearts – One Soil 040418AM One Soil and Four Hearts! Its been a long day. Jesus started the day teaching inside a home (Mark 3.20-21) and was approached by His own family who tried to “arrest” Him and drag Him back to Nazareth so they could ‘take care of Him’. Then He was […]
Do You Have a Personal Relationship with Jesus?
GHS-05 Do You Have a Personal Relationship with Jesus 040307AM How is your Relationship with Jesus? Who is in Christ’s Family? Do you have a Personal Relationship with Jesus? Mark 3.31-35 The most important question you will every be asked to answer is the question – “Do you have a personal relationship with Jesus Christ?” […]
All Sins are Forgivable
GHS-04 040222AM MARK 41.44 ALL SINS FORGIVEN COMPLETELY/ABSOLUTELY FORGIVEN The Miracle of Complete Forgiveness Mark 3.20-30 The New Testament records 37 miracles1 that Jesus performed during His earthly ministry. These include sight to the blind, hearing to the deaf, life to the dead, health to the sick – and many other tremendous miracles supernaturally performed […]
The Unpardonable Sin
GHS-03 THE UNPARDONABLE SIN 040208AM THE SIN FOR WHICH THERE IS NO FORGIVENESS Mark 3.20-30 As we open to Mark 3 today, we open to Jesus walking on this earth and confronting the Scribes, men of the Word. As we prepare to read the 11 verses that record that event stop and think what I […]
The Gospel Explained by Peter
GHS-02 The Gospel Explained by Peter 040201AM The Gospel According to Peter Was Peter the Pope? People need heroes. Part of life is looking up to someone, being inspired by them, and rising to greater levels of accomplishment in whatever field they represent. There are golfing heroes who inspire; basketball and football heroes who inspire; […]
The Experience of Peter
GHS-01 040125AM The Gospel According to Peter Peter never forgot what Jesus told him at Caesarea Philippi. He knew Christ was the Rock and we are just living stones who are built into His habitation. As we open to the 1st words of the Gospel by Mark – note what they are. “The beginning of […]