Discover The Book MinistriesMMG-46 020421AM The heartbeat of God’s Word is worship. Today Jesus defines believers as WORSHIPPERS! So the driving message of salvation is worship. Jesus tells us the only thing God seeks is worship. So, the purpose of salvation is worshiping the God of Heaven. The Scriptures open in Genesis with God walking and talking with […]
Like the Woman at the Well
MMG-45 020414AM This morning please open with me to the woman at the well. In John 4 Jesus has a fascinating talk with a most unlikely candidate for His ministry. No one could have stood in greater[1] contrast to Nicodemus than this woman. He was a Jew, she was a Samaritan, a race that the […]
Snakes, Sinners and the Savior
MMG-44 020407AM One of the best-known verses in the Bible is framed by one of the strangest scenes in the Bible. What are we learning this morning? John 3:16 and the story of Nicodemus. What is the setting? Snakes, Sinners and the Savior. Jesus uses a strange scene, snakes attacking and killing people as the backdrop for John […]
Where Are You on God’s Spiritual Map?
MMG-43 010715AM We are looking at the victorious, overflowing, abundant life Christ offered in the Gospel by John. Are you enjoying this power of Jesus Christ’s victorious life? For the past 2000 years, the effect of Jesus in the lives of those who believe Him is undeniable. If you look around you, around the world, […]
Christ – Source of the Endless Joy-filled Life
MMG-42 010701AM To begin our look at Christ’s offer of endless, overflowing, joy filled life look atJohn 20:31. Last century, blind Helen Lemmel wrote, “O soul are you weary and troubled? No light in the darkness you see? There’s life for a look at the Savior, and life more abundant and free. Turn your eyes […]
Seven Words of Hope and Life
MMG-41 040411AM Jesus lives. The Tomb is empty. Death is defeated. The Grave is opened. God is in control. His Word is true. The Devil is destroyed. Death, Hell, and the Grave are rendered powerless by Christ’s Resurrection. God won. When Jesus rose the disciples were able to talk with Him, learn from Him, and […]
Growing in God
MMG-40 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 a pattern between […]
Growing Mark
MMG-39 041107AM What does God the Father want from each of us believers this morning? Lifelong 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?
MMG-38 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 is eternal? […]
Who Controls You?
MMG-37 041017AM 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 dominate the attention of your mind – your agenda or God’s I am […]
The Good Heart From the Inside Out
MMG-36 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
MMG-35 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 […]
Run the Race, Look to Jesus
MMG-34 040822AM 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 everlasting reward in His Presence. The man that knew more about the Christian […]
Christ Abides in My Actions
MMG-33 040815AM 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 relentlessly pursuing Greek athletic glory. Each day they devotedly streamed into the Greek gymnasiums to train their minds and bodies […]
God is Faithful
MMG-32 040808AM 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 can testify with many of you that the greatest […]
Christ Abides in My Attitudes
MMG-31 040725AM 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 all were born bearing fruit, only it was bad fruit – that is why God saved us, He wanted […]
Christ Abides in My Time & Treasures
MMG-30 040718AM God has big plans for you this morning – if you are His child. He wants to “yield a crop” in you and in me. There are three words in Mark 4 that forever changed my attitude about what I am here on earth to do. I knew that I was saved and […]
The Good Heart Bears Fruit
MMG-29 040711AM 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 captured and harnessed into usefulness. What does God call time in our lives that is harnessed and used and […]
The Good Heart Lives for Jesus
MMG-28 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, what they thought was lasting fades, what they thought was secure gets lost, what they thought was pleasure […]
The Good Heart Accepts the Word
MMG-27 040627AM With the death and burial of our 40th President there has been a national resurrection of discussions about the greatness of Ronald Regan’s life. Perhaps the single greatest event he is remembered for is breaking down the walls of Communism and opening freedom to so many. The Iron Curtain enslaved millions largely because […]
The Good Heart
MMG-26 040523AM 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 a warning for some (Watch out – you […]
The Crowded Heart
MMG-25 040516AM 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” or The Crowded Heart, or “Good” which is the Fruitful […]
Are You Marked – John 10?
MMG-24 020609AM In John 10 we find Jesus the Good Shepherd who came to seek and save the lost. He died for the sin of the world and offers salvation to all the world. He says there is only one entrance but it is wide enough for all who want to enter. And for those […]
Blind Eyes Made to See
MMG-23 020602AM The world according to Jesus is divided into two groups: Those that are in darkness, the spiritually blind and Those that have sight, the spiritually seeing. There are only two kinds of people. There’s no half sight. There are no partially blind. You either see or you are totally blind. As the country […]
The Shallow Heart
MMG-22 040509AM This morning 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 Shallow Heart. Mark 4.5-6; 16-17. […]
The Hard Heart
MMG-21 040425AM This morning 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 closer attention to our […]
Four Hearts- One Soil
MMG-20 040418AM 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 attacked by the religious leaders (Mark 3.22-30) who said He […]
Is There Another Way to God–through Mary?
MMG-19 040314AM There are really two ultimate questions in life. 1st – “Do you have a personal relationship with God?” And once you answer that, 2nd – “Is there another way to God?” We are in the Gospel by Mark 3.31-35. Jesus stops and looks around at those seated at His feet one day as He taught. […]
Do You Have a Personal Relationship with Jesus?
MMG-18 040307AM The most important question you will ever be asked to answer is the question – “Do You Have a Personal Relationship with Jesus Christ?” This week as I stood in line buying food to feed 60 hungry servants working at the church, the man behind the counter looked at the tax-exempt paper and […]
All Sins are Forgivable
MMG-17 040222AM The New Testament records 37 miracles[1] 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 by Christ. Which one was the greatest? If you analyze them they were wonderful […]
What a Wonderful Change
MMG-16 020303AM There are two books that have been present in Christ’s church since those earliest days. We hear Paul mentioning this when he said “speak to yourselves in Psalms and hymns….” Psalms are of course the Scriptures, God’s Word. Hymns have been traditionally defined as the testimonies of God’s saints in song. This morning […]
Do You Believe and Have This Life?
MMG-15 020224AM What happens when you preach the gospel from the Gospels to lost sinners? Does it work any more? I mean does the gospel impact lives like it did in the world of Christ and the Apostles? Sometimes it seems that the Roman World of Bible times that Jesus and Paul lived in 20 […]
Jesus Explains the Gospel
MMG-14 010401AM We come now to the close of our survey of Luke. In these past weeks since Christmas we have seen that Jesus shares the Good News of salvation 23 times, each unique and yet each with the same basic elements. In fact, Luke ends with a summary of the Gospel in chapter 24. […]
Believers are Word Receiving
MMG-13 010325AM This morning we are looking at one of the foundational truths of our salvation. True Christians are those who have received God’s Word. Think of the verses you know so well: John 5:24 “Most assuredly, I say to you, he who hears My word and believes in Him who sent Me has everlasting life, […]
The Power of the Gospel
MMG-12 010318AM This Gospel of Jesus is powerful. Have you shared it this week? As we turn back now to our opening text in Luke 14:15-24 may I illustrate the power of the Gospel? Listen to Christ’s power of salvation from this moving story from World War II.. Remember the Day of Infamy when we […]
Are You In?
MMG-11 010311AM Do you know if you are “in” yet? Are you assured of eternal life? Who is really going to Heaven? Those may well be the most urgent question of our earthly existence. We live is a religious world that is by and large made up of multitudes who are either unconcerned or […]
God as Our Father
MMG-10 010121AM Remember what God promised about Christ’s coming? Isaiah 9:6: Wonderful Counselor so we never have to be CONFUSED. Mighty God so we never have to be AFRAID. Everlasting Father so we never have to be ALONE. Prince of Peace so we never have to be ANXIOUS. If church traditions are correct all the Gospel writers had an overwhelming conviction […]
How to Escape the Fires of Hell
MMG-09 010114AM I’ve never been trapped in a burning building, but Bonnie and I will always remember being trapped on a burning elevator in Los Angeles during the 1984 Olympics. Those tense minutes stuck between floors as the smoke of the electric motors began coming into the car will always be riveted in our […]
Hearing Christ’s Voice – Luke-4
MMG-08 010107AM During60 Ravi Zacharias’s ministry in Vietnam in 197I, one of his interpreters who traveled with him was Hien Pham. Within four years Vietnam fell, and Hien’s fate was unknown, until seventeen years later, in 1988. Shortly after Vietnam fell to the Communists, Hien was arrested. Accused of aiding and abetting the Americans […]
Unpardonable Sin
MMG-07 040208AM As we open to Mark 3 this morning 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 just said. Jesus was face to face with a group of humans. […]
The Gospel Explained by Peter
MMG-06 040201AM There are golfing heroes who inspire; basketball and football heroes who inspire; entertainers and authors who become heroes and inspire; political and civic heroes who inspire; medical, rescue and military heroes who inspire…(can you even look at that 911 photo of the twisted cross of steel and the firemen raising the flag without […]
The Experience of Peter
MMG-05 040125AM Remember what we learned about Peter last week? No one ever followed Jesus more closely than Peter. No one ever listened to Jesus more intently than Peter. No one ever knew Jesus better than Peter. And – No one ever wanted to imitate Jesus more completely than Peter. Peter’s life is synonymous with […]
Christ’s Finished Work
MMG-04 000618PM So on Christ’s last evening with His beloved disciples He inaugurates the Lord’s Supper as the fulfillment of all Passovers. Christ’s Work of Salvation is celebrated as FINISHED! In the midst of the supper He says in Mark 14:24 And He said to them, “This is My blood of the new covenant, which […]
The Message of Jesus
MMG-03 000326PM What a wonderful change in my life has been wrought, since Jesus came into my heart. I have light in my soul for which long I had sought, since Jesus came into my heart! Have you ever thought about what a wonderful change the sweet message of Jesus has brought? Think with […]
Hearing the Message of Jesus in Acts
MMG-02 000604PM Twelve men changed the world. Eleven of them ate, slept, sailed, and walked with Jesus. The 12th man was a latecomer, so he had three years alone in the desert with Jesus[1]. Who were these men? The Apostles, the sent ones, those entrusted with the Gospel of God’s Grace. Peter and the eleven and then, […]
The Gospel Presentations in Acts
MMG-01 000604AM Have you ever wished you could sit in the back of the crowd and listen to the greatest man who ever lived, Jesus Christ, and hear what He said to the lost and seeking crowds? Have you ever wondered how Jesus led someone to salvation? We have the records of Nicodemus, the woman […]