Pastor Bill's 2017 Audio Archives

Mothers are to be held in high esteem who sacrifice their lives for their children and influence them for God. Those who exhibit unfailing faith, undying love, and unyielding perseverance will find their reward in children that fear and obey God.

God’s place of rest for Adam was Eden; for Israel, it was Canaan’s Land; for the believer, it is Christ. Israel’s journey from Egypt to Canaan’s land is like our journey out of the world to our possessions in Christ. Under Moses, we discover failure, under Joshua, we discover success. Receive an understanding in the continuing message of Possessing Our Land # 2.

One of the biggest battles that many face in life today has to do with their value, worth, and identity. Receive an understanding in that what we say about ourselves should be based on who we are and what we have in Christ.

For the believer today, it’s the finished works of Christ where we’ve been blessed with every spiritual blessing and given all things that pertain to life and godliness. In Hebrews 4:1-3 (NLT), A warning is given to us–the Israelites were kept from their place of rest because of unbelief. We are warned not to do the same!

After 4000 years of preparation, the seed of the woman came to redeem man from Satan’s authority. A work that required an incarnation, crucifixion, burial, and resurrection. The seed was Christ, and 2000 years ago when redemption was finished, His mission was accomplished. Although His ministry in redemption, His ministry in heaven continues today.

Hebrews 13:15 instructs us through Jesus to continually offer up to God a sacrifice of praise which is the fruit of our lips that confess His name. Receive an understanding in the continuation of Understanding Confessions with the sacrifice of praise.

Hebrews 3:1 (ESV) teaches us that Jesus is the High Priest of our confession. Confession in Greek means to speak the same thing. It’s more than a verbal agreement, it’s a confession based on deep conviction of facts. It’s affirming something we believe, testifying to what we know, and witnessing for a truth we have embraced. Usually, many think of the word confession as confessing one’s sin, weakness or failures. This is only one side of confession. Receive an understanding of another side of confession.

The resurrection is what distinguishes Christianity from all other belief systems. No other religion can boast of its founder being raised from the dead and showing himself alive with infallible proofs. All that’s left to do is believe!

Celebrating the Lord’s supper is an act of faith intended to impact our thinking in a powerful way. It calls for us to think about the past – the death of or our lord; the present – how His death, burial, and resurrection influence how we live daily; and the future – remembering how He said He would come again.

In Psalms 63:1-4, David’s thirst for God was intense and he compared his thirst to see God’s glory and power again to that of being in a desert without water. Receive an understanding in the 3rd series of Spiritual Thirst.

There is a natural thirst and a spiritual thirst, and thirst has three levels–slightly, moderately, and desperately. Everyone is spiritually dehydrated and thirsty for God. He tells us in Isaiah 44:3 that He pours out His Spirit where people are thirsty for spiritual realities, not carnal realities. Receive an understanding of Spiritual Thirst.

It’s been estimated that 106 billion people have walked the earth since Adam. All made in God’s image but uniquely different. We have different personalities, voices, fingerprints and DNA. Different as we may be, we all have two things in common –HUNGER and THIRST. Receive an understanding of having Spiritual Thirst.

Jesus gave His life to reclaim our lost dominion. Now we are to use the power of His Name to keep the powers of darkness off of our territory, and out of our lives. Receive an understanding of Spiritual Dominion.

Jesus gave His life for us. He left us with two ordinances (laws, decrees, commands) to obey: The Lord’s supper, and Water Baptism. In Matthew 10:32-33, Jesus speaks to us about confessing Him before men– Water Baptism is an opportunity to confess our allegiance to Christ.

“BUT GOD”, when viewed in relation to life’s challenges is what: up is to down, life is to death, victory is to defeat, in is to out, or success is to failure! Ephesians 2:1-6 tells us we were all dead in sin, and under the influences of the world and flesh. By nature, we were Satan’s offspring and on a collision course with destruction. “BUT GOD”, who is rich in mercy and who loves us with great love; Made us alive, Raised us up, Seated us with Christ.

Paul’s conversion was one of the greatest stories of human history and his testimony is still impacting lives today. Christianity is all about change. No matter what we've done, every life can be radically changed by God. If God can change Saul to Paul, from a terrorist to an evangelist, He can reach anyone!

God loves us as we are, but He loves us too much to leave us as we are. He wants to change us until we are aglow with His Spirit and full of His glory. This change comes not by good works, but by being in His presence.

We know our attitudes and thoughts must change for the better. How can we promote this transformation in our lives? There is no magic wand to wave or genie in a bottle to grant our wish. There are two powerful forces that can help us achieve the success we desire-The Word and the Spirit.

Stanford Research Institute reports that only 12.5% of our success in life is determined by knowledge; the other 87.5% comes from attitude. The choice is ours. We must choose to adjust our attitudes to line up with the standard God uses to judge people’s lives, or continue allowing attitudes that displease God to control us. Are we a “Leaning” Tower of Pisa, or “Tower” of Pisa? Do our thoughts and attitudes reflect Christs’, or are they governed by our own feelings and emotions?

In our country, we celebrate certain events to ensure that we don’t forget important things. God instituted certain memorials to help His people remember their past and to better equip them for their future. Receive an understanding of how God wants us to remember.