Is the commission to preach the gospel as a witness over? Is the work finished? These two questions have ignited a great debate within God's Church. This inspiring message examines this vital issue and explains in plain language why God raised up a Church and the role that Church is to play in fulfilling God's plan. This message also identifies the Eternal Church of God and its approach to fulfilling the great two-fold commission given to God's Church.

God Saves the Best for Last

Throughout history, the greatest civilizations succumbed in large part because they became self-indulgent. Has this happened to the United States and the western world? Has our obsession with entertainment and recreation eroded our national character? And most importantly, are God's people becoming distracted by the cares of this world? This message examines these questions and challenges God's people to guard against being enticed by this world and its ways and to be a lover of God more than a lover of pleasure.

While the vast majority of the Christian world sees Jesus Christ as loving and compassionate, few Christians understand the enormity of these qualities in God the Father. This inspiring Sabbath message, delivered just before Father's Day, explores the relationship between Jesus Christ and God the Father. This relationship was deeply intimate and personal and is the same kind of relationship God wants to have with all of His children. It explores the great mercy and compassion of God the Father and how that compassion is expressed. It traces God's love through trials and what God ultimately hopes for and is working out in His family.

The Bible is filled with verses that contain paradox. These are sayings in which apparently contradictory statements are nonetheless true. For example, we are told that the first are last, we are strongest when we are weak, and we must lose our lives to save our lives. What does all this mean? Why is there so much paradox in the Bible and what does God want us to learn from such statements. This sermon may forever change the way you look at life.

There are books, video, cd, and tape messages by the hundreds all talking about leadership. But what about Christian leadership? Do pin stripe suits and power ties make us God’s leaders of the people? Is it simply being more organized? Is it having the right brief case, and wing tip shoes?  Is it doing the important 20% that gains us 80%, or is there something deeper that Godly leadership must have? We are in training to be leaders in the world to come. So, what attributes should we be striving for?  Listen and understand some vital principles of Christian leadership. 

Tear Down the High Places

It is hard to imagine any of God's people bowing down to Molech, Dagon or Baal, but is it possible that we can be guilty of worshipping false gods? In light of the first great commandment, this message opens our eyes to areas of our life where we may be putting other things ahead of our worship and respect to God and His ways.

Arabs in Prophecy

Ever since 911, the Muslims and the Arab peoples have been a focus of American News. Who are these people? Why do they hate us so? And, what does the Bible say about them in prophecy? Do they play a role in end time events. If so, what is that role? You need to know.

Be Ye Holy - The Day of Atonement

Nearly the entire professing Christian community rejects the law of God. They instead teaching that the Old Covenant is done away. This is a terrible mistake. But, there are many in the Church of God who believe that the sacrifices have been done away? While the physical act of offering a live animal to God has stopped, these sacrifices are now to be understood in their spiritual intent and should be reflected in our lives. The very mind of Christ is understood by understanding sacrifice. This message will help you to grasp the importance of living our lives as a spiritual sacrifice.

Between the Days of Unleavened Bread

We celebrate the high holy days that are like book ends on the days of unleavened bread. Those days are rich in symbolism, but what about the days in between the holy days? Do these days have any meaning for us? Is there symbolism in these days too? If so, what is the message for us during these days that are not holy convocations?

The Beauty of Holiness

As Christmas time rolls around every year, consider a humorous, and yet deeply profound aspect of this holiday. Millions of people at this time of year scurry around, almost frantically searching the department stores trying desperately to find the perfect gift for the person who already has everything! Pagan as it is, Christmas time, with all its attendant materialism might just be the time for us to think! How much have you been blessed? And, how much we need to give to others in need?

God has made Himself invisible to man for a specific reason. As a result of this phenomena, we live in a world that is blind to the true God. But how about us? Do we really see Him? Do we see Him working in our lives? What about those times when we experience difficulties and troubles? Do we see Him preparing a way of escape? Do we see His solution to our problems, or do we only see our own perspective? This message addresses why God is invisible and it helps us to have the spiritual vision to see God in our lives.

Seek Immortality - The Feast of Trumpets

From the beginning of time, man has feared death. Throughout the ages, many have sought various ways in hopes of living forever. Today, man is using modern technology through DNA and stem cell research in a continued quest for a fountain of youth. Ironically there is a means to immortality and God has even told us how to seek it, but man does not want to do it God’s way. What about us? Are we seeking immortality and are we striving to do it the only way that will ultimately lead to success? This message will help us to grasp the answers to these questions.

The Fruits of the Spirit

In the book of Galatians, God makes reference to the works of the flesh and compares those to the fruits of the Spirit. We are to have love, joy, peace, long-suffering, gentleness, goodness , faith, and meekness. But—what are these traits? What do they look like as we apply them in real life? This message helps us understand.

Our Busy Driven Lives

We live in a world that is going so fast that it is hard to keep up. Life was not always like this. It has been sped up by God's enemy and for a profound purpose. It is to keep us distracted, ruled by the "tyranny of the urgent!" We need to put the hours of our days in perspective, and redeem the time and this message helps to explain how we can.

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War is never pretty and there always suffering. What’s more, every true Christian is at war. While there may not be bombs going off around us, our spiritual battle is real and people can get hurt, emotionally, psychologically and spiritually. There is a common occurrence in any war that is one of the most difficult things to understand and cope with. This great tragedy is friendly fire, brother shooting brother. There are times when we verbally or mentally fire at one another and we generally recover, but sometimes people get wounded again and again and are deeply hurt. We hurt the ones we love and this is something we must learn to control in order to minimize the damage we might do to others as we fight our war with sin.

Go Forward

The experience of ancient Israel was written for us who live at the end of the age. As Israel came out of Egypt what was the message God gave to them? What is the lesson for us today? Faced with enormous difficulties, trials, and even trapped at the Red Sea, God's message rings out from their day to ours, "Go Forward."

A Christian Passover Ceremony

The Christian Passover is one of the most solemn and meaningful of all God's Holy Day observances. So important is this service that individuals missing the opportunity to celebrate Passover due to illness or travel in the first month, are instructed by the Almighty to keep this exact same service in the second month. This is the audio to accompany our booklet that will help to explain the profound meaning of this Holy and humbling ceremony and will walk you through every step of a Christian Passover.

Questions for Passover

Every year at Passover, we are told to examine ourselves. But what should we examine? This message presents seven vital questions that we should ask ourselves before we take the Passover. This year, before reconfirming our covenant with our Creator and Savior, listen to this message, and consider some of the questions it asks.

Jesus instructed us to watch and pray always that we might escape those things that will come upon the people at the end of the age. We are to watch world events. There some who believe that Jesus could return at any moment, but the Scriptures reveal that there are things that must occur before He returns. Could one of these things be the rebuilding of the temple? Will there be a physical temple built to which Christ will return, or is it only figurative? Will the sacrifices be reinstated? This sequel to the message titled The Man of Sin, deals with this subject which is something we should all be watching for and and considering.

The Bible describes a man of enormous evil that will come to power at the end of the age. This man causes many of God's people to break the covenant they have made with the Eternal, and even forces them to turn their brethren over to the authorities. He will make leagues with various nations and promise peace, but instead will bring the world devastating war. Eventually he will take over the middle east and will sit in the temple and claim that he is no less than God. Who is this man of sin? Will we recognize this individual or are some going to be misled when this happens?

When God revealed the truth to us and brought us into the Church, our calling was accompanied by enormous zeal. We were infused with what we would later come to call our first love. Do we still have that same kind of passion for God? What about second generation Christians? Because they were raised in the Church, they did not experience the dramatic change that first generation Christians do. Can they ever have that first love experience? Also, if we once were alive with that first blush of love for Christ and the Father, and it has now seemed to wane, is there a way to renew it? There is a way to regain or maintain our first love. This is a must hear message for Gods people living at the end of the age.

There is a very real need to be aware of the status of the Church of God today. Where are we in prophecy and what does our time mean to us? A sequel to the message proving that there are church eras, what exactly do we need to be on guard against in this last era? In the sermon on eras, it was learned that the Old Testament eras mirrored those in the New Testament. The last era of the Old Testament was that of the Pharisees. What lessons can we learn from them to enable us to avoid falling into the mind set of the Laodecians, the last New Testament era? Jesus said our righteousness must exceed the righteousness of these Pharisees. What exactly was the righteousness of the Pharisees and how can we be certain to exceed that? Building upon evidence for Church Eras, this message gives us real examples of the Pharisees and the Laodecians and describes how they relate to us.

Have you ever received a threatening letter? Have you gotten one from the IRS? How about a collection agency? How about one from your doctor? There are many kinds of letters we can receive, and many can be frightening, but what if you received a letter from the devil? One of the kings of Judah received one such piece of correspondence. How did he react, and what can we learn from his example?

For decades the Church of God taught that God had a seven thousand year plan. This doctrine was mocked by our former association, but is there merit to this teaching? Were we the only ones to believe this? Where did the teaching come from? Was it something we made up? Was it simply assumed? Or, was this a teaching held by God’s people before Jesus walked the earth? Was it taught by the early Church? What happened to cause this teaching to fade from popular thought? And, is there evidence that it is true and should be believed by us today? Listen and find out.

Preceding the Sermon Grow in Knowledge, this message considers Peter’s last words to the Church where he encourages Christians everywhere to grow in grace and knowledge. But what does it mean to grow in grace? Isn't grace unmerited pardon? Are we to grow in unmerited pardon? What did the apostle Peter mean by this injunction? And, most important, how do we accomplish that?

A follow up sermon to Grow in Grace, we are also told by the apostle Peter to grow in knowledge. Does this mean that we should study to get degrees? Should we become experts in Greek and Hebrew? Must we become calendar experts? Did God expect us to all become scholars? What kind of knowledge did Peter want us to learn?

Most people take vision for granted, but have you ever wondered what it would be like to live in a world without visions of beauty, light and colors? What is it like to be blind? The physical often represents the spiritual and therefore, while we may be able to see, how clouded is our spiritual lens? How much can we see spiritually? The gospel of John tells the story of a man who was born blind and in this there are many ironic twists, each of which are a twist of the knife in the belly of human nature. The story of the man born blind reminds us that there are those who are gaining sight by the correction of Jesus Christ and there are others who are closing their eyes by the choices they make. What about us? Are our choices blinding us in the Laodecian era?

Does it ever happen to you? We rise in the morning and pray. We make our commitment to honor and obey God and then, mere minutes or hours later, we find that we have become distracted and we have sinned again. Why is it we are so easily distracted from our goal and why does it happen so frequently? Isn’t this the very problem that those upon whom the cares of this life have. Distractions choke the word? This sermon offers food for thought regarding the many distractions we experience daily.