Bro. Alex preaches out of James, Romans and Hebrews on what God is doing in the middle of a hard season. He starts where most of us live — everybody in the room raised a hand when he asked who was going through something — and then walks through the training illustration a piece at a time. You don't build strength picking up what doesn't challenge you. You don't see growth during the workout. The stress isn't destroying you, it's developing you. He is honest about his own house: his wife admitte

Wednesday night, Pastor Chris (Chris Tidwell) starts with a hard day at work — one meeting after another, a million-dollar helicopter transmission rolled over in the back of a FedEx truck — and makes the point that none of that gets to take the joy of our salvation. Then he takes us to Matthew 13 and the merchant who found one pearl and sold everything he had to buy it. A pearl is not carved out of rock or made with fire. It starts with an irritant that gets inside the oyster, and layer after la

Sis. Misti Sanders preaches from 1 Kings 18 on the altars in our lives that have been torn down and left unrepaired. She walks through the tabernacle at Shiloh, Noah's altar, and Elijah on Mount Carmel — one man with an altar built while a nation halted between two opinions. Then she asks the question she had to answer first: if God were looking for somebody to build a move of God off of, could He build it off of me?