Authentic and life changing worship is costly!  The real issue is not how much you will get or gain but what are you willing to give to experience wonderful worship.  In 2 Samuel 24:18-25, King David shows us how.  His worship was compelling because it was not convenient or casual but costly.  

A woman who could quality as a poster child for “bad luck magazine” is driven into Jesus's presence because of a personal crisis.  Her faith will not allow her to settle for crumbs from the Lord's table because she believes she can have the crust.   

In Part 3 of the series, “The Economics of Grace,” Dr. Stubblefield returns to 2 Corinthians 8:9.  The last movement of this verse reveals how Jesus’s voluntary and willful sacrifice and His undeserved shame and suffering for a broken and sinful world is the basis of an unfathomable provision that offers to every child of God, new possibilities, new potential and new perspective.  

In the second message of the three-part series, “The Economics of Grace,” in 2 Corinthians 8:9, the Apostle Paul, to encourage the stewardship of the church at Corinth, offers Jesus as the supreme model of sacrificial giving.  Jesus experienced poverty so we might enjoy the riches of salvation that is in Him!  

In the first message of a three-part series based on 2 Corinthians 8:9, this message addresses the production, distribution and consumption of spiritual wealth.  Jesus became poor so we can experience the riches of His person.  He is rich in position, power and possessions.  We can never exhaust His provision.  

Our lives often resemble a roller coaster ride with peaks and valleys, highs and lows and sharp turns.  Whatever our struggle, this message based on the promise of 1 John 3:1-3 is a compelling reminder that the essence of the Christian faith is the hope that the best is yet to come. 

On Palm Sunday according to Luke Chapter 19, verses 36 – 40, Jesus entered Jerusalem riding on a donkey amidst the applause and acclaim of the crowds that had gathered.  When His enemies criticized the crowd’s response, Jesus said, “If they hold their peace the stones will cry out!”   This message explores what a stone would tell us about the Savior?  What is the story in the stones?

In the Gospel of Matthew, Chapter 9, the Jewish religion had become one massive huddle of religious rules, rituals and regulations.  Jesus saw the multitudes and was moved with compassion for them.  He saw them as sheep without a shepherd.  It was time to move from the huddle to the harvest. The church faces the same challenge today!  

In Genesis, Chapter 32, Jacob was overcome by fear at the prospect of meeting his brother Esau whom he had wronged.  Deception, deceit and duplicity had caught up with him and was demanding payment.  To experience the promises that God had made to him, he had to supersize his faith and downsize his fears.  The supernatural support that God provided to Jacob is available to believers today!  

In verses eleven through fourteen of the first Chapter of Ephesians, the Apostle Paul is writing from prison.  He ends a sweeping summary of the plan of salvation by focusing on the unique role the Holy Spirit.  This message highlights the measure, matter and mark of our spiritual oneness in Christ.