Cancer’s one of the greatest foes today. It claims so many lives and yet its cause seems to remain a mystery. When cancer isn’t addressed, it ends up spreading to all parts of the body and kills what’s healthy in the body. Well today, Pastor Johnny gives you a better idea of what it looks like in a church body to have people working together in a healthy way. When that isn’t the case, then the church becomes diseased and riddled with a spiritual type of cancer that eats away at the body and causes it to die.

When you watch a football team play, it’s obvious that what makes it work and what puts them in a position to win is each person playing their part to the best of their ability. Not everyone can be the quarterback. There’s also that clutch field goal point that you need that only the kicker’s qualified to make. In a very similar way today, Pastor Johnny wants you to see how important each person in the church is, working together to function well and be successful in proclaiming the glory of God.

Deception is such an interesting thing because it usually looks so similar to the truth. That’s why lying can be so appealing because it might be close to the truth, but just sounds a little better or more believable. You have to be careful to be on guard not to be deceived by things that look good from the outside, but are bitter and rotten on the inside, like a tainted apple. Today, Pastor Johnny gives you some tips on how to determine the difference. The first test is to look for truth against the lies.

The wind is an invisible force to be reckoned with. When it’s surging powerfully, it can knock out power lines or cause a fire to explode and then rage down a mountain. Even though you can’t see the wind itself, you see how it affects everything around it. In today’s teaching, Pastor Johnny explains what it means to be filled with the Holy Spirit. This type of power should be like a hurricane force that stirs in you a call to action that’s beyond your own ability. This type of force is a good thing!

Do you recall going to a concert where all you could hear were the loud crashing cymbals? It might be thrilling for a moment, but if that noise continues for a longer amount of time, it becomes a brash and shrill assault on most people’s hearing. In the Bible and in Pastor Johnny’s teaching today, you’ll be reminded that you can do all the things for God that your heart desires, but if it’s not done in love, it’s like the constant crashing of cymbals that ends up creating something less than a melody.

Maybe you were the type of kid that brought your parents a lot of grief, yet they loved you anyway. You might be a parent now and are on the receiving end of the grief that sometimes comes with the choices your children make. Yet you choose to love them in a way that doesn’t always make sense. Today, Pastor Johnny dives deeper into what love really means and how this directly relates to the love Jesus has for you. True love is loving the unlovable. We can love because of God working in us!

You’ve seen countless renovation shows where an old structure’s restored to something that looks new. But these houses weren’t originally in an abandoned state. They gradually became run-down due to some internal issue….water lines that caused mold, or wood framing that rotted. The inside of the structure caused the outside of the house to be unattractive. Today, Pastor Johnny prompts you to think of your heart being the start of an internal sickness that seeps out to the rest of your body.

The brain is the nerve center of the body, but if the brain has no way of sending out messages to the rest of the body, its capabilities are limited. So then you have the spinal cord that works together with the brain to send out signals to your fingertips and toes and everywhere else in-between. In today’s teaching, Pastor Johnny helps you understand God being the head of the church. But we need to be reliant on Him sending us the messages that need to be spread to all the ends of the earth.

When you’re in charge of something, it can be an honor and give you a sense of pride in what you’ve accomplished. But what also comes with a higher rank or title is greater responsibility. So when you’re leading something, you’re also going to sail or sink with that ship that you’re leading. Keep that in mind as Pastor Johnny talks today about Christ being the head of the church. It can be easy to want to take over or take charge, but God Himself is willing to take responsibility as the head of the church.

Naturally, a military platoon has a commander, someone in charge of those under him. If everyone was in charge, there would be confusion. If no one was in charge, nothing would get accomplished. So why would things in the church be any different? You might think the leader of a church is its pastor. But today, Pastor Johnny refutes that, pointing you back to the true head of the church, Jesus Christ. He is the ultimate and supreme authority over His people and He knows how to lead well!