I am guilty of being a YouTube binge watcher and one of the most interesting channels that I subscribe to is Odd Tinkering. I love this channel with a passion because it shows someone taking what would be garbage to one person and making it of use again. One of my most favorite episodes I watched from this channel showed the creator take an old Super Nintendo video game system that had yogurt spilled on the inside, it was discolored, and not working properly. The man took this unit and with much care and detail took it apart, cleaned what seemed to be every piece, fixed the plastic pieces that had been discolored by age, and made new what was broken! I’ve slotted the video to pickup at the point in which he shows the damage before and shortly after shows what is restored and better than its previous state! Check it out below.

Who remembers the 11 year old Michael Jackson singing about lost love? The song titled I Want You Back is a classic! It will never die as it has been sampled so many times in so many genre’s of music. This song speaks about someone taking for advantage the love of another and once the reality of life without that love exists, it hits like a ton of bricks! This song is much like our relationship with God. We have all at one point in time sinned and gone against the command of God intentionally. Knowing full well that He loved us enough to send his son to die on a cross for us! But once we shun Him and live in sin we soon will realize that life on the other side is not all it’s cracked up to be! I want to talk about that eye opening moment and what we need to do today to get BACK with God! Because He most definitely wants YOU back!

Week 3 came and went! We received a GREAT word from local minister and brother in Christ Scott Meyer! He presented us a message from the book of Romans speaking to us about leaning on each other and having actual unity in the body! You’ll want to listen to this one!

In this lesson we take a look at the Good News and what it means for Christians and how it can HEAL THE WORLD!

In the second week of the 2019 One Word Series with the theme of “God & Your Ipod: The Playlist of Life” we had Jordan Hubbard come and bless us! He used the title of Old Town Road to speak on favoritism in the church. Have a listen!

There's a place in your heart and I know that it is love. And this place could be much brighter than tomorrow. And if you really try you'll find there's no need to cry. In this place you'll feel there's no hurt or sorrow. There are ways to get there if you care enough for the living. Make a little space make a better place. Heal the world make it a better place. For you and for me and the entire human race. There are people dying if you care enough for the living. Make it a better place for you and for me.

A couple of months ago I was given the honor to go back and be a speaker at the school that changed my life. I cannot explain how much of an honor it was to be remembered by the great staff and members of the school let alone be allowed to speak there. Being at Austin Graduate school of Theology changed my life and the lives of many others. Here is my path to Austin Grad and how God used them to change my life!

Satan is a crafty and cunning adversary.  His goal is to cause chaos in what God has stated is good.  In this sermon we see how this smooth criminal operates and also how sin cannot be accomplished without an accomplice (us). 

This is the first sermon from our 2019 One Word Series! Check out the message from Bro. Peter Martin of the Agape Church of Christ!

The idea of hypnosis has always been intriguing to me. I remember seeing cartoons as a child where someone would take a watch a have it sway back and forth continuously providing a focus for the person being hypnotized and then someone would snap their finger after making a command and the person would do as told without much effort from the person hypnotizing. Seems unreal and unlikely that beings as intelligent as humans could fall into such a trance but there is a smooth criminal on the loose whose goal is to distort, destroy, and demoralize.  He doesn't use a pocket watch to hold our attention but he does use something just as shiny, our desires. Desires are things we long for, crave, or want very badly. And there's nothing innately wrong with having desires. So how does one turn what is good to bad? It takes a Smooth Criminal!

In our first sermon in the new Gospel series we use the song We are the World by Michael Jackson to explain God’s original intent for mankind. By first understanding the original intent for humanity we will be able to understand the need for the Gospel.

For the month of July on every Wednesday we have our second annual One Word series. It is an opportunity for our guest speakers to share a word with you every Wednesday that will bless your life! The theme for this year is God and Your Ipod: The Playlist of Life. Each speaker will choose a song to present a message. So I decided that for every Sunday I would take a song from the King of Pop to express the message of the Gospel. The sermon series is titled The Gospel: According to Michael Jackson. The first sermon will be titled “We Are The World”.

In this final sermon in the series “The Bible Doesn’t Say That” we examine the idea that suffering always comes from sin. We look at the man Job and how he was seen as a faithful man and yet was still exposed to an extreme amount of suffering.

This past week I was invited to attend 3 events/meetings. I was shocked to get these invites because I do not often think that I am on many folks radar. But this week was different. The Salvation Army next door invited leadership from Ave. G to a lunch and meeting. The city of Temple invited Ave. G leadership to a focus group. And the coordinators for an event called The Gathering invited us to attend. There are many of us who live within the city limits of Temple Texas and often times our needs go unmet. We lack the parks we want, the grocery stores, the activities for our children, and many other things. But what if I told you the reason why we lack is because we have no voice… It is not because it has been taken away, it is not some scheme by big brother, and it is not by accident. Our voice is not heard because we are often times not present to speak!