Word Channel

As the Word, Jesus was in the beginning with God, as the Messiah, He was in the beginning with His disciples and as our Savior, He was the beginner of His Church. In this sermon, Dr. Wayne Wilks teaches the importance of how things begin, while emphasizing the Jewishness of our faith and our need to recognize such, for the sake of our unity and witness to all ethnicities.

While many hated Jesus Christ, He never stopped loving people. In this sermon, Greg Harrell declares the truth concerning our call to follow Jesus and represent Him to a fallen world.

Featuring lots of wonderful music from a Citywide Choir, Carey Dyer, Aaron Gordon, George Huff, Bishop Gary Oliver, Taylor Pace, Eric Phillips, Audrey Scott, Alatha Swain and other gifted musicians, this inspiring celebration was hosted by Lakeside Baptist Church; for the Lake Granbury Ministerial Alliance and led by our own Worship Pastor, Shake Anderson.

Like a jeweler displaying his jewels on dark fabric, so Jesus used his impending - though temporal - doom and gloom as a back drop to display precious promises to His followers who would need such encouragement in a few hours. May this attitude and practice be ours, enabling us to encourage others in the midst of our own possible discouragement.

From Jesus' call to "Follow Me..." the command to be discipled is included; as is our commission to go and make disciples. Recognizing this as why we are here on earth is crucial to our fulfilling our mission for God. In this sermon, Jeff Serio passionately calls all believers to get involved in evangelism at home and abroad, most especially in Europe.

From Jesus Christ's exclusive declaration for His being the only way to the Father, the truth is declared about the life we are called to live for the glory of His name.

Receiving Christ's undeserved love for ourselves leads us to His command to love one another the same. Loving us first set the stage for our loving obedience to His will for us to love.

In this teaching, the truth is declared concerning Christ's loving His disciples till the very end of His physical life. If He - our Lord and Master - was willing to wash the dirty feet of those who would betray, deny and abandon Him in just a few hours, how much more willing should we be to serve others?

In this sermon, you will hear the importance of heeding the call of God now. While His grace is extended to us - freely - today, it may not always be extended indefinitely. Therefore, those who the Holy Spirit is drawing to Jesus today would do well to respond sooner than later.

Why did Jesus refer to Himself as the Son of Man, more than any other of His many identifications? In this teaching, Pastor Alan proclaims some of the encouraging things about our Savior being the Son of Man, for us.

In this brief sermon, the truth of HEBREWS 13:14 is illustrated with some of our world's disasters in 2013. While here in this world we lack sustained and problem free qualities of life, we are looking forward to our future in Christ. May these words encourage true believers to continue representing the world to come.

From Christ's triumphal entry into Jerusalem, in the midst of thousands of people, while riding on a - never been ridden before - colt of a donkey, we can see both His humility and authority at work, as He headed toward the cross.

From the story of Mary - the sister of Martha and Lazarus - pouring out her costly oil upon Jesus' body, the truth is emphasized concerning our place and function in expressing the honor that He is worthy of, as well as our gratitude.

From the legitimate prophecy coming from the High Priest, while plotting Christ's death, we can easily see how God ultimately brings His purposes to pass, even through His enemies.

Knowing Christ as our Savior includes knowing Him as our Resurrection. In this sermon about the raising of Lazarus, Pastor Alan declares the foundation of our hope and faith as being in the person of Jesus, our Death and Resurrection.

Jesus saves and He is able to keep us saved, proving that all the glory for our salvation goes totally to Him. In this sermon from JOHN 10:22-42, you will hear the truth proclaimed concerning the keeping hand of God in the lives of His children.

After leading the formerly blind man to faith, Jesus declares Himself to be the good shepherd, which was an indirect rebuke of Israel's bad religious leadership, relating them to thieves and robbers. In this teaching, the hearer is encouraged to follow the good shepherd in every area of life, resulting in our being like Him.

From this amazing story of Jesus healing a blind man - with dirt and spit - on the Sabbath Day, the truth is told about different kinds of blindness and our need for the healing of Christ's ministry.

Pastor Garry Spotts delivers a masterful discourse on the humanity of Christ and why He prayed. While not coming from John's Gospel, we felt our JESUS IS Series would not be as complete without this important sermon.

From the story of Jesus washing His disciples dirty feet, Greg Harrell declares the truth concerning God's strong love for us.