Kingdom Authority: One Kingdom. Indivisible.

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What is one of the best ways to keep your air clean at home? Yes, an air filter. We are a full service church so we wanted to remind you to ...

People to Watch Out For

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In Rolling Meadows, just a short drive from here, stands Harvest Bible Chapel. You’ve probably driven by it. The church started ...

R-Rated: Cut Up Your Rebellion

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(Read 1 Samuel 15)

In a presidential election year you're going to hear a lot, from various candidates trying to be President, about ...

Who Am I When I Sin?

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The early Christian movement had a list that is famous to this day: "The Seven Deadly Sins." The seven sins on the list were pride, envy, ...

Who Is God When I Sin?

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If you follow sports, you are well aware of the news that broke this week. Major League Baseball's highest paid player, Alex Rodriguez, admitted ...

Who Is God After I Sin?

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I once read a book called The Book of Failures. It was filled with all kinds of failures that people have made. For instance, the book introduces ...

Who Am I When I Sin?

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The early Christian movement had a list that is famous to this day: "The Seven Deadly Sins." The seven sins on the list were pride, envy, ...

Rebels Have More Fun, for Now

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Everyone knows rebels have more fun: from "The Music Man" to "Footloose," which was the hip teen movie of my teenage years, to "True Blood"; ...

The Rebel in All of Us

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Why are you the way you are? Have you ever asked yourself that question? Why aren't you like somebody else? Is it your genes? In ...

It's God's Party, Not Yours

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People question my wife and me about where we live and how we choose to spend our money. They basically say, "You know, it's OK with God if ...

Hezekiah: Healed but Boastful

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Today we're going to be looking at Isaiah 38 and 39. I was thinking this week as I pondered these passages that the Bible is a lot like an ...

Christmas in the City of Jerusalem

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We're going to do something a little different this year in December. We want to focus on a "Hometown Christmas." Typically we tend to think ...

When Teens Rebel

School administrators are on edge these days. The shooting rampage in Littleton, Colorado, has spawned threats of violence in schools all across America. ...

The Neighbors Are Nuts

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When I was a kid, my parents used to drag me out to church on Sundays. I'd walk into this big building in a shirt and shoes that seemed too ...

The Lostness of Humankind

Text: Romans 1:18-25Topic: A look at mankind's journey through rejection, separation, domination, and condemnation—and his opportunity for redemption ...

In God We Trust (Though We'd Rather Pay Cash)

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Have you ever felt really anxious and stressed? If I don't accept this offer, then …. If my child doesn't get into the right ...

The Kingdom of God Is Near

From the Editor

Hamilton's passage is but two verses long, but the chief idea of those two verses—the kingdom of God—knows no bounds. ...

It's Not How You Start; It's How You Finish

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I once read an article that listed some of the greatest comebacks in sports history. The list included the 2004 American League Championship ...

A Man Like Us and a God Who Lives

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Elijah is one of the Bible's most dramatic characters, because he experienced the light of God's presence even when everything around him ...

The Grieving Heart of God

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On the first day teaching his class for 250 college freshmen, R. C. Sproul carefully explained the assignment of three term papers. Each paper ...

The Story of Our Broken World

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When I was about ten years old, my dad, a medical doctor, received a special gift from one of his patients: a beautiful globe with shiny sequins. ...

I Have a Dark Side I Must Understand

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Mark Twain once said, "We're all like the moon—we have a dark side." I think his analysis of human nature was right on ...

Standing Your Ground

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In light of this passage, today I’d like to talk a little bit about conflicts and how we all deal with them. How do you deal with interpersonal ...

Lost Sheep, Coins, & Men

If God is what you describe him to be, if God is so huge and powerful and capable and loving and caring and concerned and involved and all of these other ...