Steve Horn Audio Podcast

We have learned that in the last of week of Jesus’ life He had purposes in all that He did. Certainly He had purposes in this final meal. Jesus used the customary Jewish celebration of the Passover meal to reveal even a greater significance for a...

We ought to pay much closer attention to this—His final sermon.This sermon, or Discourse, as it is most often called comes as the result of a question from the disciples. Jesus had just prophesied to the disciples the destruction of the Temple in...

Do you want to know what makes God mad? Really mad? He displayed His righteous anger when a place set up in His name did not honor His name? God is still angered at any place that has the Label of God on it, but not the Love of God in it. I ran...

To be sure, the fact that Jesus healed these two blind men is an incredible story. In fact, it is a miracle. But the fact that the story happens at the place that it happens is the significant thing to me. Consider the scene: A crowd is following...

How many choices do you make in any one given day? Simple stuff—what to wear, what to eat, what will you do all come with choices. Life is a series of choices. We have been thinking about the family.It comes down to choice.

We have been learning that our survival is based upon our willingness to commit to God’s plan for our families. Let’s hammer home that point this morning as we consider a prophecy and a promise regarding our families.

Pop culture has given us some pretty famous duos. By duos, I mean those kinds of pairs that you hardly think of one without the other. I’m thinking of pairs like Sesame Street’s Bert and Ernie; cartoon characters Tom and Jerry, Shakespeare’s Romeo...

Every family faces tests of one kind or the other. Some families will face testing through marital problems. For other families, the test will be with the children. Others will face great tragedy in sickness, or death, or loss of all belongings...

Last week we talked about 6 things you must teach your children before they leave home. Today, we want to talk about 6 ways that you teach these principles to our families. (Let me just remind those of you who do not have children still at home or...

When I was in college and seminary, I always looked with a mixture of fear and excitement for the first day of class. On the first day of class, the professor, in most every case, would distribute a syllabus. It was from that syllabus that you...

Imagine the scene. This is a national sermon. These are instructions to the success and survival of the nation. At the same time, Moses turned the attention on the family. Now, of course, I certainly understand that there is much that is different...

The first step to growth in any area is to be honest about where we are now. And so, you will hear us talk throughout the year about getting real. Specifically, I want to ask us to “get real” about three specific areas. As I prayed about this year...

For the original hears of Hebrews, they lived in a time of crisis. First, there was a theological crisis. People were struggling to identify exactly who Jesus was. Second, it was a time of political crisis. Christians were being persecuted for...

The attitude to do “all for God’s glory” is an attitude that must encompass every area of our lives for it to be true. This principle affects our lives in three ways. We want to make sure that we are “Living for the Glory of God.”

One of the difficulties of being a pastor is to help people through difficult seasons of their life. Usually, there is no advice to give or anything to say that will really change the circumstances. At the same time, saying something like, “Just...

Habakkuk most likely prophesied just before the beginning of the exile when the sin of Judah is at the peak. Habakkuk questioned God as to how long He would allow sin to reign in Judah (1:1-4). God answered back that He was preparing the Babylonians...

In three weeks, which is Sunday, December 5, we are going to have Pat Melancon as our guest speaker. Even though Pat is a missionary, I hesitate to call him a missionary. I hesitate not because of Pat, but because of us. Although it is true that...

The context of our Scripture reading today is a summary of Jesus’ ministry. The specific passage that we have read also immediately precedes Jesus’ appointment of the disciples who are being tasked to go to those who need to hear about Jesus...

Make no mistake about it—Romans 9-11 is as challenging a section of Scripture as there is. However, Romans 10:1-17 has some of the most passionate words of missionary appeal as is in God’s Word. We have talked about a basic belief in missions. We...

There is a great old story that goes something like this: The preacher was really getting the congregation moving. Near the end of his sermon he said this church has really got to walk to which someone in the back yelled, "let her walk...