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When a strong man goes down, it’s not usually all at once. There are small choices along the way that eventually lead to a massive fall. Samson didn’t ruin his life all at once. He ruined it one step at a time. Like Samson, we may be down, but we don’t have to be out. There’s still hope if we’ll turn around.

Samson is the biblical Hercules, a man of super-human strength whose accomplishments are legendary. But so are his weaknesses. Like Samson, we all have tremendous God-given potential. But if we are not careful, then just like Samson, we will self destruct.

God, I know You give grace to the humble. So I ask You, God, to do a deep work in my heart and break me. Break me of my pride. Break me of my selfishness. Break me of anything that keeps me from knowing You. As hard as it is to ask, God, do whatever it takes to break me.

Jesus was preparing the eleven men He had left for His pending crucifixion, His resurrection, and His subsequent departure for heaven. He gave them this great metaphor of the True Vine as one of His encouragements. Jesus wanted His friends, not only those eleven, but those of all time, to know that He was not going to desert them, even though they would no longer enjoy His physical presence. Join us for the conclusion of I AM JESUS.

The dictionary defines light as “something that makes vision possible”, or to be more technical, “electromagnetic radiation of any wavelength that travels in a vacuum with a speed of about 186,281 miles per second; specifically: such radiation that is visible to the human eye.” Those are technical definitions of light, but the concept of light is so much more than that. When Jesus said, “I am the light of the world,” what did He mean? The answer may surprise you.

Baptism is an extraordinarily important thing, and extraordinarily impactful when done the right way. We get so many emails and questions about it that I decided to spend an entire service talking about it. The reason this is so important is when you read the New Testament, every time a person crosses the line of faith to follow Christ, any time somebody has an AHA moment about Jesus, the Bible says they went out immediately and were baptized.