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Why Truth Matters — and Why We Must Share the Gospel Now More Than Ever ❦ ❦ ❦ Introduction: A Journalist, a Sunset, and the Question Beneath the Question On the morning of May 12, 2026, a producer at The New York Times sat down with her colleague Lauren Jackson, host of the paper’s Believing…
Lesson 1 The Journey of How the Bible Was Made and Preserved The lesson opens a six-week study designed to deepen confidence in the Bible by tracing the remarkable path it traveled to reach modern hands. Pastor Joey reminds the class that Scripture did not fall from the sky, leather-bound and gilt-edged — it came…
Delivered by Pastor Joey | East Valley International Church | Gilbert, Arizona Text: Luke 12:35-48 (ESV) Abstract and summary of the pastor’s sermon: Setting the Stage: From Worry to Watchfulness Pastor Joey opens by connecting this sermon to the previous study on worry and anxiety from Luke 12. He reminds the congregation that while life…
AI-generated image: In the house of God, the highest calling is not to be feared like a gladiator but trusted like a shepherd. The pastor who gathers applause by force may win a crowd for a season, yet only the one who walks in humility, truth, and self-giving love will leave a lasting mark on…
Delivered by Pastor Joey | East Valley International Church | Gilbert, Arizona Text: Luke 12:22-34 (ESV) Abstract and summary of the pastor’s sermon: Setting the Context: From Greed to Worry The sermon picks up where the previous two weeks left off — first the rich fool parable (Luke 12), then Pastor Terry’s message on evangelism….
From the Thames to the Throne Room Evaluating the Christian Conversion of Russell Brand On the final Sunday of April 2024, a man with a long history of provocation, promiscuity, and public spectacle waded into the River Thames in white linen and was lowered backward beneath the cold English water. Bear Grylls, the celebrated television…
“You’re Going to Make Me Like You Better Than My Wife”: Reading the Affidavit with Trembling Hands Introduction: A Name Nobody Wanted to Read When the name of a Brigham Young University professor appeared in a police booking affidavit this week, it was not in connection with a grant, a new paper in algebraic geometry,…
Photo: Behold the ultimate heavenly realm. With its gleaming white spires, peaceful waters, and crowds ascending in white gowns. This is Google Gemini’s Nano Banana Pro, imagining what The “Celestial Kingdom” might look like. THREE KINGDOMS, ONE QUESTION: What Does the Bible Teach About Heaven? A Scholarly Analysis of Latter-day Saint Afterlife Doctrine Introduction What…
Delivered by Evangelist & Pastor Terry Lewis East Valley International Church | Gilbert, Arizona Text: Genesis 3:9, Luke 19:10, 2 Corinthians 5, Matthew 27:46, Isaiah 6 In this sermon delivered at East Valley International Church in Gilbert, Arizona, Pastor Terry Lewis draws from Genesis 3:9, where God calls out after the Fall: “Where are you?”…
Image: An AI-generated image that illustrates the phrase, “A bridge too far”, an idiom inspired by the failed World War II Operation Market Garden. Like many idioms, the phrase “a bridge too far” carries both a literal and a figurative sense. In the concrete sense, it describes a bridge that lies beyond a reasonable or…