How many people here have things in your life that are bringing you a great deal of stress, anxiety or even depression, right now? {Health problems, Loved one with health problems, Relationship issues, Work issues, Finances, Mistreatment, Loneliness , Private thoughts of confusion, despair, unforgiveness, identity or gender confusion…}. You are definitely not alone. [See also Time Magazine and Fifty States of Anxiety]. Very often our constant, and sometimes hidden, causes of fear and anxiety keep us in a state of worry and unrest even when we don't realize it. Or, even worse, sometimes keeping people completely and consciously overwhelmed—a prisoner to their own thoughts and fears continually. How many in this room, or within the sound of my voice live secret lives of misery and anxiety, which dominate your thoughts? Which robs you of joy, and disrupts your every moment through the day? How many of you have ever had someone tell you to, “Just give it to God, and let it go!"? Very often Christians will truly say and attempt to, "Give it to God" and nothing changes. They seem to get no help, no relief—why? The answer to this question will teach us multitudes about our understanding and our relationship with Jesus Christ.

Anxiety: a feeling of worry, nervousness, or unease.  Most of us have experienced it as some time or another.  And yet we are often told to, "Let go and give it to God."  For many of us that doesn't bring about a peace or a joy that surpasses all understanding.  Why not?  Is the Bible wrong?  or are we doing something wrong?

Today we are celebrating our Anniversary Picnic as a Church, and I think it is a great time for us as a church, and individuals, to do a self-examination each year to see where we are in our walk with God and the world because we don't often grow cold in our walk all at once. It usually happens in slow degrees, often unrecognized, until it is too late.

What is a "man"?  Is it having the right job?  Perhaps it is having the right physique?  Today Don Kinser presents a different view of what it is to be an man and challenges us with the question, "Are you man enough?"  Click below to listen.

Last week we talked about the foundation for real love in a relationship. This week's lesson is going to springboard off that Truth with a true story about a couple who went through horrible and unusual trials. I ask you to listen to this true story. It's going to take a while to tell it in detail, but it is so incredible that it is worth it. Much of our lesson will come from these true events.

Are you a sucker for a love story?  Especially one where love conquers all?  Then today's message is for you.  Listen to the true story of a love that survived the lowest of lows and the darkest of nights.  A love that was unearned and undeserved.  The story of a man who loved a woman and taught her what love could be.  Sound too good to be true?  It isn't!  Listen to find out what happened and how their story could be yours too!

Today's lesson will obviously be on relationships—especially on marriages—but this will not be one of those, "how to" lessons studied in the past. This is a study which goes directly to the very root of why God even created marriage and what real intimate love is at its very essence.