When we make the message of the Cross into a courtroom drama, instead of a love story, the message becomes cold, lifeless, and mechanical. A tale concerning a legal transaction does not have the power to move the heart and transform the person. However, when we recapture the setting and the context in which the crucifixion occurs, and finally see it for what it truly is, our hearts swell and our emotions reach a boiling point! When we see the Cross as an act of burning love on the part of the entire Trinity, something in us snaps! Something changes, and we can never be the same! When we realize that there is no division between the members of...

Get Pastor Jeff’s latest message: Freed From The Waterless Pit. When an emphasis on spiritual lack is the emphasis of the day, the church falls prey to thieves, robbers and those who would try to build their empire on her back.  However, when the church discovers her completion and and fullness and Christ, she becomes a force to be reckoned with. Listen here:  

‎”There were days when the Church could club men into obedience by preaching Hell to them, but that day has long passed. The world has outgrown it.”  (John G. Lake) THE MOVIE On December 28, 1895, the first ever motion picture, The Arrival of a Train at La Ciotat, saw it’s first public exhibition.  The simple film consists of less than a minute of footage of a train arriving at a station, followed by footage of people exiting the same train.  Really, there’s nothing very dynamic, eye catching or stunning about it.  In fact, today’s media soaked, iPad generation may find themselves dozing off by the end of it’s mere fifty seconds.  Though I’ve seen it several times, it gave...

It’s a strange phenomenon, but so long as a preacher regularly emphasizes the importance of ‘repentance’ and our urgent need to ‘turn from sin’, modern evangelicals will swallow most everything else that he says. It matters not if said individual rarely, if ever, brings up the name of Jesus or the all encompassing power of His finished work, as long as he harps on sin and societal ills, he’s taken in and his message accepted. As long as the messenger is bold in his denunciation of homosexuals, abortionists, democrats and those who don’t attend prayer meetings, he’s spoken of as having a ‘prophetic voice’ that ‘the church needs to hear’. As long as his articles and writings are on...

  Growing up in Church, taking communion was a pretty frightening and unnerving ritual.  ”What’s so ‘unnerving’ about washing down a sticky, newspaper tasting wafer with a shot of Welch’s grape juice?”, you may ask.  Well it wasn’t the experience itself, although for a kid, the enjoyment factor did hinge a lot on who was supplying the wafers that week.  There’s those little, rectangular cracker-esque ones which weren’t so bad.  Then you’d always have a few months of having to swallow down their more circular cousin, what I call the protestant Eucharist.  You know the ones I’m talking about?  The little mini circles with the cross stamped in the middle?  The one’s that have the consistency of paper mache?  Yep, those ones.  For a kid,...

Her parents could never forget the scene.  As hard as they tried, they could not delete the sights nor the sounds from their minds.  It ranked as one of the most disturbing moments that they had ever experienced in their lives… For months prior to Christmas, little Dorothy’s parents had been scrimping and saving every penny in order to ensure that their only daughter’s fifth Christmas would be her most memorable.  Every week, beginning in September, a portion of the the weekly income would be placed in the “Christmas fund” by giddy, doting parents, who simply could not wait to lavish little Dorothy with a shower of beautifully wrapped presents.  Being a family with a modest income, it was indeed a sacrifice for them...

I, like most earthlings, once had two Grandmothers.  Both of them lived some distance away from my family, and we were only able to see them during certain times of the year.  My Grandmother on my Father’s side lived nearly 5 states away, and I saw her much less frequently than my Grandmother on my Mother’s side, who lived only a matter of hours away. Both are now dead and dearly missed. The purpose of my writing is not to clue you in on the details of my relationship with my Grandparents.  Rather, I want to weave a short parable for you.  You see, both of my Grandmothers died several years ago now.  I attended both of their funerals,...

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“Take The Red Pill” is a sermon series preached by Pastor Jeff Turner.  This series of messages confronts many of the monumental lies that loom large in the minds of modern revival-minded believers.  There is a matrix of control and suppression that has gripped and held in bondage the Church of Jesus Christ for many generations.  Men throughout history like Martin Luther, William Durham, E.W. Kenyon, etc…, were awakened from their trance by “taking the red pill” of New Covenant revelation.  In our day there is a “red pill reformation” taking place globally, as men and women awaken from their religion-induced coma and come face to face with the finished works of Christ.  As you listen to the first...

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