An Audacious Conviction: To Live Like Christ!

Bethel Church has this audacious conviction that we are called to make disciples who live, love and lead like Christ. For us at Bethel Church, nothing rivals this mandate. It is the primary means by which we declare God’s glory (see Psalm 96:3), and is our bold response to Jesus’ own command in Matthew 28:19-20, READ MORE

Starving the Eyes

I love that moment on the rolling sea when Peter steps out toward the beckoning Jesus. “Come,” said Jesus, to his feisty friend. And Peter, according to Matthew 14:29, “got out of the boat and walked on the water and came to Jesus.” Unbelievable! What courage and zeal on Peter’s part. That he would even READ MORE

Write This Down: A Tale of Two Fires

“Write This Down…” provides a restatement of selected points or observations from various teaching venues at which Pastor Matthew speaks. The following material is from Pastor Matthew’s messages at the men’s retreat for West Park Baptist Church at Fort Bluff Camp in Dayton, Tennessee, October 7-9, 2010: Too many of us men come to that READ MORE