Five Signs Regarding Church Health

Bethel Church just held its annual meeting yesterday evening, and it was a great time, though just a hair longer than normal. Really. It was an excellent evening. The Bethel Church family is united and eager to step still further into the purposes that our Father has for us as followers of Jesus Christ. Frankly, READ MORE

Global Leadership Summit 2011

Let me be painfully blunt: our world is starving for substantive leaders—true leaders—who will step up and move us forward to a preferred future. A cursory glance toward Washington, D.C., tells us that this much is true. Our society is hungry for men and women who will not settle for the management of mediocrity, but READ MORE

Reach Beyond Your Grasp

Reach Beyond Your Grasp—four words that ought to rock our respective worlds. But too many of us too easily settle for what is within reach, and as a result miss out on what great and mighty and even miraculous things God would do. Perhaps a reflection on Joshua and the army of Israel would challenge READ MORE

Redemption and Restoration: Sexual Healing

In attempting to find freedom from any sin and shame cycle, and particularly from sexual sin and shame, some strategic steps must be formulated and pursued, and a beginning point is this very critical truism: A Man or Woman Becomes What He or She Thinks About All Day Long. With this truism locked in our READ MORE

What My Eyes Long For

For the past few months I have deeply embedded myself within the pages of Psalm 119. I love what I’m reading. For too many years I have zipped through it, typically striving to get the Bible read in a year, thereby really flying over some pieces so quickly that I never truly survey what is READ MORE

Write This Down: Trust God Completely!

“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 sermon entitled, “Trust God Completely!”, part of the series called “Momentum,” the weekend of November 7, 2010 at Bethel Church: Momentum is a strategic partnership Bethel Church has READ MORE