Good News Church – Yukon, OK
1,169 episodes - English - Latest episode: 20 days ago - ★★★★★ - 6 ratingsGood News Church is located in the growing suburb of Yukon near the western border of Oklahoma City. We are an interdenominational church welcoming people from a cross section of church backgrounds. Our mission is to reach, to teach, and to equip our generation with God's Word. We offer ministries for all ages to help people to grow in their Christian faith.
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Marriage Tune Up
April 19, 2023 10:00 - 48 minutes - 44.6 MBI'd like to talk about marriage to you. Even if you are not married, it is still worthwhile to learn about the biblical model for marriage, just as a doctor learns about medical conditions that may never affect them. You will be someone who can offer sound advice to whomever comes to you with questions about marriage. I think Matthew 18:20 is a great verse to describe the impact a married couple can have: "For where two or three are gathered together in my name, there I am in the midst of th...
Walk in Peace
April 16, 2023 10:00 - 48 minutes - 44.8 MBWe live in a world where people are agitated. People are frustrated and annoyed. I believe this to be a spirit of frustration that can overtake someone's life. I have determined, I don't want to live a frustrated life like these people, and I don't want any of you to live a life like these either. There should be a distinction between how believers live and how non-believers live. Thus, it is crucial that Christians learn to walk in peace with God. Jesus is the Prince of Peace, and he can su...
The Eagle Life
April 12, 2023 10:00 - 55 minutes - 50.7 MBI'd like to share with you a message about "The Eagle Life." Several weeks ago, I gave a message about "The Hopeful Heart," and ended the message with the passage from Isaiah 40: "... But they that wait upon the LORD shall renew their strength; they shall mount up with wings as eagles; they shall run, and not be weary; and they shall walk, and not faint." In this passage, God is saying that one who trusts in Him will have a parallel in their life much like an eagle. Just as an eagle soars fa...
Resurrection Revelation
April 09, 2023 10:00 - 37 minutes - 33.9 MBHave you ever wondered what it would sound like if the Apostle Paul were to pray for you? That's exactly what we have in Ephesians 1. This passage is a prayer that Paul prayed over the church in the ancient city of Ephesus, in modern day Turkey. In this passage, we see that Paul prays that the believers would have a grasp of the resurrection life that is living in them. We can often think of the resurrection as a historical event, but the reality is that it is an ongoing living event that im...
Spirit-Led - Part 2
April 02, 2023 10:00 - 50 minutes - 46.2 MBWednesday night I did a teaching on how to be led by the Holy Spirit. I'd like to follow up on that and talk about how we can be led by the Holy Spirit. The passage Romans 8:14 reads, "For as many as are led by the Holy Spirit, they are the sons of God." Jesus never said, "Take up your cross and leave me," he said, "Take up your cross and follow me." God's plan for you is to follow him and move forward, and a crucial step to follow him is to listen to and be led by his Holy Spirit.
Spirit-Led
March 29, 2023 10:00 - 53 minutes - 48.8 MBI'd like to speak to you from Romans 8:14. God communicates with each of us in a conviction or a deep assurance in our hearts. Often people will say "I had a gut feeling about this" or "my conscience assured me of this". These are all ways of people saying that at their deepest nature they felt the Lord was getting a message to them. This communication from God takes place through his Holy Spirit, and it is essential that believers learn how to be spirit-led if we are to act on the decisions...
The Mission
March 26, 2023 10:00 - 40 minutes - 36.9 MBThe story of Jesus and Zacchaeus is likely a familiar one to you, but I believe we can always glean some fresh insight from a story like this. There are many lost people in our lives like Zacchaeus, ones who need us to be a light to them. It is so easy to become distracted from what God has called us to do, his mission for us: to seek and bring the lost to salvation. This was not only Jesus' mission while on earth, but it is ours too while we are here on this earth. We should desire to have ...
Go After Goliath
March 22, 2023 10:00 - 45 minutes - 41.7 MBI'd like to speak to you from 1 Samuel 16 and 17, the account of David slaying the giant Goliath. This passage describes David's overcoming of a seemingly impossible opponent, and it holds close spiritual parallels to how a believer's attitude should be toward Satan. When we face giants in our life, we should not run from the giant but instead face it with a spirit of courage and faith. The first and most critical step to winning against a giant is speaking victory and the Word of the Lord o...
A Hopeful Heart
March 19, 2023 10:00 - 34 minutes - 32 MBI want to talk to you today about a hopeful heart by first opening to Romans 15:13. This verse is part of a benediction that Paul wrote as he was winding down his letter to the Romans, writing: "May the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace and believing, so that by the power of the Holy Spirit you may abound in hope." God is a God of hope, and He is capable of filling us with joy and peace and wishes that we would abound with hope. To be hopeful is to have a positive expectation about...
The First Outpouring
March 15, 2023 10:00 - 1 hour - 57.8 MBOne of the most referred to chapters in all of the New Testament is Acts 2. There's many ways people might know this chapter: some refer to it as the "birthday of the church", the beginning of the Church Age. Others might better know it as the day the Holy Spirit was first outpoured upon the church. Either way, it is certainly an important chapter of the Acts of the Apostles and is tremendously impactful for every church today. As John the Baptist spoke of Jesus, "He will baptize you in the ...
A Hedge of Protection
March 12, 2023 10:00 - 55 minutes - 51.1 MBWhether you are conscious of it or not, there is a "hedge of protection" that acts as a barrier of protection around your life. Without His protection over you, you would not be here today. We are all an example of God's divine protection over an individual's life. I believe that if we allow this concept to get down into our spirit, we can leave here with an expectation of the protection that is supplied to believers by our provider and protector, God. Open up with me to Job 1 to read more o...
The Importance of Friendships
March 08, 2023 10:00 - 46 minutes - 43 MBJesus says in the Bible: "I will no longer call you servants, but I will call you friends." The Bible shows that there is a friendship people can form with the world that is in reality hostile to God. If there is such a negative friendship, then there must similarly be a positive friendship that will help us to grow spiritually closer to God. In fact, there can be many such friendships: it is of utmost importance that believers form close friendships with those who will push them further in ...
The Purpose of Church
March 05, 2023 10:00 - 48 minutes - 44.1 MBI want to talk to you today about the local church. Church wasn't my idea or man's idea, it was God's idea. We don't carry it on because it's a tradition, but instead because the Bible instructs us to be part of a church body. Some of the strongest relationships can be forged in a church together, as well as interacting with some of the most interesting and encouraging believers you can meet. In the passage of 1 Timothy 3, Paul had spent several years investing in the church of Ephesus befor...
A Psalm of Provision
March 01, 2023 10:00 - 59 minutes - 54.1 MBThe Old and New Testaments both speak about the Lord being our shepherd - whether Jehovah Rohi or the shepherd Jesus speaks of "laying his life down for the sheep." Jesus fulfilled this role as shepherd when he came to earth, and we, of course, are the sheep. Like sheep often do, Isaiah 53:6 speaks of us all having gone astray, which shows even more our need for a shepherd who will guide and care for us. Psalm 23 is probably the most famous passage on the Lord's role as a shepherd for us, an...
A Psalm of Protection
February 26, 2023 10:00 - 43 minutes - 40 MBPsalm 91 is a familiar passage of scripture for many people, with many even putting this chapter to memory including myself. However, just because you know something mentally - like being able to recite it - doesn't mean you have a practicing knowledge of that particular passage. I could quote the entire chapter of this psalm, but just because I am quoting it doesn't mean I am deriving the benefits of it. It is important that believers know how this passage applies to their lives and how to ...
Showers of Blessings
February 22, 2023 10:00 - 54 minutes - 50 MBOpen up with me to Romans 9. I was in my office praying not long ago, and as I was praying, the Lord kept reminding me of a meeting I went to in 1989 at the would-be Rhema campus. It was such a powerful meeting with so many young women and men present who felt called to ministry. After the Lord reminded me of this, I went online and searched major events that occurred in 1989. One major world event during this time was Tiananmen Square. Another was the peaceful revolution of Czechoslovakia. ...
Walk in the Light
February 15, 2023 10:00 - 51 minutes - 47 MBA number of years ago, I was a young pastor and had gone through a tough season of pastoring. At a time when I was trying to do my best to please the Lord and honor him, I came across the verse of 1 John 1:5-7. Verse 7 states, "but if we walk in the light, as he is in the light, we have fellowship one with another, and the blood of Jesus Christ his Son cleanseth us from all sin." The focus of this passage is the phrase of "walk in the light," one which I'm sure you have heard before. When I ...
Give It to God
February 12, 2023 10:00 - 45 minutes - 41.4 MBSometime back, about a year ago, I cleaned out our attic. Sharon and I have been married for about twenty years, and thus twenty years of items had accumulated in the attic. Do you know what I discovered? We pick up a lot of junk along the way. The longer someone stays in one place, they start collecting more and more things. In life, if we aren't careful, we can end up carrying a lot of fear, anxieties, and burdens. I think that just like naturally how it can be very satisfying to go throug...
Pray Like Paul
February 08, 2023 10:00 - 57 minutes - 52.9 MBA number of years ago, I woke up in the night and was praying and said, "Lord, I'm doing everything I know to get closer to you. I don't know what else to do to draw even closer to you." Right as I said that, I heard the Lord say to me, "Pray the prayers of Paul." Like a lot of things, you hear from the Lord and initially get very excited, but eventually it fizzles out. I studied them a lot those years ago, but I haven't kept up with praying them personally like I should have until last year...
Pray for One Another
February 05, 2023 10:00 - 24 minutes - 22.8 MBAfter a great Wednesday night service this past week, as I was leaving I noticed that there were people praying together in groups throughout the sanctuary. I thought to myself, what a beautiful sight it is to see people praying for one another. I feel this is the vision that Jesus had in mind for the church, a place where believers can pray with one another. I then thought of the many "one another" phrases of the Bible, phrases like "love one another" or "be at peace with one another." I fe...
Balance
February 01, 2023 10:00 - 33 minutes - 30.7 MBI came across this book that a friend of mine recommended to me named "Fifty Pentecostal and Charismatic Leaders." I like the book so much that I ended up calling the author not long ago and speaking to him at length about the book. The book mentions many leaders you are likely to have heard of: Smith Wigglesworth, William Seymour, and Aimee Semple McPherson. Among these people is mentioned an individual originally from Great Britain named Donald Gee. The description given to Lake is particu...
Hope for the Future
January 29, 2023 10:00 - 43 minutes - 39.7 MBLet's go to John 16. The last two months for me have involved much more praying than usual from me for the state of our nation and the world. The advantage of a new year is that it allows you the chance to reboot and consider what you plan to do over the next year ahead. There's a statement I like that says "Things will never be different unless you do things differently," and similarly, with a new year comes the chance to focus on new areas with your prayer to bring about and be ready for p...
How to Share the Gospel
January 25, 2023 10:00 - 1 hour - 57.4 MBOpen up your Bible to Ephesians 4. This passage states, "And he gave some, apostles; and some, prophets; and some, evangelists; and some, pastors and teachers." These five categories describe what many call the five-fold ministry, with each role performing a vital function in the body of Christ. While each person may not be called to one of these roles, God still calls each Christian to live their life as a light to others. It is my hope that we can all live as Samaritans who can recognize a...
Blessed!
January 22, 2023 10:00 - 46 minutes - 42.8 MBI was praying about today's service and seeking the Lord and I was reminded of the importance of my role as a pastor in feeding you as a shepherd would feed a flock of sheep. The word I'd like to feed you all with today centers around one word – "blessed". I remember looking up the definition of blessed many years ago and reading that it is the opposite of cursed. As a child of God, you are the opposite of cursed: you are the definition of blessed. As I talk about this phrase "blessed" today...
Saving the Best for Last
January 18, 2023 10:00 - 40 minutes - 36.7 MBI'm going to talk to you out of John 2 tonight. This is often referred to as Jesus' first miracle in the gospels. The gospels don't tell much of Jesus' pre-ministry time before his fast in the desert apart from his blessing by Simeon when a young child and being found by his parents in the temple at age twelve. As such, this passage to our knowledge is Jesus' first miracle ever performed in his lifetime. In this passage, we hear the story of Jesus performing a miracle where he turned water t...
Suddenly
January 15, 2023 10:00 - 37 minutes - 34.3 MBHow many of you have a Bible today? Let's go over to Hebrews 11. I want to talk to you today about hope. We need to have hope in the day we're living in. Hope, by definition, is the expectation of future good. It's whenever we are looking ahead and believing there is God's goodness in our future. It's important for all Christians to have hope, particularly because what many people have banked their hope in doesn't usually work out. The anchor that we have is the Word of God, because God's wo...
Reaching Nations through Prayer
January 11, 2023 10:00 - 49 minutes - 45.6 MBI’d like to share with you tonight some special things from my heart. Many nations of the earth do not share the liberties that American Christians possess, such as freedom of religion. Where here we can freely proclaim our faith and practice it in our lives, in other nations even professing faith in Jesus could be the cause for imprisonment. However, there is a remnant of Christian believers in even the most restrictive nations of the earth. As Christians, we can partner and co-labor with G...
An Attitude of Victory
January 08, 2023 10:00 - 43 minutes - 39.7 MBBrent’s message last week on turning a curse into a blessing blessed me immensely and lined up with something that had been on my mind recently. I believe the church body has a need to live with victory – not just while in church but in our everyday lives. Too often, Christians live through a defeating week and get hyped back up to victory in church only to lose that feeling immediately afterward. What I want to do today is talk to you about living a victorious life in a way that persists lo...
My Testimony
January 04, 2023 10:00 - 1 hour - 59.4 MBBack in October I had the opportunity to speak in a church in Tulsa, and that day I felt God had placed a special message on my heart in which I was able to share a message on following God as sheep follow a shepherd, and then relate those verses to my life and how they had guided me as I shared my testimony. Tonight, I'd like to take the opportunity to share that message with the Good News family as I feel it was given to me for a special purpose and that it can bless those who are listenin...
The Curse Is Reversed
January 01, 2023 10:00 - 45 minutes - 41.9 MBMany years ago I had the chance to hear Brother Hagin speak in person. His sermon focused on Romans 5:17 and its description of how the Christian can be renewed and reign in life with authority through the words we speak. We must remain aware of the power that God has granted to us through the indwelling of his Spirit. While we do live in reality and cannot ignore real problems, we can use our faith and words to turn things around -- to reverse a curse in our lives. To walk in faith is to no...
Why Tongues?
December 28, 2022 10:00 - 55 minutes - 50.5 MBI’d like to talk to you tonight about a subject that has been a tremendous blessing for me – the fullness of the baptism in the Holy Spirit and the blessings from praying in the Holy Spirit. What I’m speaking about doesn’t come as any sort of memo from a governing body, it is instead a topic that has continually served as an oasis in my life that refreshes me. I brought many books with me tonight that focus on the topic of speaking in tongues and baptism in the Holy Spirit, each from a diffe...
The Holy Spirit in the Christmas Story
December 25, 2022 10:00 - 34 minutes - 31.5 MBWhat I’d like to talk to you about today is the person of the Holy Spirit and how he interfaces with the Christmas Story. Wednesday night we spent studying the angelic activities that took place around the Christmas story, and as I was praying I felt it would be fitting to speak today on Christmas Day on what the Holy Spirit’s role in Christmas was. There were 400 years of silence and darkness that occurred between the writing of Malachi in the Old Testament and the birth of Jesus. However, ...
The Angels of Christmas
December 21, 2022 10:00 - 49 minutes - 45.1 MBI remember many years ago when I was a young pastor, I gave a message on the many angelic encounters that occurred in the Christmas story. I always thought this was a fascinating topic because if at the time of the Christmas story, you were not receptive to the ministry of angels, you would have missed out on the incredible thing God was doing by bringing his Son into the earth. What I'd like to do tonight is look at five passages of scripture surrounding the birth of Jesus so that we can se...
An Inconvenient Christmas
December 18, 2022 10:00 - 37 minutes - 33.9 MBI want to share with you this morning the Christmas story from Luke's account in Luke 2. In this passage, we read how in situation after situation, Mary and Joseph encountered inconvenience and chaos on their journey to fulfill the census for the Roman government. Whether having to return many miles back to Bethlehem, the census occurring when Mary was pregnant, or the inn being out of room, we see how from a natural perspective it seemed as though chaos was in control. However, in reality, ...
The Harvest Is Coming - Part 2
December 11, 2022 10:00 - 49 minutes - 45 MBOpen up your Bible to Ephesians 3. I'm going to read to you a passage that I'd like to hold onto as you go into the New Year. We live in what we call a "fallen world", one that has much depravity and sin as people oppose God's plan. If we aren't careful, we can allow this to hold us down in our Christian living. The Bible tells us to "not be conformed to this world, but to be transformed by the renewal of our mind." We must resist the temptation to think as the world does -- God's plan for C...
The Harvest Is Coming
December 07, 2022 10:00 - 50 minutes - 46.4 MBI'd like to read you some scriptures I've had on my heart lately. In the various Epistles of the New Testament, we find evidence that the early church would gather and read letters from the various Apostles, much like what we're doing tonight. It can be helpful to keep the focus on the Word when gathering. As such, I'd like to read two passages that focus on the Biblical concept of harvesting crops or catching fish. These often serve as allegories for the harvest of souls into God's Kingdom....
Praise Changes Things
December 04, 2022 10:00 - 39 minutes - 36.5 MBIf you would, open up with me to the book of Acts in chapter 16. This passage tells the story of how Paul and Silas were imprisoned after casting a spirit out of a girl while evangelizing. In the midst of such a discouraging situation, they could have felt that God had abandoned them. But instead, as we will see, they stayed faithful to God, singing their praises to him and in doing so allowing something miraculous to happen. They serve as an example to Christians on how even when in a storm...
Positive Mind, Positive Words
November 30, 2022 10:00 - 49 minutes - 45.1 MBWe are living in a time in the world where many strange things are occurring, like never before in history. It can be easy for Christians to gather together and end up talking about everything the devil has been doing, instead of focusing on what God is doing. Our time together as Christian believers is crucial, and we must use it to edify one another and glorify God. This past week after getting off the phone with someone where we discussed some of the negative things happening in the world...
Hold Steady
November 27, 2022 10:00 - 38 minutes - 35.4 MBI want to share a quick word with you today that I believe the Holy Spirit put on my heart. I will admit with this message that I am preaching to myself a little with this message, and if you wanted to put a title to this message you could call it “Hold Steady.” I’d like to talk about the phrase “patient endurance” and how I believe it is crucial for the body of Christ in this hour.
The Apostle Paul's First Prayer
November 20, 2022 10:00 - 40 minutes - 36.9 MBIf you have a Bible, I’d like you to open to Acts 22. In this passage, we see how Paul recounts how he had an encounter with God on the road to Damascus. Through this story, we get to see what Paul’s very first prayer was to the Lord. My purpose in focusing on this prayer is to allow us to ask ourselves, “Are we frequently praying Paul’s first prayer?”. Paul’s world-changing ministry and life all began with this prayer. It can serve as a model for our prayers and our life’s intentions.
Dare to Be a Daniel
November 16, 2022 10:00 - 50 minutes - 46.5 MBTonight I’d like to share from Daniel 6. This past Sunday, our guest Bill Kern mentioned Daniel. As I studied this past week, I felt more and more strongly that this passage should be read by our congregation together. Daniel is a Biblical character who lived through many political regimes, or as we might call in contemporary times, administrations. God used this historical positioning to set up Daniel as a positive influence for the leaders he interacted with. Listen on how we can be a simi...
Lessons from a Farmer
November 13, 2022 10:00 - 1 hour - 59.1 MBToday we’ll be hearing from a surprise guest, a farmer from rural Oklahoma named Bill Kern. Bill and I have been friends for many years and it is my belief that his experience as a farmer gives him many unique insights into Biblical passages. As of late, his work has been pivotal in allowing him and I to reach legislators in the Oklahoma State Capitol. Listen in as Bill shares on his experience as a Christian influence in Oklahoma politics as well as a farmer.
It is Well - Part 2
November 09, 2022 10:00 - 42 minutes - 38.8 MBIn Sunday's service we taught on an Old Testament story from 2 Kings 4, on Elisha and the woman of Shunem. This story tells of how a woman showed generosity and hospitality to Elisha, with Elisha blessing her kindness by praying for God to give her a son. Despite this blessing, the son later passed away due to illness, requiring the woman to exercise faith in God's promise to her and call upon Elisha to resurrect her son. We can benefit greatly in life if we have the ability to say like the ...
It Is Well
November 06, 2022 10:00 - 31 minutes - 29.3 MBI'm going to share something with you today from 2 Kings 4 that I think will be meaningful to you. This passage is about Elisha's role in blessing the woman of Shunem with a child and his later resurrecting of that child. After the child's death, despite standing in the face of such despair, the woman simply said, "It is well." In our times of desperation, we would strive to have the same faith in God as the woman of Shunem did.
Run Your Race
October 30, 2022 10:00 - 39 minutes - 36.4 MBI’m going to talk to you today about the phrase “run your race.” Growing up, my parents always told me, “Tom, you’re impressionable.” Whether it was a farmer, athlete, or attorney who I spent time with, I always came back wanting to be like them. I think that sometimes in Christendom as we begin to walk with the Lord, if we are not careful we can get caught up in and glorify what others do, and in the process lose sight of what we have been called to do. In the body of Christ, there are no u...
What Makes the Gospel Relevant?
October 23, 2022 10:00 - 36 minutes - 33 MBSeveral months ago, I gave a funeral message with the knowledge there would be many present who would not be saved. I asked the Lord to give me a message that I would be able to reach them with and that could make the most of this opportunity. He reminded me that everyone has "core issues," flaws in their lives that they are seeking to solve. The solution to these issues can come in the Psalm 23 as I felt the Lord said to me: "Everything that people are looking for in life can be found in th...
"I Am the Shepherd, the Good One"
October 16, 2022 10:00 - 1 hour - 55.9 MBWe're going to look at John 10 today, which is titled "The Good Shepherd." This allegory by Jesus talks about a thief and a robber several times. If he mentions it so many times, it's probably important that we direct our attention to these concepts. So, the question is, what is a thief and robber? Are they the same thing or different? Listen in to learn more about how Jesus truly is our good shepherd.
Practicing the Presence of God in Your Life
October 09, 2022 10:00 - 42 minutes - 38.6 MBI want to speak to you about practicing the presence of God in your life. Our time can be filled with unexpected circumstances and frustrating incidents, and it is important that show that we are living in God's presence and exercise grace and peace toward others. Those in the Old Testament could not live in God's presence as we could, although Moses expressed the desire to God when he pleaded "Show me your glory." Under the New Covenant the Holy Spirit inhibits us and we can live every day ...
The Responsibility of a Spirit-Filled Church
October 02, 2022 10:00 - 45 minutes - 41.2 MBWhat I'd like to speak to you this morning about is the responsibilities of a spirit-filled church. What are they? I think most of us have been in situations where we have had privileges but have realized that with the privileges comes responsibility. As the Bible says, "To whom much is given, much is required." There is a blessing side to what we are given but also a responsibility side. We must not have the attitude of not only "I want God to bless me" but also "I want to be a blessing to ...
Making Room for More
September 28, 2022 10:00 - 55 minutes - 50.9 MBI'd like to talk to you tonight about "making room for more"...sometimes in our lives we can become too rigid, set, predetermined, and like we already know how everything is going to turn out. It was this same problem that made the vast majority of Jews miss Jesus - he did not fit the image of the Messiah that they had in their minds. If we are too set in our thinking, we can miss out on what God is trying to do for us.