It is really easy to fall in love but but the real work in a relationship begins when all the feelings wear off.  There has to be agape love that runs deeper than just emotions. You may have feelings for someone but will your feelings last through the regular times or the tough times? How do you know your love for that person is biblical?

In this sermon, Minister TQ gives some good tips for both men and women while they're considering the pursuit of any kind of relationship from friendship to dating to marriage.  What qualities should you look for to ensure that your relationship will withstand the test of time and the scrutiny of scripture. It is crucial that all of our relationships be centered around Christ and His unconditional agape love or else they will invariably end with undesirable effects.

How are you fighting? Do you feel weak? Tired? How strong is your hope? Are you fighting this spiritual war like you're on the winning side or the losing side? Did you know that other people, and God, can tell whether or not you believe you have a chance in this thing?

This is a sermon that anyone who has been a Christian for awhile ought to listen to. It is common for Christians to get so bogged down with Christian activities and duties that we neglect our salvation, then we get beat down by sin and walk away confused. The mind is the devil's playground if it isn't kept by Jesus Christ. The devil knows that this is a vulnerability in our lives and will do what he can to take full advantage of it. In this sermon Pastor Cox discusses the dangers of going through this war without a helmet and even discusses those who wear the "wrong helmet"--those who place their hope in something other than the gospel of Jesus Christ. I've had a few people already talk to me about getting a copy of this sermon because of its immediate relavence in their lives. If you're starting to lose hope, let this sermon inspire you to keep pushing in the grace that was given to you in Jesus Christ alone.

When you first get saved it is so exhilarating!  You're pumped and ready to witness to everyone you come into contact with.  You can just feel the Holy Spirit moving through you and using you.  Am I right?  You feel like nothing can bring you down.

And then you sin.  ugh.

Sin affects us in so many ways.  Psychologically, your thoughts begin to change.  Emotionally, the shame you feel from knowing the same friends and family you were just witnessing may be aware that you've just sinned, can discourage you from ever wanting to share the Gospel again.  And even worse than that, the devil knows that you've sinned and will use that moment of weakness to try and take you out of the faith for eternity.

You hear alot of people say, "well even David sinned" and that is true, but what did David do after sinning? Instead of condemning himself, David prayed for restoration and vowed to teach sinners the Lord's ways (Psalm 51).  Listen as Pastor Cox pushes you to get back up and keep running the race of faith even after stumbling.  Just imagine how much louder the crowd roars when the team they thought would lose comes up from behind and wins.  We too have more influence after getting up.  When the enemy thought he had us defeated we come back even stronger!

Do you sometimes feel beat down?  You're tired of the fight that it seems to take to live sold out to Christ.  You're almost ready to quit.  You know what?  Many throughout history have felt the same way.  And at that point, they had a choice - give in to discouragement and quit or trust that just as God delivered his people many times in the past, He would come through again.

For the Israelites coming out of Egypt and headed into the promised land, there was nothing standing in the way of them getting what God promised them...nothing except Discouragement.  Listen as Pastor Cox describes what Discouragement can do in the lives of God's chosen people if you let it.