Richard Ellis Talks

Yeast Infection

12 Jan 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Leaven, or yeast, can be used for two different teaching analogies. It can represent evil in forms of added religion, complaining, disputing or disobe...

Missing You

10 Jan 2025

Contributed by Lukas

God has made the way through His Son for us to be in right relationship with Him. When we, as His creation, are far from Him, He is missing us and cal...

Missing You

10 Jan 2025

Contributed by Lukas

God has made the way through His Son for us to be in right relationship with Him. When we, as His creation, are far from Him, He is missing us and cal...

Change Made

09 Jan 2025

Contributed by Lukas

God’s kindness leads us to a godly sorrow about our sin that should always follow with repentance. When we truly repent, we don’t go back to doing...

Change Made

09 Jan 2025

Contributed by Lukas

God’s kindness leads us to a godly sorrow about our sin that should always follow with repentance. When we truly repent, we don’t go back to doing...

One For The Kippur

08 Jan 2025

Contributed by Lukas

The Old Testament people had to make continual sacrifices for their sins, but the guilt of their sin never went away. When Jesus came and died on the ...

One For The Kippur

08 Jan 2025

Contributed by Lukas

The Old Testament people had to make continual sacrifices for their sins, but the guilt of their sin never went away. When Jesus came and died on the ...

Foreigner

07 Jan 2025

Contributed by Lukas

The story of Peter sharing the Gospel with Cornelius, a gentile, is an example to us that God will sometimes stretch us to break traditions for His pu...

Foreigner

07 Jan 2025

Contributed by Lukas

The story of Peter sharing the Gospel with Cornelius, a gentile, is an example to us that God will sometimes stretch us to break traditions for His pu...

All Over The Place

06 Jan 2025

Contributed by Lukas

The Bible tells us that everything in creation is held together by God and He is present in every place. There is nothing that we can do to get away f...

All Over The Place

06 Jan 2025

Contributed by Lukas

The Bible tells us that everything in creation is held together by God and He is present in every place. There is nothing that we can do to get away f...

Tomb Raider

05 Jan 2025

Contributed by Lukas

The story of Jesus raising Lazarus from the dead showed the disciples that even death cannot stop Him, yet when He did and was placed in a tomb they d...

Tomb Raider

05 Jan 2025

Contributed by Lukas

The story of Jesus raising Lazarus from the dead showed the disciples that even death cannot stop Him, yet when He did and was placed in a tomb they d...

Who Said There’s No Free Lunch?

03 Jan 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Because of Christ’s death on the cross, we have all been given the grace and forgiveness needed to be accepted by God as His children. There is no s...

Who Said There’s No Free Lunch?

03 Jan 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Because of Christ’s death on the cross, we have all been given the grace and forgiveness needed to be accepted by God as His children. There is no s...

Past Away

02 Jan 2025

Contributed by Lukas

The Bible teaches us that when we are in Christ we are made completely new, no longer enslaved to the sins from our past. While it is difficult to giv...

Past Away

02 Jan 2025

Contributed by Lukas

The Bible teaches us that when we are in Christ we are made completely new, no longer enslaved to the sins from our past. While it is difficult to giv...

Birthright

01 Jan 2025

Contributed by Lukas

The evil in the world today has led to millions of unwarranted deaths of unborn children. While we may come to God with an initial political view of b...

Birthright

01 Jan 2025

Contributed by Lukas

The evil in the world today has led to millions of unwarranted deaths of unborn children. While we may come to God with an initial political view of b...

No More Time

31 Dec 2024

Contributed by Lukas

We don’t know when God will say that our time on earth is done. Rather than wasting the time we are given we need to obey God in everything He tells...

I See You

30 Dec 2024

Contributed by Lukas

The way that we live obediently in following Christ is to partake in the compassion that He shows us and others by caring for and comforting one anoth...

Turn-Around

29 Dec 2024

Contributed by Lukas

The Bible is filled with instruction for all of God’s people to turn from sin and follow Him. We cannot follow God, carry on a relationship with Him...

Brace For Impact

27 Dec 2024

Contributed by Lukas

The person who firmly grounds themselves in the Word and obeys what it says is better braced for when tragedy comes than the one who does not prepare....

Ditched

26 Dec 2024

Contributed by Lukas

The Scripture is full of people who suffered and honestly declared their feeling of God leaving them out to dry. However, their stories also reveal ho...

It’s A Boy

25 Dec 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Jesus came as the Savior of the world, offering salvation and a changed life to all. He promised to return and it’s our job to announce His returnin...

One Star Hotel

24 Dec 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Jesus came to earth in the poorest of conditions, being born in a stable, so that no one could claim that they are worse off than He was. Even the peo...

Da Baby

23 Dec 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Although the world will tell us there are multiple religions and names we can believe in to be saved, the Bible teaches the truth that it is only thro...

Barns & Noble

22 Dec 2024

Contributed by Lukas

It is interesting to see how Jesus, the God of the universe, came so humbly to earth being born in a barn. His ministry shows Him reaching out to lost...

Stable Family

20 Dec 2024

Contributed by Lukas

People are looking to us for answers because they see the stability that we have from Jesus. When we make Him the center of our lives, our families, a...

The Way In A Manger

19 Dec 2024

Contributed by Lukas

The Bible tells us that Jesus is the only way to get to God. As Christians, it is our job to spread the message of the Gospel and help others put toge...

There’s Something About Mary

18 Dec 2024

Contributed by Lukas

While Mary was not a sinless, perfect person, she had a willing heart to submit to God’s will for her life. When we follow in her example, Jesus mov...

The “W” In Christmas

17 Dec 2024

Contributed by Lukas

God loved us enough, even in our sinful state, to make the greatest sacrifice of all. God does not want anyone to be condemned to hell, but when we ch...

Wise Guys

16 Dec 2024

Contributed by Lukas

The story of the birth of Jesus is filled with wise people, not just the Wise Men, who responded to God and His leading in their lives. Only by follow...

Fruit of the Womb

15 Dec 2024

Contributed by Lukas

At some point we have to choose to believe what the Bible says no matter how crazy it may sound because God has perfectly orchestrated the story of sa...

King-Sized Bed

13 Dec 2024

Contributed by Lukas

The difference between Jesus and other earthly kings is that He was never made to be a king at some point in His life, He was born the King of Kings. ...

3 Men & A Baby

12 Dec 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Many people have hesitations to believing that what the Bible says is really true. Rather than throw out the whole Bible because we don’t understand...

Place of Birth

11 Dec 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Just like the Pharisees in Jesus’ time could’ve figured out who He was by simply asking where He was born, we could understand a lot more if we wo...

God’s Presents

10 Dec 2024

Contributed by Lukas

God has offered the most valuable gift of salvation and all we have to do is accept it. Once we are saved we can give our lives to God for Him to use ...

Regifters

09 Dec 2024

Contributed by Lukas

God not only gave us physical life but He offers us eternal life by giving His Son to die. When we receive this gift of salvation, we can turn around ...

The Inn Crowd

08 Dec 2024

Contributed by Lukas

God doesn’t choose the people that would seem logical in the eyes of the world to be part of His Kingdom. It is simply those who believe in Him and ...

It’s A Wonderful Life

06 Dec 2024

Contributed by Lukas

If anyone feels like their life is so difficult that they wish they had never been born, the best thing to do is to get born again. Our only hope in a...

Extra Virgin

05 Dec 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Just like God used Mary to bring Jesus into the world as part of His plan to save the world, He can use you and me if we make ourselves obedient to Hi...

It’s A Gift

04 Dec 2024

Contributed by Lukas

God offers each of us a completely free gift that He paid for with the death of His Son, Jesus Christ. All we have to do is reach out and receive it. ...

Gifted

03 Dec 2024

Contributed by Lukas

God has given each and every person amazing gifts and talents, yet they are all best used when they glorify Him. The greatest gift He gave is His own ...

The X In Xmas

02 Dec 2024

Contributed by Lukas

When we choose to believe that God can accomplish anything He says He wants to do, we get to watch the impossible take place. When He gives us the fai...

We Are the Reason For the Season

01 Dec 2024

Contributed by Lukas

We often say that Jesus is the reason we celebrate Christmas, but the truth is that Jesus came to earth for us so we are the true reason for the seaso...

Leftovers

29 Nov 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Instead of pursuing a career and money to bring ourselves joy in life, we need to live obedient to God in all that He calls us to do and that will bri...

Thanks Giving

28 Nov 2024

Contributed by Lukas

God has blessed us beyond what we could even comprehend, and the best way to thank Him for all He has given us is to turn around and give Him all we h...

Thanks For Remembering

27 Nov 2024

Contributed by Lukas

When Jesus ate His last meal with His disciples, He took a moment to encourage them to remember the death that He was about to experience. It is in gi...

Please, Yes Sir, Thank You

26 Nov 2024

Contributed by Lukas

When we call out to God to help us we must be ready and willing to obey whatever He tells us to do no matter how crazy it sounds. When we get His answ...

No Mercy

25 Nov 2024

Contributed by Lukas

The Bible teaches that God is merciful and gracious, slow to anger and freely offering salvation for all those who will believe. While He is all of th...

In Pieces

24 Nov 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Our lives change when we are broken over our sin and we experience God’s forgiveness when we repent. Then we need others to help us put the pieces t...

Rockers To Knockers

22 Nov 2024

Contributed by Lukas

There are all kinds of categories of people that come into a church, but God has called those a part of His Church to be involved with one another and...

POP Eye

21 Nov 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Being smart is very different than being wise, and as children of God we are instructed to grow in wisdom in order so that we may make wise choices. T...

POW!

20 Nov 2024

Contributed by Lukas

There are instances in this world where children, women, and sometimes men are taking beatings on a regular basis. While the Bible instructs us to not...

Under New Management

19 Nov 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Too many people want the benefit of salvation without the Lordship of Christ in their lives. When we submit to Jesus in every way, it is only then tha...

Stool Test

18 Nov 2024

Contributed by Lukas

One of the greatest way to determine how well our lives are being used by God is by examining the parts of our lives that have been wasted. Instead of...

No Justice, No Peace

17 Nov 2024

Contributed by Lukas

God provided a way of justice for our sins through Christ’s death on the cross so that we can be brought into perfect peace in relationship with Him...

Spit Wads

15 Nov 2024

Contributed by Lukas

The Bible tells us that no matter what we do or how we grow, it all must be rooted in godly love or else it’s meaningless. When God shows us an area...

Witness Protection Program

14 Nov 2024

Contributed by Lukas

As Christians, we have the Holy Spirit living in us and working through us to fulfill God’s will. When we are prompted to share the Gospel with whoe...

Winning Is For Everyone

13 Nov 2024

Contributed by Lukas

There is nothing in this world, physical or spiritual, that can war against us and overcome us if we are living in the power of the Holy Spirit. God h...

God Don’t Never Change

12 Nov 2024

Contributed by Lukas

We live in a world that brings constant change, and often that can come with scary circumstances invoking fear and restlessness all around us. When we...

Secret Service

11 Nov 2024

Contributed by Lukas

When we listen to God, He will lead us to meet the needs of people that cross our path. Since all our stuff is His anyway, we need to be good stewards...

Tell Tales

10 Nov 2024

Contributed by Lukas

As Christians, we ought to be waiting on the Spirit to blow some wind in our sails, and allow Him to guide us to where He wants us to go. Then, when w...

Cross Fit

08 Nov 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Jesus went through excruciating suffering in order for us to be saved. When He says in Scripture that we are to take up our cross and follow Him, that...

What’s Holding You Back?

07 Nov 2024

Contributed by Lukas

The Christian life is like a race that we are running, and the devil will do everything he can to try to take us out. We must let go of whatever is ho...

What If?

06 Nov 2024

Contributed by Lukas

The world is filled with what-if questions that can keep anyone bound in life-controlling fear. God has not only made a way for us to be saved for ete...

Pre-Nupe

05 Nov 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Divorce is so common in the world that we live in because too often people are trying to do things on their own. The only way that a relationship will...

Crop Sharing

04 Nov 2024

Contributed by Lukas

The Bible teaches us that God cares for us, loves us, and wants to give us good things. The way we can be receptive to that is by living with open han...

Love the Sin, Hate the Sinner

03 Nov 2024

Contributed by Lukas

When we choose to follow Jesus, He leads us to other broken people in need of a healing Savior. Instead of ignoring people’s sin that is destroying ...

Power Lunch

01 Nov 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Too often we hold back things in our own lives, such as our talents, our time or our money, because we think that if we offer it up that God is just g...

Haunted House

31 Oct 2024

Contributed by Lukas

There are plenty of evils in this world, yet God has chosen us as His followers to dwell in us in order so that we may become more like Him and be abl...

Monsters

30 Oct 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Even Christians can live in the dark, hiding their sin and being prisoners of war. However, God calls us to expose our sin, live in the light and walk...

Inpowered

29 Oct 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Since Jesus died for us to save us from the power of sin, God puts His Spirit not just around us but in us when we receive His salvation. That means t...

Terminal

28 Oct 2024

Contributed by Lukas

As believers, this world is only a terminal that we wait in for our eventual trip to Heaven. However, God has us waiting in this place for a reason an...

Unfriend

27 Oct 2024

Contributed by Lukas

When our relationship with Jesus is working as we obey Him in the simple things He asks us to do, our relationships with others tend to work out as we...

Weekend Getaway

25 Oct 2024

Contributed by Lukas

All we have to do to be saved is to admit that Jesus is Lord and that God raised Him from the dead. Jesus died so that we can have life, and God’s p...

Dear Life

24 Oct 2024

Contributed by Lukas

In this world, we are not always kind to ourselves and make a mess of our lives, accept it as a mess and survive until the end. God has given us purpo...

Slingshot

23 Oct 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Our lives are not about gaining glory for ourselves but rather for God. We do that when we allow Him to use us to disciple others and then slingshot t...

Bed, Bath and Beyond

22 Oct 2024

Contributed by Lukas

The devil will try his hardest to get us to stumble when we are obeying the Lord, especially in relationships. When we are married it is essential tha...

I’m A Little Teapot

21 Oct 2024

Contributed by Lukas

While God sacrificed His Son so that we may be saved, He also desires us to sacrifice our lives to allow Him to pour us out and use us as He pleases. ...

Muckedy Mucks

20 Oct 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Too often we get caught up in seeing the flaws of the authority over us, especially when it comes to our government. Rather than complain about the wa...

Go Viral

18 Oct 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Most Christians start out on fire for God, sharing with everyone what God has done for them in saving them. But eventually other Christians can often ...

Missing Sin

17 Oct 2024

Contributed by Lukas

When we become Christians, we put to death our old life and walk in a new way, submitting to God in everything. Our flesh puts up a battle by remindin...

Whoa Is Me

16 Oct 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Often times we can get caught up in our lives doing whatever it is we want to do and God comes along, calls us out and stops us in our tracks. When Go...

Died in the Wool

15 Oct 2024

Contributed by Lukas

There are many churches today that are more concerned with pleasing our culture rooted in sin rather than pleasing Jesus. It is more important that we...

True That

14 Oct 2024

Contributed by Lukas

The world is full of accepted beliefs that Scripture teaches is just not true. No matter how much we have been told something, or how fervently we bel...

My Peeps

13 Oct 2024

Contributed by Lukas

The more we understand that it’s by God’s grace that He picked us to be part of His people in the first place, the more humbled we are and can sha...

Mourning Glory

11 Oct 2024

Contributed by Lukas

We are going to have pain in this life, but God has a bigger plan through which His glory comes out of our mourning. We must seek Him at all times, es...

Ignoramus

10 Oct 2024

Contributed by Lukas

It’s easy to make judgments about other people when we are ignorant of their lives and backgrounds. Instead of staying ignorant, we need to seek to ...

Against the Anointed One

09 Oct 2024

Contributed by Lukas

The Bible makes it very clear that there is a distinct line separating those who are for Christ and those who are against Him. You cannot be on the fe...

Attaboy

08 Oct 2024

Contributed by Lukas

We all need encouragement every now and then, but few people are willing to give it in fear of building a big ego. Rather than letting anything stop u...

The Ace in the Race of Grace

07 Oct 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Once we get to the point of receiving God’s grace, we are able to see our lives through the lens of being created and used for His purposes. The Bib...

Gilligan’s Island

06 Oct 2024

Contributed by Lukas

While there are many different kinds of people in the world rich, poor, simple, smart, etc. the fact is that all of us are shipwrecked and need a Sa...

Men At Work

04 Oct 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Men tend to find their value in their work, and because of that they lose all sense of importance in the case of a job loss. Instead of trusting in ot...

Women At Work

03 Oct 2024

Contributed by Lukas

The Proverbs 31 woman is the kind of woman any man should look for because she works hard at the tasks God has given her. If God is laying on a woman’...

Sex At Work

02 Oct 2024

Contributed by Lukas

The workplace can introduce relationships that may begin innocent but lead down a path of ungodly behavior to the detriment of ourselves and our marri...

Relationships At Work

01 Oct 2024

Contributed by Lukas

God has placed us at our jobs for His purpose, and we must be a reflection of Him to those with whom we are working. Instead of gossiping about others...

There All The Time

30 Sep 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Once the Holy Spirit dwells in us when we are saved by faith in Jesus, we have access to every blessing, every power, every bit of knowledge we need t...

Vice Grips

29 Sep 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Everyone has different struggles with sin, but they all fall under similar categories because the devil only has so many kinds of arrows. When we cont...