All !n with Jordan Easley

A young man named Chris Moon joined a humanitarian group clearing landmines in Mozambique. He was trained to walk slowly, listen carefully, and never step where he hadn’t scanned. But one day, he took a shortcut, just a few feet off the marked path. The resulting explosion nearly cost him his life. He later said, “I let familiarity numb my focus. I forgot that just because I didn’t see the danger didn’t mean it wasn’t there.”

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What comes to your mind when you hear the word home? For some, it’s a warm kitchen, the smell of coffee, and laughter in the living room. For others, it might stir up pain, memories of fights, divorce, or absence. No matter your experience, we are all building something: marriages, families, and futures. The most important question we can ask is, what foundation are we building upon?

You could build a house that impresses the wor...

In 1962, President John F. Kennedy toured NASA and met a janitor carrying a mop. When the president asked him what he did there, the man replied, “I’m helping put a man on the moon.” That janitor understood that his role, no matter how small it seemed, was part of a mission far greater than himself. He saw beyond his immediate task to the larger, history-changing vision.

In the same way, the Bible tells us that if you have been ...

Curiosity can be a powerful catalyst for change. Consider the story of a janitor at NASA during the 1960s space race who, through simple curiosity, overheard a debate between engineers and offered a groundbreaking idea that improved the Apollo mission’s fuel. His curiosity brought him close, his boldness brought him in, and his question led to a breakthrough. This is the power of curiosity, and it is the same force that led a man na...

Most people have heard of Colonel Sanders and his world-famous fried chicken, but few know his story of failure. After his restaurant business failed, he hit the road at age 65 with nothing but a social security check and his secret recipe. He was rejected 1,009 times before one person finally said "yes." That single encounter changed everything, turning a rejected recipe into the global empire of KFC. One moment can redefine a lif...

Many of us can remember wanting something desperately as a child, like a prized toy or a rare collector's item. We might have even been willing to trade for it, but when the time came, the cost felt too high. We looked at what we already cherished, what we had worked hard to get, and thought, “As much as I want that, I just can’t let go of what I have.” In a similar way, we all come to Jesus with hands that are full. They are full ...

A true encounter with Jesus Christ will always change your life. You cannot meet Jesus face to face and leave unchanged. This is a truth we see powerfully demonstrated in the story of an unexpected woman at a well in Samaria. When Jesus decided to travel through Samaria, it was not a geographical shortcut; it was a divine appointment. He intentionally crossed significant cultural, ethnic, and social barriers because He had a meetin...

We all love the mountaintop moments in our walk with God. These are the spiritual highs when His presence feels near, His voice seems louder, and we just know He is moving. But when you experience spiritual victory, you can almost always expect a spiritual attack. If it can happen to Jesus, it will most certainly happen to us.

Immediately after His baptism, a powerful moment of divine affirmation, Jesus was led by the Spirit into ...

Walter Dixon was a soldier in the Korean War who was captured in combat. After a long time, the military presumed he was dead and sent a letter to his family declaring him "killed in action." His family grieved, held a funeral, and tried to move on. Two years later, there was a knock at the door. When they opened it, Walter was standing there, alive. The weeping started again, but this time, they were tears of joy. The son they tho...

There is something about facing the end of life that makes people brutally honest. When eternity is staring you in the face, the unimportant things fade away, and only the truth remains. We see this reality on full display in Luke’s account of the crucifixion. Jesus is hanging on a Roman cross between two criminals, both at the end of their roads. In their final moments, they each have an encounter with the King of Kings. One man ...

Some moments in life change everything. An encounter with Jesus, the day you get married, or the moment you become a parent are all experiences that can redefine your story. The disciples had many such encounters with Jesus, and each one shaped their faith, built their character, and defined their mission.

Imagine being invited to dinner by someone you deeply admire. You arrive expecting a wonderful evening, but instead, they an...

Imagine Joseph of Arimathea—the man who offered Jesus his own tomb—going home on the night of the crucifixion and telling his wife, “Honey, I need to tell you something… I gave my tomb away.” You can almost picture her staring back in disbelief: “Joseph, how could you do that? Do you know how much we paid to have that tomb carved out of the rock for us, for our family, for our children and grandchildren?”

But Joseph’s response w...

As we continue our journey through the Holy Land with a meaningful stop at Golgotha, which is the very place where Jesus was crucified and gave His life for our sins. This is one of the most pivotal moments on our Holy Land Highlights tour, because everything we believe centers on what happened here.

If Jesus had not died, there would have been no resurrection, and without the resurrection, there would be no Savior of the world....

In our next Holy Land Highlights message, we’ll focus on Caiaphas’s house—a place of great significance in Jesus’ final hours before the crucifixion. This is where Jesus was taken on Thursday night, and while Scripture doesn’t describe every detail of what happened there, history suggests He may have been beaten and held alone in a dark underground dungeon beneath the house. In this message, we’ll explore this place of suffering an...

As we continue through the Gospel of Matthew, we see how the disciples responded to everything Jesus endured in the final hours before His crucifixion. In His moment of greatest need, His closest friends scattered, leaving Him alone.

But before that happened, Jesus brought His disciples to the Mount of Olives. When they arrived in the garden, He told them to sit. That detail may seem small, but it’s significant. Why would Jesus ...

Jesus was an incredible teacher, and one thing that made Him so effective—beyond the fact that He is the Son of God—was His ability to use what was right in front of Him to communicate truth. Jesus often taught through vivid, tangible illustrations, helping people see and understand His message more clearly.

As we come now to Matthew 16, imagine what it must have been like for the disciples as they walked through the gates and i...

The question I want us to consider today is this: how do we love and serve the God who saved us? After all, I firmly believe that when you truly experience God, you should naturally want to serve God. In this message, we’re going to look at a couple of different ways we can serve God based on what we learn from those who served well in Scripture. The people we’re going to look at today set a great example of what it looks like to s...