Megan Evans, Women’s Ministry Director, LHBC Matthew 5:46-48 English Standard Version (ESV) 46 For if you love those who love you, what reward do you have? Do not even the tax collectors do the same? 47 And if you greet only your brothers, what more are you doing than others? Do not even the Gentiles…
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Derek Smith, Lead Pastor LHBC   Hebrews 6:19-20 We have this as a sure and steadfast anchor of the soul, a hope that enters into the inner place behind the curtain, 20 where Jesus has gone as a forerunner on our behalf, having become a high priest forever after the order of Melchizedek. One of my…
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Irvin Wasswa- Tylertown Campus Pastor LHBC John 3:14-18 And as Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, so must the Son of Man be lifted up, that whoever believes in him may have eternal life.  “For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not…
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Jessica Albritton, NextGen Minister LHBC Genesis 22:3-14 3 So Abraham rose early in the morning, saddled his donkey, and took two of his young men with him, and his son Isaac. And he cut the wood for the burnt offering and arose and went to the place of which God had told him. 4 On…
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Richard Whitaker- Discipleship and Connections Pastor LHBC Matthew 12:1-8 At that time Jesus went through the grainfields on the Sabbath. His disciples were hungry, and they began to pluck heads of grain and to eat. But when the Pharisees saw it, they said to him, “Look, your disciples are doing what is not lawful to…
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Derek Smith, Lead Pastor LHBC  Romans 12:9-21 Let love be genuine. Abhor what is evil; hold fast to what is good. 10 Love one another with brotherly affection. Outdo one another in showing honor. 11 Do not be slothful in zeal, be fervent in spirit, serve the Lord. 12 Rejoice in hope, be patient in…
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Megan Evans, Women’s Ministry Director, LHBC Matthew 5:43-45 (ESV) 43 “You have heard that it was said, ‘You shall love your neighbor and hate your enemy.’ 44 But I say to you, Love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you, 45 so that you may be sons of your Father who is in…
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Irvin Wasswa- Tylertown Campus Pastor LHBC 2 Timothy 2:1-2 “You then, my child, be strengthened by the grace that is in Christ Jesus, 2 and what you have heard from me in the presence of many witnesses entrust to faithful men, who will be able to teach others also.” Diedrich Bonhoffer, the great German theologian…
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Jessica Albritton, NextGen Minister LHBC Romans 1:16-17 16 For I am not ashamed of the gospel, for it is the power of God for salvation to everyone who believes, to the Jew first and also to the Greek. 17 For in it the righteousness of God is revealed from faith for faith, as it is…
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Richard Whitaker- Discipleship and Connections Pastor LHBC John 5:30-47 I can do nothing on my own. As I hear, I judge, and my judgment is just, because I seek not my own will but the will of him who sent me.  If I alone bear witness about myself, my testimony is not true.  There is…
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Megan Evans, Women’s Ministry Director, LHBC Matthew 6:31-34  (ESV) 31 Therefore do not be anxious, saying, ‘What shall we eat?’ or ‘What shall we drink?’ or ‘What shall we wear?’ 32 For the Gentiles seek after all these things, and your heavenly Father knows that you need them all. 33 But seek first the kingdom…
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Derek Smith, Lead Pastor LHBC  Proverbs 16:1-4, 9, The plans of the heart belong to man,     but the answer of the tongue is from the Lord. 2 All the ways of a man are pure in his own eyes,  but the Lord weighs the spirit. 3 Commit your work to the Lord,     and your plans…
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Irvin Wasswa- Tylertown Campus Pastor LHBC 1 Samuel 18:1-5 18 As soon as he had finished speaking to Saul, the soul of Jonathan was knit to the soul of David, and Jonathan loved him as his own soul. 2 And Saul took him that day and would not let him return to his father’s house.…
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Jessica Albritton, NextGen Minister LHBC Romans 5:1-5 Therefore, since we have been justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ. 2 Through him we have also obtained access by faith into this grace in which we stand, and we rejoice in hope of the glory of God.3 Not only that,…
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Richard Whitaker- Discipleship and Connections Pastor LHBC John 5:19-24 So Jesus said to them, “Truly, truly, I say to you, the Son can do nothing of his own accord, but only what he sees the Father doing. For whatever the Father does, that the Son does likewise. For the Father loves the Son and shows…
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Megan Evans, Women’s Ministry Director, LHBC Psalm 8:2 (ESV) Out of the mouth of babies and infants, you have established strength because of your foes,     to still the enemy and the avenger. Children will say anything!  I can recall more than one occasion that made me want to hide as our toddlers voiced an untimely…
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Derek Smith, Lead Pastor LHBC  Matthew 26:41 Keep watching and praying that you may not enter into temptation; the spirit is willing, but the flesh is weak. Jesus is in the Garden of Gethsemane in great agony. He’s headed to the cross and the burden is so great that Scripture says He is sweating drops…
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Irvin Wasswa- Tylertown Campus Pastor LHBC Joshua 7:1-11;16-26 7 But the people of Israel broke faith in regard to the devoted things, for Achan the son of Carmi, son of Zabdi, son of Zerah, of the tribe of Judah, took some of the devoted things. And the anger of the Lord burned against the people…
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Jessica Albritton, NextGen Minister LHBC  Numbers 20:7-12 “and the Lord spoke to Moses, saying, “Take the staff, and assemble the congregation, you and Aaron your brother, and tell the rock before their eyes to yield its water. So you shall bring water out of the rock for them and give drink to the congregation and…
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Richard Whitaker- Discipleship and Connections Pastor LHBC John 5:1-9 After this there was a feast of the Jews, and Jesus went up to Jerusalem. Now there is in Jerusalem by the Sheep Gate a pool in Aramaic called Bethesda, which has five roofed colonnades. In these lay a multitude of invalids—blind, lame, and paralyzed. One…
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