Truth Encounter invites you to join us weekly for Dave Wyrtzen's unique bible teaching combining depth, passion, and practicality.

If you are committed to raising godly children, this study will be strategic and irreplaceable in teaching your children to fight, and win, life’s battles on their own.

Where can we find ethical absolutes in the post modern, relativistic world? Listen and discover the sustain principles Moses laid out for his people and the promise of a greater prophet who would save the world.

Believers debate whether worship should be contemporary, country western, rhythm & blues or classical …Is there a style God prefers? Be encouraged in your personal praise and your worship with the family of God.

Spiritualism has gained popularity today. How do we know that Jesus is the Lord over all the angelic and demonic powers? Why believe in Jesus instead of your basic Avatar? Colossians gives us the answers.

What can God do with a church that has incest, prostitution, and infighting when they think they are the most spiritually powerful group of their generation. From speaking in tongues to the supreme charisma of love, these messages will enable you and your church to discover Christ’s priorities for local church life.

How can we be sure everything will be alright when we die? Written 23 years after crucifixion of Jesus, the book of Romans has provided the most influential answers in Christian history about our ultimate destiny.

Who was he? Who killed him? Why did he die? Prepare for celebrating the resurrection by focusing on the events that led to Easter Sunday morning.

Our kids--we agree they are treasures, but may not agree on how to raise them. Some are too strict and some are too easy. Who can give us the wisdom and power to get it right? Dave challenges us to help our children experience the love of Jesus.

Has God spoken clearly to mankind? Can Jesus be grouped with other great religious teachers? What does the Bible have to say to a relativism that claims that all devout followers can relax — whatever “Great Spirit” there might be will gladly reward sincerity? For a society convulsed by false messiah’s from Waco to San Francisco, the message of this First Century document could save your spiritual life!

The Virgin Birth, The Miracle or A Lie? And the significance of Jesus, the Messiah for both Jews and Gentiles- a chance to explore and grow in faith.

It's the biggest birthday celebration in the world. Macys and Target make or break their entire year in the few weeks leading up to the Holiday and even Hollywood tries to cash in with some major releases. But Charlie Brown and the simple reading of the Scriptural narrative still captures our hearts. Who was this baby wrapped in swaddling clothes as the Father's gift? Where did He come from? How long has he lived? What makes him the most important baby ever born? Matthew and Luke tell us abo ...

What is a marriage? In this series we open God's Handbook for Skillful Living and discuss together what it means to build our marriages and our homes by God's design.

How do you pray? With a book of liturgy, totally extemporaneous, with King James English, or with down-home country talk? God’s Son can answer this question better than anyone else, and this is exactly what He did in His model prayer. You have probably repeated these words hundreds of times, but have you taken some time to understand what they really mean? These messages will challenge you to do exactly that!

Imagine you are a Vietnam vet. You put two terms in the heat of the war. When you came home, anger seeped into bitterness. Instead of parades, you face rots. Disillusioned- your fury only escalated. A few years later you hit on a TV Billy Graham Crusade special and responded to Jesus. Then at your church, a guest missionary from The Gospel for Asia shared the present needs of Viet Nam. You could almost hear the voice of the Holy Spirit telling you to go, but you hated the Vietnamese. These a ...

120 frightened, discouraged people huddled in an upper room, hunted by the authorities, mocked by religious leaders—who would ever suspect that they would take part in the most powerful revolution in history—a revolution still bringing freedom and hope throughout the world? It's the most riveting comeback story you could ever hear, and you can drink in every detail in the only first century history we have of the explosion of the Jesus movement. We want you to discover with us the power that ...

We love to sing gentle, soothing Christmas carols about peace on earth, goodwill toward men and think of the baby of Bethlehem. Let us help you spend some time in this special season thinking about the truth about the Bethlehem baby.

Can Christ really make us a new person? These messages enable you to take an inventory of your struggles with the sinful nature even as a “new creation in Jesus”, and then give you hope for a life full of the Fruit of the Spirit!

Dads—we all want to be good fathers and raise good kids, but was this the goal of the first father? Think the Bible is a book about idealistic morality and goody- goody religion? Its time to get serious about the real truth. If God's purpose was to tell a story of good fathers and good kids, then most of the Old Testament has to be thrown out. It's time to read again and discover what real fathers aim at –fathers like Adam, Noah, Abraham, Jacob, Judah, and David, and most of all God.

The debate rages about the role of women in today's culture, from Amy Chua's "Tiger Mom" to Sheryl Sandberg's motherhood advice as COO at Facebook. What's a woman to conclude about her identity, her purpose, and her role? Make sure you don't miss this opportunity to discover what God has to say about the other half of the image of God in the human race.

Immorality is a killer. It breeds lies, abortion, murder, divorce, and broken hearts. How can we conquer this spirit of lust that can cause even the most godly to go crazy? David’s adulterous affair with Bathsheba gives us answers.

A new and challenging perspective on our involvement in missions today

The SPIRITUAL LEADERSHIP CRISIS. It is one thing when congresspersons are mocked by the general populace, but it is even more serious when the credibility of ministers is put on the level of a crooked used car salesman. Perhaps it is time to take another look at the kind of personal character it takes to become a leader that can command respect and honor.

Did you wake up singing today? We are going to learn how to shout songs of victory. How to lament the songs of despair. And how to capture the renewed song of forgiveness.

Becoming like Him needs to be the goal of your life. Listen and rediscover the biblical Jesus. He is the incomparable, God-man, the Son of God.

The question whether or not gays have the right to marry marches through the courts toward the Supreme Court. Hollywood preaches that children raised with two mommies or two daddies are just fine, and with the new breakthroughs in genetics who needs either a dad or a mom? How did the ultimate Supreme Court Judge get excluded from the discussion? Who do you believe has the right to define marriage and family, and how does all this impact Christ's Family--the Church?

Goddess Worship! It brought God's children down in the Old Testament and God sent them into exile. As we begin the 21st Century, we are far more sophisticated. We would never dream of falling into this kind of idolatry, or would we? You've got to listen to these four studies titled "Dethroning the Goddess of Money."

Is there something we can live for that guarantees that our best days are still ahead? It's one of the earliest letters in the New Testament, but right from the start the Apostle Paul reveals how you can be rescued from living for stuff that only turns to dust. He can guarantee that your best days are ahead.

There are more mega-churches in the U.S. than ever before, but the number of Americans who actually go to church is decreasing. Could it be that all of our market driven strategies and plans are causing Christians to move about from one hotspot to the next, but not bringing new babies into Christ's family? It's time for us to stop debating whether our pastors need to spike their hair and wear their shirt out to keep up with the times and get back in time to the first century document that ac ...

Is it possible to climb the ladder in business in education or in government and stay close to God? What does personal faith in Jesus look like publicly in Monday morning Main Street life? Daniel is the Old Testament patron saint for those who want the answer to these questions. If you want to get serious about living in "Babylon" but not be destroyed by it, then this Truth Encounter series is a must listen for you.

When we open the pages of the best seller of all time, we enter the greatest story ever told. Unlike the Koran, the Scriptures of both Jews and Christians tell a story. Do you know the setting of this story, the main characters, the plot, the climax, and the resolution? Who are the good characters and the bad? Is it a comedy or a tragedy? This series will help you feel comfortable and confident that you know the story that God is telling in His Word, why He is telling it, and how you fit int ...

When we open the pages of the best seller of all time, we enter the greatest story ever told. Unlike the Koran, the Scriptures of both Jews and Christians tell a story. Do you know the setting of this story, the main characters, the plot, the climax, and the resolution? Who are the good characters and the bad? Is it a comedy or a tragedy? This series will help you feel comfortable and confident that you know the story that God is telling in His Word, why He is telling it, and how you fit int ...

Good Sunday school children expect to grow up and go out into the world and experience blessing — after all, God promises good to those who obey Him. Prodigals go out into the world and conclude God has rejected them — after all, they have failed to live up to divine expectations. Since it’s hopeless, why not just abandon your life to the pleasures of the world? Both the good religious Sunday Schooler and the Prodigal have got it wrong. Learn from the life of Joseph and Judah and discover th ...

As events continue to heat up in the Middle East, the hunger for predictions intensifies, yet we can overlook the obvious. The Spirit of Christ and the antichrist are already locked in a to-the-death struggle. This spirit continues its war of total destruction. How can we counter this anti-supernatural, secular spirit of power? This series can help us conquer this deadly force in our own lives with biblical answers.

After hard frosts and heavy snows, finally March Madness begins. It brings not only the best show in basketball, but Easter lilies in Wal-Mart and beautiful new dresses on racks for moms to buy for their little girls. It’s the triumph of warmth over cold, of tulip blossoms over ugly bulbs, but most of all it’s the time when more than 2 billion Christians across the globe look back to the events of Passion Week, the Last Week, the time when Jesus was rejected in Jerusalem. . His Last Week on ...