Harvest Christian Fellowship

Put God first and he will bless you as a result.

Glad you're joining us today for A New Beginning with Pastor Greg Laurie, Senior Pastor of Harvest Christian Fellowship in Riverside, California, to help us to live a worry-free life.

Insights drawn from Jesus' Sermon on the Mount in Matthew chapter 6.

Point number five, if you put God first, life will find its proper balance.

And you think about this a little bit, and I don't know where the hippie— but honestly, those people are still— there's still plenty of people around who were a part of that movement.

Greg Laurie is one who is pastor of Harvest Church in Southern California.

Mm-hmm.

I think it's safe to say they definitely follow a conservative bent in today's world.

Give us day to day our daily bread.

Glad you're with us on A New Beginning with Pastor Greg Laurie, Senior Pastor of Harvest Christian Fellowship in Riverside, California.

Today we're looking at the Lord's Prayer in Pastor Greg's message titled, How To and How Not To Pray.

Let's continue.

And we continue with Our American Stories.

Greg Laurie is the founder and senior pastor of Harvest Christian Fellowship, one of the largest and most influential churches in America.

He's also authored two memoirs, one called Lost Boy and the other, which was turned into a wildly successful movie, Jesus Revolution.

Here he is to share two stories, one that took place in a bathroom, and the other with a man who counseled 11 American presidents, the Pope, and dozens of world leaders.

We're having this conversation.

Where did you go to church, I asked.

He said, Harvest Christian Fellowship.

Well, that's a church I pastor.

And so our idea is to infiltrate culture.

Thanks for joining us for A New Beginning with Pastor Greg Laurie, Senior Pastor of Harvest Christian Fellowship in Riverside, California.

Today, Pastor Greg is in Matthew Chapter 5 as he continues his message on the Sermon on the Mount.

So here's point number three.

And persecution can be used by God to help us spiritually.

Thanks for joining us for A New Beginning with Pastor Greg Laurie, Senior Pastor of Harvest Christian Fellowship in Riverside, California.

We're talking about persecution today, and Pastor Greg is pointing out it's in the Beatitudes.

Blessed are those who are persecuted because of righteousness, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven.

A hunger and desire for God.

Glad you're joining us today for A New Beginning with Pastor Greg Laurie, Senior Pastor of Harvest Christian Fellowship in Riverside, California.

Today, Pastor Greg is continuing his message called How to Be Happy.

We're about to take a look at what happy people do.

See yourself as you really are.

Pastor Greg Laurie from Harvest Christian Fellowship in the US.

We're considering the Beatitudes today, part of the Lord's Sermon on the Mount.

Pastor Greg's text is from Matthew chapter 5.

And I feel like in childhood and youth, we never quite found another church home that fit everybody in the family.

And our dad really leaned into Harvest Christian Fellowship.

This is Greg Laurie's big mega church in Riverside, California.

Our mom went back to her Methodist roots and wanted to go to a smaller and more mainline Methodist church.