Pastor Stephen Furtick, the founder, and pastor of Elevation Church, headquartered in Charlotte, North Carolina, preaches practical messages that inspire you to take action.  He holds a Master of Divinity degree from Southern Theological Seminary.  Pastor Furtick is the author of many books, including Crash the Chatterbox, Greater, Sound Stand Still, (Un) Qualified, and Seven-Mile Miracle.  He also has a music ministry where he is a Grammy-award songwriter, a producer.  Pastor Steven Furtick and his wife, Holly Furtick, have two sons and a daughter.  Pastor Furtick’s ministry has expanded beyond the North Carolina region, in which he has a global outreach to the world. 

Ps 95:1 Come, let us sing for joy to the LORD; let us shout aloud to the Rock of our salvation.

Ps 95:2 Let us come before him with thanksgiving and extol him with music and song.

Ps 95:3 For the LORD is the great God, the great King above all gods.

Ps 95:4 In his hand are the depths of the earth, and the mountain peaks belong to him.

Ps 95:5 The sea is his, for he made it, and his hands formed the dry land.

Ps 95:6 Come, let us bow down in worship, let us kneel before the LORD our Maker;

Ps 95:7 for he is our God and we are the people of his pasture, the flock under his care. Today, if only you would hear his voice,

Ps 95:8 “Do not harden your hearts as you did at Meribah, as you did that day at Massah in the wilderness,

Ps 95:9 where your ancestors tested me; they tried me, though they had seen what I did.

Ps 95:10 For forty years I was angry with that generation; I said, ‘They are a people whose hearts go astray, and they have not known my ways.’

Ps 95:11 So I declared on oath in my anger, ‘They shall never enter my rest.’ ”