Good morning! I’m mostly recovered from our youth retreat from this past weekend and I’m excited to be talking with you today! We’re into this series now called My Story, and hopefully you’ve gotten the gist that through this series, we are hoping to show you that as your story is being written, you’re going to have competing decisions to make in your life, and each of those decisions, whether good or bad, will become part of your . . . Read More »
My Story – Counterfeit vs Real – There’s Only One Way.
So last week we kicked off a brand new series here at MRC called “My Story.” What we are doing is looking at seven choices that we make that will forever mark our story spiritually. Last week, on Easter with all of our friends here that we haven’t seen since Christmas we hit a big one. We looked at the decision we can make that will absolutely change the course of our spiritual journeys forever…that choice was to . . . Read More »
Working Hard For What You Already Have
I would like to start my time with you by sharing with you my definition of the Spirit of Religion. Religion will always try to minimize Jesus and everything He did for us on The Cross. This is what Ken was really showing us today, religion minimizes Jesus and all that He did for us on the Cross. Anytime you and I try to do what Jesus already did for us we will have a real mess on . . . Read More »
Yo-Yos, Brain Freeze and Contracts
Starting a new series today. We are talking about choices that forever define our story. I think back to one of the biggest choices that forever changed my life. I got married and had kids. Clearly one of the best decisions I ever made. I joke about it being one of the best decisions I ever made, most of the time. When I was single, I owned one pillow. Now, in my married life, I own several. I . . . Read More »
Spiritual Warfare Inside Community – Don’t Drop The Rope!
So today we are coming to the conclusion of the Spiritual Warfare series, and I have to tell you that I will be sad to see this one go. Because it is just so important to us that we see this stuff for what it is and engage into it with intentionality. Here at MRC we care about you so much and it has really been our biggest prayer through this series that we would be able to . . . Read More »
How To Know If You Are Having An Affair, On God
We are in a spiritual warfare series. Sam, over the last two weeks, has shared something very important that I have to start with. It doesn’t matter if you believe in spiritual warfare or if you don’t believe in spiritual warfare, you are feeling the effects of it. How do I know? Because everything in life is coming against you to send you a message, “You are a failure, you don’t add up, you are alone, just . . . Read More »