A part time job helps you make ends meet but you really don’t want to be there – right? Today we talk about what happens when we treat following Christ like a part time job. We might know, to some degree, that we need God but we really don’t want to follow Christ. Let’s start with a few questions. Have you ever opened up your heart to a person and started a friendship, a Christian, only to see . . . Read More »
Stuck: 12 Symptoms
A couple of weeks ago we hosted a baptism service. Several young men were baptized and we interviewed them on stage. They shared something stunning. They said, “I grew up in the church.” They continued to tell us that they felt like their lives fell apart. Life handed them unfair blows and wounded them. They ended up in drugs or alcohol or loneliness and two of them tried to take their own lives. So here is my question . . . Read More »
Seeing Life Through The Gospel
So about three weeks ago we had an eclipse. Do you guys remember that? How could you not remember that right? I mean we had a wide range of emotions in people over that moment, everything from excitement, to fear that the world would end. We had people driving all over the country to see it, to people really trying to figure out if their pets would go blind if they let them outside. We had weeping news . . . Read More »
Keeping It Real
Here at MRC we try to keep things as real as possible. It is something we literally pray for each and every Sunday. That this would be real. We don’t want this to be something we do on the surface that doesn’t penetrate our hearts. We want to be able to be the same people here at church that we are in every other environment all week long, and we are very focused on bringing you God’s word . . . Read More »