Spiritual Maturity – What Is It & How Is It Measured

The Journey To Freedom & Courage Series Continues!

How To Respond To Loneliness So We Don’t Make A Hard Life Harder

Welcome back to our big fall discipleship series called The Journey to Freedom and Courage.  This is a very important and intentional conversation with the goal of helping us experience our best lives possible by giving us the tools to experience life as God designed it to be.  That is discipleship. It is all about equipping us to grow into the very people God created us to be, which is something we are passionate about here at MRC.  . . . Read More »

The Most Important Decision You Will Ever Make

Our Fall Discipleship Series begins!  The Journey To Freedom & Courage Series Intro!

Does This Offend You?

Before we jump into today’s question from Jesus, I want to quickly recap last week.  Sam’s sermon was excellent.  The Jesus question he wrestled with was from Mark 8:36 ‘What do you benefit if you gain the whole world but lose your own soul?’ NLT Stop and allow that to impact you.  Sam brought out the reality that we spend so much time, money, and energy trying to gain the world while at the same time, we are . . . Read More »

Is Anything Worth More Than Your Soul? Why We Struggle To “STOP!”

Last week, we jumped into a bit of a series within our series.  We started looking into an important question from Jesus, a question so big with so many different answers and challenges found in it that there was just no way to contain it in one talk.  This question from Jesus is one that we need to wrestle with in our time on this Earth.  It leads us to the source of so many of the challenges . . . Read More »

4 Ways We May Gain The World But Lose Our Souls – Part 1

The Simple Questions of Jesus Series Continues!

What It Takes To Follow Jesus

I want to start with a couple of questions today. Let’s start here: Are you good at following instructions? If your boss comes up to you at the beginning of the day and gives you some things to do, will you hear it and then follow through?  How do you handle someone telling you what to do?  Maybe you can do it, but you need to know why you have to do it.  Maybe you will do it, . . . Read More »

Jesus Asked – Why Do You Call Me Lord And Not Do What I Say?

The Simple Questions of Jesus Series Continues! But Simple Doensn’t Mean Easy!

Do Something! Learning From Jonathan’s Daring Plan

Over the last few Sundays that I have been with you, we focused on the concept of Spiritual Maturity.  We talked about what it is, how it is measured, (which is by our ability to love others) and I believe most importantly we discussed the idea that Spiritual Maturity doesn’t just fall in your lap.  It’s not just given to you.  Living and loving like Christ challenges us, goes against our human instincts, and just isn’t easy, and . . . Read More »

Do Something!

Stand Alone Talk on 1 Samuel 14 “Jonathan’s Daring Plan”