God’s Offer: Forgiveness, Grace, Righteouness

I have three questions for you to begin today. Question 1: Have you experienced God’s forgiveness?  That means you lived with guilt and shame because you knew you had sin in your life, and you couldn’t do anything to get rid of it.  That guilt and shame seemed to stick to you like cement boots.  They wore you out.  Then you prayed and asked God to forgive you and you felt God forgive you.  The cement boots were shattered.  . . . Read More »

Grasping The Enormity, Mindset, & Mentality of Jesus

We have been in an important conversation here in 2023 that has centered around one very specific and popular question these days.  That question is “What’s the point of church?”  It’s a question many people wrestle with these days in the world you and I live in today.  This has given us a great opportunity to hit a lot of big and often misunderstood concepts about the church.  We have looked at how we should view church individually . . . Read More »

Do You Believe: The Glory of God is Inside You?

Before we jump into today, I must stop and talk about last week at MRC.  It was an awesome day for our spiritual family.  Both MRC and MRG were together.  Both worship teams sang.  During announcements, Pat shared sad news that Ray from MRG passed away while working on his house for his family.  Immediately lots of guys stepped up to love Ray’s family and finish what he stared.  When someone passes it’s hard because we will always . . . Read More »

What If You Viewed Church As God’s Word Says We Should?

Welcome to a brand-new series in a brand-new year, and I’m just going to say it’s a very important series built around a very important question.  What is the point of church?  This is a conversation that Ken, and I have been excited to talk about for a couple of reasons.  First, this conversation is really the next step or just simply a continuation of what we were talking with you about this fall.  If you remember all . . . Read More »

Jesus Responds To The Religious Leaders On Why He Hangs Out With “Sinners”

Today we are continuing our summer series studying the Parables of Jesus, by looking at what may be the most popular of all the parables.  This parable will center around three characters all of whom we will be able to relate to in some ways, while getting such a clear image of how our Heavenly Father treats and feels about us!  Today we are studying The Parable of The Prodigal Son, which is such a powerful story of . . . Read More »

The Christian Atheist – Can I Earn My Way Into Heaven

The Christian Atheist series is based on a survey led by the Cultural Research Center of Arizona Christian University.  They surveyed 2,000 U.S. adults from four major groups: Pentecostals, Charismatics, Mainline Protestants, and Catholics about 51 topics including marriage, absolute truth, the sanctity of human life, and the authority of the Bible. The leading researcher, George Barna, concluded the following. “The most startling realization is how many people in our churches are adopting unbiblical beliefs.  American Christians are . . . Read More »