You Can’t Hide Your Heart. It Is Seen, Felt, & Heard.

Have you ever thought or wondered about how you are known or seen or felt by those around you?  It’s an important concept but I’m not sure it is one that many of us take too much time to think through.  You know how you feel or see others, but have you ever taken the time to consider how you are felt, seen, heard…how you are known?  The more we read our Bibles and study God’s word the . . . Read More »

Being A Christian Is Really Hard If You Don’t Understand God’s Love & Believe It Is True For You

We have been in a big conversation this year that has all been built around one very specific and popular question.  That question is, what’s the point of church?  This has been a lot of fun and has given us an opportunity to explore just how important, and often misunderstood, church and church life can be.  We have been able to talk about the truth behind what church should be, and what it should not be, and we . . . Read More »

Jesus Is The Greatest Christmas Present Of All Time

You know it’s hard to believe that we are already heading into the last few weeks of 2022!  We are really looking forward to our Christmas eve services with you and to our combined breakfast and service to bring in the New Year!  But it is just amazing to me how quickly time flies.  So here at MRC we are hopeful that you can take some time this Holiday Season and really slow down, and enjoy family and . . . Read More »

The Benefits and Tension Points of Holiness

Today we are going to jump back into our study of Philippians which has just been awesome so far.  If you remember, we closed out the first section of this study of Paul’s letter talking about a challenge from Paul to not complain.  We also saw that there is a bit of a natural change in what Paul was talking about to what he is going to start sharing with us here moving forward in this letter.  We . . . Read More »

Breaking Free From Those Old Grooves

I don’t know if you have ever really thought about this but I seem to be a creature of habit, how about you?  I have things that I tend to do and keep doing.  Some of those things can be really positive and some of those things maybe not so much!  I can get up in the morning and without a lot of thinking I can end up right in front of the coffee pot without even really . . . Read More »

The Dangers of Pride and The Rewards of Humility

Today we continue this series looking at one of the biggest, and sneakiest forms of spiritual kryptonite out there.  I know right? Another big one!  We will also look at the counter to it, which is also pretty interesting because it is often misunderstood.  This is a big one because today we are talking about pride and humility and I want you to know right on the front end.  Pride is difficult to deal with, because…if you deal . . . Read More »

I’m Not A Rebel

Today we are going to continue this series looking at what some would say is a bit of a touchy subject, but it’s what I would say is a really important one and I will tell you why.  It’s because today may be the day that you discover the actually source of a lot of spiritual frustration in your life.  Because I think for so many of us, we are in this series listening to Ken and Sam . . . Read More »

I’m Just A Little Set In My Ways…

So here in 2019 we started a pretty big series entitled “What is your kryptonite?” and it’s really our prayer that you are tracking with this series so far because there have been some pretty big concepts that have come out as this series is starting to get rolling.  Starting with this whole idea of what our lives SHOULD look like as followers of Jesus, do you remember that?  We were using terms like freedom, and victory and . . . Read More »