How We Push The Holy Spirit Away

We want everyone to be in a relationship with Jesus.  To help people, we are asking and answering questions everyone has about God, faith, and life.  If you have been walking with us you know we have answered key questions like, Is there more to life than this?  How can I make the most of my life?  How can I have faith?  How do I pray?  How do I read the Bible? And over the past few weeks, . . . Read More »

Holy Spirit Part 2 – The Gift of Peace Regardless Of Your Circumstances

Last week we started a three-part conversation on The Holy Spirit by answering the God Question – Who Is The Holy Spirit?  Hopefully, you left with a greater understanding of who the Holy Spirit is and were able to see how essential the Spirit is to your Spirituality because the Holy Spirit is the activator of our faith.  The Holy Spirit is God, He is God in us.  It is God in us, who completes our faith by . . . Read More »

What Makes Our Spiritual Lives Real?

Today is a big day here at MRC.  It’s a combined service, which is awesome because we have the opportunity to worship together, we are one church in two locations and as we plant churches, we have always wanted these moments where we come back together and worship and celebrate what God is doing together.  That is very meaningful for us.  This is also a big day in our God Questions conversation because we start a three-part conversation on . . . Read More »

Is There More To Life Than This?

Welcome to our series that asks questions that everyone has.  Questions like, Is there more to life than this?  How can I make the most of my life?  Who is Jesus?  Why did Jesus die?  How can I have faith?  Why and how do I pray?  Why and how should I read the Bible?  How does God guide us?  Who is the Holy Spirit?  What does the Holy Spirit do?  How can I be filled with the Holy . . . Read More »

How Does God Love People Today?

It’s Christmas time and we have been talking about the Christmas story.  It’s a God story.  You see, Christmas isn’t just another busy religious holiday we push through.  It’s bigger than that.  It’s a story that has enormous meaning to it.  To fully understand the mystery of Christmas, you have to go back 4,000 years before the birth of Jesus.  Through all those years, God did everything He could to love people.  How did people respond?  At every . . . Read More »

Five Questions People Have About God

Easter is the most important date on the Christian calendar because it celebrates the day Jesus defeated death.  And because Jesus defeated death, everyone who believes that Jesus is the Son of God, we are set free from death. Here is how the Bible explains it. 14 Since the children, as he calls them, are people of flesh and blood, Jesus himself became like them and shared their human nature. He did this so that through his death . . . 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 »