Real Faith Disrupts

The reason MRC exists is because we want to help people be in a relationship with Jesus.  Why?  Because when we were at our worst, we discovered that God’s grace forgave us and healed us.  And it was in that moment, we felt God’s love.  That’s why we do what we do.  To help people be in a relationship with Jesus, we are emailing Alpha videos to you.  These videos ask and answer questions that everyone has about . . . Read More »

The Key To Experiencing Our Best Lives Possible

I would like to ask you a couple of questions here as we get started today.  First, I want you to think about this.  Are you able to just be yourself around people?  Can you be yourself around people regardless of the environment you are in…church, home, work, wherever?  Why is it so hard for us people to just be ourselves, and just be honest about who we are and who we are not?  Well, I want to . . . Read More »

3 Ways To Find Your True Self and 3 Places You Will Never Find It

Last week Ken kicked off the New Year with a brand-new series for us called “Rise Up and Stand Firm” that will take us all the way to Easter of this year.  In this conversation we are pushing in a bit.  We are challenging you to rise up and stand firm even as life throws so many challenges your way.  I mean we just made it through a brutal year in 2020 so if you didn’t agree with . . . Read More »

Embracing What God Has Done For You

Last week, Sam shared the seven ways we can mess up grace.  It was such a helpful and redemptive talk.  The reason I liked it so much, Sam gave us handles on how to keep grace simple.  People and religion tend to make grace a lot more complicated than it really is.  Do you remember how Sam did it?  He asked us to describe our Christian faith in a sentence or a word.  And he said, if our . . . Read More »

Holding On To The Truth

So today we continue our first big series of 2019 entitled, “What is your kryptonite?” and here’s the idea.  There is a way that we should or could be living our lives as disciples of Jesus.  As we read scripture it is pretty clear that our lives should be described a certain way.  Through the course of this series I have really been using three very specific words on what the life of a disciple of Christ should . . . Read More »

Who the Son sets free is free indeed…right?

Well here we are in a brand new year!  2019!  The New Year is always so exciting right?  I mean for so many of us this is a time of hope, and optimism about what could be in the brand new year, which I think is awesome.  This is a time for those New Year’s Resolutions and just a chance to almost hit reset and get a fresh start on so many things for us in so many . . . Read More »

When you look in the mirror what do you see?

So I want to start today by asking you a question that actually might be one of the more important things for you to think about.  I think your answer to this question is probably driving more of what you are doing in your day to day life than you realize.  Your answer to this question has a big impact on the decisions that you are making, and how you feel about yourself on the inside…in your heart.  . . . Read More »