Just a few days ago I went to the gym and was looking forward to my daughter’s Track and Field season starting. Now we are encouraged to not even leave the house. What happened? It’s hard to catch up to the reality of it all. If you watch the news, a sense of fear and worry can just overwhelm your heart. Scripture says, Don’t fret or worry. Instead of worrying, pray. Let petitions and praises shape your worries . . . Read More »
The Reality Test
So last week we finished up our first series here in the Fire Hall on joy, which was a lot of fun if you ask me. We spent a lot of time looking at what joy is and what joy isn’t. We looked at where joy is found and where it is not found. We had a lot of fun looking at the Christmas story maybe from a brand new perspective where we saw that this God story . . . Read More »
We All Must Answer This Question
So last week was a pretty special weekend. We started a new series and it’s a very important one on Emotionally Healthy Spirituality. Then Sunday afternoon we headed to Messiah College for what is probably my favorite service that we do each year which is our baptism service. It’s so meaningful to watch people make a public commitment to God, and for me it’s an amazing experience to listen to them share what God is doing in their . . . Read More »
What Could Be
Over the last few years we have taken the summer and studied a book of the Bible. Quite frankly it’s something that I look forward to every year. Over the past few years we have studied some of Paul’s letters, and James…and this year I was really gearing up to study 1st and 2nd Peter with you all. I enjoy picking the scriptures apart like that…but that isn’t the direction we went this summer…instead we are jumping into . . . Read More »
Walking Upstream
Today we are going to talk about what it means to bring integrity into your relationships with others, so we are talking today about bringing God into our relationships or our dealings with people in this world. And I am just going to start by telling you something, that I know is true but wish at times that it wasn’t true and it’s this…the world, and the people of it really don’t like you standing as who you . . . Read More »
Who We Are In Our Marriage Matters
So last week Ken kicked off a brand new series that I am really excited about and I will tell you why. It’s because what we are doing is taking all the God principles that we talk about here at MRC, and we are pulling them into our practical lives. That is awesome! Ken was introducing us to the idea last week of integrity…the idea that who we are matters. This is very important, because our culture today . . . Read More »
The Magnitude of the Cross
You know here at MRC we stay focused on keeping things simple and introducing you to the magnitude of The Cross and I will just say it, I think we do a pretty good job of pointing to the Gospel message on a weekly basis. We want to introduce you to the amazing gift that our Heavenly Father gave us through Jesus. We want you to know it, and more than know it, we want you to feel . . . Read More »
“Where Is Your Faith?”
Ok, so we have been in a big series, that started all the way back in the beginning of the year and is coming to an end right here around Easter, and I think it has been absolutely awesome. We’ve been looking at the things that really block us from this life and life to the full that Jesus came to provide us…you know the life I’ve been describing as a life with freedom, victory, and power. It’s . . . 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 »
The Way Through
So today, we continue this I Am Second series looking at Brian Welch, who was a musician in the band Korn. I’m excited because as I watched his story I realized even though he is a famous rock star, with fame, and fortune, and all that comes with that rock star life, he also deals with a lot of what you and I deal with. When I watch his testimony I see that Brian is in the whirlwind of life, . . . Read More »