Mercy Fellowship Sermons

If Jesus is not only a King, but THE King of Kings, then how individuals and nations collectively respond matter. If we desire Jesus as our savior, then we must also pledge allegiance to Him as our King. Other figures can command our respect, obedience, and affection. However, it is King Jesus who we must continually recognize as our greatest authority and the one whom all our actions flow from an...

“The central figure in all the Bible, Jesus Christ is a man of sorrows who knows suffering…. When you are suffering my hope is not that you get all the answers to your questions, but that you meet Jesus in your suffering." We were honored to have our friend Pastor Loren Anderson from The Fellowship at Bend preaching at Mercy Fellowship 

Parables are simple stories used to tell significant truths. Jesus continues to engage with the gathered leaders and crowds to reenforce where all authority rest and where all honor is due.

Holy Disruption brings unholy opposition. Jesus arrived and aggressively cleaned out the temple of money changers and pigeon dealers restoring it to a house of prayer and place of healing. People who benefit from oppression do not respond well to the status quo being overturned. Jesus returns to the temple facing challenges to His authority.

Jesus brings Holy Disruption to prepare (and renew) a place for Pure Devotion. Jesus has triumphally arrived in the city of Jerusalem with fanfare from many who have great expectations of what He will accomplish. While intentionally entering with clear messianic symbolism, Jesus is not there to overthrow Roman occupation but to accomplish eternal salvation for His people overcoming sin and death....

Guest Preacher Carl DeyArmin gives us the good news from Acts 16: The Gospel is for Everyone & The Gospel can Transform Anyone.

We all desire glory and believe self promotion is the best path to achieve what we want. Jesus consistently shows the values in His Kingdom are different. In God's Kingdom the path to glory is not self promotion but selfless sacrifice. There is a crown ahead but there is a cross first.

The disciples who left everything, want to know "what about us? What is our reward?" Jesus assures them there are great eternal rewards for those who follow him, it will all be worth it. Here Jesus teaches them with a parable about his great generosity to those who follow him.

We value material possession and comfort, so we find our worth in our wealth. Jesus cares about our spiritual poverty and where we find our ultimate security. We will never be saved by our possessions, when they consume us sometimes we need to be saved from our possession.

Guest Pastor Caleb Smith of Saint Church in Lake Stevens shares about how our first priority as a Christian is to love God well. When we love God well, we produce good fruit for the world around us to enjoy and be pointed to Jesus through.

As the journey to Jerusalem continues anticipation and excitement around Jesus grows. Crowds of people are forming around Jesus looking for hope and healing for themselves and their loved ones. In desire for power and significance it can be easy to focus on who and what society values most. In nearly every society if there is an embodiment of the opposite of power and status it is children. Yet in...

Finishing a formal time of teaching and training Jesus and his disciples are on the move from Galilee to Jerusalem and ultimately the cross. While remaining on mission, Jesus engages with questions around the significant personal and family relationship, marriage.

Our hope is in Jesus. He is Alive! So we today we don’t morn, we celebrate Resurrection Sunday!

We are given a gift in the church calendar of Holy Week to resettle. This week we join with Christians around the world celebrating Palm Sunday. This is week of contemplation, remembering AND resting in what has been accomplished. We need hope, empathy, and Leadership. Not a distant King ,but one who shows up to give us hope! God knows we need hope. Hope gives us endurance today that tomorrow will...

Jesus is a good shepherd who pursues his lost sheep and brings them back to the fold. Jesus then shifts to training disciples how we are to engage with our brothers and sisters when we have found them in sin, especially when they have sinned against us. A gospel community will be defined by how they handle those in sin, while those in sin will be defined by how they respond. Hope is always forgive...

Jesus is the King of His Kingdom | After displayed His identity as King, Jesus continues His mission of establishing His kingdom. Kingdoms are defined by their king, and kings determine what their kingdoms will value. Jesus is constantly teaching his followers what it means to be in his kingdom by examples, object lessons, and explicit teaching. He does this to show the great contrast between our...

Jesus and the three disciples have come down from the mountain where Jesus’ glory was revealed. The retreat is over; the revelation has been experienced. It is now time to get back to the mission. What do they encounter? A chaotic crowd has gathered around the disciples including scribes present. It is a chaotic mess, but this mess is where the mission is. 

In Chapter 16 Jesus has been teaching His disciples about His identity as “the Christ, the Son of the Living God” and He will build His church that will be victorious. Yet, He has to go to Jerusalem, suffer at the hands of the religious elite, be killed, AND rise again. Those who follow him will also have to deny themselves, their agenda and live for God in Heaven. Both paths will be painful, but...

Jesus’ ministry and teaching make a significant shift as He reveals more details about the specifics of His mission of salvation for His people. He intentionally focuses on private instruction of His closest disciples than large public sermons. Jesus’ path will include pain and death. Likewise, the path of His disciples includes intentional sacrifice for future glory.

Jesus teaches, heals, performs miracles, revealing Himself to the world. Jesus has been meeting opposition from the Pharisees and Sadducees, specifically about His divine identity. Despite intense and organized opposition, Jesus’ Kingdom continues to advance. While Jesus spends little effort answering demands from those who oppose him, He takes great care in how He instructs those who follow him....

Jesus constantly faces great opposition from multiple fronts. His teaching challenges arbitrary man-made laws. His identity confronts the reality we are not God. Both upset those who want to remain the hero of their own stories and reject Jesus as the Messiah. Jesus rebukes His disingenuous opponents and warns His disciples to avoid their teaching.

Jesus teaches, Jesus heals, Jesus performs miracles, but above all Jesus is the King of Kings and Lord of Lord, in all that He says and does He is revealing Himself to the world. Jesus is also savior of His people; he will consistently point his people to the height of his mission, the cross. Revealing kingdom values, at times, requires redefining terms for the purpose of providing greater clarity...

Today as we close this series out, we are going to simply attempt to answer the questions “who are we?” and “Why do we exist?” “What do we do?” both individually and collectively as a church. We are saved by Jesus' work, changed by Jesus' grace, and living on Jesus' mission. Mercy Fellowship exists to make disciples of Jesus Christ who love God and love people.

What does” Fellowship” mean? Fellowship – Def. association of common interest. Weak. Greek is Koinonia - Rich word. It refers to a participation and communion with God and His people sharing, contributing for a common purpose. A "Fellowship" is a group of people brought together for a purpose. In the New Testament God's people, the church, were defined and described as a partnership for the Gospel...

At Mercy Fellowship we are Saved by Jesus’ Work, Changed by Jesus’ Grace , and Living on Jesus’s Mission. We want to be rooted in our identity & scripture, not reactionary to current events or culture. In the Bible, the concept of "Mercy" is not getting the just consequence we have earned as a result of our sin. It can also be as simple as extending or experiencing "kindness" similar to: Steadfast...