Come To The Table

If you won the lottery, that would be pretty exciting, but when do you really get to experience the benefits from it? When you go in and cash that ticket. If you’ve got the winning numbers, but you never cash it in, then what good will it do you? You’ve got to claim your prize. In today’s message, Pastor Mark shows you that grace only benefits you when you receive it. Simply believing that God exi...

Are you a good employee? Do you do your job well, or do you do just enough to get by? Some folks have the attitude that they’re only going to do what they get paid for and not a lick more. In fact, quite often they’re looking for a way to do less. If nobody’s looking, they’re happy to sit and do nothing - and still collect a paycheck. In his message today, Pastor Mark shows you that the Bible comm...

Children are always learning. Not just when they’re in School, but every moment of every day. And it’s not just their teachers they learn from, but it’s everyone in their lives. So, where are they spending most of their time? Who’s having the biggest influence on their character? In today’s message, Pastor Mark teaches you that as a Christian, your life should be an example for others to learn fro...

How does a Godly couple parent their children together? Well, they do so in a way that is collaborative, focusing on each other’s roles while having room and grace for each other to help out as needed. Raising a family is a collaborative process, it is so much easier when the parents do so as a team. Pastor Mark takes the time today to lay out the ways that Godly women should behave, both as indiv...

Perhaps the greatest act of humility in the history of Creation was when Jesus humbled Himself below the Father to come to Earth as the Savior of the world. He gave up His position next to the Father but also retained all of His power as part of the Trinity. Scripture says that Jesus is fully human and fully God. Pastor Mark teaches today that just as Jesus humbled Himself and fulfilled the will o...

Why is it so important for Christians to be sober-minded? God made alcohol, didn’t He? Wouldn’t he want us to have a little fun? Well, your mind is an important tool, and God doesn’t want you to give yourself over to things that can alter your thinking and your judgment. Drinking can greatly affect both of those. Pastor Mark teaches today that you should treat your body like a temple of the Holy S...

Unfortunately, Christian growth isn’t something you can just do on autopilot. You can’t just hear wise teaching and then grow automatically. You have to take those words you have heard, hold them close to your heart, and actively apply them to your life. You have to put in an effort to grow closer to God. In today’s message, Pastor Mark is encouraging the men listening to take action on the words...

Have you ever picked lemons from an apple tree? If you have, someone’s probably playing a trick on you. A tree can only bear one kind of fruit! The same goes for Christians, you can tell what kind of person they are by the fruit that their life produces. Do you produce good fruit, or do you produce rotten fruit? Pastor Mark warns you in today’s message to be a good steward of the Gospel. You will...

Be very careful when you challenge the authority of God’s Word in front of your fellow believers. The Word is the most important basis of Christian faith, and the burden of accountability on Christian leaders is very high. Jesus did not take Peter’s doubtful words lightly, and He won’t take yours lightly, either. Pastor Mark isn’t trying to scare you away from leadership in today’s message. In fac...

Nowhere in Scripture does it say that living faithfully to God will lead to a better life on Earth. In fact, we see the opposite come true in Scripture. The path of righteousness is difficult to follow. You face greater challenges because of your pursuit of Christ’s righteousness. But your reward isn’t on Earth, it’s in Heaven. In today’s message, Pastor Mark warns you to stay away from leaders wh...

Jesus says in Luke’s Gospel, “To whom much was given, of him much will be required.” If you are in a position of leadership, not only do you have the responsibility to care for your flock, but you also need to live your life as an example of Christian living. You should be the standard for people to live up to. Pastor Mark doesn’t take leadership lightly! In today’s message, he continues to explai...

What’s the worst lie someone has said about you? It was probably something so ridiculous that no one actually believed it to be true. Well, if you are in ministry, you are often subject to accusations. And if you are a wise leader and of good character, those accusations will slide off your back harmlessly. Pastor Mark continues his message today on the requirements for healthy Christian leadershi...

Have you ever tried to let a toddler drive a car? Without the proper training to learn the complexities of driving, a dangerous accident is almost guaranteed to occur. Well, a church of any size without wise, Godly leadership in place is similarly headed for disaster. People will undoubtedly be hurt in the crash. Pastor Mark reminds you today that good leadership is vital for the local church body...

Despite our best intentions, we humans are never going to be able to keep 100% of our promises. There are almost always external factors that can cause us to not be able to fulfill a promise. But God exists outside of time and space, He will keep His promises to the letter. He won’t let you down. Pastor Mark teaches you today that God’s promise of salvation isn’t just a promise you can vaguely tru...

Is there someone in your life who is just completely against God, that doesn’t want anything to do with Him? As much as it may annoy you to be around them, you can’t help but feel sorry for how that hatred for God hurts them, you want them to come to Jesus! Knowing Him is the key to complete life transformation. In today’s message, Pastor Mark introduces you to the book of Titus, as well as the ti...

Sin separates us from God. Every type and flavor of sin – not just the ones we don’t struggle with. He designed us in His image and when we choose to disfigure that image by serving ourselves and allowing wicked thoughts and actions in our lives, we are actively rejecting Him and trying to become gods. We live in a world pervaded with wickedness, but it’s nothing new. Sin has been wreaking havoc s...

It’s easy to praise God after winning a victory. Before and during the battle, our prayers often sound something like, “God if you help us win, we’ll dedicate ourselves to serving you…” Then, in the times we experience defeat, we question Him and how He can really be good while wicked forces prevail. As followers of Jesus, faith in Him is the bedrock we build our lives on. We can look back at the...

Have you ever tried to wake up a deep sleeper? You try a gentle voice or nudge, and as you increase the volume, you find that the only thing that works is a shocking level of noise or even shaking the person till they come to. In a spiritual sense, much of the world around us is in a deep slumber, and if needed, God will use shock to get people’s attention. As Pastor Mark will challenge us in toda...

We all have a choice to make in this life…whether we’re going to fully surrender our lives to God, to do what He wants, or are we going to do what we want, when we want to do it. All we have to do a look at the Scriptures and we can clearly see that “doing whatever we want” hasn’t worked out for people so far.  In today’s message, Pastor Mark will challenge you to believe in the blood of Jesus Chr...

Maybe you can identify with this story. Maybe you feel like a Sampson, stuck in a loop of painful never-ending sin. unfortunately…and fortunately (depending on how you look at it) God graciously won’t allow you to continue living in that sin forever! He will deliver you just like He delivered Sampson! In today’s message, Pastor Mark will show you just like in the life of Sampson, God didn’t let hi...

Just like a potter molds clay over and over into a beautiful vase, so does our heavenly Father mold us over periods of difficult times to become beautiful Christians! We have to go through hardships, we have to go through a literal fire to become all we’re meant to be by God’s eyes. In today’s message, Pastor Mark will remind you that no matter what choices you have made through those difficult ti...

It’s kinda hard to even put into words how God has used people in mighty ways. The Bible has SO many good stories of people accomplishing things that were literally impossible! It’s incredible what we can do by the power of God working in and through our lives even as just people! In today’s message, Pastor Mark will remind you that it is GOD that is working through you…it is not just you. God doe...

If we hang around the vineyards or in more current words, our places of temptations, then guess what?...we will be tempted! We see in the Bible that even the physically strongest person, could be tempted and fall into a sin that ended up wrecking his life…BEFORE God intervened and turned it all around for the better! In today’s message, Pastor Mark will encourage you to put up some boundaries and...

We can see here in this story about Samson and we can see it painted all over the rest of the Scriptures, that the Lord uses trying and difficult situations to help us grow into new and better people! The Lord helps us cultivate lives full of endurance in the holy name and power of Jesus Christ! In today’s message, Pastor Mark will point out that we can also see how God uses times of stress, grief...

Have you ever been turned down or rejected by a person or employer solely based on your past? Maybe you’ve been judged because of your family lineage. Too many times people will judge others on the family they were born into, or even where they grew up. It’s up to you to not let that discourage you. As Pastor Mark explains in today’s message, God can and will use anyone regardless of their backgro...