Fellowship Church Middlebrook

Prepare the Way January 4, 2026 • RD McClenagan • Luke 3:1–22 John the Baptist’s message in Luke 3 is to “prepare the way” through repentance: turning from the patterns of this world, uncluttering our crowded hearts, and making room for Jesus. True repentance is directional and practical: we audit our lives, receive the Spirit’s conviction, confess both general and specific sins, and then actually...

Eyes on the Lord | A Sunday Devotional 2 Chronicles 20:1–22 In 2 Chronicles 20, King Jehoshaphat faces a moment where fear closes in and the future feels uncertain. His response is simple and faithful. He seeks the Lord. He trusts who God is. He admits his weakness. He fixes his eyes on the Lord and not on the size of the threat. At the heart of this passage is a prayer that many of us know well:...

December 24, 2025 • Devon Accardi • Luke 2:8-14 This Christmas Eve message turns our attention to Luke 2 and the surprising way God chose to announce the birth of Jesus. Instead of kings, politicians, or cultural elites, the first people to hear the news were ordinary shepherds working the night shift. The angel declares that a Savior has been born, and this good news is for all people, reminding...

The Word Becomes Flesh December 21, 2025 • Devon Accardi • Luke 2:1-21 This Sunday, Devon reflects on the birth of Jesus as the long-awaited fulfillment of God’s promises. This passage invites us to zoom out and see Christmas not as an isolated moment, but as the culmination of a story God has been unfolding since the very beginning of creation. After centuries of waiting and even four hundred yea...

God's Grace, Mary's Faith December 14, 2025 • RD McClenagan • Luke 1:26–38 This Sunday, RD teaches from Luke 1:26-38. This passage focuses on Mary as a surprising model of faith, showing how God meets an ordinary teenage girl with a word that changes everything. God’s grace comes near, speaks personally, and invites real trust rather than a casual, “of course” kind of Christianity. Mary responds w...

Zechariah's Song December 7, 2025 • RD McClenagan • Luke 1:67–80, Luke 1:5–25 This Sunday, RD teaches from Luke 1:5-25, 67-80. In this passage, Zechariah and Elizabeth, an older, righteous couple, have long carried the pain and shame of barrenness. God promised Zechariah a son, John, who would prepare the way for the Messiah, but his doubt led to nine months of silence that God used to deepen his...

The Gospel According to Luke November 30, 2025 • RD McClenagan • Luke 24:45–48 This Sunday, RD launched our new series in the Gospel of Luke by highlighting Jesus’ words in Luke 24, where He calls His followers “witnesses” to His suffering, resurrection, and the forgiveness of sins for all nations. Luke wrote his orderly account so that we could have confidence in the truth of Jesus and the histor...

Conformed to His Image November 23, 2025 • RD McClenagan • Philippians 1:6, Romans 8:28–30 This Sunday, R.D. wrapped up our fall series, More Like Him . We are all shaped by what we behold, but God’s vision is that we would be conformed to the image of Christ as we fix our eyes on Him. Through the gospel, we are made new and invited into a life where the Spirit grows us in Christlikeness in the or...

Formed in Creation & Nature November 16, 2025 • Devon Accardi • Psalm 19:1–6 This Sunday, Devon Accardi continued our fall series, More Like Him, focusing on how God uses creation to spiritually form us—dazzling us with His glory, drawing us into wonder, and reminding us of His power and presence. Nature reveals God’s care and invites us to trust Him just as the birds and plants do. Creation a...

Formed in Cultural Engagement November 9, 2025 • Brad Raby • Romans 12:1–2, Daniel 1 This Sunday, Brad Raby, Lead Pastor at Fellowship West, continued our fall series, More Like Him. Teaching on being formed in cultural engagement, Brad looks at Daniel’s story to illustrate how God forms His people both in and for their cultural moment. Like Daniel and his friends in Babylon, believers today face...

Formed in Friendship November 2, 2025 • Devon Accardi • Proverbs 27:9, Mark 2 This Sunday, Devon continued our fall series, More Like Him. Spiritual formation isn’t about religious behavior but about transformation into Christ’s likeness in every part of life. Humans were created out of relationship by a relational God and therefore for relationship with one another. Sin, however, has fractured th...

Formed in Marriage & Family October 26, 2025 • RD McClenagan • Ephesians 5:20–21 This Sunday, RD continued our fall series, More Like Him. He looks at Ephesians 5 and Paul's focus on marriage. While not everyone is married, everyone is shaped by the marriages around them. Marriage is a living picture of the gospel, meant to reflect Christ’s love for the church through Spirit-filled living, mut...

Formed in Grief & Sorrow October 19, 2025 • RD McClenagan • John 11:33–36 This Sunday, RD continued our fall series, More Like Him. Grief is the natural response to losing something or someone we love, and it shapes us in profound ways, often revealing the depth of our love. Jesus Himself was “a man of sorrows, acquainted with grief,” modeling honesty before God, compassion for others, and fai...

Formed in Suffering October 12, 2025 • RD McClenagan • Romans 5:1–5 This Sunday, RD continued our fall series, More Like Him. Suffering is one of the most formative realities of the Christian life—something God uses to reveal where our trust truly lies and to shape us into Christlikeness. Throughout the Bible, those whom God used most deeply were also those who suffered most profoundly. While we c...

The Practices: Prayer October 5, 2025 • Zach Hume • Romans 8:26–27, Luke 11 This Sunday, Zach Hume continued our fall series, More Like Him. This week’s focus was on the spiritual practice of prayer. The way that we think about prayer—whether as requests, warfare, intimacy, or disappointment—shapes how we engage God. In Luke 11, the disciples asked Jesus to teach them to pray because they saw Him...

The Practices: Generosity September 28, 2025 • Devon Accardi • 2 Corinthians 9:10–15 This Sunday, Devon continued our fall series, More Like Him. This week’s focus was on generosity, which is not a means to earn God’s favor, but a reflection of God’s own generous heart toward us. Generosity extends beyond money—it includes our words, dignity toward others, grace, and how we steward our resources....

The Practices: Scripture September 21, 2025 • RD McClenagan • 2 Timothy 3:16 This Sunday, RD continued our fall series, More Like Him. Jesus reminds His disciples that the Holy Spirit will come to teach, guide, and bring peace that the world cannot give. In a world marked by fear, chaos, and distraction, God’s Word stands as the unshakable foundation for His people. Scripture is the living voice o...

Power to Abide September 14, 2025 • RD McClenagan • John 17 This Sunday, RD continued our fall series, More Like Him. From the beginning in Genesis, the Spirit hovered over the void, shaping and filling creation step by step—just as He still works in our lives today to bring light, order, and life. Through Christ, the Spirit convicts us of sin, gives us new hearts, and empowers us to live with pur...

Mortification & Vivification September 7, 2025 • Devon Accardi • Colossians 3:1–17 This Sunday, Devon continued our fall series, More Like Him. Colossians 3 shows that when we confess faith in Christ, we become new creations, reconciled to God, and invited into the lifelong process of sanctification. Though Jesus has accomplished all the saving work, God calls us to actively participate by put...

Confession & Repentance Aug 31, 2025 • RD McClenagan • 1 John 1:9, James 5:16 This Sunday, RD continued our fall series, More Like Him. 1 John 1, shows us that God is light, and to walk with Him means practicing truth by confessing sin rather than hiding it. Confession and repentance are central practices in the Christian life. Unconfessed sin leaves a heaviness in us compared with the freedom...

Adoption & Restoration August 24, 2025 • Devon Accardi • Romans 3:24 This Sunday, Devon continued our fall series, More Like Him. Looking at Romans 3:24 he looked at how through faith in Jesus, we are made new—regenerated with spiritual life and empowered by the Holy Spirit. The penalty of our sin is removed as God declares us justified, crediting us with the perfect righteousness of Christ. O...

Consequences of the Fall August 17, 2025 • RD McClenagan • Romans 3:22–23 This Sunday, RD continued our fall series, More Like Him. He began by naming the deep sense of exile we all feel in a world that is not as it should be. Sin is not just an idea but the reality behind all the brokenness we experience. From Genesis 1–2, he showed that we are created by God, for God’s glory, to walk with Him, a...

Living in the Gap August 10, 2025 • RD McClenagan • Galatians 4:19 This Sunday, RD began our fall series, More Like Him. He used the imagery of a potter shaping clay to illustrate God’s intentional, hands-on work of spiritual formation in His people. From creation to the kiln, the clay’s shaping process reflects the way God forms us for His glory, often through slow, deliberate steps and even thro...

Therefore August 3, 2025 • Greg Pinkner • Romans 3:21-26, Romans 12:1-4 Jesus’s central message was "repent, for the kingdom of God is at hand," calling us not just to change our behavior, but to be spiritually reborn. Sin is not simply bad behavior but missing the mark of perfectly loving and glorifying God, which no one can achieve apart from Christ. Spiritual disciplines like prayer, worship, a...

As for the Lord July 27, 2025 • Greg Pinkner • Colossians 3:18—4:6 This Sunday, Greg closes our summer series on Colossians, reminding us of Paul's warnings about false teachings and that Christ is supreme over all things. The Christian life is not just a moment of belief, but a continual process of putting off the old self and putting on the new, through repentance, gratitude, and obedience. Draw...