Fellowship Church Middlebrook

Desire for My True Country July 20, 2025 • RD McClenagan • Colossians 3:1–17 This Sunday, RD continues our summer series on Colossians. Colossians 3 reminds us that transformation begins with identity—we have died with Christ, been raised with Him, and now live as new people whose lives are hidden in Him. Because of this reality, Paul calls us to set our minds on things above and actively put to d...

Substance over Shadows July 13, 2025 • RD McClenagan • Colossians 2:16-23 This Sunday, RD continues our summer series on Colossians. In Colossians 2, Paul urges believers to grow into spiritual maturity by holding fast to Christ, who is the message and the means of transformation, not adding human traditions or self-made religion to the gospel. He reminds the Colossians that God made them alive in...

Nailed to the Cross July 6, 2025 • Greg Pinkner • Colossians 2:8–15 This Sunday, Greg continues our summer series on Colossians. In Colossians 2, Paul warns the Colossians against false teachings that diminish Christ, distort grace, and pull believers back into legalism and human traditions. These teachings made Christ out to be just another created being, not the sovereign Lord, and suggested tha...

Mature in Christ June 29, 2025 • RD McClenagan • Colossians 1:24–29, Colossians 2:1–7 This Sunday, RD continues our summer series on Colossians. Paul’s deep desire is for every believer to grow in maturity, not just in knowledge or activity, but in actual Christlikeness—to be spiritually formed into his image. However, spiritual growth is often slow, confusing, and nonlinear. True transformation c...

Your Years Will Have No End June 22, 2025 • Greg Pinkner • Colossians 1:19–20 This Sunday, Greg continues our summer series on Colossians. Colossians 1:19–20, the final section of the Christological hymn, emphasizes that Jesus is not merely a spiritual being but fully God, in whom all the fullness of God was pleased to dwell. Paul writes this to confront false teachings in Colossae that diminished...

He is the Head of the Church June 15, 2025 • Greg Pinkner • Colossians 1:18 This Sunday, Greg continues our summer series on Colossians. Paul wrote Colossians, alongside Ephesians, to counter false teachings about spiritual beings having authority over people’s lives. In Colossians 1:16, Paul lifts up the supremacy of Christ, presenting Jesus as both the Creator of all things and the head of the c...

He has the Whole World in His Hands June 8, 2025 • RD McClenagan • Colossians 1:15–17 This Sunday, RD continues our summer series on Colossians. In Colossians 1:15–17, Paul emphasized Jesus as the visible image of the invisible God—fully divine and fully human, holding all things together. Jesus is not moderately important—He is central to everything, supreme over creation, and the one who restore...

Stable and Steadfast June 1, 2025 • Devon Accardi • Colossians 1:3–14, Colossians 1:21–23 This Sunday, Devon continues our summer series on Colossians. In Paul's letter to the Colossians, he meant to center the early church on the unchanging truth of Christ. Using the example of Epaphras, who heard the gospel and brought it home, he reminds us that ordinary people can carry extraordinary truth. Pa...

Through Him and for Him May 25, 2025 • Greg Pinkner • Colossians 1:15–20 This Sunday, Greg began our summer series on Colossians, focusing on its profound theological depth. Paul wrote this letter to correct false teaching that diminished Jesus and instead presented Him as the image of God and the creator of all things. Jesus is not just part of creation—He is above it and holds it all together. B...

Constrained by the Spirit May 18, 2025 • Greg Pinkner • Acts 20:18–38 This Sunday, Greg finishes our series in the Book of Acts. In Acts 20, Paul’s farewell to the Ephesians emphasizes that true faith often comes with suffering, and he urged the believers to be “constrained by the Spirit”—willing to obey God even when it’s costly or uncomfortable. He warned against false teaching, especially messa...

Mars Hill May 11, 2025 • Greg Pinkner • Acts 17:16–34 This Sunday, Greg continues our series on the Book of Acts. In Acts 17, Paul engages the philosophers of Athens at Mars Hill—a city filled with idols and intellectual pride. Surrounded by temples to false gods, Paul boldly proclaims the one true God who made the world, gives life and breath to all, and cannot be contained by human temples or se...

A Woman, a Slave Girl, and a Jailer May 4, 2025 • RD McClenagan • Acts 16:11–40 This Sunday, RD continues our series on the Book of Acts. In Acts 16, we see how the gospel meets three very different people—a successful businesswoman, a spiritually oppressed slave girl, and a hardened Roman jailer—and transforms them each in unique ways through an encounter with Jesus. The gospel is for everyone; i...

A Door of Faith April 27, 2025 • Devon Accardi • Acts 14:8–28 This Sunday, Devon continues our series on the Book of Acts. In Acts 13–14, Paul and Barnabas are sent out from Antioch. They preached across multiple cities, faced strong opposition, and ultimately saw the gospel begin to spread among the Gentiles, marking a major turning point in the early church. In the same way that God called Paul...

Therefore April 20, 2025 • RD McClenagan • 1 Corinthians 15:51–58 This Sunday, Easter, RD spoke from 1 Corinthians 15:51-58. The resurrection is not just a past event but a present power that changes lives, frees us from sin, and anchors us in grace. Paul’s story shows how encountering the risen Christ transforms even the most broken lives, reminding us that we are not defined by our sin but by Go...

The Christians April 13, 2025 • Greg Pinkner • Acts 11:19–30 This Sunday, Greg continues our series on the Book of Acts. In Acts 11, we see the gospel spreading beyond the Jews to the Gentiles, especially in Antioch, where believers—fleeing persecution—boldly preached Christ across cultural lines. This moment marks a massive turning point in church history, as Peter’s vision and Cornelius’s conver...

What God has Made Clean April 6, 2025 • Greg Pinkner • Acts 10 This Sunday, Greg continues our series on the Book of Acts. Acts 10 focuses on the radical transformation of Peter. Once a devout Jew who strictly followed the law, Peter is confronted by a vision from God telling him not to call anything unclean that God has made clean—challenging his deeply ingrained beliefs. This vision prepares Pet...

A Chosen Instrument March 30, 2025 • Greg Pinkner • Acts 9:1–31 This Sunday, Greg continues our series on the Book of Acts. Acts 9 focuses on Saul’s conversion to Christianity—a moment that changed the course of the world. Saul, was a brilliant Hellenized Jew, a Roman citizen, and a fierce persecutor of Christians before Jesus appeared to him in a blinding light on the road to Damascus. This encou...

Joy in the City March 23, 2025 • RD McClenagan • Acts 8 This Sunday, RD continues our series on the Book of Acts. In Acts 8, the persecution of the early church had caused believers to scatter, which God used to spread the gospel. Philip brought the good news to Simon the magician and the Ethiopian eunuch. These encounters powerfully show us that the gospel is for everyone, even the outcast, and t...

Seeds of Courage March 16, 2025 • Devon Accardi • Acts 7, Acts 6 This Sunday, Devon continues our series on the Book of Acts. In Acts 6 & 7, he walks us through the story of Stephen—highlighting his faith, his role in the early church, and the opposition he faced that led to his martyrdom. Stephen’s vision of Jesus standing at the right hand of God is a powerful affirmation of Christ’s presenc...

We Must Obey God Over Men March 9, 2025 • Greg Pinkner • Acts 5, Acts 6 This Sunday, Greg Pinkner continues our series on the Book of Acts. Looking at Acts 5:1 - 6:15, he explains that biblical narratives, especially in Acts, are arranged intentionally to convey deeper theological truths, not just historical accounts. The passage highlights a pattern of highs and lows in the early church—miraculou...

Boldness Through Prayer March 2, 2025 • RD McClenagan • Acts 4:23–37 This Sunday, RD McClenagan continues our series on the Book of Acts. Acts 4:23-37 looks at Peter and John’s healing of a lame man which led to intense opposition from the religious leaders. The leaders threatened them, ordering them to stop speaking in Jesus' name, but Peter and John refused, declaring that they could not stop sp...

They Had Been With Jesus February 23, 2025 • RD McClenagan • Acts 4:1–22 This Sunday, RD McClenagan continues our series on the Book of Acts. Acts 4:1-22 shows that true spiritual transformation and lasting change come only through the empowering presence of the Holy Spirit. It is through the Holy Spirit that ordinary, seemingly unqualified individuals can be transformed into bold witnesses. The h...

Holy and Righteous February 16, 2025 • Greg Pinkner • Acts 3:11–26 This Sunday, Greg Pinkner continues our series on the Book of Acts. Acts 3:11-26 is Peter's second sermon and follows the miraculous healing of a lame man, drawing a large crowd in Solomon’s Portico, where Peter seizes the opportunity to proclaim Jesus as the fulfillment of God’s promises. He connects Jesus to Israel’s history, emp...

Devoted February 9, 2025 • Greg Pinkner • Acts 2:42-3:9 This Sunday, Greg Pinkner continues our series on the Book of Acts. Acts 2:42-3:9 falls between two of Peter's sermons and shows the early church how to live as Christians. The early believers were devoted to the apostles' teaching, fellowship, breaking of bread, and prayer and obedience was the core of Christian life. These verses show us ho...

The Hope for All January 26, 2025 • Devon Accardi • Acts 2:14–41 This Sunday, Gospel Sunday, Devon Accardi continues our series on the Book of Acts. Acts 2:14-41 focus on Peter's sermon at Pentecost. Peter, empowered by the Holy Spirit, boldly preaches to the crowd, explaining that Jesus’ death and resurrection fulfill Old Testament prophecy. He connects the moment to the prophecy of Joel, showing...