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Genesis 2:4b-9 and Revelation 22:1-5. A "mom stop" on a family road trip lead to a life changing view of heaven on earth for pastor Lindsay. fmhouston.com

Galations 5:1, 13-25 fmhouston.com

1 Kings:1-15a Letting God care for us. Not trying to make all our decisions ourselves, but truly listening to what the Holy Spirit is saying to us. fmhouston.com

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Romans 5:1-5 Brant Wallace speaks on how the Holy Spirit moves and empowers with the True Father fmhouston.com

Acts 2 -1-21 fmhouston.com

Revelation 22:12-14, 16-17, 20-21 inviting the church to remain open, ready, and faithful as the story continues with hope and anticipation of Christ’s return. fmhouston.com

Revelation 21:10, 22–22:5 And the leaves of the tree are for the healing of the nations. God’s church is called to be a beacon of healing, justice, and light. FMH is called to join in this work far and near. fmhouston.com

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Revelation 7:9-17 *SCRIPTURE After this I looked, and there was a great multitude that no one could count, from every nation, from all tribes and peoples and languages, standing before the throne and before the Lamb, robed in white, with palm branches in their hands. They cried out in a loud voice, saying, “Salvation belongs to our God who is seated on the throne and to the Lamb!” And all the ange...

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Easter is not just a day—it is a season. For fifty days, we celebrate and contemplate the miracle of Christ’s resurrection. This is a time of renewal, of deep spiritual reflection, and of hope. It’s a season that reminds us of a profound truth: God does not simply delight in bringing new things into our lives—God delights in making all things new. Resurrection is not just a past event; it is a pre...

Easter is not just a day to celebrate what happened at some point in the past. It is a day to remember what is happening here now, in the present moment, in us, through us, in this city. Sometimes we live with no expectations of miracles. Gathering the spices, thinking there is nothing beyond the pain or the grief of today. But resurrection hope happens before we even recognize it. God rolls away...

Lance explores Palm Sunday as a day of contrasts - where Jesus was declared king, but his crucifixion was coming only a few days later. And so we come to the very heart of our faith - that the king of all creation came not to be served, but to serve, and to give his life as a ransom. And that, through his passion and death, Jesus reveals the very heart of God. Are we truly looking at our neighborh...

This week, Lance offers a challenge: take a step to offer to someone in need. Because what holds us back from giving? Fear. Faith isn’t about what you have, it’s what you trust in God to provide. And we trust because God is faithful. Let us be a people who give, feel discipleship, and transform the world. Matthew 6:19-21 & 2 Corinthians 9:6-15 fmhouston.com

The Dead Sea only takes in water. There are no outlets. And so the water stagnates, and nothing can live. The Jordan river receives water from the Sea of Galilee, and brings life to everything it touches.

Are we, today, more like the Dead Sea, or are we flowing like the Jordan river? Are we bringing life to everywhere we go? Or, are we somewhere in between? Imagine if we saw our neighborhoods the...

How is the gospel taking root in your life? We can’t grow our faith in isolation, and it most flourishes when we grow small. We experience church most personally and completely in smaller groups. You’re learning, but you’re also being transformed as you work out your life together. We discover our purpose, and we help others discover their purpose as well. Who are you discipling? And who is discip...

Lance remembers doing puzzles at his grandmother’s dining room table, and it sets him in mind of how the church operates: we are like pieces of the puzzle, but you don’t get the full picture when we are still scattered. Imagine God bringing the pieces together at Main & Clay. As we come together as individual pieces of a puzzle, we begin to see how we fit. We want to build a shared culture, we...

Lance asks us to consider what we are connected to - and WHO we are connected to. Because we have be connected first and foremost to our God and King to be connected to each other. We cannot be Christian in isolation. We serve alongside each other, and in doing so, we stay connected to each other, and to the divine. The life that we share in Christ is a life of love. And love never fails. It never...

We are finishing our series “Thrive,” and Eric finds himself stepping in as the cleanup hitter to talk about joy. Joy is both a state of being and a way of being. You can experience joy, and your life can express joy to others. We are in a season of transition, and sometimes transition can be a little scary. But when we seek all of these things that have shown us how to thrive - clarity, witness,...

Today is a graduation of sorts. We celebrate what has led to this point, and we stand on a threshold, where God is preparing us for something yet unknown. Because we know: the God who led me to where I was is going before me. Thriving leads to joy! Are we living in God's joy or weighed down by worry conflict, or grief? The antidote is laughter and joy. Nehemiah 8:10, 12:27-28a, 30-31, 38a, 40-41a,...

Lance talks about when he first learned “I can do difficult things if I really try. But I can’t do it apart from community.” The walls of Jerusalem were built in 58 days because they focused on their community, on each other. We have a whole community outside the walls of the church that needs that kind of encouragement, that knows “you can do it! But you don’t have to do it alone.” Are we committ...

A scarcity mindset leads to inequity, it leads to not sharing freely out of what we have been given. To live a life of abundance, we need to open up our hands to freely share what has been given to us to everyone around us. Abundance flows from our relationships. We need each other, especially in a time like this. It will take all of us working together to make this next step happen. Nehemiah 5:1-...

Nehemiah wanted to rebuild the walls of Jerusalem, and God made provision because of Nehemiah’s faith. Likewise, we may be smaller in resource, but we are not smaller in faith. God has something more for us. But we just need to have faith as we rebuild. Witness precedes the work. Let us then begin the work of rebuilding the church. Nehemiah 2:9-12a, 15a, 16-20; 4:1-9, 13-15 fmhouston.com

The hard thing about change, the hard part about grief, is that we so want clarity, but we want to skip over the hard part to get it. We’re in a season where change is here, and there’s pain. It’s okay to name that. It’s okay to be there. Part of what it means to be who we are is to be there for a minute. If we don’t take the time to weep, we don’t take the time to prepare for the long journey ahe...