Glad Tidings Church Muncie

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After his great victory atop Mt. Carmel against the prophets of Baal, Jezebel stepped up her threats on Elijah, and exhausted from the battle, Elijah fled and found himself hiding under a broom tree, begging God to take his life. There he encountered God in a powerful way, and the course of his life was changed. This Sunday Pastor Kevin continues the series on the life of Elijah and will unpack le...

Guest speaker - Clayton Bates

“Could it be true that God has really lost His muscle? Maybe it would be more accurate to say God lost His men.”  These are the words of author Eric Ludy. This Sunday Pastor Kevin begins a new preaching series from 1 and 2 Kings examining the life of the great prophet of Israel, Elijah. Elijah was used by God in extraordinary ways, but James said of him, “ he was as human as we are ” James 5:17. J...

Nehemiah spent 12 years in Jerusalem leading Judah to spiritual renewal before he returned to the Persian palace to resume his service for the king. By the time he returned to Jerusalem, the people had drifted far from the place they had been under his earlier leadership. He immediately went to work correcting that drift and led them back to spiritual fervency. The danger of complacency that leads...

"As the sailor locates his position on the sea by "shooting" the sun, so we may get our moral bearings by looking at God. We must begin with God. We are right when and only when we stand in a right position relative to God, and we are wrong so far and so long as we stand in any other position." These words of A.W. Tozer remind us that God has mapped out a clear plan for our liv...

Nehemiah’s leadership of Judah in the rebuilding ofJerusalem’s walls was resisted repeatedly. Even when he thought the enemy’s pressure had slacked off, they returned with even greater determination to stop the progress. Nehemiah knew he must not quit because the stakes were too high. This Sunday Pastor Kevin will continue his series from Nehemiah, Recommitting God’s People to God’s Glory  and dis...

“I am not myself by myself."  This concept is a challenge to a culture that prides itself in and promotes radical individualism.   Relationships are easily abandoned and personalgratification, NOT community health is the more common pursuit. This week Pastor Kevin will continue his series from Nehemiah and will discuss how Judah’s greatest challenge was the internal strife that threatened to...

"There is nothing so weak, for working purposes, as this enormous importance attached to immediate victory. There is nothing that fails like success." These are the words of the great philosopher and theologian, G.K. Chesterton. This Sunday Pastor Kevin will continue his series from Nehemiah and will explore the importance of developing a deep trust in God and a keen alertness to the ene...

Ralph Waldo Emerson, 18th century philosopher, while not a Christian, was astute when he wrote,  “People wish to be settled; only as far as they are unsettled is there any hope for them.”  Too often as believers we become indifferent in our view of the world and fail to passionately pursue our calling. While we are called to be content in all things, only those with a sense of unsettledness will e...

Bible scholar Harriet Harrington wrote, “ When God extends favor, one can expect opposition, even from close quarters.”  This is the story of Nehemiah and the people of Judah. As Pastor Kevin open his new series,  Recommitting God’s People to God’s Glory  from the book of Nehemiah, we will explore how God’s people experienced God’s favor, how they guarded that favor, and how that favor was challen...

Special Guest - Randy Carter, Priority One

The late Haddon Robinson once said, " You will invest your life in something, or you will throw it away on nothing.”  This Sunday Pastor Kevin will discuss one of the most important investments fathers and mothers will ever make—discipling their children. From the words of David, before his death, to his son Solomon, Pastor Kevin will share four important truths. How we parent our children ha...

Daniel T. Niles in That They May Have Life , writes, "Evangelism is witness. It is one beggar telling another beggar where to get food. The Christian does not offer out of his bounty. He has no bounty. He is simply a guest at his Master's table and, as evangelist, he calls others too." This Sunday Pastor Kevin will conclude his series; He Promised with a look at Acts 2 and the Day of...

The words of Lloyd Ogilvie are powerful. "We have been instructed in the things Jesus did but know too little of what He continues to do today as indwelling Spirit and engendering power." This Sunday Pastor Kevin will address the words of Jesus just prior to His ascension in Acts 1, that once again promised the coming of the Holy Spirit, and together we will be challenged to allow the Ho...

Guest speaker - Pastor Scott

A.W. Tozer wrote, "If the Holy Spirit was withdrawn from the church today, 95 percent of what we do would go on and no one would know the difference. If the Holy Spirit had been withdrawn from the New Testament church, 95 percent of what they did would stop, and everybody would know the difference." Sunday Pastor Kevin will begin his new, four-week series, He Promised, and discuss the wo...

The world today is very different than it was in Timothy's Day -- in fact, the world is very different than it was forty years ago. But the need for building a godly heritage remains the same in every generation. This Sunday, Mother's Day, Pastor Kevin will be looking at the life of Timothy and discussing how despite his father's spiritual absence, he was part of a godly heritage inspi...

Bible scholar R.T. France wrote that it is clear from the book of Acts that baptism was the "unquestioned initiation rite of post-Easter church." While this is unquestionably true, today it seems, the significance of baptism is being downplayed either through the popularizing of thoughtless and trendy baptisms that may provide a false sense of security to those not fully surrendered to t...

Guest speaker - Jonathan Lotz

More than seven centuries before Jesus was born in Bethlehem, the prophet Isaiah penned these words regarding the coming Messiah. "He shall see the labor of His soul and be satisfied." On this side of Calvary we know that the labor was His death on the cross, but as the author of Hebrews said, "for the joy set before Him, He endured the cross." Yet, unless He had broken the pow...

Good Friday Message

The streets were lined as Jesus entered Jerusalem on the first Palm Sunday. The crowds hailed Him as King while the Jewish leaders reached their tipping point and moved in to execute Him. What no one realized was that Jesus was fulfilling the prophecy of Isaiah, and those Jerusalem worshippers were the first fruits of His inheritance -- the multitudes that He would soon redeem. Join us Sunday for...

Pastor Kevin Holt