Glad Tidings Church Muncie

Guest Scott Hanson

On Sunday, Pastor Kevin returns to the pulpit with his "Sufficient" series - "Spiritual Warfare & Threats to the Gospel."

With special guest Pastor Ryan Chapman

Maximus, the first known bishop of the Italian city Turin, penned these words late in the 4th century: “ Rightly, he is sad, who is not drawn to payment by love, but forced by fear. A Christ debtor, then is joyful, and Caesar’s sad, because love urges, the one to payment, and punishment constrains the other; the one is invited by rewards, the other compelled by penalties. ” Christian generosity is...

Pastor J.D. Grear says, “ If you are not generous, you’ve never really experienced the Gospel .” As Pastor Kevin continues  Sufficient , his series through 2 Corinthians and teaches part two of his close-up look at 2 Corinthians eight and nine, he will unpack five crucial keys to Christian giving and underscore the twin truths that generosity is easy for those who know what they have belongs to Go...

J.C. Ryle penned these powerful words, “ Two things there are which man has no arithmetic to reckon, and no line to measure. One of these is the extent of man’s loss who loses his soul. The other is the extent of God’s gift when He gave Christ to sinners .” This is the  indescribable gift  of which Paul wrote in second Corinthians. Pastor Kevin continues his series  Sufficient Grace  with his firs...

The Psalmist beautifully declares that God’s majestic creation and His holy Word reveal the fullness of God’s faithful character.  This revelation of God demands a response from every human being.  As we explore and examine the poetic masterpiece of Psalm 19, we will be left to answer one simple question:  how will I respond to this revelation? 

Special speaker Randy Carter from Priority One shares "Perhaps."

“ The same tears that break our hearts may also nourish us in ways that matter most to God.”  These words of Phillip Yancey provide the jump off point for Pastor Kevin’s message, “ The Response of Sorrow,” as  he continues his series from 2 Corinthians,  Sufficient . We will explore human sorrow, worldly sorrow, and godly sorrow and learn about the profound implications of each. 

“To applaud the will of God, to do the will of God, even to fight for the will of God is not difficult ... until it comes at cross-purposes with our will. Then the lines are drawn.” These are the words of author Richard Foster. How are we to live out the will of God in a world that stands in opposition to our faith and the cause of Christ? How is our faith to affect us in the marketplace and can o...

Missionary martyr Jim Elliot said of his generation in 1956, “ we have a noncommittal morality. Nothing is so bad and nothing is so good. Everything is a muddle of both .” If true then, how much more so now? The only answer is for the people of God to live with hearts “ wide open ” to the power of the Holy Spirit as we carry the Gospel to a dark and broken world. Pastor Kevin continues his Suffici...

As we learned last week, to the Church has been entrusted the ministry of reconciliation and that ministry is desperately needed today. All of us are called to DO ministry but not are called INTO THE ministry. But, for those who are, this calling must be seriously considered and faithfully embraced. This week Pastor Kevin will examine the call and ministry of Paul and challenge us all to, in the w...

“ The highest Christian love is not devotion to a work or to a cause, but to Jesus Christ.”  These are the words of Oswald Chambers in  The Place of Help . This kind of devotion is only possible if we have been reconciled to Christ, and the message of reconciliation is the message with which we have been entrusted. Never has it been more needed than today. This Sunday Pastor Kevin will examine wha...

“Our world isn’t a very good amusement park. No it’s a broken place groaning for redemption. Here is meant to make us long for forever. Here is meant to prepare us for eternity.” These are the words of author Paul David Tripp and an apt summation of Pastor Kevin’s message this week as he continue his series Sufficient, from 2 Corinthians. He will discuss Paul’s focus on our earthly bodies, their i...

“Therefore, since we have this ministry, as we have received mercy, we do not lose heart.” This is how Paul opened the fourth chapter of 2 Corinthians and mercy was the theme of his ministry. Mercy is not only the expression of God toward us, it is to be the expression of all believers. As Rodney Stark said, “A merciful God requires humans to be merciful.” Pastor Kevin continues his series  Suffic...

In a world so easily enamored by the brilliant and glowing faces of high tech spirituality, neatly-packaged faith talks, and charismatic personalities, let us never lose track of the fact that only as we behold the glory of God in the face of Jesus can we be made like Him. THIS is the focus of our attention as Pastor Kevin continues the series Sufficient, with a message from 2 Corinthians 3:7-18, ...

The late J.I. Packer wrote these words. “It is impossible at the same time to give the impression that both I am a great Christian and that Jesus Christ is a great Master.” This truth is the essence of Paul’s teaching in the section of 2 Corinthians that we will be addressing this Sunday. Our sufficiency is found only through Christ and for us to live a life that reveals the greatness of Christ, w...

In his 1979, Christianity Today article, These Times, author Austin L. Sorenson wrote, “A child is not likely to find a father in God unless he finds something of God in his father.” In his Father’s Day message, Pastor Kevin will take a fresh look at the parable of the prodigal son and identify principles that will help fathers discover the great potential they possess to duplicate their lives in...

Guest speaker David Wigington shares where to turn when you don't know what to do.

William Barclay once said, “A saint is someone whose life makes it easier to believe in God.” The apostle Paul told the church at Corinth that they were to be the temple of the Holy Spirit that provided a great light in a city darkened by pagan worship. Today WE are to be the same. In this sermon Pastor Kevin continues his series Sufficient and unpacks 2 Corinthians 1:12-2:13 , describing the char...

Jesus called us the “salt of the earth” and the “light of the world”. What did he mean, and what does it look like to be salt and light? Guest speaker Pastor Clayton Bates takes a closer look at part of Jesus’ Sermon On the Mount and discover the roadmap He gave us to lead others to him.

The world instinctively rejects the notion that suffering can serve any good purpose, but the inspired Scriptures say differently. In fact, the Bible teaches the possibility of experiencing “redemptive suffering.” Russian author of the classic War and Peace once wrote, “It is by those who have suffered that the world has advanced.” Paul suffered deeply and yet his ministry transformed the world. T...

“When you read God's Word, you must constantly be saying to yourself, "It is talking TO me, and ABOUT me." These were the words of Danish theologian Soren Kierkegaard and the words that form the framework for Pastor Kevin’s Mother’s Day message this Sunday. Just as in Elijah’s day, our culture has turned away from God and the emerging generation is in great peril. But, God is still s...

19th century Scottish author, poet, and Congregational minister George MacDonald once wrote these words: “We are dwellers in a divine universe where no desires are in vain, if only they be large enough.” This statement is full of truth. God is the Creator and we are not, but He has placed in each if us great desires for significance and productivity. These are not prideful or vain—if they be big e...

We are called to rest in the sufficiency of Christ as we carry the Gospel of Jesus Christ, even in weakness and suffering, to a broken and lost humanity, and at the same time live in the anticipation of the “hope glory!” This will be the focus this Sunday as Pastor Kevin begins his brand new sermon series through 2 Corinthians.