Glad Tidings Church Muncie

The Day of the Lord —this was the term frequently repeated and proclaimed by the prophets of old, and is the subject of the final message from God through the prophet Malachi to the people of Judah. When the Day of the Lord comes, for those who have rejected and disobeyed God, great judgment awaits. But for those who have touched the hem of Jesus’ garment, healing in His wings will be found. The c...

Too often, even those who claim to be followers of Jesus, see the world with eyes and hearts that focus on what they don’t have rather than on the goodness of God. That was the issue with the people of Judah in Malachi’s day and the theme of the prophet’s final words to them.  Pastor Kevin shares how we can reject the easy path of grumbling and complaining and become God’s treasured possessio...

Too often, even those who claim to be followers of Jesus, see the world with eyes and hearts that focus on what they don’t have rather than on the goodness of God. That was the issue with the people of Judah in Malachi’s day and the theme of the prophet’s final words to them. Pastor Kevin shares how we can reject the easy path of grumbling and complaining and become God’s treasured possession.

"It is beyond the realm of possibilities that one has the ability to out give God. Even if I give the whole of my worth to Him, He will find a way to give back to me much more than I gave.” - Charles Spurgeon Pastor Ryan Elliff presents, "Robbing God."

“ It is a rare person who, when his cup frequently runs over, can thank God instead of complaining about the limited size of his mug!”  These are the words of Bob Russell, retired pastor of Southeast Christian Church in Louisville, Kentucky. When the people of Judah lost perspective and failed to see what God was doing, they began to complain and when they complained, they lost hope. Today, m...

In Malachi chapter 2, the people of God were mixing their worship and their lives with the thoughts and desires of the nations that surrounded them, while at the same time not guarding in their lives the things of true value. Like a good father, God rebukes them for this destructive practice, while pulling them towards true worship.

The opening verses of Malachi chapter two are strong and intimidating as God harshly chastises the prophets of Israel for their compromise and warns them of the tragic consequences that will result from their failure. This piercing word also provides a challenge to Christian leaders today as well as providing a powerful admonition to all believers, calling us to keep ourselves in a position to be...

J.D. Greear said, "Without love, even the most radical devotion to God is of no value to Him. Let me make sure that sinks in... You can gain all the spiritual gifts in the world. You can take the most radical steps of obedience. You can share every meal with the homeless in your city. You can memorize the book of Leviticus. You can pray each morning for four hours like Martin Luther. But if what y...

“ You can call yourself anything you like, but if you don't believe that Jesus is the Son of God who died on the cross for our sins and then rose from the dead, you are not ‘any meaningful sense’ a Christian. ” These are the words of the now deceased and infamous atheist Christopher Hitchens. He knew the message of the Gospel was that God’s love was demonstrated through Calvary’s cross. The Jews o...

Augustine said, “give me the grace to do as you command, and command me to do what you will.” Pastor Kevin concludes his series from 1st Thessalonians, Blameless When He Comes , unpacking the final seventeen verses of chapter five. Here we will learn the crucial interplay between what we must guard in our lives with the confidence that as we do, God will preserve (guard) us when Jesus returns.

“We must strive for sanctity, for holiness, to the point that we show up at Heaven's gates "squeezed out like a lemon ." These words appeared in an editorial in the New Oxford Review in the July-August 1988 edition. They remind us of the need to be fully and adequately prepared when Jesus comes, to be ever decreasing so He might be ever increasing in our lives. Pastor Kevin will address this very...

“We, of all people, need to deny nothing true, the bad and the good. Of all people, we are most able to confess the grand proportions of death: so terrible as to defeat us all!—but defeated, rather, in Jesus.” These are the words of Walter Wangerin Jr. and they underscore the believer’s attitude about death. We do not rejoice in the pain it causes but we celebrate the truth that Christ has de...

“ The problem with Christians in America is not that Christians aren’t WHERE they should be; the problem is that they’re not WHAT they should be right WHERE they are. ” These are the words of missiologist Os Guinness. This truth is the focus of Pastor Kevin’s message, part six of his series Blameless When He Comes.  This week we will discover the power of Brotherly Love in pointing a lost wor...

Sanctification is NOT a list of rules—it is a pursuit of Christ’s Person. True holiness is rooted in the understanding that God’s will is for us to become progressively more like Christ, not to become progressively more like the world. Pastor Kevin’s shares from 1 Thessalonians, Blameless When He Comes as he discusses what it means to be found living holy when Jesus returns.

With shifts in culture happening at breakneck speed and the influence of the Church sorely diminished by both scandal and lukewarmness, the need for a vibrant witness of the Gospel has never been more needed. That witness can come only from one whose faith is steadfast. Steadfast Faith is the subject of this week’s message as Pastor Kevin shares week #4 of His series Blameless When He Comes. Join...

G.K. Beale said, “ Suffering is the stadium in which we run the race of faith . ” Pastor Kevin will continue his series, Blameless When He Comes by discussing the purpose and power of suffering, how we can endure, and the marvelous results when we do endure.

You will invest your life in something, or you will throw it away on nothing. These are the words of Haddon Robinson, the late president of Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary and one of the greatest preachers of the last two centuries. Join us this Sunday as Pastor Kevin continues his series from 1 Thessalonians Blameless When He Comes and discusses what it looks like to walk worthy of Chris...

19th century German Lutheran pastor Richard Charles Lenski wrote, “ It is the Christlike reflection in us today that induces others to follow Christ. ” This is what Paul said of the Thessalonians, that they have become examples (literally patterns) to all who were in the region of Macedonia and Achaia of what it meant to follow Christ through trial and persecution. Can that be said of us? That is...

It is the desire of every Christian parent that their children grow up to know Christ and to know God as Father. But, as Austin Sorensen said, “ A child is not likely to find a father in God unless he finds something of God in his father.” This Sunday is Father’s Day and Pastor Kevin will be delivering a timely message that will unpack how fathers can emulate the love and care of their Heavenly Fa...

Pastor Kevin’s former Bible college president, Maurice Lednicky wrote this just a few weeks ago. “ Happily, we do not need to muster our own ingenuity to convince men of right vs wrong.  It would be futile. Trying to compete with the culture, or compromising with the culture, is never effective in bringing people to Jesus.  The Holy Spirit within, working through the believer, is a force...

What the church needs today is not more machinery or better, not new organizations or more and novel methods, but men whom the Holy Spirit can use. ” These are the words of E.M. Bounds and how powerfully they speak to our generation. How can we become vessels through whom the Holy Spirit works to reach this hurting and broken world? This is the focus of Pastor Kevin’s message this Sunday (Pentecos...

Where do we, as Christians, anchor our hope when the culture around us grows increasingly hostile to the truth we believe and proclaim? How do we maintain a hope that is more than wishful thinking in the midst of life’s challenges? Pastor Clayton unpacks 1 Peter 1:3-5 to remind us of two things that anchor us and fill us with “A Living Hope”.

Often it has been the case that we overlook or downplay the return of Jesus back to Heaven— the doctrine of Ascension . Some avoid the subject because they feel that it in some way denigrates or risks overshadowing the work of Jesus in His Incarnation, or at the cross, or in His resurrection. The truth is, however, that the ascension not only does not denigrate these precious doctrines, but in fac...

19th century American Poet Carl Sandburg once wrote, “  There is an eagle in me that wants to soar, and there is a hippopotamus in me that wants to wallow in the mud. ” While Sandburg was certainly no Christian, his statement reflects well Paul’s indictment of the Roman Christians. Though in-dwelt by the same Spirit that raised Jesus from the dead, most were living their lives beneath their p...

Faced with an edict from the evil Pharaoh to kill very male Hebrew born in Egypt, Jochabed, the mother of Moses, chose to obey God rather than man and confront the godless culture that threatened to destroy the people of God. Her choice impacted generations to come. Pastor Kevin speaks to the issue of standing as godly parents in a godless culture with his special message to all parents, aspiring...