Glad Tidings Church Muncie

From a Roman prison, awaiting his impending execution, Paul wrote letters to his young protégé, Timothy. He encouraged Timothy that no matter what trial might befall the young church in Ephesus, they should stand firm to the Gospel without compromise and know that the Gospel’s certainty was backed with the unalterable fact of Christ’s resurrection. As Tertullian once wrote, “ Truth does not b...

Timothy Keller said, “ Worship is seeing what God is worth and giving him what he's worth. ” Sadly, it seems today that many believers fail to see the worth of the resurrected Christ and consequently fail to worship Him appropriately. In part two of his series Because He Lives, Pastor Kevin will discuss the fulness of Christ’s worth and explain how His resurrection fully establishes that worthines...

French philosopher and Christian antagonist Luc Ferry, leveled what he thought was an insult to the Christian faith. “ The entire originality of the Christian message resides in good news of literal immortality—resurrection, in other words and not merely of souls but of individual human bodies. ” He could not have been more accurate. This IS the unique message and the foundational hope of our fait...

Naturally, we are inclined to be so mathematical and calculating that we look upon uncertainty as a bad thing...Certainty is the mark of the common-sense life. To be certain of God means that we are uncertain in all our ways, we do not know what a day may bring forth. This is generally said with a sigh of sadness; it should rather be an expression of breathless expectation.”  These are the wo...

Our culture values the big, the great, and the impressive and it is easy to feel if you are not, then you are insignificant. Many live their lives fearing that they don’t matter. Esther was an orphaned, Jewish girl living in a faraway land with no real hope of ever making a difference. The fear of being insignificant would have been natural for her but she found out that God wanted to use her, and...

Former press secretary for George W. Bush, Tony Snow, once said while battling terminal cancer, “ We want lives of simple, predictable ease—smooth, even trails as far as the eye can see—but God likes to go off-road. " Sometimes God decides to re-orient our life expectations. That is what happened to Elijah and in part three of the series, Facing Our Fears , Pastor Kevin will explore the life of El...

One of the great fears that plagues Christians is the fear of the impossible—looming circumstances that seem to hopelessly paralyze us. What is needed is a new perspective that can help us break free from the paralysis of impossible situations. Bob Reccord wrote, “ We are all faced with innumerable opportunities brilliantly disguised as impossible situations. ” We will learn how Gideon faced his i...

Fulton Oursler wrote, “ We crucify ourselves between two thieves: regret for yesterday and fear of tomorrow.  Part one of Pastor Kevin’s news series, Facing Your Fears begins with "Caleb & the Giants"

In a world where turmoil and uncertainty seem to dominate much of humanity’s existence, it’s easy to become discouraged, disappointed, and disillusioned. Many people turn to worldly solutions to find relief and rest from this reality, but each time they are left still searching for a solution, as other attempts were dead ends. How are we to navigate this present reality as children of the King? Wh...

Derek Kidner wrote, “ God not only sees the invisible and penetrates the inaccessible, but He is operative there. ” This truth is never more clearly revealed than in the 139th psalm, a psalm that underscores the great attributes of God and invites the believer to stand in awe of His marvelous character while inviting Him to search our hearts and reveal those areas of our lives that lack an ap...

Crawford Lorritts, speaking of the spiritually bankrupt culture in which we live said, “ W e are managing our sin rather than repenting of our sin. ” If the truth be told, the notion of biblical repentance is rarely discussed in the Church today. This Sunday, in part four of his series, With the Psalmist we Pray, Pastor Kevin will explain what a repentant hearts looks like by exploring the powerfu...

British author and self-ascribed agnostic Julian Barnes wrote, “ I don’t believe in God but I miss Him .” What could possibly make him write so vulnerably? The truth is that we were all made in the image of God and as James Mays writes, “ God created the human soul to correspond to God. ” This truth will be the focus of Pastor Kevin’s message as he continues the series With the Psalmist we Pray an...

An awe struck life is a humble life —“ awe minimizes our individual identity and attunes us to things bigger than ourselves .” These are the words of Elizabeth Bernstein who also noted that “ awe is a response to something vast. ” God’s people are to be in awe of His vastness and our prayers should reflect the humility of one who is in awe of God. Psalm 30 unveils that type of prayer and it is the...

Amir, the protagonist of the fiction novel,  The Kite Runner , rehearsed in his mind his own failure to intervene; when at the age of 12, he watched as his friend was violently abused in a forsaken alley. In his fear, he did nothing and his failure to act haunted him. “ Looking back now, I realize I have been peeking into that deserted alley for the last twenty-six years.”  Christians re...

"These things I have spoken to you, that my joy may be in you, and that your joy may be full” John 15:11. These words of Jesus in His final discourse to His disciples set the parameters for the final message in Pastor Kevin’s series, Abiding in Christ . 

19th century Scottish Theolgian Peter Taylor Forsyth wrote, “ It is possible to be so active in the service of Christ as to forget to love him.” Pastor Kevin continues in the Abiding in Christ Series as he discusses how we can learn to KEEP ourselves in the LOVE OF GOD. 

When we learn to abide in Christ and His words abide in us, we live as close to Christ as one may live. This SHOULD be the passionate pursuit of all who call Christ “Lord.” It is this dual condition of abiding in Him as His Word abides in us that will be the focus of Pastor Kevin’s message, part two of his four-part series, Abiding in Christ.

Author John Eldredge wrote,  “ If I'm not abiding in Jesus, then where is it that I abide?” This is the question we will consider as Pastor Kevin begins his new series Abiding in Christ  from the words of Jesus in John 15. Learning what it means to abide in Christ and both the struggle and benefits of living in communion with Jesus will be the focus of part one of this series.

Even when walking by faith, there are times when it seems God is silent while we suffer. We ask, “How long, oh Lord?” But in reality, He’s always at work behind the scenes to accomplish His grand plans for our lives. Pastor Ty Thompson presents "Fullness of Time."

“ You shall call His name Jesus ” (Matthew 1:21). That was the announcement of Gabriel to Joseph, repeated later to Mary, indicating the divine name that was to be given to the Christ-child. That name, “ Jesus ,” will be the focus of our attention this Sunday as Pastor Kevin concludes his Advent series, He Shall be Called . We learn that the brokenness of our world and the despondency of the human...

In a prophecy penned nearly seven centuries before Jesus was born in Bethlehem, Isaiah prophesied that the Messiah that would come would be the  precious CORNERSTONE of God’s new building—the Church—the Kingdom of God. But, as the Cornerstone, He would to some become a stumbling stone, others would fall upon Him and be broken, and still others would be crushed by His great power. 

“Bread of Life? Jesus lived up to the title. But an unopened loaf does a person no good. Have you received the bread? Have you received God's forgiveness?”  These are the words of Christian author Max Lucado and their focus is the same as that of Pastor Kevin’s message this Sunday, the second of the Advent series, He Shall be Called . 

Lloyd Ogilvie said, “We may be sure that we are going to live forever, but sometimes we have a hard time getting through life with a daily sense of God’s peace.” Sadly, many who confess Christ as Lord, still find peace to be elusive. In part one of his Advent series, He Shall Be Called, Pastor Kevin will help us see that peace is not limited to times when all is in order and tension is absent. Pea...

Pastor Wayne Murray, from Grace Assembly in Greenwood, presents the conclusion of our Kingdom Builders series, "Why I am a Kingdom Builder."

It was God’s purpose for the temple that it would be a house of prayer to ALL NATIONS. But Israel’s selfishness ridded it of its divine purpose and the nations were shut out. Angry at what he saw, Jesus drove out those who exploited the purpose of the temple and kept the nations from entering. Today, the nations still do not know Jesus and it is our responsibility, as God’s new temple, to carry th...