Life Mission Church

The Gospel of John - John 3.16-21 Casey Barnes God’s love is unchanging, always steady, and pursues us even when we are hostile to it. Like a loving Father always ready to invite us in, God’s rich mercy is evident in the sending of His Son as the ultimate gift. As Pastor Casey brings us through arguably the most widely recognized passage in Scripture, timeless truths point us back to the central m...

The Gospel of John - John 2.13-25 Jobey McGinty The love and anger of Christ are not in opposition to each other. In fact, His anger is fueled by His love. In the story where Jesus disrupts the activities He finds in the Temple, it is because of His zealous love and passion not only for His Father and His Father's House, but also for His people. Though Jesus doesn't today drive out our sin with a...

The Gospel of John - John 2.1-12 Jobey McGinty Jesus unveils His public ministry at a wedding. At this wedding, He famously turns water into wine. But why? This water was used by the Jews for ritual cleansing, and as Jesus asks them to fill these jars (about 180 gallons worth!) to the brim, He changes it into the best wine anyone has tasted!   In our lives, we live off of performancism a...

1 Corinthians 9.19-23 Jobey McGinty How do we serve others? How do we enter into a posture of learning, listening, and of humble service, laying aside our rights, or comfort, or preferences, for the sake of others? With racial tension, silence amid racism isn’t helpful, and there are hundreds of thousands hurting, yet we don’t know WHAT to say, how to say it, or when to say it. We have a fear of s...

How the Good Samaritan Fuels our Compassion - Luke 10.25-37 Jobey McGinty On May 25, 2020, George Floyd, an African American man in Minneapolis, died under the knee of a police officer, subsequently setting off protests and calls for an end to injustice and discrimination. Though there are many aspects that are plain and simple, such as the fact that racism is a wicked sin, an affront to God and H...

Gospel of John - John 1.35-51 Jobey McGinty What are you seeking? What do you want out of life? Where do you look to in order to find real satisfaction and fulfillment? For many, we come to a place where we realize we are wandering, and suddenly find ourselves being drawn and intrigued by something that seems bigger than and beyond us. It can be intimidating, frustrating, and even cause some anxio...

James 3.1-12 Tyler Willis Though proportionately small, affect and influence wise, it wields massive power in our lives and in the lives of those around us. Our words can bring life or death to those around us; encouragement or discouragement; unity or division.  Pastor Tyler leads us through James 3.1-12, the most challenging and revealing of Scriptures that help us pursue our hope of taming...

John 1.14-34 Jobey McGinty John the Baptist comes on the scene baptizing people and preparing them for the Savior who is coming. But he quickly tells his listeners that the Savior who is coming has an even BETTER baptism: the baptism of the Holy Spirit. Jesus alone is the one who can immerse us and cover us and fill us in the Holy Spirit, and that baptism is what seals us for the day of redemption...

Proverbs 4:20-27 Casey Barnes Taking words of wisdom into our hearts is vital. Words that we bring into our minds, the words we believe and entertain, all shape how we react and act in this life, and words of wisdom are like a wall of defense to protect us from going astray into sin. The wrong types of words we allow in, however, can serve as a breach in the wall. In this sermon, Pastor Casey walk...

Gospel of John - John 1.6-13 Jobey McGinty God's Word tells us that “flesh and blood” aren’t able to reveal to us that Jesus truly is God.  We can’t simply “see” this on our own, but it must be God who reveals it to us.  Why is this the case?  Spiritually, we are dead and blind, and like how a physically dead man can’t see or understand physical things, a spiritually blind man can’t...

Gospel of John - John 1:1-5,14 Jobey McGinty The opening line of any written work (a book, email, opening arguments of a trial) sets the tone for everything that follows. Sunday, we began a journey into the Gospel of John, and John (an eyewitness and close friend of Jesus') begins with an explosion of declaration from all that he witnessed over three years, and what he maintained as a witness for...

Easter 2020 Jobey McGinty How good is good enough? The vast majority of people who believe in some kind of afterlife believe that the way to make it there, you have to be good enough. But how do we know where the line is, what the standard is? Are we just hoping to make the cut? Or is there a way we can truly know if we are "good enough."    The bad news is that God's Word makes it...

Palm Sunday 2020 Jobey McGinty On Palm Sunday we celebrate what we call the Triumphal Entry of Jesus Christ. It's the day that He rode for the last time into Jerusalem, knowing that His mission would soon be accomplished. He came as a humble servant King, the Prince of Peace, making peace with His enemies as He came to sacrifice Himself for them. Because of this, we know we need not have any fear...

A Life as Liturgy - Nehemiah 4.15-20 Jobey McGinty Last week, we looked "defensively" on how to prepare ourselves, our families, and our church, for uncertain times.  But this week, we have to pivot, turn, and run rather quickly in a new direction, as we prepare ourselves how to look "offensively" as we take these circumstances head on for the sake of others around us. We don't want to simply...

Life as Liturgy - Jeremiah 17.5-10 Jobey McGinty In these past couple weeks, everything changed. Many churches, ours included, were not only trying to figure out WHAT to communicate to their congregation, but even HOW to communicate to them. In a time when we are being forced to have new limitations, how can we actually utilize these limitations and turn them into purposeful limitations?  In...

COVID-19 Response - Matthew 6.25-34 Jobey McGinty In this past week, the world came to a screeching halt. Many churches, ours included, were not only trying to figure out WHAT to communicate to their congregation, but even HOW to communicate to them.   In this first sermon streamed live online but to an empty room (save for 9 people), we look at how to trust God when facing uncertain times an...

Life as Liturgy - Hebrews 12.7-13 Jobey McGinty Failure is a part of life. A very big part of life.  Every day we fail, and every day we respond to failure, largely by the habits we have built as responses to failure. We need a good and right theology of failure, so that we can know what to do when it comes to us. God uses all hardships, including our failures, to form us, shape us, transform...

Life as Liturgy - 2 Peter 1:3-15 Jobey McGinty A power drill is only as effective as the electricity it is connected to. But that electricity needs a way to get to the drill! As believers, on our own, we can do nothing, but if we are connected to the power of God, abiding in the vine, we can do all things through Him. But what are these "power cords" that connect us, and how do we work them into o...

Life as Liturgy - 1 Corinthians 3.16-18, 4.6 Jobey McGinty How do we change? How can we be freed from sin that so easily and readily entangles us? God's Word makes it clear that not only has the cross of Christ removed the penalty of sin, but also the dominion of sin. It no longer rules us or enslaves us, even if it feels that way. Because we are a new creation, we can be free from the slavery of...

Life as Liturgy - Romans 12.1, 2 Jobey McGinty We don't become "ourselves" simply by looking within. We are always looking outward in order to shape us. If you had been born with your exact DNA but in 600 A.D. in Asia, you would be a radically different person. How we respond to what we see and behold is what shapes us. We first interpret ("i like that" or "I don't like that"), and then we respond...

Medicine for the Weary Soul - Isaiah 40:26-31 Eric Price What is the medicine for a weary soul?   As Isaiah reminds us to "lift our eyes" he is encouraging a discouraged and worn out people where to look for renewed strength to keep doing the good work of ministry.

Matthew 7:24-27 Tyler Willis In this parable, Jesus gives us a clear picture of what it looks like to build our lives on either rock or sand. Our lives constantly get battered with waves of trials and the foundation on which we build will be revealed. Building on our Rock, the Word of God made flesh, Jesus Christ, is a foundation that will never be shaken. When we build our lives on the redeeming...

The Secret of Contentment - Philippians 4:10-13 Jobey McGinty We often wait for changes in circumstances, places, and emotional states to bring us contentment, but these things will constantly change from day to day...even minute to minute.  We find ourselves restless and discontent, frustrated by our own sin and circumstances we cannot change.  True contentment, however, can only come f...

Psalm 118:13-16 Jobey McGinty On January 11th, one of the children in our church, a five year old girl recently diagnosed with leukemia, unexpectedly went into cardiac arrest three times in the night. Through the week, our church family and many other beyond us both pressed in with faith and prayer, but also struggled with questions. Many of us were pushed to emotional limits we had never been to...

Life as Liturgy - Romans 12.1, 2 Jobey McGinty Every action, decision, thought, and habit is an act of worship. It is either coming from a place of love for God, or love for something else. Our habits, in reality, are "liturgies." A liturgy is a pattern that we act upon in order to cultivate worship. Recognizing something as simple as this changes how we approach our every day life.