MAPS Global Sermons

Right now, we are standing on the shores of history watching the tidal waves of great glory, great harvest, and great trouble coming to the earth. Jesus' teaching in John 13-17, at the last supper, was to prepare His disciples to walk in mature joy, supernatural peace, and enduring love in their most troubling hour. Just as Jesus used this to prepare the disciples for the three days of darkness an...

Right now, we are standing on the shores of history watching the tidal waves of great glory, great harvest, and great trouble coming to the earth. Jesus' teaching in John 13-17, at the last supper, was to prepare His disciples to walk in mature joy, supernatural peace, and enduring love in their most troubling hour. Just as Jesus used this to prepare the disciples for the three days of darkness an...

R.A. Martinez opens the story of the anointing of Jesus at Bethany in Mark 14. Mary of Bethany, who was the one who to stay at Jesus' feet, who chose the one necessary thing above all others, who poured everything she had inherited, earned, and desired upon Jesus' head, hands and feet. This extravagant offering of worship is what will fill the nations before the return of Jesus. God is raising up...

Right now, we are standing on the shores of history watching the tidal waves of great glory, great harvest, and great trouble coming to the earth. Jesus' teaching in John 13-17, at the last supper, was to prepare His disciples to walk in mature joy, supernatural peace, and enduring love in their most troubling hour. Just as Jesus used this to prepare the disciples for the three days of darkness an...

Right now, we are standing on the shores of history watching the tidal waves of great glory, great harvest, and great trouble coming to the earth. Jesus' teaching in John 13-17, at the last supper, was to prepare His disciples to walk in mature joy, supernatural peace, and enduring love in their most troubling hour. Just as Jesus used this to prepare the disciples for the three days of darkness an...

The earth was designed to flourish under the leadership of a human king in agreement with the uncreated God. When the first Adam gave away dominion of the earth to the Serpent in the Garden, God promised a King who would come to reclaim and restore it. On the day of Pentecost, Peter stood up and proclaimed to the residents of Jerusalem that Jesus was raised from the dead to sit on David's throne a...

The resolve that propelled Jesus into Jerusalem and sustained Him through Passion Week is the same resolve that will propel Jesus into Jerusalem at His second coming.

Right now, we are standing on the shores of history watching the tidal waves of great glory, great harvest, and great trouble coming to the earth. Jesus' teaching in John 13-17, at the last supper, was to prepare His disciples to walk in mature joy, supernatural peace, and enduring love in their most troubling hour. Just as Jesus used this to prepare the disciples for the three days of darkness an...

Right now, we are standing on the shores of history watching the tidal waves of great glory, great harvest, and great trouble coming to the earth. Jesus' teaching in John 13-17, at the last supper, was to prepare His disciples to walk in mature joy, supernatural peace, and enduring love in their most troubling hour. Just as Jesus used this to prepare the disciples for the three days of darkness an...

Right now, we are standing on the shores of history watching the tidal waves of great glory, great harvest, and great trouble coming to the earth. Jesus' teaching in John 13-17, at the last supper, was to prepare His disciples to walk in mature joy, supernatural peace, and enduring love in their most troubling hour. Just as Jesus used this to prepare the disciples for the three days of darkness an...

David's life vision is stated in Psalm 27:4. He lived from this "One Thing" and used his resources to build a context where an entire nation could dwell, gaze, and inquire with him. This context became the model for the New Testament Church. David's life is a picture of what God wants to release by the Spirit on leaders and the end-time church. We want to be a people who are present with God, preo...

In Matthew 24, Jesus identifies three global trends that will culminate in the generation of the Lord's return, dynamically affecting the church and the missions movement. Wars, deception, and persecution are going to increase in frequency and intensity as we approach the return of Jesus. He is preparing His people now to walk through that hour with free hearts, alive in love, and anointed with po...

Right now, we are standing on the shores of history watching the tidal waves of great glory, great harvest, and great trouble coming to the earth. Jesus' teaching in John 13-17, at the last supper, was to prepare His disciples to walk in mature joy, supernatural peace, and enduring love in their most troubling hour. Just as Jesus used this to prepare the disciples for the three days of darkness an...

Right now, we are standing on the shores of history watching the tidal waves of great glory, great harvest, and great trouble coming to the earth. Jesus' teaching in John 13-17, at the last supper, was to prepare His disciples to walk in mature joy, supernatural peace, and enduring love in their most troubling hour. Just as Jesus used this to prepare the disciples for the three days of darkness an...

Jesus' commitment to justice is what led Him to the cross. To restore all things, He must first redeem all things. The cross was the beginning of a work that will end in Jerusalem with all things made new. The response to the "new things" that God is releasing is new songs from His people in the nations. These prophetic songs will provoke Jesus to action. These songs are the sound of His inheritan...

God is building a spiritual family where hundreds can come in and go out from this place to the nations. Everyone has a part to play in order to cultivate a life of ministry to the Lord together.

God builds His house by raising up spiritual family. The house of the Lord is not a building, it is a people who are built together as a  resting place  for God. Spiritual families or "tribes" are within the global family, which is the church of Jesus. In this Sunday sermon, R.A. Martinez gives five defining characteristics for what it means to be and belong to a family.

Our essential WHY, the first and preeminent reason we (MAPS Global) exist is this: JESUS IS WORTHY. In fact, it is the fuel and the finish line of all of prayer and missions. We must diligently guard ourselves from religious rhetoric. The worth of Jesus is not a part of our branding. It's not a Christian cliche to us, but it can become that if we don't revisit it often and examine it. Listen as Ch...

In the next few months, MAPS Global is going to go through the most significant transition in our history as we prepare to move the "ark of His presence" up to its permanent location. In addition, there are many in Richmond who are perceiving a prophetic moment that is upon us as a city. Because of the significance of this moment, we feel led to begin this process with a moment of fasting, prayer,...

We are caught up in a story that is millennia in the making. What was promised in the Garden was revealed in Bethlehem. What started in a manger will finish on a throne in Jerusalem. Even so, Maranatha, come Lord Jesus.  

At the center of Paul's missiology was this promise of incense in every place. Paul was burning with a vision for altars of worship and prayer in every place thus it fueled an ambition to preach the gospel wherever Christ had not yet been named. The goal of all preaching is worship, and worship and prayer is the fuel of all missions.  

We are caught up in a story that is millennia in the making. What was promised in the Garden was revealed in Bethlehem. What started in a manger will finish on a throne in Jerusalem. Even so, Maranatha, come Lord Jesus.  

Right now, we are standing on the shores of history watching the tidal waves of great glory, great harvest, and great trouble coming to the earth. Jesus' teaching in John 13-17, at the last supper, was to prepare His disciples to walk in mature joy, supernatural peace, and enduring love in their most troubling hour. Just as Jesus used this to prepare the disciples for the three days of darkness an...

Right now, we are standing on the shores of history watching the tidal waves of great glory, great harvest, and great trouble coming to the earth. Jesus' teaching in John 13-17, at the last supper, was to prepare His disciples to walk in mature joy, supernatural peace, and enduring love in their most troubling hour. Just as Jesus used this to prepare the disciples for the three days of darkness an...

What will cause a young man or woman to give themselves radically for the gospel over decades? What will take them to the heights and depths, counting it all as loss, picking up their cross and embracing personal discomfort for the sake of the name of Jesus? Only love produces the laborers that are needed in this generation. Jesus is leading the church to a place where she comes up from challenges...