Maury Hills Church

It's Family Worship Sunday at Maury Hills as Russ is joined by special guest Luke Chapman, a third grader from Maury Hills, for a unique message in our At the Movies series. Using The Lion King as a backdrop, they explore the difference between fear and identity, discovering that our greatest confidence comes from remembering who we are in Christ. Through scenes from the movie and passages fro...

For generations, Christians have debated the rapture, the tribulation, and the millennial kingdom. But what does the book of Revelation actually say? In the final message of our Revelation series, we'll separate popular ideas from biblical teaching, explore the three major views of Revelation 20, and discover why this book wasn't written to fill us with fear about the future, but with hope...

Revelation 4–19 contains some of the most mysterious and debated imagery in all of Scripture, but its central message is clearer than many people realize. In this message, we explore the four major approaches Christians have used to interpret Revelation—the Futurist, Preterist, Historicist, and Idealist views—and discover that faithful believers have disagreed on these chapters for centuries. Rath...

(Revelation 2:1-3-22)

Revelation is often considered the Bible’s most confusing, debated, and misunderstood book. In this opening message of our series, It’s Revelation, Not Revelations, we step back from charts, timelines, and end-times speculation to explore the book’s original purpose and historical context. Who wrote Revelation? Who was it written to? What was happening in the Roman Empire that prompted John to wri...

In this message from Romans 14, Russ explores one of the most important principles for maintaining unity in a diverse church: “In matters of faith, unity; in matters of opinion, liberty; in all things, love.” Paul addresses disagreements among early Christians over issues like food and special days, reminding believers not to judge or despise one another over disputable matters. Drawing connection...

In her sermon From Groanings to Glory , Lydia Brooks draws from Romans 8:18-28 to challenge the tendency many believers have to skip straight to the comfort of verse 28 without sitting in the weight of the verses that precede it. Using a mirror-versus-microscope approach to Scripture, she walks through three movements in the passage: first, that we are bound to our human nature and our pride will...

This week we wrapped up our “Big Picture” series by turning to the final two chapters of the Bible — Revelation 21–22. From Genesis to Revelation, Scripture tells one unified story: creation, fall, rescue, redemption, and restoration. Pastor Russ explores how the Bible ends where it began — with God dwelling among His people in a renewed creation. Along the way, we look at the connection between E...

In week five of "The Big Picture", Ebony traces the birth of the church through Acts 2. The early church was marked by devotion to scripture, shared meals, communal prayer, and generosity, a model the pastor admits she deeply longs for while also acknowledging the tension modern believers feel between that first-century ideal and today's consumer-driven church culture. Drawing on the...

This message continues our series The Big Picture by focusing on Act Four—The Chosen One (Jesus)—where everything in Scripture finds its fulfillment. After tracing the story from the Garden to the Fall to the Chosen People of Israel, we see how the promise was never about elevating one nation but about pointing to one person—Jesus. Looking at the opening of the Gospels and key moments in Luke, we...

In Week 3 of The Big Picture, we step into “The Chosen People” and trace the unfolding story of God’s rescue mission through Abraham and the nation of Israel. Beginning in Genesis 12, we see God make a promise to bless all nations through one family, but what follows is a story filled with faith and failure, hope and dysfunction. From Abraham to Moses to the giving of the Law, God reveals His hear...

The Big Picture: Understanding God’s Story Week Two This week, we explore the Fall in Genesis 3 and why it’s one of the most important chapters in the entire Bible. What began as a perfect world filled with goodness, peace, and relationship is disrupted by deception, sin, and rebellion. This is where the story shifts—from a “report” to a real story—because conflict enters the picture. In this mess...

In Week 2 of our series The Big Picture, we explore the Fall in Genesis 3 and why it’s one of the most important chapters in the entire Bible. What began as a perfect world filled with goodness, peace, and relationship is disrupted by deception, sin, and rebellion. This is where the story shifts—from a “report” to a real story—because conflict enters the picture. In this message, we unpack how the...

Cultural Crossroads: Four Trends Shaping our World : Week Four On Easter Sunday, we celebrate the resurrection of Jesus—but what does that mean for our lives right now? In a culture marked by loneliness, division, and isolation, this message explores one of the most pressing needs of our time: community. Drawing from Luke 24 and Acts 2, we see that Jesus didn’t just rise to give us hope for the fu...

Cultural Crossroads: Four Trends Shaping our World : Week Three Palm Sunday wasn’t just a spiritual moment—it was deeply political. In this message, we explore how the crowd misunderstood Jesus by attaching Him to their own political hopes, expecting a conquering king instead of a suffering Savior. But Jesus makes it clear: His kingdom is not of this world. So what does that mean for us today in s...

Cultural Crossroads: Four Trends Shaping our World - Week 2 In a culture quick to label opponents as enemies, Jesus offers a better way. In this message from Matthew 5:43–48, we explore how the demonization of others fuels division—and how Christ calls us to something higher: love, prayer, and maturity in how we treat those we disagree with. Through biblical teaching and a real-life local story, t...

Cultural Crossroads: Four Trends Shaping our World - Week 1 The Rise of Fear (John 16:33, Luke 12)

Cultural Crossroads: Four Trends Shaping our World - Intro Why does it feel like we’re more divided than ever—even within the church? In this opening message of our March series, we step back from the hot-button cultural issues that often spark conflict and ask a deeper question: Why are we losing the ability to talk about them? Instead of debating the issues themselves, we explore the underlying...

Discovering the God Jesus Knows Week 8 In this sermon, Ebony explores the powerful truth that believers are no longer defined as “sinners,” but as saints being transformed by the Holy Spirit. Through the story of Carey’s struggle with repeated sin and the dramatic conversion of Paul, she shows how many Christians get stuck trying to change through willpower instead of true spiritual transformation...

Discovering the God Jesus Knows Week 7 In this message from our Discovering the God Jesus Knows series, we confront the subtle but powerful idea that God is distant, uninvolved, or indifferent. While deism teaches that God created the world and stepped back, Scripture tells a very different story. From “Immanuel — God with us” in Matthew 1 to Jesus’ promise of the Holy Spirit in John 16, the Bible...

Discovering the God Jesus Knows Week 5 God is love. God is grace. But does that mean God doesn’t care how we live? In this message from Romans 6, we wrestle with a cultural moment where it’s popular to talk about Jesus—but not always to be changed by Jesus. Looking at everything from Super Bowl halftime shows to Paul’s words about grace, we confront a false narrative that says obedience doesn’t ma...

Discovering the God Jesus Knows Week 5 In this message, Russ explores one of the most familiar yet most misunderstood attributes of God: God is love. Scripture says it plainly—but many of us still live with a quiet belief that God’s love is conditional, dependent on our performance or our ability to “get it right.” Drawing from 1 John 4, Romans 8, Philippians 3, and real-life stories, we look at h...

Discovering the God Jesus Knows Week 4 In this message from Maury Hills Church, we continue the series Discovering the God Jesus Knows by challenging the deeply ingrained belief that God’s love, grace, and favor must be earned. Drawing from Jesus’ parable of the workers in the vineyard (Matthew 20) and the familiar story of the prodigal son, this sermon reveals a God whose generosity is not transa...

Discovering the God Jesus Knows Week 3 In this message, we explore what it means to truly trust God—and why trust may be one of the hardest gifts many of us have to offer. Using marriage vows, broken trust in religious leaders, and Jesus’ own prayer life as a backdrop, this sermon acknowledges the very real ways faith and trust can be damaged by people and institutions, while inviting us not to pr...

Discovering the God Jesus Knows Week 2 Spiritual Practice: Silence