McLeansville Baptist Church

Everyone has their own opinion and idea about who God is. While there is much truth in the perceptions that man has about God, nothing holds as much weight as what God reveals to us about Himself. Though simple in understanding, there is great power and direction that comes from our understanding of who God has told us He is!

In life, so much seems out of our control. We can feel helpless, overwhelmed, and outmatched - until we turn our attention away from ourselves, and place it back on Christ. What is the key to accessing this elusive confidence, and what exactly does God require in order for us to acquire it

This is the hope of our time! That the generation of the church which is rising up in this era will be the generation that says, “Enough is enough with this wandering in the wilderness of our half obedience to God! We want to go over! We will face the giants in the land! We will believe the promise of God! We will be the ones who bring Christ to the world like this generation of the world has neve...

Do you want to know what childlike humility and faith are? Study Jesus. He was his Father’s Beloved Son. And there was nothing fake about him. When he laughed, when he wept, when he got angry, when he was frustrated, when he was in prayer, or when he was in a fight. He was his Father’s Beloved Son! It is the childlike heart that opens the Kingdom of God to all who truly want to enter it and live w...

The city, and thereby the people, for whom God is in the midst, at the very center, wil be the people who are unmoved, unshaken by the fear, the offense culture, or the cynicism pervading our time. The cynical person is the faithless person, they have lost the capacity to trust; other people and ultimately God. What is cynicism and how do we overcome it by living with God at teh center of our life...

MBC kicks off Missions Conference 2025 with a great message from Brother Benji Dryden, Caribbean Field Director for Baptist International Missions Inc.

Knowing God is our greatest goal in all of life, ministry, and into eternity. The pathway to knowing God is learning to "Be Still," and that not only means letting go of hurry and busyness and opening space for God to fill our schedules, and ultimately our hearts, but it also means overcoming some barriers to knowing God, which all of us must contend with. One of those is the barricade o...

“Be still and know God…” Hurry is a problem. Rushing is not helping. I need more pausing and being present to God. It is so counter-intuitive, that hurry is holding us back. It is true for many of us, I am sure. We see problems, we know the weaknesses of our own souls, and we want to do something about it; we want to rush to solutions, we want to fix the issue, and fix other people. God’s word to...

God tells us, “Where there is no vision the people perish” (Proverbs 29:11). To perish is to loosen, meaning, to decline spiritually, ethically, and morally. Vision is divine guidance; it is to hear from God. Not hearing more about God, but to come to the sort of spiritual life in which we can receive directly from God his direction and truth. There are two kinds of letting go. Proverbs 29:11 is l...

There is no other book in all the world, in all of history which is qualified as “The law of the Lord!” The word of the living God of Heaven and Earth! The same God who made the heavens which declare his glory (v.1) is the same Lord who gave us his law, or his book of precepts and statutes for life. Here, contained in this book are all the instructions of life, here is God’s way, in print, and it...

Paul’s theology of money and generosity (And by the way we need to have one too), is that money is a tool for building the kingdom of God and a weapon for fighting in righteousness for the Kingdom of God. He clearly got this from Jesus who teaches us that generosity is not simply an occasional good thing we do, but as he modeled for us, it is to be practice of our daily discipleship to Christ.

In the biblical account of the visit of the Magi we have a powerful challenge to consider as we come to the close of this Christmas season. These wise men came to find Jesus because they had seen his star, and though they did not have all of the answers, they had faith to go search for him. Yet, the priests and scribes who knew the scrolls and the scriptures, knew where to find them, which ones to...

Here we are, the final Sunday of 2024. This was the question that came to me early this morning, “If I could go back one year to where I was and what I was expecting, closing 2023 and moving into a new year, what would I have expected to be true about me by now?” Whatever my answer to that question would have been a year ago, I am not satisfied with the answer as it is today. Still, this is a ques...

How peaceful does your life seem right now? Or a better question may be, how are you living in the peace which Jesus brought? Peace means prosperity, quietness, rest. Does your life feel prosperous? What about quiet, or at rest? Why is it that for so many of us who have received the gift of Jesus, we fail to regularly live in the full potential of His gift?

What would a Christmas be without everything normally associated with it except the coming of Jesus into our world? Imagine, no lights, no parties, no trees, no candles, no carols, no gifts, nothing of that sort. What if all we had was a presence to God in which the message came, “Christ is born”? I know how difficult it is for us to even imagine such a thing. But that is precisely what Mary had i...

Advent, this season of looking for Christs’ Coming, has been largely lost to the world.  Christmas itself has become far more about consumerism, gift buying, heaping upon ourselves many things we really do not need, all in the name of Christ, which, as I understand it, would certainly qualify as taking the Lord’s name in vain. But the stores start earlier each year it seems, in October we are seei...

There is nothing that would help us more than to learn how to truly live with the Blessed Hope of Christs’ coming as the daily calibration, and as needed recalibration, of our souls! The coming again of Jesus is his final act of redemption, the consummation of the salvation of his people. When he shall come all will be made right, and whole.

In Psalm 71 we find one of those Big Truths about how to live and to fight the good fight, this Psalm is about learning to stay in the Refuge of God! God is our Safe Place, and our only place of true security is in abiding in Him. And David’s prayer is “O God, help me stay in the Refuge, let me continue in your protection, deliverance, and salvation! You are my rock and fortress!”

Everything we need to know, everything we need to do, every help and healing we need to find are right here in this word from Jesus, “Continue in my word!” In our day, we hear the word “continue” and probably we think about moving or going forward, being in motion. But that is not the meaning of Jesus here. The word continue, even in our day, does not first imply moving at all, but rather, just as...

People are tired. Tired people are weak. Weak people are vulnerable. I imagine that there are more than a few of us here this morning who can relate to that. We live in an hour of the age in which chronic fatigue is a battle. When we are weary, worn down, heavy laden, discouraged, and tapped out with life, with ministry, with caring for our family, it is not because God has failed us, it is not be...

Politics, as you know, are essentially nitroglycerin in our day. You remember that? From the old westerns, they would have to handle those bottles of liquid dynamite, so carefully because they could go off with even too much jarring. That is where we live now. It is the culture of our society, not just at election time, but year-round, 24/7, and it only gets worse when it comes time for voting.  W...

What is a good life? When a man or woman comes to the end of their journey, how will they know they have lived a good life? Paul wrote to Timothy, 2 Timothy 4:6-8, “I am now ready to be offered..." How did he know? Fought, Finished, Kept, and now Ready!  And really at the center of it all is Faith on the part of Paul, but Grace on the Part of God. When we look back on Abraham’s life, we can rememb...

What causes us to feel successful and secure in our faith? For too many Christians, it is anything but our love and devotion to Jesus. The path to revival starts with a renewed diligence in the guarding of our hearts against worldliness. Sardis had allowed their name and renown to be the driving force in their "work for God," but in reality, they were nothing more than a gathering of vain, empty r...

Of all the ways to make application and find understanding in this story of Abraham, Sarah, and Isaac, alongside Abraham, Hagar, and Ishmael, the word dysfunctional comes to mind. Before we came to the dysfunction of Abraham’s household, we had already had the dysfunctional homes of Adam, Noah, and Lot, just to name a few. The one thing all of these had in common (besides their trouble with living...

This entire section of scripture (Genesis 21:1-8) is one of the most encouraging, excitable, and reassuring passages you can find. It declares with a mighty voice, “God Keeps His Promises!” In the life and pilgrimage of Abraham and Sarah, this day is a day like no other they had experienced and shared.  As God had promised, “It’s a Boy!”  Twenty-five long years of waiting, sometimes running ahead...