Mercy Fellowship Sermons

Guest Pastor Caleb Smith of Saint Church in Lake Stevens shares about how our first priority as a Christian is to love God well. When we love God well, we produce good fruit for the world around us to enjoy and be pointed to Jesus through.

As the journey to Jerusalem continues anticipation and excitement around Jesus grows. Crowds of people are forming around Jesus looking for hope and healing for themselves and their loved ones. In desire for power and significance it can be easy to focus on who and what society values most. In nearly every society if there is an embodiment of the opposite of power and status it is children. Yet in...

Finishing a formal time of teaching and training Jesus and his disciples are on the move from Galilee to Jerusalem and ultimately the cross. While remaining on mission, Jesus engages with questions around the significant personal and family relationship, marriage.

Our hope is in Jesus. He is Alive! So we today we don’t morn, we celebrate Resurrection Sunday!

We are given a gift in the church calendar of Holy Week to resettle. This week we join with Christians around the world celebrating Palm Sunday. This is week of contemplation, remembering AND resting in what has been accomplished. We need hope, empathy, and Leadership. Not a distant King ,but one who shows up to give us hope! God knows we need hope. Hope gives us endurance today that tomorrow will...

Jesus is a good shepherd who pursues his lost sheep and brings them back to the fold. Jesus then shifts to training disciples how we are to engage with our brothers and sisters when we have found them in sin, especially when they have sinned against us. A gospel community will be defined by how they handle those in sin, while those in sin will be defined by how they respond. Hope is always forgive...

Jesus is the King of His Kingdom | After displayed His identity as King, Jesus continues His mission of establishing His kingdom. Kingdoms are defined by their king, and kings determine what their kingdoms will value. Jesus is constantly teaching his followers what it means to be in his kingdom by examples, object lessons, and explicit teaching. He does this to show the great contrast between our...

Jesus and the three disciples have come down from the mountain where Jesus’ glory was revealed. The retreat is over; the revelation has been experienced. It is now time to get back to the mission. What do they encounter? A chaotic crowd has gathered around the disciples including scribes present. It is a chaotic mess, but this mess is where the mission is. 

In Chapter 16 Jesus has been teaching His disciples about His identity as “the Christ, the Son of the Living God” and He will build His church that will be victorious. Yet, He has to go to Jerusalem, suffer at the hands of the religious elite, be killed, AND rise again. Those who follow him will also have to deny themselves, their agenda and live for God in Heaven. Both paths will be painful, but...

Jesus’ ministry and teaching make a significant shift as He reveals more details about the specifics of His mission of salvation for His people. He intentionally focuses on private instruction of His closest disciples than large public sermons. Jesus’ path will include pain and death. Likewise, the path of His disciples includes intentional sacrifice for future glory.

Jesus teaches, heals, performs miracles, revealing Himself to the world. Jesus has been meeting opposition from the Pharisees and Sadducees, specifically about His divine identity. Despite intense and organized opposition, Jesus’ Kingdom continues to advance. While Jesus spends little effort answering demands from those who oppose him, He takes great care in how He instructs those who follow him....

Jesus constantly faces great opposition from multiple fronts. His teaching challenges arbitrary man-made laws. His identity confronts the reality we are not God. Both upset those who want to remain the hero of their own stories and reject Jesus as the Messiah. Jesus rebukes His disingenuous opponents and warns His disciples to avoid their teaching.

Jesus teaches, Jesus heals, Jesus performs miracles, but above all Jesus is the King of Kings and Lord of Lord, in all that He says and does He is revealing Himself to the world. Jesus is also savior of His people; he will consistently point his people to the height of his mission, the cross. Revealing kingdom values, at times, requires redefining terms for the purpose of providing greater clarity...

Today as we close this series out, we are going to simply attempt to answer the questions “who are we?” and “Why do we exist?” “What do we do?” both individually and collectively as a church. We are saved by Jesus' work, changed by Jesus' grace, and living on Jesus' mission. Mercy Fellowship exists to make disciples of Jesus Christ who love God and love people.

What does” Fellowship” mean? Fellowship – Def. association of common interest. Weak. Greek is Koinonia - Rich word. It refers to a participation and communion with God and His people sharing, contributing for a common purpose. A "Fellowship" is a group of people brought together for a purpose. In the New Testament God's people, the church, were defined and described as a partnership for the Gospel...

At Mercy Fellowship we are Saved by Jesus’ Work, Changed by Jesus’ Grace , and Living on Jesus’s Mission. We want to be rooted in our identity & scripture, not reactionary to current events or culture. In the Bible, the concept of "Mercy" is not getting the just consequence we have earned as a result of our sin. It can also be as simple as extending or experiencing "kindness" similar to: Steadfast...

We are not a satisfied people. We know we’re not the best version of ourselves. We want more. We want to be different that we currently are. We are driven by our desires. Our deepest desires will always overcome our efforts of self-discipline. So we need to be Resolved. To be Resolved is to endure being uncomfortable for the purpose of a greater reward.

We experience joy, and enjoyment when we respond to things outside of us. Yet a definition of joy only being a response is bit incomplete because we will just keep pursuing the next thing that brings us pleasure and we’ll always run away from pain as fast as we can. A life lived this way will never truly satisfy. We need to know where Joy comes from. How God has promised Joy. How we can have Joy e...

Peace (Shalom/Eirene) is more than the absence of conflict. It is completeness, wholeness. A state in which there is more than nothing clearly wrong but everything being completely right. We instinctively know the difference, even if naively we like to hope when there is no conflict there is peace. This presence of conflict and lack of peace is not how things have always been or how God intended u...

Advent Week 2 | Love | Guest speaker Carl DeyArmin shares how God's affection for us is proved by His actions towards us.

Asaph answers comparison and cynicism with praise and worship.

There was not much time for the disciples to savor and celebrate the miraculous feeding of the thousands. Mission meets people in the wilderness and then continues to advance even in a storm.

There is only one true hero in the Bible and His name is Jesus. However, there are great examples of heroism and courage which can help equip and encourage us toward greater faithfulness. John the Baptist, a man Jesus calls the greatest in history, is one such figure. His boldness in calling the religious and powerful to repentance ultimately lead to him being martyred. We can learn much about the...

Jesus' message calling people to repent is not being well received by religious and social elites. Following the martyrdom of John the Baptist , many of his followers have joined with Jesus. In an environment of rising hostility, trust and reliance on Jesus grows. Jesus withdraws for solitude yet mission advances as the people are hungry for truth. It is in the wilderness where Jesus feeds His peo...