Midwest Bible Church

In the third part of the series, we see Paul continue in instructions for bondservants and masters. Although slavery in Colossae is culturally different from America's attitude and experience towards slavery, we can find applications from Paul's address to bondservants and masters to the professional relationship between employers and employees. Here we can see how we can show the fame of Jesus th...

In Colosassian 3:18-4:1, Paul addresses how Christians ought to live at home. The first relationship that Paul addresses is the husband and wife relationship. In part one of The Preeminence of Christ in the Home, we see how Paul emphasizes the importance of love and loyalty between spouses.

Are you aware that God, the designer, and creator of the universe, has a line of clothing that He designed for Christians to wear? Jesus modeled the wardrobe that Christians are called to wear to dress their best for the glory of God. This wardrobe is not physical, but spiritual, namely the virtues of a Christ-like character. Putting on these virtues is an essential mark of a healthy church. In th...

Apart from receiving Christ by faith as Lord and savior, the bible says that we are dead in sin (Ephesian 2:1). But to be alive in Christ is to be empowered by the Spirit to kill sin in your life so that you might live to the glory of Christ. How do we kill sin in our lives? Sinful desires are overcome through superior delight in the glories of Christ. In this message, we examine how our minds and...

In Colossians 1:24 - 2:5, the apostle Paul transitions from the hymn of Christ’s preeminence into a personal contention of his servant ministry to the churches in Colossae and Laodicea. His goal is clear and is the same for the church today: to nurture a mature faith in all believers. Mature faith comes by rejoicing in suffering, by being equipped with God’s wisdom, and by toiling with God’s power...

As we continue our series examining the vision of our church, we see how “Serving His Family in Love” is a direct result of “Seeking His Face in Worship.” This is so beautifully illustrated in Romans 11:33 through all of chapter 12, where Paul ends a section of his letter with a hymn of worship, and continues on that adoration by giving practical ways the community of believers can serve one anoth...

Our mission statement that we will be unpacking more fully in later messages is: Midwest Bible Church exists to glorify God by making disciples that spread the fame of Jesus. But before we unpack this mission statement, we want you to see that it won’t have much value to you, and neither will you care to fulfill it in 2020 and beyond unless you are pursuing a 20/20 vision of Jesus.

Long hours or lack of sleep can make you tired. This kind of physical weariness can often be remedied by a good night's sleep or extended time of rest. But there is more profound exhaustion that goes beyond the physical. There is an emotional depletion that comes from carrying heavy burdens and experiencing severe crises. When the weariness is deep within, you can go on a vacation, but your soul w...

Jesus commissioned every believer to "go make disciples." However, for Christians to obey our Lord's command to make disciples, we must first do the work of an evangelist and share the good news with a hurting world. In this sermon, we learn about the importance of evangelism in the life of the believer.

Every believer saved by grace is God's master plan for winning the lost and making disciples of all nations. Every believer is to be a worker in God’s harvest field of souls. In this message, we want to learn from the example of Jesus; how He, in a one and one encounter, brought the Samaritan woman to Himself. What moved Jesus to go after one? What moved Jesus ought to be in us and move us too. Ma...

There’s no doubt that when it comes to the ministry of the Holy Spirit today, there are charismatic abuses that we should watch out for. However, if we are going to be the church that God wants us to be, we must focus not on what the Holy Spirit doesn’t do today, but on what He does do and will do in and through the one actively dependent upon Him. We need to rediscover the magnificence and indisp...

We live in a world where we have to watch out for counterfeits. There’s counterfeit money, counterfeit brand name merchandise, counterfeit art, counterfeit jewelry. Counterfeits not only deceive us but can be very dangerous. There’s another more dangerous kind of counterfeit that the scriptures warn us about, and that is Counterfeit Christianity. Counterfeit Christianity is not only detrimental to...

Other than someone getting saved, there’s nothing more beautiful in heaven than the site of a church mobilized and engaged in reaching the lost with the good news. Paul writes, "How beautiful are the feet of those who preach the good news!" (Romans 10:15) It has been rightly said that the greatest joy is knowing Christ, and the second greatest is making Him known. In this message, you will learn a...

In the unfolding story of the early Church, we read in Acts 6:1-7 about a conflict that is affecting the growing community of diverse Jesus followers. As we seek to rediscover the beauty of the Church, how does this story help us as a template in our present-day? We see that through the filling of the Holy Spirit, prayer, and wisdom, the Church in Jerusalem ultimately IMITATED Jesus, INSTITUTED of...

Frequently, the reason people give for not wanting to be part of the church is, "there's too much hypocrisy in the church." Often it's just an excuse. But the church today needs to own up to some of those claims. We began last week to examine the disguise and deception of hypocrisy. We conclude the message by discussing the destruction and deliverance from hypocrisy. Main idea: To display the beau...

In Acts chapter 5, we are going to see how two professing believers, Ananias and Sapphira, who were husband and wife, were influenced by the enemy to mimic in the flesh, what can only be done through the Spirit. They wanted to appear to be something they were not for their own glory and not the glory of Christ. They were spiritual pretenders masquerading as devoted followers of Jesus. Main idea: T...

The church is not simply a place where people go to hear about God. It’s supposed to be a place where they see the beauty of God in the unity of the church in a way that causes people to believe in Jesus. In this message, Pastor Marco unfolds from Acts 4:32-35 three elements to the compelling unity that existed in the early church, which ought to be evident in the church today through the Holy Spi...

In this message, Shawn Procter shares how devotion to Jesus Christ was the heartbeat of the early church. Join us as we Look at the early church in Acts 2, examining what it means for us to be devoted to the teachings of Jesus, fellowship, breaking of bread, and prayers. We pray this message would help you rediscover the beauty of the church.

In this message, Pastor Marco shares how the church is to respond to an increasingly hostile culture. The great need today is not to redefine or reinvent the church, but to rediscover the church. And we are not talking about buildings. We are talking about a body of believers (a called-out assembly) where God’s power and presence dwell so that God’s plan of redemption is spread to all the world. B...

Have you ever felt like you were in "The Twilight Zone"? Have you ever asked yourself what's going on? What's happening in my life? In this message, guest speaker Roy Patterson shares how God is big enough to help us through our "Twilight Zone." Join us as we dig into 2 Kings 7. Our prayer is that this message would minister to your heart.

1. There's a reason for pain and adversity. 2. There's a relationship that provides the answer.

Have you heard the adage, "You can't pick your family?" Many have desired to change their family origin for a reason beyond their control. However, it isn't possible. Likewise, when it comes to the family of God, our choice of belonging is beyond our control. So, who how do we become me apart of the family of God? We look at Ephesians 1:1-14 to find out.

Main Idea: Christians are to cultivate a culture of belonging in the body of Christ.

BIG IDEA: God supplies our needs so that we might meet the needs of others to the glory of Christ.