Mineral Springs Church of Christ Podcast

Pilate’s question still lands like a punch: “What shall I do with your king?” When the crowd answers, “We have no king but Caesar,” it exposes how easy it is to trade Jesus for whatever feels safer, louder, or more familiar. We’re not willing to leave that tension untouched. We’re planting a flag with the sermon title “He’s My King,” and we’re asking what it really means to confess Jesus Christ as...

You can go a long time without a warning light and still be one mile away from a breakdown. That’s the frame we use to talk about spiritual maintenance through Romans 12:1–2, where Paul’s call to a “living sacrifice” is not guilt-driven hustle but a clear-headed response to mercy. We read the text, slow down on the “therefore,” and trace how Romans builds the case that every one of us stands guilt...

What if the moment you call betrayal is also the moment God calls assignment? We start with a plan to preach from Romans, then we pivot as the room and our hearts pull us into Genesis 45. Joseph finally stands face to face with the brothers who sold him, and instead of revenge he offers a sentence that can change how you interpret your whole life: “You sold me, but God sent me.”  We walk through J...

The price tag on faith is not always money. Sometimes it’s your weekend plans, your comfort, your reputation, or the moment you realize you’d rather stay quiet than be seen as different. We start with a simple question, “Is the cost too high?”, using everyday choices to expose what we treat like necessities and what we push aside, even when it’s good for us. From there, we turn to Scripture and th...

If you’ve ever felt like you “should” be more consistent but can’t seem to stick with it, this message hits that exact tension. We start with Romans 8:31, “If God is for us, who can be against us?”, and connect it to a very normal struggle for Christians: the battle of discipline. Not discipline as shame, but as a steady, life-shaping way to follow Jesus when your energy dips, your habits drift, o...

A flat tire in a busy downtown can feel like the start of a terrible day, but zoom out and it might be the safest possible place for trouble to happen. We start there, because that’s how real life works: our first reaction is usually frustration, fear, and worst-case thinking. Then we slow down, reflect, and realize how often God’s care shows up through timing, help, and small details that do not...

You can be cracked and still carry something priceless. We open 2 Corinthians 4 with Paul’s raw list of pressures and surprises, then we ask the question most people avoid: what if the pain you survived is part of your ministry, not proof you’re disqualified? Paul doesn’t defend himself with awards or status. He points to mercy, endurance, and a faith that stays standing when life tries to take hi...

You can be faithful and still feel flattened by life. We start with Paul’s words in 2 Corinthians 4 and a simple, stubborn claim that lands like a lifeline: you may be bruised, but you are still breathing. That is not denial, and it is not hype. It is a grounded kind of hope for anyone carrying grief, pressure, conflict, or exhaustion and wondering how much longer they can hold on. We walk through...

God says He’s a Father and then reaches for a mother’s arms to explain what He’s like. That’s not a throwaway metaphor, it’s a deliberate invitation to anyone who’s tired of hustle religion and hungry for real comfort. We walk through Isaiah 66:1-14 and slow down long enough to hear what God prizes, who He looks toward, and why His presence can’t be reduced to a building, a routine, or a polished...

You can be free from Egypt and still think like a slave. That’s the tension we sit in as we preach from Deuteronomy 8 and name the uncomfortable truth: Canaan is not for slaves. God calls His people toward a good land, but the wilderness reveals what’s still clinging to us and what would sabotage us if we carried it forward. We walk through how God uses hunger, waiting and uncertainty as a testing...

“You have stayed here long enough” is not just a line from Deuteronomy 1:6-8. It is the moment a stalled life gets named. We lean into Moses’ message to Israel and ask the question most of us avoid: what if the reason we haven’t grown is not lack of resources, but love of comfort? We talk about why Deuteronomy sounds like a repeat, how a new generation can carry the same name but a different futur...

You can miss your future by staring at your past. We open with Psalm 137’s heartbreaking scene by the rivers of Babylon, where God’s people grieve what they lost and feel like they have no song left. Then we pivot to Jeremiah 29, where God does something almost shocking: He tells exiles to build houses, plant gardens, marry, multiply, and seek the welfare of the very city they didn’t choose.  We c...

If you’ve ever thought, “I can’t take one more thing,” this one meets you right there. We’re preaching straight from 2 Timothy 3:12–17, where Paul refuses to sell a soft, trouble-free faith. He says godly living comes with pressure, and the world can slide from bad to worse. So the real question isn’t whether storms will come, it’s what you’ll stand on when they do. We talk about the everyday stru...

A funeral procession is forming, the tears are real, and Jesus is stumbling under the weight of the cross, yet he turns to the mourners and says something shocking: stop weeping. That one command reframes Good Friday with Sunday certainty, and it becomes the heartbeat of our message, “This Is Not A Funeral.”  We walk through Luke 23 and Luke 24 as a historical account rooted in eyewitness testimon...

Palm Sunday sounds like victory, but we don’t let the noise distract us from what’s around the corner. We walk straight into Isaiah 53 and let the text do what it always does when you listen closely: it slows you down. This is Jesus as the Suffering Servant, not the polished hero people expect. No stately form. No crowd-approved image. A rejected King who still chooses the cross. We talk about why...

A booming revival is happening and then God says, “Leave.” That’s the tension at the center of Acts 8, and it’s where Robert Peek takes us with a direct, practical message about evangelism, obedience, and what it means to talk to real people about Jesus Christ. We walk through Philip’s sudden detour from public success to a “deserted place,” where he’s led to one traveler: the Ethiopian eunuch, an...

A demon speaks true words, a court turns violent, and two innocent men end up bleeding in stocks. That is the setup in Acts 16, but the real turning point comes at midnight when Paul and Silas do the one thing most of us would struggle to do in a dark cell: they pray and sing praise. We walk through the Macedonian vision that redirects Paul to Philippi, the exploitation of the fortune-telling slav...

What if worship felt less like a script and more like a surge of honest praise? We open Psalm 96 and rediscover why singing is not filler between sermons but a vital way we bring our whole selves—gratitude, grief, need, and hope—before the living God. From the opening hymn to the final charge, we press into the difference between mouthing words and blessing God’s name with spirit and understanding...

What if the real battle isn’t your crisis, but your confidence in God inside it? We open Mark 9 at ground level—right where a father’s last hope collides with nine disciples who can’t help and a crowd that mistakes deliverance for disaster. From the mountaintop glow to the valley’s grit, we follow a story that names the ache many of us carry: I believe; help my unbelief. We share the father’s long...

Fear has a way of exposing the limits of our best plans. When Jacob hears Esau is coming with four hundred men, the master strategist does what many of us do: he prays with sincerity, then quietly rebuilds his safety nets. Gifts in waves, divided families, contingency on contingency. But the story turns when God finds him alone at night and refuses to let him keep winning on his own terms. What fo...

What does courage look like when the stakes are life and death—and there’s no promise of a happy ending? We walk through Daniel 3 and the story of three exiles who refused to bow, even with a furnace roaring in front of them. Their reply to the king—“Our God is able to deliver us… but if not”—becomes a blueprint for a resilient faith that doesn’t rise and fall with outcomes. We start with identity...

What if the strangest book in your Bible holds the key to a fearless tomorrow? We walk from Leviticus to the cross and show how atonement—God’s costly covering—turns guilt into courage and roots audacious faith in something stronger than mood or momentum. By tracing the sacrificial system, we unpack why placing a hand on a substitute, confessing honestly, and watching the priest make atonement tau...

Doors can be crowded, roofs can be fragile, and faith can look reckless right up until the moment it works. We walk through Mark 2 and the paralytic’s friends who refused to turn back, showing how rooms fill when Christ and his word are the center—not the music, not the hype, not the extras. That hunger for Scripture is what sustains us when life lands its hardest hits, and it’s the difference bet...

Ever stood at a dead end with pressure closing in and no good options left? We open Exodus 14 and sit with Israel at the shoreline—mountains boxing them in, Pharaoh behind them, and the Red Sea ahead—then listen for what God actually says next. The twist surprises many of us: after Moses declares “stand still,” God responds, “Why are you crying to me? Go forward.” That single command reframes fear...

What if a single aim could simplify your decisions, steady your emotions, and align your plans for the year ahead? We sit with Colossians 3 and the charge to “seek the things above,” tracing how identity in Christ—buried with him in baptism and raised to new life—reshapes every moment of our days. Not as a retreat from earthly responsibilities, but as a new center that orders them: one life, one c...