Mitchell Berean Church - Podcast

This weekend Pastor Scott Mathis will be sharing the message at Mitchell Berean. As we learned last weekend our lives are meant to be lived connected to Jesus. He is the vine and we are the branches. We must be connected to Him to produce anything good in this life. The truth is that everyone has only one life to live and how we live it in relation to God will dictate the outcome of our lives. The...

This weekend we continue in our series called "UNDERSTANDING JESUS". This series leads us up to Easter when we will celebrate the Resurrection of our savior Jesus. In order to understand Jesus we are exploring several chapters in the Gospel of John. This weekend we will study chapter 15 of John's gospel. In this chapter John reveals Jesus teaching regarding how the life He offers is to be lived. H...

Up until this point in the book of John, the disciples had been learning to depend on Jesus. Jesus Himself was discipling them and walking every day with them. Wouldn’t that be amazing! But what if I told you we have the same opportunity available to us today to have God personally disciple and walk daily with us? You see, Jesus wasn’t going to stay physically with the disciples for very much long...

What does it mean that Jesus is “The Way?” His disciples were with Him for three years and still missed His identity and purpose. Come join us as we break down John 14 and evaluate the purpose and mission of Christ. For Scripture, notes, upcoming events, & more: http://bible.com/events/49027568

This week we conclude our series in the book of James called "FAITH THAT'S NOT DEAD". We have been focused on ensuring our faith is alive and active. James reminds us that saving faith is an active faith. The Apostle argues that if your faith is going to save you it should be alive and active. That is why we believe that saving faith is alive, not dead. This week we conclude with a focus on prayer...

This weekend we continue in our series through the book of James called FAITH THAT’S NOT DEAD. As we work our way through this powerful book of the Bible we are learning how to make sure we have a living faith. Our faith must be active and alive if we are to have the power we need to navigate the world we live in. It is vital today that followers of Jesus do not fade into the background but instea...

This weekend we continue in our series called "FAITH THAT'S NOT DEAD". In this series we are working our way through the book of James. Jesus' half brother was a pastor of the church in Jerusalem working with the Jewish Christians in the new movement of Jesus. This week we move into chapter 4 where James addresses the hearts of the people regarding their loyalties and affections. He challenges the...

This weekend we continue in our series called "FAITH THAT ISN'T DEAD". This series is a study in the book of James. We have worked our way to chapter 3 of James which focuses on leadership in the church. This week the topic centers around the essential nature of wisdom over just knowledge. Knowledge gives us power and in the world, will help us advance to leadership positions. In the church leader...

If you’re anything like me, your mouth can quickly get you into trouble! So often our struggles are the direct result of a fiery tongue that is not being tamed. We read passages like James 3:1-12 and often view it from the typical lens of “What do I need to stop doing?” While there is some need for that, the real call here is to control the tongue not bite it! Join us this weekend to dive deeper i...

This weekend we continue in our series called "JAMES - Faith That Isn't Dead". Our lesson this week teaches us that Living Faith Works. We are Saved by Grace through Faith and we are to work out our salvation with fear and trembling. Are these truths from the Bible contradictory? Join us this weekend when we dig into the realities of Saving Faith. Saving Faith is alive and growing. Living Faith Wo...

This weekend we continue our series called "FAITH THAT'S NOT DEAD". We are working our way through James' epistle. Though James was probably the top leader of the church in Jerusalem, his letter was not written to a specific church. This epistle is likely the first New Testament book written that we have in our Bible's. Written by the half brother of Jesus it has a strong tone and is filled with "...

This weekend we continue in our series called "FAITH THAT'S NOT DEAD". This series is from the book of James written by Jesus' half brother who was an Apostle in the early church. Perhaps the oldest New Testament book we have, the focus is on how to make sure you have a living active faith. James will argue, faith that is not being put into practice is dead and useless. Written with a strong tone,...

Happy New Years! Join us as we start in our series in James. For Scripture, notes, upcoming events, & more: http://bible.com/events/48996767

This weekend our Christmas series called THE GIFT culminates in our Christmas Eve services. Our grand finale for this series is Christmas Eve when we celebrate the coming of Jesus. He came in humility and with little recognition. The world was unaware that God himself was coming to live among us on that quiet night in Bethlehem. Born of a virgin by the power of the Holy Spirit. Jesus, the gift, ca...

This weekend we continue our journey towards Christmas as we celebrate the greatest gift ever given to the world. Our Christmas series is called The Gift and in it we are studying the gospel of John chapter 1. We have learned that the gift given to us, is God in the flesh. That gift came to offer us new birth so that our relationship with God could be restored. The gift also came full of gracious...

This weekend we continue in our march toward Christmas. We are studying through the first chapter of John's gospel in a series called "THE GIFT". Now we all know It is better to give than receive, that is unless you are receiving a gift that God gives. John the Apostle teaches us that God loved us so much that He gave himself to us. He did this so that we could be transformed into the people God c...

This weekend our Christmas series continues in John's gospel, the fist chapter. The evangelist further defines and reveals the identity and ministry of Jesus. We will discover this weekend that Jesus came to offer entrance into God's family through spiritual rebirth. This offer of spiritual rebirth is profound and deep. Our need is that God would renew us and give us new life. Our identity is root...

This weekend we start our Christmas series called The GIFT. We will be studying the first chapter of John’s gospel. This time of year, we generally beginning thinking about gift giving and receiving. Our culture has built into Christmas the tradition of giving and receiving gifts. What is your strongest memory of receiving a gift? What is the most important gift you’ve ever given? Perhaps to gain...

Come join us for a study of Biblical thankfulness in 1 Thessalonians Chapter 5. We are entering a season where we tend to be reminded to be thankful, but how does Jesus actually give us the power to be thankful in the midst of a broken and chaotic world? Come find out! For Scripture, notes, upcoming events, & more: http://bible.com/events/48975721

This weekend is the final message in our Fall Campaign which is called MISSION CRITICAL. We look at the third step of our new mission statement. The final part of the third step looks at our mission field. As a Church we want to send missionaries into the mission field. In Acts we see that the mission field covers the whole world. We will examine the four arenas of the mission field as outlined in...

This weekend we continue in our fall campaign called MISSION CRITICAL. In this weekend's message we will learn about the next step in our new mission statement. The third step in our new mission statement is sharing the gospel. As a group of Disciples who are becoming Disciplemakers we recognize that we have a message to share. We have a hope to carry on to the world around us. That hope is contai...

This weekend we continue in our Fall Campaign called MISSION CRITICAL. We continue to work through our new mission statement which is; We are a Church on mission to raise up Disciplemakers who share the gospel where we live, work, and play. This week we focus on the second step which involves Discipleship. The question we will answer this weekend is, what is a Disciplemaker. We recognize that Jesu...

In this week's sermon we will see how Jesus defines following Him, or being His disciple, throughout the Gospels. There can be so many definitions given for discipleship, however when we look at the Word’s of Christ it becomes fairly simple. Just because it is simple does not mean that it is easy! Are you following Christ, are you a disciple according to His definition? Jesus lays out what it will...

This weekend we continue in our series called, MISSION CRITICAL. We continue to unpack our new mission statement which is; We are a church on mission to raise up disciple-makers who share the gospel where we live, work, and play. This week we look at another passage that unpacks a little more of the mission we are on. In 2 Corinthians 5 the apostle Paul talks about the posture he takes in engaging...

This weekend is week two of our Fall Campaign called MISSION CRITICAL. We have unveiled our new mission statement that reflects where God is leading MBC in this season of ministry. The new statement has three steps and this week we will look at the first step which is that we are a Church on Mission. The obvious first question is, if we are on a mission, what is the mission? In order to discover t...