Monterey Church Virginia

In this section, the prophet John came preaching the Good News that "The Kingdom of Heaven is near!" It was good news because the King was coming in peace, with love, forgiveness, kindness, and incredible generosity. To prepare the people to receive such generosity, John brought a severe message against greed.

Through this message we notice the patience of the Lord to wait until the right time for his public ministry and how the season began when "God brought the Word" to John the Baptist. We will relate this to our life and times and ask God to give us the ability to perceive our times through the gift of the Holy Spirit.

As we read through the narrative that describes the time right after Christ's birth and an event in his early childhood, we pay special attention to when Jesus and other faith-filled people around him were "moved by the Spirit." The Holy Spirit is the Spirit of God and is how we experience God and the Salvation He has brought us through the Cross. So this message is heavy on real-time relevance fo...

Pastor Bryan senses Our Father in Heaven, who oversees every aspect of our existence, is concerned that we are speaking and acting from a place of ignorance concerning his love, commitment, and plans for each of us. When we speak, act, and make decisions from this place of ignorance we can make life-threatening mistakes (sins), affecting us and those closest to us. So, may He work powerfully and q...

Pastor Bobby Gore highlights the important role of John in "preparing the way" for Christ by showing how John not only fulfills prophecy in this prophectic role, but is also a crucial minister to prepare Israel's heart for the Messiah.

We focus on the person of Christ and what He Alone has achieved for us. Through the Scriptures, we go back to Bethlehem and the time of His birth. We will marvel at how the Father first chose to reveal His Son to lowly, despised shepherds and how he continues to bring great favor to those who receive the least in this World.

We continue in our series from Luke with a theme of "mercy" that brings great joy to those of us who are suffering or concerned about someone else in our lives who is.

As we learn the history of Christ's divine, miraculous conception and how Mary received this gift through faith, we also marvel at how that has set in motion grace through faith in her Son and the saving words He continues to send our way...

Pastor Bobby explains that the importance of the beginning of the  Gospel of John , highlighting how it uniquely focuses on who Jesus is—presenting Him as fully God, eternal, Creator, and the central figure of Salvation. Jesus Christ is not merely a moral teacher or prophet but God in the flesh, whose identity is foundational to Christian belief and cannot be reduced without losing the core of the...

This message will very much be good news for those of us who wonder why God sometimes allows suffering, and even deprivation, in the lives of his faithful followers. We read and teach through  Luke 1:1-25  about Zechariah, Elizabeth and their son John ("the Baptist"). We learn the history, connect the dots with prophecy, pull out some great symbolism, and parallel how God often works in the lives...

As we celebrate our new home at Opal Road, this message focuses on the three themes of "Dedication, Consecration, and Anticipation." First, we reflect on when the Temple was first dedicated by Solomon and allow that to inform our approach to our own prayer of dedication. Then, we will turn to 1 Peter and see how he described our consecration (surrendered and set apart) as God's holy people. Lastly...

This message is the finale of our Babylon: In It, Not of It sermon series in Daniel. Daniel, in one chapter, summarizes what John prophesied in 22 chapters in the Book of Revelation. We learn about the struggle that those who remain faithful to God through faith in Christ will face right up to the end...and then how incredible it will immediately (and eternally) be the moment Jesus enters the scen...

We read and interpret the incredible detailed prophesy from Daniel about the Persian, Greek and Roman Empires—all guaranteed to rise and doomed to fall. We also reflect on the brevity and futility of riches, power and endeavors that are not from Christ and ultimately for the Glory of His Father. May God use this message to convict and convince us to seek first His Kingdom and His purposes for our...

Dr. Crouterfield looks at the Parable of the Talents to illustrate 5 truths about stewardship. Through these truths we examine our own hearts, in relation to God's desires for us and recognize that authentic faith leads to good stewardship with produces fruitfulness.

Daniel 10 tells the story of Daniel's encounter with God through his Angel and God's mighty Word. The emphasis in this message is how awesome and haunting this encounter was. We contrast that with the much more gentle encounters (through the Blood of Christ) that we have with God, by the Holy Spirit, and how that has conditioned us to reject revelation that comes in more bold and fearful forms.

Thanh Buswell, our Women's Ministry Director, recently experienced a life-threatening illness when her liver began to fail. She and her husband Randy drew near to God during this difficult time and were rewarded with incredible revelations about His goodness, sufficiency, power, and how God uses suffering to deepen our faith and bring us even closer to Him.

This message shows us the importance and power of intercessory prayer and how God does not only answer such prayers, He is honored by them and honors us with revelation that exceeds our expectations. We learn from Daniel’s example of powerful prayer, we will gain knowledge of history, and we gain increased insight on what and even when to expect Christ to return…

This chapter gives more detail on the prophecies concerning the coming Medo-Persian and Greek Empires. When we see the detail and find that it was completely fulfilled hundreds of years later, it provides needed confidence in the aspects of Daniel's (and the Apostle John's) prophetic revelations. We can build our life on truth, even when it is hard to hear. And through the leadership of the Holy S...

Join us as we explore where we exist in the timeline of history. God is revealing to Pastor Bryan where we are in time and how to live, survive and even thrive in such a time as this. In Revelation, Jesus provides a promise of blessing for those who take that prophecy to heart and allow it to affect their life and lifestyle. Since this prophecy in Daniel is another, less detailed, prophecy on the...

Following this week's closing on the purchase of property, Pastor Bryan shares some of the major details around the purchase of the property, including our next steps and a timeline for beginning worship in our new space. Importantly, he tells how difficult it became to get the deal closed in the last days and up to the last moment. The message behind these difficulties? God is still at work in an...

In this passage, Jesus speaks directly to his disciples during the Last Supper and through the Holy Spirit, to his disciples today. We talk about why Jesus is worth following and his divinity/deity as the second member of the Trinity.

We continue to look at the history of Daniel's time, so we can understand the prophecy, which begins in the very next chapter, and we also receive application from the message as it is applied to us by the Holy Spirit. Pastor Bryan senses the Lord continuing to reinforce His message to us, which is: "In 2026, He will remove obstruction and obstructors (spiritual and human) and set free the obstruc...

We explore the historical context of this section and the prophetic significance, and also show how this passage illustrates the simple, power-filled way God (by his Holy Spirit) can cause massive obstacles to His Will to vanish instantly. There are so many ways to apply this to our own journey with Him...