Mountain Christian Church | Sermons

Is it even possible to love your enemies? To pray for those who dislike, insult, or oppress you? When Jesus called his followers to be "perfect, even as your Father in heaven is perfect," he wasn't giving us an impossible standard to follow. He was announcing that the Kingdom of Heaven has arrived radically and unexpectedly. And this is the blueprint that He will use to fix the problems in our wor...

What do you do when you're faced with a sudden outburst of anger, lust, or resentment? Do you respond how you want to? In this video, we're getting to the root of anger, how resentment keeps us from God’s best, and where to run when lust comes lurking.

Do you know what it takes to live a great life? Jesus outlines how to have a great life, and it's probably not what you'd think... In the most ignored teaching of Jesus in the Bible (The Sermon on the Mount), Jesus teaches us how to live a life of purpose, meaning, joy and satisfaction. So, if Jesus was serious in this teaching, then some things need to change. What if WE got serious about taking...

"Pain led me to my greatness. And that greatness led me to a self-destructive downfall" - Darryl Strawberry Darryl Strawberry is an MLB legend. With four World Series titles, Darryl dazzled many with the dynamics of his game. Though Darryl was extremely successful in his career, his personal life was plagued with addictions, abuse, divorces, cancer, jail time, and other issues. Darryl finally foun...

There’s so much talk about mental and physical health these days. But how do you keep your SOUL healthy? Is that even a thing? How is it with your soul? It’s easy to drift spiritually. Our hearts get pulled, our days get filled, and we find ourselves empty and far from God. With so much stress and life-draining junk going on all around us, we need a soul replenishment strategy that works. The good...

Lectio Divina is an ancient form of prayer, where we use Bible reading to intentionally listen to God. Through reading a small portion of scripture several times and answering a different question each time, God can speak to us, guide us, reveal his will to us through His Word.

The Examen practice is a simple set of questions that help us discover how God is present in our entire life. Practicing the Examen involves taking a few minutes of quiet at the end of your day to reflect on the day, and then invite Jesus to guide those self reflections. As we practice this self-evaluation before God- we will find ourselves becoming people who live more fully with God in our daily...

The Examen practice is a simple set of questions that help us discover how God is present in our entire life. Practicing the Examen involves taking a few minutes of quiet at the end of your day to reflect on the day, and then invite Jesus to guide those self reflections. As we practice this self-evaluation before God- we will find ourselves becoming people who live more fully with God in our daily...

Growing in life starts with examining the life you’re living. Our spiritual lives are no different. God’s often placed signs and experiences in our life to direct us towards his will for our best life. All we have to do is slow down and listen. In this message, we will dive into the practice of the Examen. Examining your life daily through this practice may be your next step towards a healthy, thr...

You don't choose the same medicine for every ailment, yet that's pretty much what most Christians do when it comes to our spiritual health. We can feel sort of stuck in a single way that we've selected on how to stay alive to God. But is that the only way?  After awhile certain things we choose don't meet our needs any longer. The very thing that originally was supposed to help you connect and sta...

No matter how far we may be from God we can experience revival, new life, and a whole new way of going at life. We can come into a relationship with Jesus for the first time ever and come alive to Him and we can come back and reconnect with Him. When you are alive to God everything in your life gets better.  The way we stay alive to God is staying connected to Jesus. No matter where you are with J...

Life can be hard sometimes. Jesus taught that in this world you will have trouble. The past couple of years have given us a lot to work through. When it comes to disappointment and difficult times in life, we typically rely on three coping strategies: despair, resignation, and HOPE. Hope is when you still allow yourself to want and long. And even though you don’t have it in your hands and can’t qu...

There are a lot of places you may not be in your life if it wasn’t for someone who invited you to something. Invitation is a way of saying: I see you. I care about you. I want to include you. Today, we’re calling everyone to pray for that someone in your life you needs hope. Because power is unleashed when you pray and your prayers are held before God. Prayer changes lives, moves heaven and breaks...

The whole point of hope isn’t just to have it but to share it. Think about it. There are people in your life who need HOPE that you care about deeply and who are far from God. And God, well, he cares about them so much more. That’s the burning desire of Jesus. He’s calling on you to bring hope to someone. When He says “Go and make disciples.” This is what He means. To let your life be used by God....

Jesus Hope. Jesus and his hope is something you can’t keep to yourself. Everywhere you go you can introduce that unshakeable hope in Jesus. Think about it: Are you the kind of person who shares Jesus hope?   One way you can share the hope of Jesus is by praying for others. Some people feel intimidated or afraid to pray, or maybe feel like you don’t know how. Prayer is a conversation between you an...

We’re in a very strange and interesting time in history. We’ve all been through so much disappointment and life seems to always be throwing something at us. But there is a problem that so many people in our society are having… we’re trying to pin our hope on something that can’t bear the weight of it. Life is full of disappointment and the things that we put our hope in always have a way of lettin...

What soundtrack are you playing in your mind? What’s filling our minds? As a way of getting at that, we want to use some of the power themes that come through the familiar Christmas carols.

What soundtrack are you playing in your mind? What’s filling our minds? As a way of getting at that, we want to use some of the power themes that come through the familiar Christmas carols.

What we all actually want for Christmas and in our lives the same thing: to be happy, yes, but we want more than that—a deep abiding JOY. Everyone wants this because it’s wired into us out of our creator… out of His JOY. We have JOY planted inside of us. Will you trust God to be the source of your joy this Christmas? 

God had a plan to fulfill the prophecy of where Jesus would be born.

"The First Noel". What is this song doing? What is it communicating? If you were going to drop the stylus into the groove of this record, where is it going to take you? How is it going to move you? Why does it belong on your Christmas Playlist?

Bethlehem was little. It was an insignificant little town. It was small. 5 miles north of Bethlehem is Jerusalem. God could have used the popular and well-known city of Jerusalem to bring Jesus to earth for the first time, but instead God chose the small, insignificant town of Bethlehem...

We all want to be less stressed and more blessed. In this final message in The Elephant in the Room Series, let's make a declaration together: To take God at His word and commit to understand, then attain and put into practice the Biblical principles when it comes to our finances. We all have a decision to make when it comes to our finances. Are you going to trust God with your money?

Maybe we should be rethinking about the principles that we live by. What we all need to decide is if we’re going to latch onto the principles that are in God’s word about money or not. We’ve already decided that by how we live. These Biblical principles about money are true, they work and they are wise. When you have principles that you trust, that you actually believe, then you live by them when...

We can’t ignore the elephant in the room when our finances get out of control. The resulting stress impacts every other area of life, stealing our joy, snatching our peace, and locking us into a prison that makes us believe there’s no way out. It’s hard enough to talk about money when things are going well, but regret and anxiety over financial mistakes makes it even harder. No matter how well or...