Mountain Fellowship

Jimmy Davis – Let Psalm 126 shape you into one who feels your grief, prays your grief, and plants your grief in the tears of love that Jesus poured out for you, and He will make His joy grow in your desert.

Jimmy Davis

Jimmy Davis – What do we do with the anger that sometimes burns inside us? According to David, we're in danger of fanning the flames of even our righteous, holy anger until it turns into unrighteous, sinful anger. Thankfully, in Psalm 37 he gives us three other flames to kindle instead.

Robert Row – What does it look like to be aware of our complete dependence on Jesus? What would it do for our relationships if, before we said anything, we asked the Father, "should I say this?" We need to look at the person of Jesus and his complete dependence on the Father.

Tim Tinsley – Over and over in the gospel accounts of the life of Jesus, we read that he calls people to follow him and make disciples. Who in our city is making disciples? Who are you discipling? Who is discipling you?

Jimmy Davis - What do we do with our fear? Do we whistle a happy tune and make believe we're brave? Maybe, but in Psalm 3 David shows us a better way. Whenever we are afraid we can tell God we're afraid and why, then we can turn our hearts to Him and trust that He is our shield, our glory, and the lifter of our head.

Dr. Gary Phillips – All too often we identify God’s blessing with good circumstances in our lives. If things are going well, then clearly God is pleased with me (and, of course, I am pleased with Him)! But if things are not going well, then we are tempted to feel like either we are out of God’s will, or that God has abandoned us. But Acts 16 provides us with a fascinating case study of how God may...

Jimmy Davis – Of all the things Peter could say to conclude his first letter to the churches, he chose to say, “Wake up church! The universe is at war.” So, what do we do? We resist the enemy now by standing firm in the good news that in Jesus God’s heart for us is good, while we wait for the restoration and glory that Jesus has promised will come.

Jimmy Davis - Church relationships can be beautiful or broken, often both at the same time. Too often we church folks treat one another as enemies. Peter knows this and exhorts the church’s shepherds and sheep to clothe themselves with humility toward one another, a humility that only comes from being under the mighty hand of our Chief Shepherd Jesus, who wrapped himself in humility for us, his en...

Stephen Jones - Christians can do death. In fact, we are called to die with Christ. The reason we can do death and suffering is because of the resurrection of Jesus and His promise that through our suffering and sacrifice, we will be rewarded in this life and the next.

Jimmy Davis - In 1 Peter 4:12-19, Peter reminds us that when we suffer ‘fiery trials’ for putting Jesus on display by the way we live and love, we are being refined by that suffering to put Jesus on display in that suffering.

Jimmy Davis - If you trust in Jesus, who lives that death may die, then you can face the sting of death’s reality and finality because you need not fear the sting of death’s penalty.

Jimmy Davis - How is a church to live when time is running out? We pray, love, and serve like Jesus because He first loved us in His praying, loving, and serving.

Jimmy Davis - In 1 Peter 4:1-6, Peter casts a vision for the cross-shaped life. If our lives have been shaped BY the cross of Jesus, then they will take the shape OF the the cross of Jesus.

Jimmy Davis - Living the Jesus-shaped life of loving the way Jesus loves and suffering the way Jesus suffers requires us to rest in the ways Jesus reigns over the power of our sin, the power of death, the powers of darkness, and over every power forever.

Jimmy Davis - What’s the mission/vision statement for your marriage and family? Peter might suggest that marriage was created and redeemed to put Jesus on display to the world in the way wives and husbands relate to one another.

Nathan Carico - In Isaiah 58 we find out what it looks like for God to fast. God's fast exposes our spiritual poverty and feeds our faith so we will pour ourselves out for the hungry.

Jimmy Davis - In 1 Peter 2:18-25, Peter reminds us that Jesus, the Suffering Servant, is the pattern, pardon, and power for our suffering service in the workplace.

Jimmy Davis - As strange as it may seem and as difficult as it may be, Peter teaches us that one of the ways we show our submission to Jesus is to humbly, submissively serve under our civil authorities. This kind of exile lifestyle is only possible when we entrust ourselves to Jesus, who was subject to civil authorities in order to redeem our rebellious hearts.

Jimmy Davis - Jesus is the Cornerstone of God’s new temple. Believers adore Him, and are attached and aligned to Him as living stones. Now we serve as His holy priesthood for the glory of God and the good and gladness of the world.

Jimmy Davis - Since God has caused us to be ‘born again’ into His family we have a new way of loving in the world. We love one another earnestly, from a pure heart, without sibling rivalry. But since God has caused us to be ‘born again’ by His imperishable gospel, we also have imperishable power to love one another as Christ has loved us!

Jimmy Davis - Peter reminds us that as God’s Family we have a new way to live in the world: we live with a hopeful future, like our holy Father, and with a healthy fear.

Jimmy Davis - Peter reminds us that the real life of God’s elect exiles is patterned after the life of Jesus: suffering now but glory later. So how do God’s elect exiles live in the meantime? We live by faith, in hope, and for love.

Jimmy Davis - Why does Peter pack so much deep, heavy, theological, Jesus-soaked truth into the beginning of his letter? He’s a man who knows that as boats need a ballast to steady them in the storm, God’s people need the weighty, glorious real grace of God to steady them in the storms of real life.

Jimmy Davis - In order to encourage us to live the real life of who we are (exiles), Peter declares to us the real grace of whose we are (God’s elect).