Story Church Mayfield Heights

This week we return to the gospel of Matthew and look at three separate accounts of Jesus healing others. We see that not only is Jesus able to heal us of our physical and spiritual illness, but He also desires to heal us, and He has the power to heal us completely.

Wrapping up this advent season, we look at how Jesus was born the true King over all of mankind. We see this week that Jesus is the king over our lives, over our hearts, and over the nations.

Continuing in our series, we look this week at Zechariah's song of response when his son (John the Baptist) is born. We see in his prophetic message that God visits us with mercy, to fulfill His promise, and to bring His salvation.

This week we look at Simeon's song in response to meeting the infant Christ. We see that for those who long to see Jesus, He can be found by those who are led by the Holy Spirit, those who long for comfort, and those who are looking for salvation.

This Advent Season, we are looking at the songs of joy found in Luke, and we begin this week with Mary's song (The Magnificat). We see in Mary's song that we need to rest in God's promises, reflect on His grace in our lives, and be amazed at His power.

This week we focus on Colossians 3:16 and Paul's instructions to "sing psalms and hymns and spiritual songs with thankfulness in our hearts to God." We see the benefits of doing so - it fills our hearts with the Word of Christ, it is useful in encouraging one another in our faith, and it allows us to express our thankfulness for the work that God has done through Christ.

This week we study Isaiah's encounter with the Lord and see that when we come and worship God with reverent praise, with honest confession, and with joyful celebration, we will be transformed by God.

This week we look at the story of Jesus and the Samaritan woman at the well of Jacob to see what Christ Centered Worship looks like. We are reminded that we worship God because He saved us through Christ, that we need to worship with a sense of expectation, and that worship is an opportunity to grow in relationship with God.

This week we look at the role that prayer has in the church and see how central it is to our faith. We learn from the early church who prayed together so that they could learn from and encourage one another, who prayed with scripture as their guide, and who prayed for God's Spirit to do the work of His kingdom through them.

This week we look at what it means to be a people holy to the LORD - to be set apart yet in the midst of everyone else. Yet while we are distinct from the world, we are also called to engage with the world to seek out the lost.

This week we learn from the early Christians that fellowship is more than having a bunch of relational programs with other people - it requires us to be aware of other people's needs and to offer ourselves up in order to meet those needs. The depth of our relationships with other people comes from making sacrifices for them, as was modeled to us by Christ when He gave Himself up for the church...

In this passage, Paul assures us that we are secure in God's love and that nothing can separate us from Him. We know we are secure in God because He is sovereign over everything, and we can be confident in what He has promised to us. We know we are secure in God because He is just, and He has looked upon Christ in our place. We know we are secure in God because He is powerful, and He is able t...

In Week 2 of this series, we look at Isaiah 53 and see that we are like sheep who have turned away from God. We are all guilty of transgression and are broken in a way that cannot be fixed. This is why we need Jesus - He was pierced for our transgressions and by His wounds we are healed. Only once we realize how truly broken we are can we accept that we need God to save us from our sin.

This week we look at this foundational truth of the Bible: that God loves us because of who God is and not because of who we are or anything we have done. There is nothing that we can do to earn or lose God's love. Because God is rich in mercy and because of His great love - He has made all of us who were once dead in our trespasses alive together with Christ.

This week we look at the first appointment of Deacons in the church. We see that Deacons serve the church by meeting the physical needs of the church, supporting the ministry of the Elders, promoting the love and unity of the church, and showing us the heart of Christ.

This week we look at Paul's instruction to Titus concerning church leaders. We learn that healthy leaders are essential to the growth of the church. They remind us of the hope of the gospel through their service and their teaching, they bear the burden of ministry together, and they model for the church what it means to imitate and follow Jesus.

This week we see how Jesus runs the Church through us - He has given us gifts of grace through the Spirit so that the church can be built up and grow, He has given us each other to equip one another for the work of ministry, and He has given Himself as our example to follow.

This week, we look at what Jesus means when He offers us life, why so many people choose destruction instead, and how we can enter through the narrow gate the leads to an abundant life in Christ.

Continuing our series on the Sermon on the Mount, this week Jesus teaches us why we should not worry. Worrying about the future is something we all struggle with, and Jesus does not simply dismiss our worries, but rather encourages us to trust God by reminding us how much our Heavenly Father cares for us.

This week we look at the Parable of the Good Samaritan and the heart behind the lawyer's question "What shall I do to inherit eternal life?" Jesus's response shows us that those who belong to God's kingdom are marked by compassion and love for others - especially when that love comes at a cost to ourselves.

This week we take a step back to remind ourselves that we are part of a much larger mission in what God is doing around the world.

This week we look at Jesus's radical teaching on forgiving others through the Parable of the Unforgiving Servant.

Sometimes prayer is hard - that is why Jesus teaches us how to pray. Here we look at three things: praying for the supremacy of God, the kingdom of God, and obedience to God.

In this first part of the Lord's Prayer, Jesus teaches us to approach God as our Father - someone who we can have access to and a relationship with because of the Holy Spirit that Jesus sent to us. As our Father, God knows what we need even before we ask (and perhaps despite what we ask), and He is able to give us what we need, when we need it.

When it comes to putting Jesus's words into practice, we need to be mindful of our motivation for obedience. Jesus calls us to be obedient in prayer, in fasting, and in giving - but warns us not to be like the hypocrites who do these things in order to get something in return. Rather, our motivation for a religious life should be growing closer to God.