Story Church Mayfield Heights

Why are you downcast, O my soul? That is the question the writer of Psalms 42 and 43 asks themselves, and if we're honest, it's a question we often ask ourselves. In this week's message, we learn about the severity of this kind of suffering, the cause of this kind of suffering, and how we can learn from this Psalmist in how to Hope in God! Psalm 42-43

The Apostle Peter calls Christians sojourners and exiles, a reference to God's people living in Babylon. This week, we examine a letter written by the Prophet Jeremiah encouraging the sojourners and exiles to shift their perspective from being refugees to residents, militant to missionaries, and homesick to hopeful. Shifting our perspective like this helps us love our city while living in a land t...

Jesus told his disciples that the world will know we are his disciples by our love for one another. In this week's sermon, we learn what it means to welcome one another as Christ has welcomed us. This means being willing to open up our lives to one another, just as Jesus did toward us. All this is done for the glory of God. Romans 15:7

This summer, we're learning what it means to be disciples of Jesus marked by Love. This week, we look Paul's Letter to the Romans, where he tells disciples what is our true and proper worship - offering our bodies as living sacrifices. We'll learn that to love God, our worship needs to be Total, Sacrificial, and Transformational. We can do all this in light of the mercies of God, specifically noti...

At Story Church, we want to be disciples marked by Love - Love for God, one another, and our neighbors. The Apostle John says that we love because He first loved us. In this week's message, we examine what it means to experience the love of God, specifically in his forgiving of our sins. As we deepen our understanding of God's forgiveness of our sin, the greater our love for him will be. Luke 7:36...

Pastor Jon Lilley joins us this morning and encourages us to celebrate God's glorious grace as He chose us for himself! He chose us before the world began, so that we might be holy and blameless, and to be his children. What grace! Let's celebrate. Ephesians 1:4-6

In this famous scene in the church planting work of the Apostle Paul, we see him engage with neighbors in the cultural epicenter city of Athens. As we learn from Paul about the urgency to share the gospel with our own neighbors in Cleveland, we ask of this passage what was Paul's Motivation, Method, and Message? This concludes our study through the book of Acts; we've been marveling at the spread...

"What must we do to be saved?" That is the question behind Acts 15. As representatives from the Church gather in Jerusalem to consider the matter, we see in this passage the Gospel Threatened, Clarified, and Internalized. Acts 15:1-21

In Acts 14, we find Paul sharing the gospel with various religious communities. What can we learn and apply from this passage for our own context in Mayfield Heights? We see that Paul reached the religious communities with the gospel by: Starting new churches, Seeing where there was hurt, Uncovering their idols, and Giving what their hearts longed for. Acts 14:1-23 

In this week's sermon, we're reminded that the Gospel has the power to bring people together who were once divided. We see through Peter's sharing of the gospel to Cornelius what is the root of division, the right way to view others, and the good news of peace. Because we have peace with God in Christ, we have peace with one another through Christ. Acts 10

In the second part of Acts 9, we see Christian friendship on display. In this weeks sermon, Pastor Jeremy shows us the beauty of Christian Friendship (it creates community for those who don't belong to a community), the power of Christian Friendship (it displays the gospel to our neighbors in a way that is attractive to them) and the cause of Christian Friendship (Jesus teaches us what it means to...

In Acts 9, Luke tells us about the conversion of Saul, a Pharisee who was breathing murderous threats against the early church. In this week's sermon, we learn that what makes a pharisee is holding to strong convictions while looking down on those who don't agree with us, what stops a pharisee is an encounter with Jesus that exposes our sin and our inability to save ourselves, and what saves a pha...

In Acts 8:26-40, we meet a man who's background has led to him feeling like an outsider from God. But as the story unfolds, we see how Jesus orchestrated a divine appointment between this man, who was in a desperate situation, and Philip, who shares with him the good news of a double identification. The Gospel tells us that Jesus came into this world to identify with us, in our shame, guilt, and f...

In Acts 8:1-8, we read about how everyday christians, as they were scattered into the world, went about sharing the gospel because they understood Jesus was sending them for their neighbor's good. The gospel reached the city as it brought about spiritual revival, physical healing, and crossed cultural boundaries. We can have that happen in our own city as we look to Jesus who poured out his life f...

He is risen! On this Easter morning, Pastor Jeremy shows us that because Jesus is the Resurrection and the Life, if you have hope in Him today, you will have life everlasting. Jesus invites us to find our hope in him now, and not in some future and distant hope. Hoping in Jesus is trusting the certainty of His own resurrection, which has accomplished our own redemption and everlasting life. (John...

On this Good Friday, Pastor Jeremy shows us that when Jesus says He is the Way, the Truth, and the Life, he is inviting us to experience the love of the father in Himself. This love was demonstrated to us in his death on the cross, where we see the depths of the father's love for us, and our unworthiness to receive it. Yet, the inviting stands today, to come and find in Jesus the way to God, the t...

We revise a passage from John 10, but this time examine what Jesus means by calling himself the Good Shepherd. Jesus uses the illustration of sheep and the Good shepherd to invite us to follow him. In this week's sermon, Pastor Jeremy asks us Who do we follow? Why should we follow Jesus? and What does it mean to follow Jesus? (John 10:1-18)

Have you ever wanted to see real and lasting life transformation? In John 15, Jesus offers us a fail-proof way to see the fruit of the spirit produced within you; Abide in Him. This week, Pastor Jeremy shows us that if we want to experience the fruit of the spirit, we need to abide in the life of Christ, the word of Christ, and the love of Christ. John 15:1-13

In John 8 and 9, Jesus claims to be the light of the world, and says that whoever follows him no longer walks in darkness but has the light of life. Why then, do some people not follow Jesus, if what he offers is so glorious? In this week's text, we that because we're born blind and are stumbling in the darkness, we can't follow Jesus on our own. We also see that we need someone who can open our e...

One of the more difficult teachings from Jesus is that he is the only way to God. In this week's sermon, Pastor Jeremy shows us how Jesus is unlike other gates; rather than keeping people out, Jesus is the gate that is open, enabling us to come and enjoy life to the abundance on the inside. John 10:1-10

Who do you say that Jesus is? How you answer that question will change your life. In the gospel of John, there are 7 distinct places where Jesus tells us who he is. In this week's sermon, we look at the first of these "I am" statements; Jesus is the Bread of Life. In this passage, we see that Jesus is inviting us to Hunger for Him, Rest In Him, and Feast on Him. (John 6:22-35)

Just before the early church began to take the message of Jesus to the ends of the world, we see in this passage a threat facing the culture of grace that Jesus entrusted to the church. In this passage, we see the threat of moralism, the alternative in the gospel, and how that turns the church into a hospital for sinners. Acts 3:36-5:17)

What happens when the church gathers together and "Worships?" What does it even mean to Worship? In Acts 2, Luke shows us how God used the ordinary things of reading, praying, eating together, and being together, to show his extraordinary grace. Pastor Jeremy, in this week's sermon, shows us what it means to be devoted to worship, and what that looks like at Story Church. Acts 2:42-47

What did it look like to be part of the first church? Luke, the author of Acts shows us that these first disciples of Jesus were devoted to the fellowship; they were committed to one another and to the mission before them - to take the gospel to the ends of the world. In this week's sermon, Pastor Jeremy shows us what it meant to be committed to one another as members of the same body of Christ, a...

In the early days of the Church, the disciples of Jesus were devoted to three things: The Apostles' Teaching, Fellowship, and Worship. Through devotion to those things, the Lord added to their number daily those who were being saved. For the next couple of weeks, we'll take a look at what the disciples were devoted to, and what that means for us at Story Church today. Acts 2:42-47