Mountain Fellowship

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).

Jimmy Davis - As we begin our journey through 1 Peter, we consider this: If I don’t see the real grace of God shining, even dimly, through the thick fog of my real life, I will end up in a ditch of despair. If I can’t see Jesus, I can’t keep going.

01/06/19 Someone They Did Not Expect (Mark 6:30-44) by Mountain Fellowship

Jimmy Davis - Like Simeon and Anna, we can become, by the power of the Spirit, Good News receivers who then turn to be Good News givers to our neighbors, the nations, and the next generation.

Jimmy Davis - Have you ever felt overlooked or outcast? The shepherds were welcomed into Jesus' story and so are you. In Luke 2 we receive the good news of great joy that the Good Shepherd became the Lamb who takes away our sin and shame by taking them on Himself.

Jimmy Davis - Does having God’s favor in my life mean that everything’s going to go my way? Not exactly. Ask Mary and Joseph! Everything will go God’s way, but that’s the way we need things to go so that Christ is formed in us for God’s glory, the world’s good, and our ultimate gladness.

Jimmy Davis - If your story, like Zechariah and Elizabeth's, is full of wounds, waiting, and weariness, then you are welcomed into the Story of Jesus, who will hold you in His wounded hands.

Jim Suddath - We all need to be forgiven; we all need to offer forgiveness. Out of understanding and embracing that we have been forgiven by Jesus, we ought to overflow with thanksgiving for who He is and what He has done for us.

Jim Suddath - We all need to be forgiven; we all need to offer forgiveness. Out of understanding and embracing that we have been forgiven by Jesus, we ought to overflow with thanksgiving for who He is and what He has done for us.

Jim Suddath - We all need to be forgiven; we all need to offer forgiveness. Out of understanding and embracing that we have been forgiven by Jesus, we ought to overflow with thanksgiving for who He is and what He has done for us.

Jimmy Davis - As we contemplate John’s vision of the new heaven and new earth in Revelation 21 and 22, our longing for the Perfected Kingdom is stirred. Romans 8 then helps us to consider what it might look like to long for the ’not yet’ as we live in the ‘already’ of what Jesus has done for His people.

Jimmy Davis - Who are we as a church? Why are we here? In Acts 17 and 1 Thessalonians 1 we learn that Jesus gave the Holy Spirit to the church so that we might Proclaim and Practice Jesus as King until He comes again.