Mountain Christian Church | Sermons

How Is It With Your Soul? | Stayin’ Alive

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 Jesus, you’re invited to come closer, to come more alive to God, to walk more closely with the spirit and to think about your spiritual world in an entirely new way. To be aware of God’s presence. Are you hungry for something more? 

Hope Rising | PREPARE a place for people who need HOPE

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 quite see it in the moment, you believe it is coming one day. That’s what HOPE is.
 
Christian HOPE is banking your hope strongly in the strong name of God. Where you realize your HOPE is only as strong as what you attach it to. When you anchor your HOPE in God you have an immovable thing that cannot be taken. There is only one source of this kind of HOPE… and it’s Jesus. 
 
How is your level of HOPE today?

Hope Rising | PURSUE people who need HOPE

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 strongholds. Your prayer doesn’t have to be fancy, you just need to mention their name.
 
“God, will you please help {insert name} find hope.” 
 
God’s heart longs to see everyone find hope. If God is filling you with hope, He invites you to share that HOPE with others through a bold invitation. Be a HOPE BRINGER.

Hope Rising | Pursue People Who Need Hope

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. How can God use you to bring hope to someone? 

Hope Rising | Pray for People

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 and God. That’s something we can all do. There is power in prayer, no matter how you do it. When you pray, you admit you don’t have control over everything no matter how much you try, and that no, you don’t have all the answers. When you pray… God hears you. Who are you praying for and sharing the hope of Jesus with today?

How Strong is Your Hope? | Hope Rising

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 letting us down every… single… time.
What we need is something stronger and more stable and secure—a kind of hope that is the ultimate, foundational hope that can never be shaken or taken away. There is only one hope like that. Hope has a name and its name is Jesus Christ. God is our unshakeable hope. How strong is your hope?

Christmas Playlist | Silent Night

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.

Christmas Playlist | O Holy Night (Christmas Eve)

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.

Christmas Playlist | Joy to the World

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? 

Christmas Playlist | Away in a Manger

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