Heartland

Jesus calls us to become living stones that have been formed a shaped to serve God’s work in the world.

In the beginning, even the early church struggled with how to best fulfill God’s mission.

Our understanding of the Christian faith is only as good as our reliance on Jesus Christ to open our eyes so that we might see what he is doing.

Jesus’ work in the world is not done. He now sends us to be his Spirit-filled hands and feet in the world.

The first witnesses to Jesus’ resurrection were sent on a very simple mission, to tell others that Jesus had been raised from the dead. It’s our mission too!

Jesus enters Jerusalem, not on a mighty warhorse, but on a donkey. He comes as the true but humble servant king. As our king is, so should we be.

Jesus calls us to ask for wisdom, discernment, and guidance as we seek to live faithful Christian lives.

Jesus calls us to single-minded devotion to learning to follow in his footsteps.

Jesus calls us to pursue the only thing worth anything in God’s Kingdom, a life of committed discipleship in the way of Jesus.

Jesus calls us to works of mercy, fasting, and prayer, but we must do them in ways that bring glory to God and not ourselves.

To grow up to become like our Father in heaven we must respond to every form of hate, violence, and evil with love that seeks the good of our neighbors, both friend and enemy.

Loving God means that we love and seek to be reconciled with our neighbor. Anger, lust, and unfaithfulness, which leads to treating others poorly, prohibits us from loving God and entering a genuine relationship with God.

At the beginning of the Sermon on the Mount Jesus wants us to know who we are. We are salt and light because we are followers of the Law of God.

In the Beatitudes, we are first given God’s grace amid our brokenness. Then we are called to respond to the grace we have been given by giving it to others.

In the Beatitudes, we are first given God’s grace amid our brokenness. Then we are called to respond to the grace we have been given by giving it to others.

As the light, Jesus reveals to us the way he would have the world be. He then calls to us to turn from those things that distract us from joining his kingdom and calls us to become life-long learners at his feet.

Jesus proclaims his obedience to the Father through his baptism. The Spirit affirms his decision. We have a chance to do the same thing through our baptism.

Pastor Jason has a conversation with April DeTienne about stories of personal hurt and trauma, the long road to healing, and our hope and belief about the church's place in that process.

Humanity is small and insignificant in the light of God’s great majesty. Yet, in God’s love for us, he has given us a royal job to do: to act as royal stewards of his creation.

We are called to enter into exuberant praise because our God and King is coming to rule the world in fairness and faithfulness.

We lament the brokenness of the world, yet we with hopeful expectations for the coming of Jesus Christ.

We long and hope for peace for ourselves and for the world around us.

As we begin the season of Advent, we are called to remember the history of God’s salvation for creation as we anticipate the birth of Jesus Christ.

God calls us to examine our lives to see when and where God has been faithful to us, when and where God had provided a way out of dark places when it seemed as if there was no safe exit

We sin because we fail to have proper faith in the sometimes-nonsensical ways of God.

We are barren, just like Abraham and Sarah. Yet God calls us to be obedient so that we might have life and become a blessing to the entire world.

As a church we are called not to make a name for ourselves, but to be fruitful and multiply. Pentecost is the renewal of the command and an empowering to be fruitful and multiply

Pastor Mike Palmer brings a message to encourage us to live with joy in a broken world.

The world is not as it should be. We are called to persistently call out to God, who is justice, to make things right.

Our sinfulness causes pain and grief in the heart of God. After the Flood, God chooses to respond to evil, not with destruction, but with love and forgiveness.

God calls us to master sin. Even if we do not, God’s grace remains steadfast.

God has provided boundaries for us that help us to mature in our faith and in Christlikeness. Everyday we are bombarded by voices that challenge the goodness of God’s boundaries.

God created us in his image so that we might best be able to enter into a relationship with him.

Paul calls us to examine all of our relationships as if we were looking through the mind of Christ.

Paul encourages us to take off all the things that keep us from becoming like Christ. He encourages us to clothe ourselves with love.

We need not search after anything other than Christ. If we seek only Christ, he will guide us well.

When we unite with Christ, he peels away the layers of sin and death we have accumulated for ourselves. Through his death, our sin and the powers he vanquished have been destroyed.

Paul reminds us that salvation comes only through Jesus, the one who creates and redeems.

The Apostle Paul encourages the Colossian church and reminds them that Jesus has rescued them from the power of darkness, and now they are citizens of God’s Kingdom.

Join us this week as our kids share what they've learned in VBS and lead us in worship!

Those who are found faithful will find themselves safe with God in the new heaven and the new earth.

In the end, God will wipe away every tear from our eyes.

Revelation is about worshipping the one who remains so faithful that our greatest sins are not held against us but forgiven.

Christ calls us to put off self-reliance, submitting ourselves to his Lordship and care.

Christ calls us to trust that we will always belong to him regardless of the challenges we might face as faithful believers.

Choosing to not participate in the political and economic idolatry of our day will allow us to fully participate in God’s mission of reconciliation and restoration of people and creation.

Jesus calls us to hold on to our faith as we seek to live in the world without succumbing to temptation to serve other gods.

A life of faithfulness to Jesus does not guarantee health or wealth. Jesus calls us to remain faithful regardless of the cost.

Faith Maternity Care is a home and resource for homeless pregnant women in Missouri. Melissa Williford came to share about the ministry, their impact in our community, and how we can help them to make a difference.

Jesus calls us to faithfully follow God’s commands in a loving manner, rather than with strict legalism.

Christ stands amid the churches of the world encouraging and calling them to faithfulness.

It is ok if we do not always understand the work of God in our world. Over and over again, God proves that he’s working to help us understand and believe.

Despite the ruin that may come to our life because of our own unfaithfulness, life and hope are always the last word.

Those who are affluent and apathetic about the needs of those around them will be the first to experience God’s judgment.

Worship and justice go hand in hand. Worship without justice lacks substance.

God’s judgment is not just for those who actively participate in oppression and violence, but also for those whose lifestyle perpetuates the system of violence and exploitation.

We are the people of God because of God’s grace and mercy. We are called to remember who we are as God’s people so that we can live in covenant faithfulness with God and others.

Once again, Jesus reveals himself to us as the One who is bringing about God’s salvation for the world.

Jesus invites those who have means to participate with his mission of restoration and renewal in the world.

In spite of our sinfulness, Jesus extends a call to us to participate in God’s mission of ‘catching people.’

We are called to a ministry which is outward focused for the purpose of participating in God’s mission of freedom for the world.

As we participate in God’s mission in the world, we are called to love those who perpetrate acts of evil.

Jesus gives us an outline for what his ministry will look like. What Jesus has done, he will call us to do as well.

We are called to live into our baptism by sharing in Jesus’ mission to bring healing and salvation to our broken world.

Christ has come and is coming again. We are called, just has John the Baptist was called, to prepare the way for the coming of God.

Mary proclaims what God has done in the past because she understands that what is happening in her now is a continuation of God’s faithful saving acts toward his people. It gives her hope for the future.

God invites us to participate in God’s mission of salvation and restoration for the world.

Even though barren brokenness surrounds us, we are called to live with imaginative hope as we wait for God’s salvation through Jesus Christ.

Jesus Christ becomes our true King, not in the ways of past Israelite kings or even Roman Kings, but through the powerful truth of suffering love.

Jesus warns us to be on guard against those who claim to bring salvation, but to trust that all things will be made right.

Jesus contrast the self-righteous scribes with a humble and generous widow who gave to others out of the little she had. We are called to be more like the widow as we seek to follow Jesus.

We are to love God with all we are, we are to love ourselves well and appropriately so that we might love others in the same way.

Jesus longs to help us regain our sight so that we might fully and faithfully follow him in the way of the Kingdom of God.

The Kingdom of God doesn’t operate under the same set of assumptions that the rest of the world works. Children are important, so are marginalized people. The rich and powerful aren’t important.

Jesus calls us to let go of whatever it is that is keeping us from truly following him.

Jesus warns us not to cause anyone to lose their faith in God.

Dr. Randy Cloud from MNU shares a message with us regarding David and Goliath and the lessons we can learn from this classic Bible story.

Greatness in the Kingdom of God is not like greatness in the world. God calls us to be servants of all.

In times of joy and pain we are called to live in patient solidarity with those around us.

James shows us how an uncontrolled tongue can destroy what God is doing in our lives and in our church. Our tongues can be controlled when we seek God’s wisdom.

Faith and the good work that we do works together to prove our faithfulness to God.

James encourages us to practice listening and hearing well so that we may respond with the grace that has been given to us by God.

James longs for us to have the wisdom to know from where our temptations come and to know from which direction help at overcoming them might arrive.

We’re called to ask God to continue to reveal himself to us so that we might be faithful and join in with what he’s already doing around us.

Jesus is rejected in his hometown and he warns the disciples that they’ll face rejection, too. We shouldn’t focus on the rejection because God is with us.

Jesus offers healing to all those who will have faith in him.

The Kingdom of God is extravagantly given, frustratingly successful, hidden yet revealing, mysterious in the way that it grows, small and insignificant, yet full and life giving.

Solomon was wise, but stumbled and followed what the world had to offer, bringing down the great nation of Israel with him. God offers us his wisdom, that passes all understanding, and leads us where we ought to go.

Sometimes God gives us what we want, not what we need. Thankfully, God always seeks to work our mistakes into something good.

Pastor Dan challenges us to use God's word as a guide for the world around us, instead of what pop culture or a famous guru might suggested. Keeping our minds focused on God's plan.

We receive the Gift of the Holy Spirit so that we might go forth and proclaim the good news of Jesus Christ.

The strength that’s needed to do the hard work of God’s mission for the world is impossible apart from the diversified unity of believers. And that unity requires love, a Christlike, selfless love.

Jesus calls us to love those around us in the same way that he has loved us.

We’re all connected and we’ll never know the impact our sharing of God’s good news might have on the world around us.

Every day we are given a chance to determine who we are and who we follow. Will we follow Jesus by living into the wisdom of the cross?

Our false, mistaken, and foolish interpretations of what God is doing in our world don’t disqualify us from re-joining what God is doing in our world.

Our care for one another flows from the power of the Holy Spirit that binds us together into one heart and soul. The fruit of this unity is generosity in caring for one another.