Memorial Baptist Church Jefferson City

Solitude and the Presence of God | Becoming Fully Alive in Christ

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We’re living in the age of noise, distraction, and digital overload—and our souls are starving for real presence.

In this message, Pastor David invites us to rediscover the practice of solitude: not escape or isolation, but time alone with God to be fully known, fully loved, and fully at home in Christ.

🔥 You’ll hear:
✅ Why silence is spiritual warfare
✅ What solitude really is—and isn’t
✅ How to return to the presence of the Father
✅ Why Jesus still says: “Come away with Me and rest”

📖 Key Scriptures: Matthew 3:16-4:1 • Mark 6:30–46 • John 15

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What Comes Out of You? Memorizing Scripture and the Overflow of the Heart

What do your words, reactions, and desires reveal about your formation?

This sermon from Pastor David explores what comes out of us when life presses in—and how Jesus invites us to be formed by His Word, filled by His Spirit, and set free by His truth.

🔥 In this message, we unpack:
✅ Why memorizing Scripture is about formation, not information
✅ How Jesus responded to temptation and suffering—with Scripture
✅ What neuroscience says about spiritual habits and heart transformation
✅ Why abiding in the Word brings freedom, peace, and life

 

Let the Words of Christ dwell richly within you.
Jesus is everything.

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Study the Bible: The Breath of God, Alive in Us

The Bible is not just a manual or collection of facts. It is the very breath of God—alive, active, and personal.

In this sermon, we learn from Jesus’ example how to handle Scripture with reverence, wisdom, and real-life application. We’re reminded that we grow not by knowing more, but by letting God’s Word change us.

✅ Learn how to observe, interpret, and apply God’s Word
✅ Understand why Scripture is central to transformation
✅ Be equipped to study in community and in personal devotion

📖 2 Timothy 3:16–17 · Matthew 4:1–11 · Luke 2:46–52

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Meditating on the Word: Time with God, Not Just a Text

Meditation isn’t about mastering information—it’s about meeting with God.

In this week’s message, Pastor Nathan unpacks what it means to meditate on God’s Word—not to prove a point or gain head knowledge, but to be with the Living Word and be transformed.

🔥 In this episode, you’ll explore:
✅ What Scripture truly is and what it’s for
✅ How Jesus fulfilled the Word and invites us to abide
✅ Why meditation is key to spiritual formation
✅ How to practice meditating on Scripture like Jesus did

📖 Key Scriptures: Luke 4:14–30 • 2 Tim. 3:14–17 • John 1:1–5 • Jer. 31:33 • Matt. 11:1–6

 

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What Story Are You Living In? Re-Storied by Truth in Christ | Week 2: Gather & Read

What story are you living in—and is it true?

In this week’s message, Pastor David explores how the Bible is more than information. It’s the true story of reality that restores us in Christ and re-stories how we live, think, and love together. We don’t just need more content or information—we need a new map. One that leads us to Jesus.

🔥 In this episode:

• Why everyone lives by a story (whether they realize it or not)

• The false gospels shaping us through culture and performance

• How Scripture forms us in community, not just individually- FAMILY

• Why Jesus is the Hero of the story—not us

• How to start reading the Bible together in your home

📖 Key Passages: John 8:31–32, Colossians 3:16, Proverbs 2:6, Romans 5:8, 2 Corinthians 5:21, John 14:6

 

🙌 Don’t miss this call to live the true story—centered on Jesus, shaped by grace, and empowered by the Spirit.

 

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What Is the Bible? Not Just Information—Formation and Transformation in Jesus

What if the Bible is not just a textbook to conquer or a rulebook to fear… what if it’s an invitation? An intimate invitation to a person and presence- truth and reality?

In this message Pastor David explores how the Bible is not merely a book of information, but a divine invitation into spiritual formation and transformation through Jesus Christ. The stories we believe shape the lives we live—and Scripture invites us into the true story/reality

📖 "All Scripture is breathed out by God and profitable… so that the man of God may be complete, equipped for every good work." — 2 Timothy 3:16–17

 

💬 In this message, Pastor David explores:

✅ Why the Bible is more than information—it's formation
✅ How Scripture confronts and reshapes our identity
✅ Why Jesus is the center of the whole biblical story
✅ How to resist false stories by living in God's true story

 

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🔥 In all we do, we seek to:

🔥 Worship the Lord passionately
🤝 Connect authentically
📖 Grow deeper in our faith
🌍 Go and share the Gospel boldly

 

📢 Maybe the Lord brought you to this message for a reason.

📖 “He himself bore our sins… that we might die to sin and live to righteousness.” — 1 Peter 2:24

 

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Prayer as Resistance: Look to Jesus and Truly Live

In a world of noise, distraction, and pressure—prayer is resistance.
Not resistance by might, but by presence. It’s how we push back against isolation, performance, and spiritual drift.

This message from Pastor David walks through John 15 and 2 Corinthians 3 to remind us that Jesus doesn’t just call us to obey—He calls us to abide. To look, behold, remain, and live. Prayer is not a performance—it’s a relational, transforming presence.

🔥 In this message, you’ll learn:
✅ What is means to be PRESNT
✅ Why we are formed by what we behold
✅ How prayer is resistance to the world’s noise and performance
✅ What it means to be fully known and fully loved in Christ
✅ How beholding the glory of Jesus transforms us into His image

 

📖 Key Scriptures:

• John 15:1–11

• 2 Corinthians 3:16–18

• John 14:6, 16–17

• Matthew 28:20

• Hebrews 12:2

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We exist to:

🔥 Worship God passionately

🤝 Connect with each other authentically

📖 Grow to know God deeply

🌍 Go declare the Gospel boldly 

 

Listening to God: Tuning Our Hearts to Christ

God is speaking—are we listening?

In a world full of noise, distraction, and distortion, Jesus calls His sheep to know His voice and follow Him (John 10).

👂 Hearing is biological. Listening is relational.

This message from Pastor David invites us to quiet the noise, open our ears, and tune our hearts to the voice of the Shepherd.

Just like a guitar drifts out of tune over time, so do our hearts. But the grace of Christ retunes us—again and again—to hear, know, and follow Him.

🔥 In this sermon, you'll discover:

✅ Why hearing and listening are different—and why it matters to your soul

✅ How Jesus, the Good Shepherd, still speaks and calls you by name (John 10:27)

✅ How the enemy distorts our identity through lies and distraction

✅ What it means to tune your heart daily to Christ’s voice like a guitar

✅ Why Scripture, Holy Spirit, and community are essential to test what we hear

✅ How to practice spiritual rhythms that lead you into relational listening

 

📖 Key Scriptures:

• John 10:10–11, 14–18, 27–3

• John 10:27

• Deuteronomy 6:4–9

• John 14:26

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🔥 In all we do, we seek to:

🔥 Worship passionately
🤝 Connect authentically
📖 Grow deeply
🌍 Go boldly with the gospel

Carrying Their Burden: A Life of Intercessory Prayer

Jesus carries our burdens—and calls us to carry the burdens of others.

Through His perfect intercession, we’ve been invited into a holy priesthood, standing in the gap on behalf of those in need.

This week, Pastor Nathan teaches us that intercessory prayer is not a task for the spiritually elite—it’s a call to love others with compassion, to pray like their pain is our pain, and to trust in the mercy of God.

 

🔥 You’ll be challenged to:
✅ See intercession as a priestly calling (Hebrews 7:22–25)
✅ Pray with the heart of Christ, not just for outcomes
✅ Make others’ burdens your own, just as Jesus made yours His
✅ Believe that God moves through His people’s prayers
✅ Pray for healing and trust in the healing through Christ alone

 

📖 Key Scriptures:

• Hebrews 7:22–25

• Daniel 9:1–19

• Exodus 32:13

• 2 Corinthians 12

• James 4:3

• John 14:8–14

• Philippians 2:3–8

• 1 Corinthians 13:1–3

• Luke 22:42

• 2 Peter 2:4

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🔥 In all we do, we seek to:

🔥 Worship passionately
🤝 Connect authentically
📖 Grow deeply
🌍 Go boldly with the gospel

Talking with God When You Don’t Feel Like It: Honest Prayer & Changed Hearts

Is prayer really worth it? What’s the point if God already knows everything—or when it feels like He isn’t answering?

 

In this message, Pastor Adam helps us reframe prayer not as performance or obligation, but as an honest, ongoing conversation with a relational God- The Father. Through Psalm 73, Philippians 4, and James 5, we learn that sometimes the most powerful prayer we can pray is:

“God, change my heart.”

🛐 This message will encourage you to:
✅ Talk to God with raw honesty
✅ Keep praying even when it feels like nothing is happening
✅ Trust that sometimes prayer changes you before it changes your circumstances
✅ Believe again that prayer actually matters

 

📖 Scriptures:

• Psalm 73

• Philippians 4:4–6

• James 5:13–18

• 1 Kings 17–18 (Elijah)

• Psalm 139

• James 4:2

• John 15:5

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📍 Join us Sundays @ 9:15 AM
1120 Madison St., Jefferson City, MO
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🔥 We exist to:
🔥 Worship passionately
🤝 Connect authentically
📖 Grow deeply
🌍 Go boldly with the gospel

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