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In short, Memorial is a Gospel-Centered Church that believes Jesus is everything and through faith/belief/trust in Jesus we pursue following Him together as one family. We believe that God places His people together in the context of a local body of believers (His church), not by accident, but for the Spirit-empowered purpose of glorifying Him through repenting and believing the Gospel of His son, Jesus Christ. Through His church we see His kingdom come and His will being done as He makes all creation right and new. In all we do we seek to worship the Lord passionately, connect with each other authentically, grow to know the Lord deeply, and go and share the gospel boldly as One Body in Christ.
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8 hours ago
8 hours ago
We used to ask marriage to help us survive. Then to make us happy. Now we're asking it to complete us - without the time, investment, or foundation to carry that weight.
Paul wrote Ephesians 5:21–33 into a first-century Roman world where wives were property and household codes told everyone their place. What he said instead was a bomb detonating in that culture - and it still is.
In this message, Pastor David walks through three movements: Paul responds to the tension of his world and ours. Paul gives us a picture- the marriage dance. And then Paul pulls back the curtain on something most people miss entirely.
This passage was never just about marriage. It was always about the Bridegroom.
In this message:
- Why Paul's word to husbands - love - had never appeared in a household code before
- What submission and headship actually mean when you define them the way Paul does
- The pastoral word on abuse - what this text does and does not say
- Four pieces of marriage advice from Pastor David and Nikki
- Why Genesis 2, not Genesis 3, is the foundation - and what the fall actually distorted
Key Scriptures: Ephesians 5:21–33 • Genesis 2–3 • Galatians 3:28 • Philippians 2:5–8 • 1 Corinthians 7:4 • Revelation 19 • Romans 3:23; 6:23; 10:9–10
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5 days ago
5 days ago
Music is fascinating. Singing lowers cortisol, raises oxytocin, releases endorphins, and bonds strangers faster than any other group activity. God didn't invent singing for humans - He built it into the human body and wired it into every culture on earth.
And Paul says: when you are filled with the Spirit, you sing.
In Ephesians 5:19–21, Pastor David walks through what a Spirit-filled church actually sounds and looks like - four movements that are anything but random. A sound. An absolute. A name. An order.
And at the end of it all is this: when the church sings, gives thanks, and arranges itself in humility - we are not doing something small. We are rehearsing the future. Every Sunday. Every song. Every act of gratitude. Every moment of submission. We are practicing now what all creation will one day confess.
In this message:
- Why God built singing into the human body before He ever commanded it
- The horizontal and vertical directions of worship - and why Paul gives us both at once
- Why Christian thanksgiving is not denial. It is defiance.
- What hupotassō (submission) actually means - and why Jesus is its clearest definition
Key Scriptures: Ephesians 5:19–21 • Psalm 19; 96; 148 • Job 38 • Exodus 15 • Matthew 26:30 • Acts 16; 4:12 • Revelation 5 • 1 Thessalonians 5:18 • Romans 10:13 • Philippians 2
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Sunday May 17, 2026
Sunday May 17, 2026
We live in the most entertained, most medicated, most connected moment in human history. And we are emptier than ever.
We reach for things to fill us. And they don't.
Paul saw this same pattern in Ephesus two thousand years ago - a city drunk on wine and the worship of Dionysus, chasing fullness in all the wrong places. And into that world he wrote: don't be drunk with wine. Be filled with the Spirit.
In this message, Pastor David walks through Ephesians 5:15–21 in three movements - the trajectory, the waste, and the foundation - and shows that the question was never about a line. It was always about who is in control of you.
In this message:
- The ancient two-path wisdom tradition and why everyone is trajecting toward something
- What kairos means — and why the wise person seizes moments instead of drifting through them
- The Dionysus cult in Ephesus and why Paul's audience felt the word asōtia in their bones
- Why the things we reach for to fill us — screens, substances, approval, work — hollow us out instead
- What "be filled with the Spirit" actually means — and why it's reception, not self-effort
Key Scriptures: Ephesians 5:15–21 • Psalm 1 • John 6:40; 14:6 • Matthew 7:24–27 • 1 Corinthians 6:12 • 1 Peter 5:8 • Acts 4:12 • Romans 10:9–10
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Sunday May 10, 2026
Sunday May 10, 2026
We live in a culture that worships sex. And honestly? So did Ephesus.
Temple prostitutes. Sensual parades. Fertility rituals. The city Paul was writing to wasn't so different from the billboards lining the highway today. And into that world, he writes: be imitators of God.
That's an impossible standard. And that's exactly the point.
In this message, Pastor Jimmy walks through Ephesians 5:1–16 and does something most sermons on this topic don't do - he refuses to give you a line. Because this isn't about how close you can get to the edge. It's a heart issue. A worship issue.
What does it look like to imitate God in the way we treat our bodies, the words we speak, and the jokes we laugh at? And what does wisdom actually look like when the days are evil?
In this message:
- Why the church of Ephesus and our culture are not as different as we think
- Two caveats that frame everything: no line-drawing, and this is about us - not them
- What porneia actually means - and why it's bigger than most people think
- Why crude joking degrades image-bearers of God (and why that matters)
- What "no inheritance in the kingdom" means - and what it doesn't
- How sanctification, struggle, and the gospel all fit together
Key Scriptures: Ephesians 5:1–16 • Genesis 1–2 • Matthew 5:27–28 • 1 Corinthians 5:9–13 • John Stott on vulgarity and thanksgiving
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Sunday May 03, 2026
Sunday May 03, 2026
Last week: put off the old self. Be renewed. Put on the new.
This week Paul gets specific. The new self has to show up somewhere - in your words, your anger, your hands, your forgiveness. It has to have a face.
In Ephesians 4:25–5:2, Paul gives a list. But this is not random moral advice. Every command is anchored to one controlling truth: we are members of one another. What you do in the body either builds it up or tears it down. And Paul drops two spiritual reality statements as bookends around the whole thing - give no foothold to the devil, and do not grieve the Holy Spirit.
There is no neutral act in community. Everything carries spiritual weight.
In this message, Pastor David walks through seven movements - from truth and lies, to anger and the foothold, to corrupt speech, to forgiveness - and shows what happens when the life of Jesus actually gets formed in a community of people.
In this message:
- Why lying destroys the one thing a body runs on - trust
- How unresolved anger becomes a beachhead for the enemy
- Why Cain is the case study for Ephesians 4:27
- The three tests for every word you speak
- What forgiveness actually costs - and why the cross is the only place to find it
Key Scriptures: Ephesians 4:25–5:2 • Genesis 4:6–7 • Mark 3:5 • John 8:44; 11:33 • Matthew 5:21–26; 20:28 • James 1:20; 3 • John 13:35
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Sunday Apr 26, 2026
Sunday Apr 26, 2026
Everything is technically there. Nothing is missing. But the order is completely wrong - and it changes everything.
That's the image Pastor David opens with. Socks over boots. And it's the perfect picture of what disordered desire actually does to a human soul.
Johnny Cash wrote "I Walk the Line" as a pledge to himself - play it straight, be faithful, hold the line. Then came the pills. The drinking. The unraveling. Turns out watching your own heart isn't enough. You cannot walk the line on your own.
In Ephesians 4:17–24, Paul traces what happens to a soul when desire gets inverted - from futility, to darkened understanding, to callousness, to insatiable craving for more. And then he shows the only way out: not reform, not self-improvement, not trying harder. Put off the old self. Be renewed. Put on the new through Christ alone!
You cannot fix what is corrupting at the core. You need transformation from outside yourself.
In this message:
- Why desire itself is not the problem - the order is
- The serpent's strategy in Genesis 3 and why nothing has changed
- Paul's word for the Gentile mind: mataiotes - futility, vapor, breath
- The insatiable craving that disordered desire always produces
- Why "put on the new self" is not self-improvement - it's restoration to original design
Key Scriptures: Ephesians 4:17–24 • Genesis 2–3 • 1 John 2:16 • James 1:14–15 • John 14:6 • Romans 1 • Acts 2:38
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Sunday Apr 26, 2026
Sunday Apr 26, 2026
We throw the word diversity around a lot. But what if we've been thinking about it all wrong?
In Ephesians 4:7–16, Paul picks up right where unity left off — and then pivots. He says: yes, we are one body. But grace was given to each one of us according to the measure of Christ's gift. We're not just united. We're uniquely, individually equipped.
In this message, Pastor Jimmy traces the language of victory and spoils all the way from Psalm 68 through the Exodus to the cross — and shows how Jesus, having conquered sin and death, distributes the spoils of that victory as gifts of grace to His people. Not for our comfort. For the work of ministry.
Your gifts aren't an accident. They're a grace. And they're not just for you.
In this message:
- Why biblical diversity looks nothing like corporate diversity
- What "ministerial grace" means — and why it applies to everyone, not just pastors
- How Christ's ascent and descent connect to the gifts He gives the church
- Why fulfilling physical needs is the conduit to reaching the spiritual
- How diversity of gifts is actually what produces unity in the body
Key Scriptures: Ephesians 4:7–16 • Psalm 68 • Exodus 3 • Philippians 2:5–11 • Matthew 25
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Wednesday Apr 15, 2026
Wednesday Apr 15, 2026
What if the greatest threat to the church isn’t from the outside- but from within?
In Ephesians 4, Paul calls believers to “walk worthy” of their calling by maintaining unity in the Spirit. This message from Pastor Adam reveals why unity is not secondary- but essential to the life and mission of the church.
🔥 In this message, you’ll discover:
✅ Why unity carries weight in God’s eyes
✅ How Satan uses lies to divide the church from within
✅ What it means to “walk worthy” in everyday life
✅ How humility, patience, and love protect unity
📖 Key Scriptures: Ephesians 4:1–6 • John 17:20–21 • Proverbs 6:16–19
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Monday Mar 23, 2026
Monday Mar 23, 2026
How do you come to know something that is beyond knowing?
That's the question driving Ephesians 3:14–21. Paul kneels in a Roman prison and prays for believers to know the love of Christ - a love that surpasses knowledge. Not the kind of thing you think your way into. The kind of thing you receive your way into.
And at the center of it is one of the most intimate images in all of Scripture: Christ not as a guest who drops by, not as a landlord who checks in - but as someone who wants the deed. Who wants to move in. Permanently. And call it home.
C.S. Lewis pictured eternity as a country where the deeper you go, the bigger it gets - further up and further in, forever. That's exactly what Paul is praying for here. A love with no ceiling, no end.
Five movements in Paul's prayer:
1️⃣ The Posture - A prisoner kneels. Before a word is said, his body is already preaching.
2️⃣ The Problem -You need something you cannot generate yourself.
3️⃣ The Gift - Christ making His permanent home in you by the Spirit.
4️⃣ The Fullness - A love with four dimensions. You need the whole body to begin to see its size.
5️⃣ The Overflow - Resurrection power already at work, producing praise that outlasts history.
You'll discover:
- What Paul's kneeling reveals about how he prays — and what it says about how we should
- The Greek word katoikeō — what it means for Christ to "dwell" in you vs. just visit
- The temple thread from Tabernacle to Pentecost to your own heart
- Why C.S. Lewis's The Last Battle perfectly pictures what Paul describes in v.19
- Why the love of Christ can't be fully known alone — and what that means for the church
📖 Key Scriptures: Ephesians 3:14–21 • 1 Kings 8 & 18 • Daniel 6:10 • Ezra 9:5 • Acts 1:8 • 1 Corinthians 3:16; 6:19 • Revelation 21
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Sunday Mar 15, 2026
Sunday Mar 15, 2026
Paul sits down to pray - and can't do it. He gets one sentence in and goes on the most theologically explosive detour in all of his letters. He can't help himself. What God has done in Christ is too staggering to skip past.
What stopped him? A mystery. Not the kind you solve with enough brains - the kind only God can reveal.
In Ephesians 3:1–13, Paul finally names it: Jews and Gentiles, insiders and outsiders, people who had no business being in the same room - made co-heirs, co-body, co-partakers of the same promise. Together. In Christ.
And here's what blows the roof off: that unity isn't just for us. Every time a divided people becomes one in Christ, the powers of darkness see it and know they've lost.
The church is God's cosmic billboard. And the secret is out.
In this message, Pastor David covers:
✅ What Paul means by "mystery" - and why no amount of human intelligence gets you there
✅ The arc from Babel to Babylon to the New Jerusalem - and where the church fits right now
✅ Three explosive Greek words Paul stacks in one verse: co-heirs, co-body, co-partakers
✅ Why your unity with other believers is a declaration of war on the powers of darkness
✅ What it means to approach God not nervously, but boldly - because of a finished work
Key Scriptures: Ephesians 3:1–13 • Genesis 1–11 • Acts 2 • John 17 • Revelation 7:9 • Revelation 21 • Matthew 6:10
🙌 Join us Sundays @ 9:15 AM 1120 Madison St., Jefferson City, MO
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