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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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Fire. Smoke. Thunder. A trumpet blast shaking the whole camp. And the first thing this mountain-shaking God says is not a command — it's a relationship.
I am the LORD your God, who brought you out of Egypt.
Rescue before requirement. Character before command. That's the shape of everything that follows — including the first commandment.
In this message, Pastor David walks through Exodus 20:1–3 in three movements: God's character as a Father who claims and rescues before He commands, the first commandment and what al-panai really means, and the fulfillment in Jesus Christ — who is the same voice from the burning bush, now shed in blood to rescue you from the one slavery no Pharaoh could reach.
In this message:
- Why the first commandment is the floor everything else is built on
- The Hebrew al-panai — four directions: before, beside, instead of, and against
- Why God says "other gods" — and what the Bible actually says about whether they exist
- The amnesia thread: Israel forgot, the Pharisees forgot, and we forget too
- Why your sin, your shame, and your worst decision don't get to name you — only Jesus does
Key Scriptures:
Exodus 20:1–6 • Genesis 17 • Exodus 34:6 • Matthew 22:36–40 • John 8:31–34 • John 14:6 • Romans 5:8; 6:23; 10:9, 13
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Jul 7, 2026
Jul 7, 2026
48 min
In the first 52 chapters of the Bible, God never gives a name. Then Moses asks — and everything changes.
I AM WHO I AM. Not a title. Not a proper noun. A verb. The only being in existence with the power and authority to completely self-identify.
In this message, Pastor Nathan walks through Exodus 3, the meaning behind Yahweh, and the moment Jesus stands in the temple and says — before Abraham was, I AM. The Jewish leaders picked up stones. They understood exactly what He was claiming.
And then Paul says: that name is now on you.
In this message:
- Why God never named Himself to Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, or even Enoch — and why He named Himself to Moses
- The grammar behind Yahweh — and why Jehovah is actually a scribal workaround
- Why Jesus saying "I AM" in John 8 caused people to pick up stones
- How Peter's bold claim in Acts 4 connects directly to the burning bush
- What it means that through adoption, you now bear the name of God
Key Scriptures:
Exodus 3–4 • John 8:58 • Acts 4:12 • Romans 8:15–17 • Philippians 2:9–11
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Jul 7, 2026
Jul 7, 2026
50 min
Every ancient culture had a creation story. In most of them, the gods are at war. Creation comes from violence. Humans are an afterthought.
Then Genesis opens. God speaks. No conflict. No chaos. He simply speaks - and calls it good.
This God is different. He speaks to His children, not as slaves, but with blessing. He gives boundaries not to cage them, but to keep them. And when they broke those boundaries anyway, He didn't go silent. He came Himself.
This is the opening message of our Ten Commandments series — and it begins where the commandments actually begin: with the character of the God who gave them.
In this message:
- How Genesis 1 compares to every other ancient creation story - and why the difference matters
- Why God's first words to humanity were a blessing, not a restriction
- What the garden command reveals about the character of God as Father
- How Jesus treated the Ten Words - and what He said they're really for
- Why Jesus is not just the message of God, but the Word of God made flesh
Key Scriptures:
Deuteronomy 30:19–20 • Genesis 1–2 • Hebrews 1:1–2 • John 1:1, 14 • Matthew 22:37–40 • Galatians 2:21 • Jeremiah 31:33
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Jun 21, 2026
Jun 21, 2026
50 min
When musk oxen are threatened, they don't scatter and fight alone. They form a tight, outward-facing circle — every animal protecting the one beside it. That's closer to what Paul had in mind in Ephesians 6 than anything Hollywood has given us.
Paul wasn't writing to lone soldiers. He was writing to a family- the church. And the armor he describes was never a private kit. It's God's own armor, worn together, piece locking into piece, shield overlapping shield.
In this final message of the Ephesians series, Pastor David walks through the full armor of God — truth, righteousness, peace, faith, salvation, the Spirit — and the vision of corporate prayer that follows it, closing out the letter on grace, peace, and love that never decays.
In this message:
- Why every piece of armor belonged to God first - before it ever belonged to Rome
- The belt of truth, breastplate of righteousness, and gospel shoes — and what they mean for daily life
- The Roman shield-wall (testudo) and why faith was never meant to be carried alone
- Why the helmet of salvation defends the mind, not just the heart
- How we are meant to be a family together- standing in battle as one in Christ
Key Scriptures:
Ephesians 6:10–24 • Isaiah 11:5; 52:7; 59:17 • Ephesians 1:2; 2:8–9, 14; 4:21 • Romans 12:2 • 1 Peter 5:8–9 • 1 Thessalonians 5:8 • John 14:6, 26
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Jun 16, 2026
Jun 16, 2026
53 min
"There is no neutral ground in the universe. Every square inch, every split second is claimed by God and counterclaimed by Satan." — C.S. Lewis
Paul opens Ephesians 6 with a command: be strong. Not in yourself- in the Lord and in the strength of His might. The same resurrection power that raised Jesus from the dead is the power available to you right now.
But you need to know what you're up against.
In this message, Pastor David walks through three movements - the strength we need, the enemy we face, and the stand we make - and shows that the battle is real, the enemy is specific, and the ground has already been won in Jesus Christ.
In this message:
- Why Paul's "finally" means "here's how you live from here on out"
- The four postures of Ephesians: seated, walking, standing — and what they mean
- Why the devil has titles but no name — and what that tells us
- How the enemy works through people without making people the enemy
- Why you're already in the evil day — and what standing firm actually looks like
Key Scriptures:
Ephesians 6:10–13 • Ephesians 1:19–21; 2:6 • Psalm 1 • Isaiah 59 • John 8:44; 14:6 • Matthew 28:18 • James 4:7 • 1 Peter 5:8–9 • Revelation 12; 20
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Jun 11, 2026
Jun 11, 2026
42 min
Paul doesn't give us a code. He gives us wisdom.
In Ephesians 6:1–9, he addresses children, parents, slaves, and masters - not with an equation, but with a posture. A direction. A heart. And two words that sound similar but mean something very different: obey and honor.
One is for a season. One is for a lifetime.
In this message, Pastor Jimmy unpacks what it means to listen under your parents as a child - and what it means to give weight and value to them as you grow. He tells the story of his son Roman and the van. He tells the story of sneaking out to church in an Iowa winter in the back of a pickup truck. And he asks the question every person with complicated parents eventually has to answer: what do you do when honoring your parents and obeying God pull in different directions?
In this message:
- The Greek distinction between obey (listen under) and honor (give weight and value)
- Why Paul says obedience is just "common sense" - and why that matters
- Why Jesus, Lord of Lords, was submissive to Mary and Joseph
- What Proverbs says about the long-term fruit of honoring vs. scorning
- Where the line is when parents ask you to go against God's word
Key Scriptures: Ephesians 6:1–9 • Proverbs 1:8–9; 13:1; 30:17 • Luke 2:51 • Galatians 3:28 • Colossians 3:23
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May 31, 2026
May 31, 2026
50 min
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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May 27, 2026
May 27, 2026
36 min
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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May 17, 2026
May 17, 2026
39 min
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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May 10, 2026
May 10, 2026
35 min
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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