Memorial Baptist Church Jefferson City

Starve the Flesh, Feed the Spirit | Fasting and the Bread of Life

What if fasting isn’t about conquering your body but opening your hands in submission and surrender?

This week’s sermon explores fasting not as a ritual for results but as a response to  focus on Jesus. From Moses and Elijah to Jesus in the wilderness, fasting has always been about remembering God, releasing control, and hungering for the Bread of Life.

🔥 In this message, you’ll discover:
✅ Why fasting isn’t for “spiritual superheroes” but for forgetful disciples
✅ The difference between fasting (food) and abstinence (distractions)—and why both matter
✅ How fasting helps us let go of control and re-focus on Jesus
✅ Why true fasting always leads to feasting on Christ, the Bread of Life. 
✅ THE BREAD THREAD!

📖 Key Scriptures:
Matthew 6:16–18 • Deuteronomy 8:3 • Joel 2:12 • John 6:35 • Galatians 3:13 • John 14:6

 

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How the Early Church Grew: Disciples, Deacons & Shepherds in Acts 6

What does a healthy church look like? Acts 6 gives us some blueprint.

This week, Pastor David unpacks how disciples, deacons, and shepherds serve different roles but share one mission, so the Word increases, disciples multiply, and Jesus is exalted

🔥 In this message, you’ll learn:
✅ How God uses ordinary people for extraordinary mission
✅ Why deacons “lead by serving” and pastors “serve by leading”
✅ How unity and mission thrive when each part of the body serves together
✅ Why Jesus is the meaning behind the mission, ministry, and church leadership- Jesus is everything!

 

📖 Key Scriptures:
Acts 6:1–7 • John 15:1–6 • Mark 1:15 • John 14:6

 

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Jesus Is Everything: Prayer as Love & Resistance | Ephesians 3 & 6

Have you ever considered prayer as an act of love and war/resistance?

This week, Pastor David walks through Ephesians 3 and 6, showing how Paul begins with prayer for love and ends with prayer as warfare. We stand together as one body in Christ—rooted in His love, resisting the powers of darkness/evil, and declaring that Jesus is everything.

🔥 In this message, you’ll explore:

✅ Why prayer begins in love before it moves to resistance
✅ How Paul calls the church to “stand firm” in Christ’s victory
✅ What it means to wear the armor of God
✅ How prayer unites us as one family against spiritual darkness
✅ Where idols, ideologies, and false loves demand our allegiance—and how Christ sets us free

 

📖 Key Scriptures:
Ephesians 3:14–19 • Ephesians 6:10–20 

 

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👉 Sabbath as Worship and Resistance: Trusting God in a World of Hurry

What if rest wasn’t just about slowing down—but about worship and resistance?
In this week’s sermon, Eric opens Isaiah 61, Mark 2, and Psalm 46:10 to remind us that Sabbath is more than a day off—it’s a declaration that we trust God, not our to-do list.

 

Discover:

🔵 Why Jesus declared “The Sabbath was made for man, not man for the Sabbath.”

🔵 How the “year of the Lord’s favor” points to freedom in Christ.

🔵 What it means to resist Babylon’s pattern of busyness and live in God’s provision.

 

📖 Scriptures:

- Isaiah 61:1–2

- Mark 2:23–28

- Psalm 46:10

 

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🕊️ Resting in Christ – Sabbath as Joyful Delight

You were made for joyful delight, not anxious striving.

In this week’s message, Pastor David unpacks Isaiah 58, Psalm 92, John 15, and Romans 5 to show how the Sabbath points us to the complete joy we can only find in Jesus Christ.

Week after week, sabbath calls us to remember the gospel!

Stop. Rest. Delight. Worship. In Christ alone.

 

📖 Key Scriptures: Isaiah 58:13–14 • Psalm 92:1-4 • John 15:9–11 • Romans 5:1–11

 

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The Rest Your Soul Was Made For_ Pastor Adam

We live in a culture that celebrates busyness, praises production, and pushes us to keep going, but God offers something radically different: rest. Not just physical rest, but the deep soul rest found in Him.

 

From creation in Genesis to the promise in Hebrews 4, God built rest into the fabric of His world and invites us to trust Him enough to stop striving.

🕊️ Resting in Christ: The Practice of Sabbath | Mark 2–3, Genesis 2, Matthew 11

Jesus didn’t just teach about Sabbath—He is our Sabbath.

In this message, Pastor David explores the deep, transformative rhythm of Sabbath, not as a rule to follow but as a weekly invitation to Stop, Rest, Delight, and Worship. More than a break from work, Sabbath is a holy protest against the lies of busyness, productivity, and self-sufficiency—and a return to the truth that Jesus is Lord, and we are not.

📖 Key Scriptures:
Mark 2:23–3:6, Genesis 2:1–3, Exodus 20:8–11, Isaiah 58:13–14, Matthew 11:28–30, 1 Peter 2:24, John 14:6

🔥 You’ll hear:
✅ Why Jesus is the Lord of the Sabbath
✅ How Sabbath is healing, salvation, and communion
✅ What it looks like to stop striving and trust God
✅ Why Sabbath is a weekly act of resistance and worship
✅ How to begin practicing Sabbath with joy and freedom

 

🙌 Weekly Practice:
This week, block time to STOP and REST—not just physically, but spiritually. Reflect on what keeps you from resting. Let go of control and trust the One who holds it all together.

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Strength in Solitude: Meeting God When You Feel Weak | Pastor Nathan

Jesus often withdrew to lonely places—and so should we.

This message from Nathan challenges us to meet God in solitude, not just when it’s easy, but especially when we feel overwhelmed, tempted, or weak. In the quiet, God doesn’t shame our weakness — He strengthens us with grace.

🔑 Sermon Highlights:
• Jesus shows us the rhythm of retreating to the Father
• Weakness is not failure — it’s the doorway to divine strength
• God is not glorified by your exhaustion, but by your surrender

📖 Mark 1 • Matthew 26 • John 6 • 2 Corinthians 12 • Philippians 2

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

🎧 Note: We experienced some audio issues during the recording of this message. Thanks for your patience and understanding. Should be back up to normal next week. :-) 

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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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