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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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🔥 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
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🔥 We exist to:
🔥 Worship passionately
🤝 Connect authentically
📖 Grow deeply
🌍 Go boldly with the gospel

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How to Talk to God: Learning a Life of Prayer (Luke 11)

When you think about God, what comes to mind? A distant judge? A cosmic boss? Or a compassionate Father who longs to be with you?

 

In this message, Pastor David opens our new series on prayer by showing how Jesus invites us not into performance—but into presence.

Through the aching words of the disciples, “Lord, teach us to pray,” we discover that prayer isn’t a skill to master—it’s a relationship to practice.

 

🔥 In this message, you’ll learn:

✅ Why prayer begins with longing, not technique

✅ How Jesus models a daily rhythm of abiding with the Father

✅ What the Lord’s Prayer teaches us about identity, dependence, and trust

✅ Why the torn temple curtain means you are welcome, not rejected

✅ How prayer is the gift of returning home again and again to God’s heart

 

📖 Key Scriptures:

• Luke 11:1–4

• John 3:16

• Hebrews 4:14–16; 10:19–22

• Matthew 27:50–51

• Exodus 26:31–33

• Psalm 23, 5, 63

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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

 

📖 “Lord, teach us to pray…” — Luke 11:1

In Our Place: The Cross, the Keys, and Our Living Hope

Jesus didn’t just die for Barabbas—He died for us. In our place.
And because He rose, the story doesn’t end at the cross—it begins there.

This Easter message, preached in two parts by Pastors David and Adam, begins with the sobering weight of our sin and ends with the living hope of the resurrection. Through the story of Barabbas, the cross, and the empty tomb, we are invited to surrender to the only One who holds the keys to death and life.

 

🔥 In this message, you’ll hear:

✅ Why Jesus died “in our place” (Matthew 27)
✅ What Barabbas teaches us about grace
✅ Why the resurrection is more than a happy ending—it's a new beginning
✅ What it means for Jesus to hold the keys to death and Hades
✅ Why hope in anything else will fail—but hope in Jesus transforms everything

 

📖 Key Scriptures:

• Matthew 27:15–26

• Romans 6:23

• Revelation 1:17–18

• 1 Peter 1:3

• 2 Corinthians 5:17

• John 11:25

• Acts 2:38

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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

Reframing Passover: Rhythm, Redemption, and Remembrance

What does a Jewish festival, a Seder meal, and the Last Supper have in common? Everything.

In this message, Pastor Adam brings the Passover to life, showing how Jesus redefined it to form a new covenant for all who believe.

 

🔥 In this message, you'll learn:
✅ Why rhythms, rituals, and remembrance matter
✅ How God used the Passover to form His people
✅ How Jesus transforms Passover into Communion (Luke 22)
✅ What it means to live in spiritual rhythm today
✅ Why remembering is more than thinking—it's practicing

 

📖 Key Scriptures:

• Luke 22:7–20

• Exodus 12

• Exodus 1:11–12

• Psalm 113

• 1 Thessalonians 5:18

 

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💒 Join us Sundays @ 9:15 AM
📍 1120 Madison St., Jefferson City, MO
🌐 Visit us online

 

📱 Stay connected:
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🎧 Find us on:
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📩 Prayer or questions? Email: getconnected@memorialchurch.net

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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.

 

📖 “Do this in remembrance of Me.” — Luke 22:19

The King You Can’t Ignore: Jesus’ Entry, the Rejected Cornerstone, and the Call to Follow

Jesus didn’t ride into Jerusalem quietly. He came in peace—but with authority. He fulfilled prophecy, confronted hollow religion, and demanded a response.

This Pre-Palm Sunday, Pastor David walks through Matthew 21 and shows how Jesus is The King You Can’t Ignore.

🐴 Colt – Peaceful, prophetic protest

🧥 Cloaks – Costly worship, surrender

🙌 Crying Out – Praise with expectations

👑 King – The King You Can’t Ignore

🧱 Cornerstone – Rejected, then exalted

✨ Calling – The Vindicated King Sends Us

 

🔥 In this message, you’ll explore:
✅ Why Jesus rode a donkey to declare peace (Zechariah 9:9)
✅ The meaning of the crowd’s cries and cloaks (Psalm 118, Matthew 21)
✅ How Jesus exposed false worship in the temple
✅ What it means to confess Jesus as King in everyday life
✅ How He sends us as people shaped by His Kingdom

 

📖 Key Scriptures:

• Matthew 21:1–13

• Zechariah 9:9

• Psalm 118

• Romans 10:9

• Philippians 2:10–11

• Revelation 19:16

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🔥 Our Mission

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.

📖 "Go therefore and make disciples of all nations..." — Matthew 28:18–20