Listen as Mike shares an encouraging devotional to offer inspiration for this New Year!
Mike shares about his New Year's resolution and how the Lord has encouraged him through a heart posture of "Eyes Up, Hands Open."I lift up my eyes to the mountain — where does my help come from? My help comes from the Lord, the maker of heaven and earth. - Psalm 121:1-2
Join Mike as he looks at Genesis 32 and how God "blessed" Jacob in a place of struggle and conscious weakness. Whatever place you are in today, ask God to bless you "here"...in that place. He is faithful!
While casting vision for our 2016 festival in Trujillo, Peru, Mike shared a message on Exodus 14, where the Israelites find themselves stuck between a pursuing army and an unforgiving landscape. What happens when our faith in a good God collides with our experience of the rock and the hard place? Is God still present in our deep pain?
In this sermon at Cedar Grove Community Church in Livermore, California, Mike explores how 2 Corinthians 4 helps us keep walking in faith when we feel blindsided by pain, grief, and suffering.
Join Mike for a few encouraging thoughts and a simple idea for sharing your faith.
There are so many wonderful ways to share our faith using simple examples from everyday life. This week, join Mike for three short reflections on the nature of God's grace and salvation.
Why does baptism matter? Does it “do” anything? More importantly, what doesn’t it “do”? Today, Mike will help us explore this topic in Scripture and answer these questions.
Evangelism can seem like a scary, super-religious word. So what does the Bible actually say about sharing our faith, and how can we begin to do so in our current culture? It might be as simple as asking, “Would you like fries with that?” Join Mike as he helps us consider simple ways to share the Good News with our friends and family.
For being the best selling book of all time, the Bible can be really confusing. Why do Christians read the Bible? How should Christians read the Bible? Mike tackles these questions and offers practical tools for this important part of the Christian life.
In this final episode of the One More series, this theme of the crowd vs. the one appears yet again. Where some may fixate on the crowds around them, Jesus always sees the one, and this story in Luke’s Gospel shows us what’s possible when desperate faith that won’t stop dreaming encounters the life-changing power of Jesus.
Is it possible to have physical sight and still be spiritually blind? In today’s episode of the One More series, Jesus is surrounded by a crowd of people, but the only one who truly sees Him is a blind beggar. Join Mike as he explores this story and what it might mean for us today.
When there’s no room in the house for a man in desperate need of healing to access Jesus, his friends get creative. In this episode of the One More series, Mike reminds us that following Jesus usually costs more than we currently carry. Could it be that creating space for the forgotten ones to see Jesus is worth even wrecking the roof?
In this second episode of the One More series, Mike brings the parable of the lost sheep in Luke 15 to life. Is it possible that this story tells us more about the Shepherd than the sheep? What does it look like to rescue a lost sheep? Join Mike as he invites us to see why leaving the 99 to search for the one is always worth it to the Good Shepherd.
Today’s episode kicks off a five-week series titled One More. In these sessions from a 2019 conference, Mike explores God’s heart for pursuing each of us as individuals. Jesus often taught large crowds, but He also sought out the person on the fringe, the outsider no one else bothered to see. He offered healing and hope one person at a time. Is it possible that this “One More” approach still applies today? Join Mike as he shares why “One More” is still the heartbeat of evangelism.
What does the Bible say about going to church? What kind of church should we go to? These questions can feel overwhelming, whether you’re a new believer or have been following Jesus for years! Today, Mike will look at what Scripture says about faith communities and make some recommendations as you search for a church home.
In John 4, Jesus has a conversation with a woman about the nature of “true worship” that is fascinating even today, some 2,000 years later! The word “worship” gets used a lot, but how does God define worship, and what does that mean for us? Join Mike as he dives into this story in John and helps us unpack this question for us today.
Whether you’re a new believer or longtime follower of Jesus, we all have questions. What do we do with these questions? Do they mean we don’t have faith? Where can we turn for answers? Mike explores all this in today’s episode, geared at new believers but applicable for us all!
In this second installment of our series in Hebrews 11, Mike reminds us that, in the end, we trust God as much as we choose to trust God, and Regi Stone shares a worship song.