When you find yourself facing conflict and criticism, how do you feel? Do you feel insecure? Do you feel sad? Do you feel angry? Do you feel hurt down inside? Or do you feel guilty? What are your real feelings when all of a sudden you find yourself [...]

Hi, I'm pastor Marcus Mecum. It is our honor that you chose to spend some time with us today. There's no greater privilege that we have than opening up the scriptures and sharing God's word with each and everyone of you. Before we get [...]

Peace be with you. Friends, I love the opportunity today to talk about the church's social teaching and the prompt comes from readings one and two, because they beautifully show, if you want, both sides of the church's social teaching, the [...]

This is an excerpt from: The Headship of Jesus - Part 1 I want to take this a step further and talk about the headship of Jesus over the church. This is the crux of this subject. Look for a moment with me, if you will, in Ephesians 5:23. Ephesians [...]

All of us enjoy being praised by someone who praises us sincerely. But when it comes to criticism, we're not quite so delightful to hear that. And so, when we think in terms of praise and criticism, the truth is all of our life we're gonna [...]

"Sticks and stones may break my bones, but words can never hurt me". That childhood chant probably ranks as the greatest all-time lie only surpassed by our parent's speech: this is going to hurt me more than it hurts you. Before they [...]

Before we start giving everybody else lessons, we have to think about what we're not so good at. And everybody's good at a bunch of stuff and everybody is not good at a bunch of stuff. These are, in case you're wondering what this [...]

Hey it's great to have you with us today at all of our Life Churches and our open network churches. We're in a message series called Relational Vampires. What do vampires do? They suck your blood. We're talking about in this message [...]

Hey, it's a great day to have church today. I'm excited to be with you guys. Welcome to all of our churches, all the way down into southern Florida meeting today without power, but no power will stop us from meeting in church. We love you [...]

The title of my message is Dealing With Criticism. Let's pray together. Father we ask for your blessing now as we open your word. Speak to us because you won't call us to serve you and to follow you, but when we do that, well we face [...]