Mineral Springs Church of Christ Podcast
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266 episodes
The Heart Behind The Hallelujah
If you’ve ever wondered why your worship feels muted while your emotions feel loud everywhere else, Psalm 95 has something to say to you. We start with a simple but piercing question: what’s the heart behind your hallelujah? Because “praise the...
When The King Dies
Your sense of safety can vanish in a single sentence: “The king is dead.” That’s the emotional ground Isaiah stands on in Isaiah 6, and it’s why this sermon hits so close to home for anyone living with uncertainty about politics, the economy, f...
Rethinking Women And Teaching In Church
One verse has been used to end conversations, shut down questions, and shrink women’s participation to almost nothing. We decided to do the opposite: slow down, open the Bible, and read 1 Timothy 2:11-12 the way it was written, inside its conte...
The Crucified King
A crucifixion looks like defeat until you hear Acts 2:36 said out loud: God makes the crucified Jesus “both Lord and Christ.” We lean into that tension and follow Peter’s Pentecost sermon as it cuts through the noise, from the crowd accusing th...
He’s My King
Pilate’s question still lands like a punch: “What shall I do with your king?” When the crowd answers, “We have no king but Caesar,” it exposes how easy it is to trade Jesus for whatever feels safer, louder, or more familiar. We’re not willing t...
The Mercy Made Life: Spiritual Maintenance
You can go a long time without a warning light and still be one mile away from a breakdown. That’s the frame we use to talk about spiritual maintenance through Romans 12:1–2, where Paul’s call to a “living sacrifice” is not guilt-driven hustle ...
You Sold Me But God Sent Me
What if the moment you call betrayal is also the moment God calls assignment? We start with a plan to preach from Romans, then we pivot as the room and our hearts pull us into Genesis 45. Joseph finally stands face to face with the brothers who...
Is the Cost Too High
The price tag on faith is not always money. Sometimes it’s your weekend plans, your comfort, your reputation, or the moment you realize you’d rather stay quiet than be seen as different. We start with a simple question, “Is the cost too high?”,...
Building Christian Discipline When Life Pulls You Off Course
If you’ve ever felt like you “should” be more consistent but can’t seem to stick with it, this message hits that exact tension. We start with Romans 8:31, “If God is for us, who can be against us?”, and connect it to a very normal struggle for ...
Jonah and Perspective
A flat tire in a busy downtown can feel like the start of a terrible day, but zoom out and it might be the safest possible place for trouble to happen. We start there, because that’s how real life works: our first reaction is usually frustratio...
The Gospel In Our Scars
You can be cracked and still carry something priceless. We open 2 Corinthians 4 with Paul’s raw list of pressures and surprises, then we ask the question most people avoid: what if the pain you survived is part of your ministry, not proof you’r...
Bruised But Still Breathing
You can be faithful and still feel flattened by life. We start with Paul’s words in 2 Corinthians 4 and a simple, stubborn claim that lands like a lifeline: you may be bruised, but you are still breathing. That is not denial, and it is not hype...
A Father’s Motherly Comfort
God says He’s a Father and then reaches for a mother’s arms to explain what He’s like. That’s not a throwaway metaphor, it’s a deliberate invitation to anyone who’s tired of hustle religion and hungry for real comfort. We walk through Isaiah 66...
Canaan Is Not For Slaves
You can be free from Egypt and still think like a slave. That’s the tension we sit in as we preach from Deuteronomy 8 and name the uncomfortable truth: Canaan is not for slaves. God calls His people toward a good land, but the wilderness reveal...
Move It or Miss It
“You have stayed here long enough” is not just a line from Deuteronomy 1:6-8. It is the moment a stalled life gets named. We lean into Moses’ message to Israel and ask the question most of us avoid: what if the reason we haven’t grown is not la...
Shift: Letting Go and Leading On
You can miss your future by staring at your past. We open with Psalm 137’s heartbreaking scene by the rivers of Babylon, where God’s people grieve what they lost and feel like they have no song left. Then we pivot to Jeremiah 29, where God does...
Faith For The Struggle
If you’ve ever thought, “I can’t take one more thing,” this one meets you right there. We’re preaching straight from 2 Timothy 3:12–17, where Paul refuses to sell a soft, trouble-free faith. He says godly living comes with pressure, and the wor...
This Is Not A Funeral
A funeral procession is forming, the tears are real, and Jesus is stumbling under the weight of the cross, yet he turns to the mourners and says something shocking: stop weeping. That one command reframes Good Friday with Sunday certainty, and ...
At The Cross
Palm Sunday sounds like victory, but we don’t let the noise distract us from what’s around the corner. We walk straight into Isaiah 53 and let the text do what it always does when you listen closely: it slows you down. This is Jesus as the Suff...
Evangelism On A Dusty Road In Acts 8
A booming revival is happening and then God says, “Leave.” That’s the tension at the center of Acts 8, and it’s where Robert Peek takes us with a direct, practical message about evangelism, obedience, and what it means to talk to real people ab...
Jailhouse Revival
A demon speaks true words, a court turns violent, and two innocent men end up bleeding in stocks. That is the setup in Acts 16, but the real turning point comes at midnight when Paul and Silas do the one thing most of us would struggle to do in...
This Is a Call to Worship!
What if worship felt less like a script and more like a surge of honest praise? We open Psalm 96 and rediscover why singing is not filler between sermons but a vital way we bring our whole selves—gratitude, grief, need, and hope—before the livi...
Crazy Enough to Believe It (Part 4): Help Thou My Unbelief
What if the real battle isn’t your crisis, but your confidence in God inside it? We open Mark 9 at ground level—right where a father’s last hope collides with nine disciples who can’t help and a crowd that mistakes deliverance for disaster. Fro...
Walking Straight With A Limp
Fear has a way of exposing the limits of our best plans. When Jacob hears Esau is coming with four hundred men, the master strategist does what many of us do: he prays with sincerity, then quietly rebuilds his safety nets. Gifts in waves, divid...
Crazy Enough to Believe It (Part 3): But If Not . . .
What does courage look like when the stakes are life and death—and there’s no promise of a happy ending? We walk through Daniel 3 and the story of three exiles who refused to bow, even with a furnace roaring in front of them. Their reply to the...