Mineral Springs Church of Christ Podcast
Episodes
256 episodes
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...
Crazy Enough to Believe It (Part 2): It's in the Blood
What if the strangest book in your Bible holds the key to a fearless tomorrow? We walk from Leviticus to the cross and show how atonement—God’s costly covering—turns guilt into courage and roots audacious faith in something stronger than mood o...
Crazy Enough to Believe It, Part 1
Doors can be crowded, roofs can be fragile, and faith can look reckless right up until the moment it works. We walk through Mark 2 and the paralytic’s friends who refused to turn back, showing how rooms fill when Christ and his word are the cen...
Between a Rock and the Red Sea
Ever stood at a dead end with pressure closing in and no good options left? We open Exodus 14 and sit with Israel at the shoreline—mountains boxing them in, Pharaoh behind them, and the Red Sea ahead—then listen for what God actually says next....
Seek And Set Above
What if a single aim could simplify your decisions, steady your emotions, and align your plans for the year ahead? We sit with Colossians 3 and the charge to “seek the things above,” tracing how identity in Christ—buried with him in baptism and...
Walk Worthy
Grace changes the way we move through the world. We open Ephesians 4 and sit with Paul’s therefore, remembering that if God hadn’t acted, we’d still be stuck. That perspective reshapes our motivation: we don’t strive to earn heaven; we respond ...
First Things First
The clock won’t magically fix what last year left behind—but a God-first start can. We trace Noah’s journey from a flooded world to dry ground and discover why he built an altar before building a home. After a year and ten days inside the ark, ...
The Year of the Lord's Grace
A single line from Luke 4 can reorder a life: “Today this Scripture is fulfilled in your hearing.” We open the scroll with Jesus in Nazareth, connect Isaiah 61 to the synagogue moment, and show how He doesn’t just announce Jubilee—He is Jubilee...
Hope Anonymous
The room goes quiet when we admit it: some seasons don’t feel merry, and a new calendar can’t erase old pain. That’s why we turn to Isaiah 9 and Romans 8, not for platitudes, but for a promise strong enough to hold the weight of real life. We w...
Grace At The King's Table
A royal summons, a broken body, and a seat no one expects—this is the Christmas story most of us miss. We open 2 Samuel 9 and meet Mephibosheth, the fallen heir who expects judgment and receives a place at the king’s table. David’s question—“Is...
Walking Like a Christian
What if the real barrier to growth is our love of comfort? We walk through Ephesians with a simple framework—willingness, intentionality, and being Spirit-led—and show how grace turns ordinary days into holy ground. Paul’s story anchors the mes...