Fellowship Church Middlebrook

The Leaven of the Pharisees

July 26, 2026 • Luke 11:37–54, Luke 12:1–7

This Sunday, Greg teaches from Luke 11:37–12:7. Jesus confronts the Pharisees and religious experts for focusing on outward appearances while neglecting the condition of their hearts. He warns that religious rules and visible acts of obedience are meaningless when they replace justice, love for God, humility, and genuine holiness. Jesus identifies hypocrisy—not obedience itself—as the central danger, because pretending to be righteous cannot hide the truth from God, who sees and will reveal everything. Unlike the religious leaders, who placed impossible burdens on people without helping them, Jesus accomplishes what we cannot do and graciously gives us His righteousness. Therefore, believers are invited to stop hiding, confess their sin, and come honestly to Jesus, trusting that they are fully known, deeply valued, and transformed by His grace.

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Ask, Seek, Knock

July 19, 2026 • Devon Accardi • Luke 11:1–13

This Sunday, Devon teaches from Luke 11:1-13. Jesus invites His disciples not merely to learn how to pray, but to become people whose lives are deeply formed by prayer. The Lord’s Prayer gives believers a starting point rooted in intimacy with the Father, dependence on His provision, confession, forgiveness, and a desire for His kingdom. Jesus calls His followers to pray with shameless persistence—continually asking, seeking, and knocking while trusting that their Heavenly Father hears them. Even when God’s answers do not look like what we hoped for, we can trust that He is good, is not punishing or withholding from us, and knows what we truly need. Ultimately, the greatest gift of prayer is not simply answered requests but more of God Himself through the Holy Spirit, drawing us into deeper intimacy with Him and shaping our desires to reflect His heart.

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One Thing Necessary

July 12, 2026 • RD McClenagan • Luke 10:38–42

This Sunday, RD teaches from Luke 10:38–42, where Mary and Martha illustrate two different ways of relating to Jesus. Mary sits at His feet as a disciple, while Martha becomes distracted and overwhelmed by serving. Although Martha’s work is good, her anxious striving leaves her fragmented, reactive, and focused on controlling her circumstances rather than receiving from Christ. Jesus compassionately reminds her that only one thing is truly necessary, and Mary has chosen the better portion by prioritizing time with Him. The passage does not call believers to abandon responsibilities but to order their lives around abiding in Christ, allowing service and activity to flow from security in His love rather than a need for approval or control. Jesus continues to invite distracted and weary people to return to Him again and again, trusting His grace to unite their hearts and help them live at the pace of the Spirit. 

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The Gospel Preached to Abraham

July 5, 2026 • Caleb Raby • Genesis 15

This Gospel Sunday, Caleb Raby teaches from Genesis 15, showing how Abraham's questions reveal the deeper human longing to know, “Will everything be okay?” God first assures Abraham by pointing him to the stars, reminding him of His power and leading him to believe by faith. Yet Abram still asks how he can know for certain, and God responds by showing that He alone will secure the promise. This points forward to Jesus, who took the curse on Himself at the cross so that God’s people can be forgiven, brought near, and assured that He will keep every promise. Because of Christ, believers can face fear, suffering, uncertainty, and even death with confidence that God is good, trustworthy, and that one day everything will be made right. 

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The Great Commands

June 28, 2026 • Greg Pinkner • Luke 10:25–37

This Sunday, Greg teaches from Luke 10:25–37. Jesus uses the parable of the Good Samaritan to show that the command to love God and love our neighbor is not merely a moral lesson, but a deeper picture of salvation, mercy, and true faith. When the lawyer asks what he must do to inherit eternal life, Jesus points him back to Scripture, revealing that no one can perfectly love God with all their heart, soul, mind, and strength, which shows our desperate need for a Savior. The priest and Levite represent religious knowledge and position without mercy, while the Samaritan shows unexpected compassion by stopping, serving, and sacrificing for the wounded man. Jesus teaches that right belief and right living cannot be separated: true faith produces mercy, love, and action toward others.

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In and Out

June 21, 2026 • RD McClenagan • Luke 10:1–24

This Sunday, RD teaches from Luke 10:1-24, focusing on God saving people not merely for themselves, but to send them out as laborers in His harvest. Jesus commissioned the 72 disciples to go ahead of Him, showing that discipleship involves mission, partnership, dependence on God, and willingness to face resistance. The harvest is plentiful both globally and locally, so believers are called to pray earnestly for more workers, see every part of life as a mission field, and live for the sake of others as God uses our lives to prepare us for the good works He has already planned.

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Count the Cost

June 14, 2026 • Zach Hume • Luke 9:51–62

This Sunday, Zach Hume teaches from Luke 9:51-62, emphasizing that while salvation is a free gift of grace, following Jesus is costly and requires full surrender. Jesus’ journey toward Jerusalem shows His unwavering obedience to the Father, and His encounters with the Samaritans, James and John, and three would-be disciples reveal that He will not conform to our expectations, timelines, comforts, or cultural obligations. As believers, we need to ask when our discipleship last cost us something and warns against treating Jesus only as Savior while resisting Him as Lord. Life with Jesus is worth the cost and everything we may have to lay down.

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Follow Me

May 31, 2026 • Greg Pinkner • Luke 9:18–28

Greg Pinkner teaches from Luke 9:18-27 where Jesus asks His disciples the central question of faith—“Who do you say that I am?”—and Peter correctly confesses that Jesus is the Christ. While faith is lived in community, each person must personally answer that question and surrender to the real Jesus, not the version they want Him to be. Jesus reveals that His mission is not political conquest but suffering, rejection, death, and resurrection. To follow Him means denying ourselves daily, taking up our cross, and trusting that giving up what we cannot keep leads to receiving what we cannot lose. Christ takes away both our guilt and our shame, calling us out of darkness and into His restoring light. 

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A Table in the Wilderness

May 24, 2026 • RD McClenagan • Luke 9:1–17

RD McClenagan teaches from Luke 9:1-17. Jesus leads the disciples into the wilderness to teach them about God’s power, provision, presence, and purpose. Through the miracle of multiplying five loaves and two fish, Jesus shows that human weakness becomes the place where God’s power is displayed. The leftover baskets reveal God’s abundant provision, while the breaking of bread points forward to communion and the deeper promise of God’s presence through Christ and the Holy Spirit. Even in the wilderness seasons of our lives, we can trust that God is sovereign, present, and working all things together for good to make us more like Jesus.

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