Fellowship Church Middlebrook

Formed in Grief & Sorrow

October 19, 2025 • RD McClenagan • John 11:33–36

This Sunday, RD continued our fall series, More Like Him. Grief is the natural response to losing something or someone we love, and it shapes us in profound ways, often revealing the depth of our love. Jesus Himself was “a man of sorrows, acquainted with grief,” modeling honesty before God, compassion for others, and faithfulness in suffering. He wept with those who mourned, showing that our tears matter to Him and that grief can draw us nearer to His heart. Through loss, whether of dreams, relationships, health, or loved ones, we are invited to bring our sorrow to Christ, who transforms it into deeper faith, empathy, and hope. Because of Jesus—the one who bore our griefs and carried our sorrows—everything sad will one day come untrue, and even what was broken will be made more beautiful in His resurrection.

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Formed in Suffering

October 12, 2025 • RD McClenagan • Romans 5:1–5

This Sunday, RD continued our fall series, More Like Him. Suffering is one of the most formative realities of the Christian life—something God uses to reveal where our trust truly lies and to shape us into Christlikeness. Throughout the Bible, those whom God used most deeply were also those who suffered most profoundly. While we cannot always know why suffering comes, we can anchor ourselves in what is true: that God is sovereign, good, and present with us even in the valley. Suffering, then, becomes the place where God builds endurance, forms Christlike character, and reminds us of our dependence on Him. God wastes nothing—through pain and loss, He brings about endurance, compassion, and a hope that does not put us to shame because His love has been poured into our hearts by the Holy Spirit.

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The Practices: Prayer

October 5, 2025 • Zach Hume • Romans 8:26–27, Luke 11

This Sunday, Zach Hume continued our fall series, More Like Him. This week’s focus was on the spiritual practice of prayer. The way that we think about prayer—whether as requests, warfare, intimacy, or disappointment—shapes how we engage God. In Luke 11, the disciples asked Jesus to teach them to pray because they saw Him approach God with unique intimacy. Jesus revealed that prayer is not performance or ritual but relationship—the language of children speaking with their Father. When we see prayer as relational, it becomes something to enjoy, not master; to join in, not initiate; a gift, not a burden; a necessity for life with God; and a primary way we are formed to look more like Jesus.

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The Practices: Generosity

September 28, 2025 • Devon Accardi • 2 Corinthians 9:10–15

This Sunday, Devon continued our fall series, More Like Him. This week’s focus was on generosity, which is not a means to earn God’s favor, but a reflection of God’s own generous heart toward us. Generosity extends beyond money—it includes our words, dignity toward others, grace, and how we steward our resources. Ultimately, a life of generosity is a life lived for the sake of others, imitating the generous love of God shown in Christ.

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The Practices: Scripture

September 21, 2025 • RD McClenagan • 2 Timothy 3:16

This Sunday, RD continued our fall series, More Like Him. Jesus reminds His disciples that the Holy Spirit will come to teach, guide, and bring peace that the world cannot give. In a world marked by fear, chaos, and distraction, God’s Word stands as the unshakable foundation for His people. Scripture is the living voice of God, breathed out by the Spirit, meant to comfort, correct, and transform us. From Genesis to Revelation, the Bible reveals one story pointing to Jesus Christ, calling us to pay attention to what shapes our hearts and lives. God’s Word never returns empty but accomplishes His purposes, rooting us in truth, forming us into Christ’s likeness, and enabling us to overcome evil with good.

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Power to Abide

September 14, 2025 • RD McClenagan • John 17

This Sunday, RD continued our fall series, More Like Him. From the beginning in Genesis, the Spirit hovered over the void, shaping and filling creation step by step—just as He still works in our lives today to bring light, order, and life. Through Christ, the Spirit convicts us of sin, gives us new hearts, and empowers us to live with purpose as witnesses of Jesus. Though we still battle the desires of the flesh, the Spirit strengthens us to walk in His ways, producing fruit like love, joy, peace, and self-control. Ultimately, the Spirit comforts, helps, and reminds us of Jesus’ promises, filling us with peace and hope that God is making all things new.

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Mortification & Vivification

September 7, 2025 • Devon Accardi • Colossians 3:1–17

This Sunday, Devon continued our fall series, More Like Him. Colossians 3 shows that when we confess faith in Christ, we become new creations, reconciled to God, and invited into the lifelong process of sanctification. Though Jesus has accomplished all the saving work, God calls us to actively participate by putting sin to death (mortification) and living into our new life in Christ (vivification). This work goes beyond behavior modification—it addresses the deeper roots of sin in our hearts. God desires to shape us into lives of holiness and righteousness, inviting us to walk with Him, keep in step with the Spirit, and cultivate an interior life that reflects His design.

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Confession & Repentance

Aug 31, 2025 • RD McClenagan • 1 John 1:9, James 5:16

This Sunday, RD continued our fall series, More Like Him. 1 John 1, shows us that God is light, and to walk with Him means practicing truth by confessing sin rather than hiding it. Confession and repentance are central practices in the Christian life. Unconfessed sin leaves a heaviness in us compared with the freedom and blessing that comes when God covers and forgives. Confession and repentance are courageous, joyful gifts from God that draw us back into His light, restore fellowship, and shape us more into the likeness of Christ.

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Adoption & Restoration

August 24, 2025 • Devon Accardi • Romans 3:24

This Sunday, Devon continued our fall series, More Like Him. Looking at Romans 3:24 he looked at how through faith in Jesus, we are made new—regenerated with spiritual life and empowered by the Holy Spirit. The penalty of our sin is removed as God declares us justified, crediting us with the perfect righteousness of Christ. Our position changes as we are adopted into God’s family, moving from children of wrath to beloved sons and daughters who can call Him Father. These realities are not temporary but permanent—God’s love, presence, and promises can never be revoked. From this secure identity, we begin the lifelong process of spiritual formation, becoming more like Christ not to earn His love, but because we already belong to Him.

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Consequences of the Fall

August 17, 2025 • RD McClenagan • Romans 3:22–23

This Sunday, RD continued our fall series, More Like Him. He began by naming the deep sense of exile we all feel in a world that is not as it should be. Sin is not just an idea but the reality behind all the brokenness we experience. From Genesis 1–2, he showed that we are created by God, for God’s glory, to walk with Him, and to live in community with one another. In Genesis 3, humanity chose self over God, leading to shame, separation, and the unraveling of creation. Yet even in judgment, God moved toward His people with hope, pointing to the Redeemer who would defeat sin and restore us through Christ.

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