Marysville Christian Church Sunday Messages

It can be incredibly frustrating, to deal with people who think that life revolves around them. However, this frustration frequently reveals that we want their life to revolve around us. In today's message, we approach this conflict by looking to Jesus as our model, for living life the way that God intended.

When you need guidance where to you typically turn? Do you rely on instict? Perhaps a routine? Maybe family members, friends, or coworkers. With Technology maybe it's Siri, Google, or Alexa. How do we seek the proper guidance? In order to look more like Jesus we need to find out where He went for guidance. We explore that in today's message.

Jesus was our model for what obedience to God looks like. He not only showed us that it can be done but also how to get it done. In today's message, we explore how to overcome defiance and live in obedience to God so that we can look more like Jesus!

When it comes to prayer, we can get super self-conscious about our own inadequacies. We oftentimes don't think we have the right words and sometimes our prayers come out of a selfish - self-serving heart. But the fact of the matter is if we are to be more like Jesus we need to pray. Jesus depended on prayer because Jesus depended on His Heavenly Father.

1 Peter tells us 'it is written, "Be Holy, for I am Holy".' What does that mean? And how do we do that? Our special guest speaker and long-time friend, Mr. Anthony Whitley takes some time to help us understand what it means and the implications of being "set apart" in today's message.

As Christians, we tend to be sensitive to accusations of “Hypocrisy”, but the reality is that Religious Hypocrites are nothing new. Jesus confronted people who claimed to be right with God but weren’t as they were putting on a show. Isaiah confronted those who honored God with their words but their hearts were far from Him. With this, our own inconsistency with being Christ-like can be overwhelming & intimidate us. But there’s hope for people who want to stop pretending and start living like Jesus. We explore this in today's message.

What would it look like if Jesus were to live the life we are living? Do we truly know Him to the point where we adopt His character? Today we explore the scriptures to see what it means when we are told to conduct ourselves the way Jesus did.

We all have that voice that’s a running commentary. The question is what is it that ends up getting stuck in our heads? Sometimes it can be songs or events but it can also be those stupid things that you might have said or something that was said to you. The typical dad advice of "just stop thinking about it" just isn't that simple. In fact, it often makes things worse as we end up fixating on those things. But we have to realize that our thoughts have incredible power. Today as we continue our series and continue in Philippians 4 we take some time to evaluate what it is we are thinking.

In Max Lucado's book, "Anxious for Nothing" he says "The presence of anxiety is unavoidable, but the prison of anxiety is optional." In today's message, we explore this concept as we read through Philippians chapter 4.

We don’t always get things right when we’re worried and need help to get back on track. In today’s message, we look at an example of this with Elijah and how things went with King Ahab and Jezebel in 1 Kings 19.