In this compelling message, Pastor Sean Gleason explores what it truly means to engage in spiritual warfare, drawing from Matthew 28 and Ephesians 6. He unpacks the truth that principalities are high-ranking demonic spirits that reign over regions, cities, and nations with the primary goal of blinding the minds of unbelievers from seeing the light of the gospel. Pastor Sean challenges believers to be aware of the spiritual realm without becoming obsessed with it, keeping their focus fixed on Jesus who holds the highest authority.

Pastor Sean walks through the history of Waco, revealing how the city has partnered with principalities of dishonor, covetousness, the orphan spirit, and false religion, and calls the church to unseat each one by lifting up the highest authority. He warns that every act of disobedience surrenders spiritual authority to the enemy, while every act of obedience partners with Jesus and reclaims ground.

This message challenges believers to understand that you unseat principalities not by binding and rebuking in your own name, but by lifting up Jesus, repenting of any partnership with the enemy, speaking His name, and boldly preaching the gospel everywhere you go, because the great commission was never meant only for the pulpit.

The vision of Mercy Culture is to take people from corporate encounters with God to daily personal encounters with God.

At Mercy Culture, one of our unique characteristics is that we are a presence driven church. We are not built around any person or ministry. We are built around the presence of God. Each week, you will hear a teaching from our Lead Pastors, Sean and Natalie Gleason or another leader in our community.

To learn more about Mercy Culture, visit https://mercyculturewaco.com

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Pastor Zane teaches on the reality of spiritual warfare and the weapons God has given believers to stand against the Enemy. Through daily encounters, the Word of God, the name of Jesus, fasting, praise, and more, we are equipped to fight from a place of victory.

Pastor Jeremy Dunn of Kingdom Culture Church joins Landon Schott for a raw conversation about rushing into ministry too soon — and why speed is never your friend, obedience is.

Jeremy opens up about starting full-time ministry at 16, getting licensed as a pastor at 18, and launching his first church at just 28 — and looks back with honesty about how young that really was. He shares hard-won lessons on staying submitted to spiritual covering, what it cost him to plant early, and a gripping story about a staff member who couldn't wait for God's timing. Landon and Jeremy also get vulnerable about moral failure, the danger of "professional hiding," and a defining prayer Jeremy prayed the night his church exploded in growth.

If you're a young leader feeling the pressure to move fast, this conversation is a warning and a covering: don't rush your development — wait to be sent.

Unseating Principalities — In this message, we dive into biblical spiritual warfare and what it really means to fight against "principalities and powers" (Ephesians 6:12). Discover the four spiritual strongholds identified over Austin — Pride, Chaos, Profanity, and the Orphan Spirit — and learn the difference between foolish, self-focused spiritual warfare and the wise way Jesus modeled: unseating the enemy not by fighting harder, but by lifting up the highest authority.

Spiritual warfare isn’t about making demons bigger—it’s about lifting Jesus higher. In “Unseating Principalities,” Pastor Landon Schott teaches how to recognize spiritual forces at work and respond biblically through prayer, obedience, and resistance. Jesus is seated far above every principality, power, and authority—and our victory begins when we come under His authority.

Hear our Lead Pastor Jaco Booyens teach us how to win in spiritual warfare by putting Jesus in His rightful place as Lord of our lives!

In this episode of Holy Disruption, Pastor Heather sits down with her own spiritual sons — Sean Gleason, Ray Valdez, Paul Tremble, and Isaac Hector — for one of the most raw and real conversations yet. These are the men she has walked through suicidal ideation, panic attacks, pornography addiction, shame, deliverance, and the long road to freedom. This is what it looks like when a pastor actually builds people, not just a platform.

Pastor Will Ford declared with clarity that the war is already over — and the Church's assignment is not to fight for victory but to enforce it. Deliverance is never just FROM something; it is always TO Someone — from the penalty of sin, from the power of sin, and from the person of the evil one, every rescue ends in the arms of the Deliverer Himself. We hold delegated authority — exousia — over all the enemy's power, and We unseat principalities not by screaming at them, but by lifting Jesus highest until the lesser spirit has nowhere left to sit. We are planted on the east side of this city where competition has held a seat — and Our answer is unity, lifted up until rivalry has no room left to reign.

In this compelling message, Pastor Nikki Cody explores what it means to be a war horse for God in this hour, drawing from Jeremiah 1 and Revelation 19. She unpacks the truth that truth is not a concept, it is a person, and his name is Jesus Christ. Pastor Nikki challenges believers to stop fighting from a place of defeat and to recognize that the battle has already been won, that the church's assignment is simply to go onto the battlefield and do what God says.

Pastor Nikki warns that the enemy's greatest weapon is not the giants in the land but the distraction and fear that keep believers from fixing their gaze on the Rider. She calls the church to stop being moved by emotions, culture, politics, and popular opinion, and to return to an it is written theology rooted in the living word of God.

This message challenges believers to understand that war horses are not raised in comfort, they are forged in the fire of hidden seasons, trained in obscurity, and proven through resistance. Just as Jesus rides in on a white horse representing a victory already won, the church must awaken from apathy and become faithful carriers of His truth into every classroom, workplace, and family, bold enough to speak what they know even when culture pushes back.

The vision of Mercy Culture is to take people from corporate encounters with God to daily personal encounters with God.

At Mercy Culture, one of our unique characteristics is that we are a presence driven church. We are not built around any person or ministry. We are built around the presence of God. Each week, you will hear a teaching from our Lead Pastors, Sean and Natalie Gleason or another leader in our community.

To learn more about Mercy Culture, visit https://mercyculturewaco.com

In this message we learn that, some battles aren't against people — they're against a spirit that manipulates, isolates, and controls until you abandon what God called you to do. In this teaching, we expose the Jezebel spirit: who she was biblically, how she operates today through fear, manipulation, intimidation, and domination, and why Jesus doesn't just confront her — He confronts the church that tolerates her.

You'll learn the 10 characteristics of a Jezebel spirit, the two pitfalls that keep believers stuck (failing to discern it, failing to deal with it), and a real, personal testimony of walking out from under Jezebelic control into freedom. We'll unpack the story of Elijah and Jezebel, God's tender restoration of an exhausted prophet, and eight practical strategies for winning this fight — from staying in God's presence to closing the open doors in your own will.

This message closes with a prophetic word over Austin: a city caught in a spiritual tug-of-war between chaos and order, control and freedom — and a declaration that Austin belongs to Jesus.