In this message, Senior Lead Pastor Landon Schott confronts inner vows—when your heart has already decided what it will do before God ever speaks. Through the story of Esau, it shows how those quiet, internal decisions can lead you to miss what God has for you. This traces how inner vows form in pain and fear, and calls you to recognize them, repent, and return to alignment with His will before they shape your life.

Most leaders aren't taken out by sin — they're taken out by offense.

In this message, Pastor Jaco explains that reformation is not behavior modification—reformation is returning to God’s original design. It is recognizing where something has drifted from truth, allowing the blood of Jesus to redeem it, and allowing the Redeemer to reform it back into the image and intent of God. Reformation is not sustained by moments in the church; it is sustained by daily encounters with God. 

In this message, Pastor Maggie Wakefield unpacks the power of solitude as a pathway to deep, personal encounters with God, drawing from the life of Moses and the “tent of meeting” where God spoke with him face to face. She challenges the idea that the wilderness is empty, revealing instead that it is often the place where God’s voice is clearest and intimacy is formed. Through biblical examples like David, Jacob, and Jesus, she shows that transformation, identity, and direction are all birthed in moments of intentional separation with God. The message exposes the key enemies of solitude—distraction, busyness, internal avoidance, and isolation—and calls believers to reclaim a lifestyle of undistracted devotion. Pastor Maggie also provides practical steps to cultivate solitude through scheduling, separating, silencing, and staying, emphasizing that intimacy with God must be intentional. Ultimately, this message is a prophetic call to make room for God, positioning this year as one marked by holy visitations, deeper friendship with the Holy Spirit, and a move from surface-level connection into true intimacy with Him.

In this message with Senior Lead Pastor, Landon Schott, we learn about connecting with God through fasting — denying the flesh to strengthen the spirit and hear His voice. Through Jesus’ fast in Matthew 4, we see that spiritual authority is formed in private surrender, not public moments, proving that fasting doesn’t remove the battle, it prepares you for it and positions you for deeper encounters with God.

In his message, Pastor Chris Cheema reveals the power of connecting with God through movement. Drawing from Biblical examples, he emphasizes how physical movement can bring us into God’s presence, whether it’s walking, running, or dancing. From Joshua’s march around Jericho to Jesus calling us to follow Him, movement is not just a physical act—it’s a spiritual one. Through movement, we align ourselves with God's direction, respond to His presence, and walk in His authority. Pastor Chris challenges us to move intentionally, bringing the Kingdom of God wherever we go.

On Holy Disruption, host Heather Shott interviews Pastor Josh McPherson (Gray City Church; Stronger Man Nation) about the spiritual and cultural fight for family, manhood, marriage, and parenting. McPherson explains his political involvement as a response to policies he says are harming families in Washington state, including taxation pressures and school laws that restrict parental notification and allow gender-related counseling and care without parents. The conversation emphasizes jurisdictional theology, arguing government must remain limited and submitted to God’s moral law. McPherson calls fathers to take responsibility for the home’s “temperature,” pursue their wives, model repentance, and reject patterns of disrespect and bitterness. He stresses unity in marriage, warns against tolerating children’s rebellion, and teaches discipline as love, aiming for children’s obedience “happily, quickly, and completely,” while making home a place that loves Jesus, serves together, and has fun.

God never designed your walk with Him to survive on yesterday’s encounter.In this message, Pastor Will Ford reveals that spiritual maturity isn’t built in moments—it’s built in daily dependence. Just like Israel in the wilderness, many believers are still trying to live today off of yesterday’s bread… but God is inviting us into something deeper. Daily encounters with God—through His Word, prayer, and worship—are what form intimacy, obedience, and true transformation

In this powerful message, Pastor Sean Gleason explores what it truly means to connect with God through creation, drawing from Hosea 2 and Romans 1. He unpacks how everything in creation points back to the Creator, revealing that slowing down to behold the beauty of God in what He has made is not just a hobby for outdoorsmen, it is a powerful and intentional way to encounter the living God. Pastor Sean challenges believers to stop admiring creation while missing the Creator behind it.

Pastor Sean warns that when believers lose their awe and wonder of God, they will inevitably place it somewhere else, whether in witchcraft, idolatry, celebrity worship, or religious performance. He calls the church to be delivered from boredom and apathy, because the spirit of religion closes your spiritual eyes and leads you to find awe and wonder in all the wrong places.

This message challenges believers, and especially men, to spiritually lead by pursuing deep intimacy with God, because a passive man creates an open door for darkness to enter his home, his family, and his city. Creation is the art gallery of the Lord, and it is time to slow down and behold the beauty of the One who made it all.

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, Les and Nikki Cody or another leader in our community.

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In this impactful sermon, Chris Donald teaches that connecting with God through compassion goes beyond empathy—it requires action. Drawing from scriptures like Matthew 14:13-14 and the story of the Good Samaritan, he challenges believers to move from feeling for others to actively serving them.