In this message with Senior Lead Pastor, Landon Schott, we learn about connecting with God through Conversation — not just speaking, but listening, responding, and being formed by His voice. Through Jesus’ prayer in Gethsemane, we see that the cross wasn’t decided in public, but in private conversation with God. Jesus' situation didn't change, yet everything within Him did — proving that real encounters with God don’t always remove the moment, but they redefine how we walk through it.

In this convicting message, Pastor Les Cody explores what it truly means to connect with God through solitude, drawing from Matthew 26. He unpacks the difference between isolation and solitude, revealing that isolation is running from people, while solitude is intentionally running to God. Pastor Les challenges believers to stop avoiding the secret place and to embrace the wilderness seasons of life, because the wilderness is not a place of punishment, it is a place where God speaks.

Pastor Les warns that the greatest weapon of the enemy is not to move believers toward evil, but to keep them distracted, exhausted, and spiritually asleep. He calls the church to build a life of prayer and solitude before the pressure comes, because your private prayer life determines your public stability.

This message challenges believers to bring their sorrow and exhaustion to the Lord in the secret place, because the same garden of solitude that reveals your sorrow is the same garden where Jesus is waiting to heal it. Solitude is not a preference, it is a spiritual weapon.

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.

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

In this message, Pastor Kaily shared that fasting is intentionally denying the flesh so you can hunger for God, hear His voice, and draw closer to Him. There are multiple benefits when it comes to fasting, which are: fasting confronts idols, fasting creates hunger, fasting aligns you with God’s will, fasting brings breakthrough, and fasting connects you with God.

This message explores how we can connect with God through creation, recognizing that everything He made points back to Him. Rooted in John 1, it reveals that Jesus is the source of all creation and the true light of the world. As we slow down, pay attention, and engage with what God has made, we can encounter His presence, hear His voice, and grow spiritually—while keeping our focus on the Creator, not the created.

In this episode of Holy Disruption, host Heather Schott and co-host Jasmine Weiler sit down with Pastor Chris Donald — evangelist, Mercy Culture pastor, co-founder of 33rd Company, and director of Mercy Culture Spiritual Leadership School — to talk about what God is doing in the nations right now, and what the American church needs to wake up to. Chris shares his radical conversion story, his heart for local and global missions, and why evangelism and discipleship were never meant to be separated. From baptizing thousands in Fort Worth to sharing the gospel with ISIS, to a Muslim family in Pakistan encountering Jesus — this conversation will wreck you in the best way.

Pastor Will Ford’s message centers on the idea that connecting with God through compassion means aligning our hearts with God’s deep love and concern for people, moving beyond sympathy or empathy into action that “suffers with” others and seeks to bring restoration. Drawing from scriptures like Exodus 3 and John 11, he shows that God both sees suffering and steps into it—just as Jesus wept with Mary and Martha before raising Lazarus—demonstrating that true compassion is not distant observation but personal identification with pain that leads to transformation. Biblical compassion, rooted in deep inward emotion, fuels kindness, mercy, and intercession, empowering believers to partner with God in bringing healing and solutions to a broken world. Ford emphasizes that compassion unlocks the miraculous, deepens intimacy with God, and births powerful prayer, warning that a comfort-driven, numb Christianity stifles true intercession. Ultimately, the message calls believers to reject passivity, embrace vulnerability, and allow God to break their hearts for what breaks His—because compassion is the doorway to encountering God, carrying others in prayer, and releasing His power on the earth.

In this message, we unpack how connecting with God through conversation is a daily, relational exchange of asking, listening, and responding that leads to real encounters with Him. Jesus still meets us in the middle of our questions and everyday moments, inviting us into a deeper walk that transforms our hearts.

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In this message, we look at Jesus in the Garden of Gethsemane and His defining moment of surrender: “Nevertheless, not my will, but Yours be done.” Apostolic Elder Zane Anderson reminds us that we can connect with God in our hardest moments, and that one surrendered decision can change everything.

In this powerful message, Pastor Les Cody explores what it truly means to connect with God through compassion, drawing from Matthew 14. He unpacks the critical difference between empathy and compassion, revealing that empathy is simply a feeling, while compassion is love moved into action. Pastor Les challenges believers to move beyond merely feeling someone's pain and to actively partner with the heart of the Father to meet needs, speak truth, and bring freedom.

Pastor Les warns that empathy-driven Christianity will always compromise the gospel, while compassion-driven Christianity produces holiness. He calls the church to stop insulating itself and to position where the needs exist, willing to be interrupted, inconvenienced, and sent into the harvest.

This message challenges believers to develop a daily personal encounter with God, because you cannot give away what you do not have. True compassion is not draining, it is the very thing that fills us up when we walk in obedience to the Lord.

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.

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

In this message, Ps. Seth Morrow explains that connecting with God through learning is when God teaches you new revelation you didn’t know before. All revelation must be supported by the Word of God, or else it becomes manipulation. We must be ones who know the Word of God so we don’t fall into the false doctrines all around us—and so we don’t become spiritually gullible.