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. 

In this message, Ps. Kaily Morrow explains how to establish God’s reign in the earth and to anticipate His rain. We need the Spirit of Elijah to do so, just as Elijah did when he called down the fire of God from heaven to consume the altar before the false prophets of Baal. In order to be a part of the Elijah company—to establish God’s reign and anticipate His rain—we must be ones who are marked by God, wage war, pray with faith, and prepare the way of the coming of the Lord.

This message from Pastor Dehavilland Ford centers on connecting with God through remembrance—intentionally recalling what He has done to draw closer to Him. Throughout Scripture, God calls His people to remember His faithfulness by creating memorials, sharing testimonies, and revisiting moments where He moved. Remembrance strengthens our faith, especially in difficult seasons, by reminding us that God has been faithful before and will be again. Through personal testimonies, global events, and biblical examples like the story of Esther, the message calls believers to respond with surrender, courage, and a renewed “yes” to God—trusting that He uses ordinary people to accomplish extraordinary purposes.

In this message, Pastor Matt Wakefield teaches us how we as believers can deepen our relationship with God through the spiritual discipline of fasting. Using Acts 9:1–19, he highlights how Saul’s encounter with Jesus led to a season of fasting that ultimately opened his eyes and transformed his life.

Pastor Matt explains that fasting isn’t about earning God’s attention, but removing distractions so we can hear His voice more clearly. As we pursue God through fasting, our spiritual eyes are opened and we begin to see Jesus more clearly

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, we discover how powerful connecting with God through learning can be. Jesus invites us to take His yoke and learn from Him in His Word leading us into deeper relationship, renewed minds, and freedom from the burdens of the world. As we grow in the knowledge of God through His Word, old yokes are broken and our lives are transformed.

What does the Bible actually say about women in ministry — and what does it look like when a church builds a culture around it? Heather Schott sits down with four women who pastor, preach, lead campuses, and raise families inside Mercy Culture — Pastors Jasmine Weiler, Dehavilland Ford, Maggie Wakefield, and Nikki Cody — for an honest, unfiltered conversation about biblical empowerment of women in the church. They cover:

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In this message, Lauren Caldwell explores the biblical meaning of dedication and what it truly means to give everything to God. Drawing from Romans 12:1, she unpacks how dedication is not just an emotion, it is an intentional direction, a daily decision to say "God, this belongs to you." She emphasizes that dedication leads to faithfulness, costs us something, and is always worth it because He is worthy.

Lauren Caldwell reminds believers that God is not inviting us to dedicate just our songs or prayers, but our whole lives, our bodies, hearts, habits, choices, and time. She also breaks off shame for anyone who feels they have never fully dedicated an area of their life to the Lord, reminding us that today is always the day to rededicate.

This message encourages believers to recognize that we are now the temple and that God desires to dwell in these earthen vessels everywhere we go.

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 special Mercy Culture service, we steward one of the prophetic words of 2026 of dedicating things to the Lord. We rededicate families, babies, marriages, and lives back to God, as well as ordain new Mercy Culture pastors and install Les and Nikki Cody as elders and celebrate what God is doing across all campuses.

Mercy Culture has released over 102 worship songs — none of them written in a recording studio. Landon Schott sits down with worship pastors Jasmine Weiler and Treigh Martinez to unpack how every song in their catalog was born out of actual encounters with God: visions at 4am, spontaneous moments in the room, prayers that became melodies. They share the origin stories behind songs like "Names of God," "Fear Go," and "Encounter Song" — and why they believe you can't lead people into something you've never been in yourself.