St. Mark Houston

How do you grow deeper in Jesus and become rich in the things that truly last?

One key habit: sacrificial giving to your local church. In this message, we have an honest conversation about the connection between generosity and spiritual growth, featuring insights on personal giving journeys, church finances, and practical habits for those growing in God's riches. Learn why holding earthly things loosely helps you share generously and root yourself more deeply in Christ.

Everyone's chasing the good life, but are we building the right kind of wealth?

This message challenges us to examine what we're really investing our time, talent, and treasure into. Discover the difference between being "good rich" (overflowing in earthly gifts that fade) and "God rich" (overflowing in what matters eternally to God). Learn why the harvest principle, you grow what you sow, means our daily choices are shaping our future satisfaction. And find hope in the gospel truth that while we chase earthly treasures, God chose to invest His greatest treasure in us.

In a world where we pick up our phones 150 times a day, self-control has never been more challenging or more needed. This message explores James 1:19 and the call to be "quick to listen, slow to speak, and slow to become angry."

Whether you're struggling with your words, your temper, or just feeling the weight of trying to control yourself, this message offers hope: we're not doing this alone. The Holy Spirit is at work, helping us grow one choice at a time.

Jesus describes himself as "gentle and lowly" which is the opposite of what our world celebrates. But gentleness isn't weakness. It's power under control, gracious restraint, having the ability to crush but choosing to care instead.

In this sermon, discover what biblical gentleness means: refusing to retaliate, dominate, or manipulate. See how Jesus demonstrates this toward us and calls us to embody it for others. Learn why gentleness surprises people, wins them over, dignifies them, and gives them an encounter with Christ.

Whether you're wrestling with feeling too busy, struggling with fear, or wondering if God still loves you despite your failures, this message offers hope and encouragement rooted in God's unchanging faithfulness.

This message breaks down the biblical concept of goodness as a fruit of the Spirit, sharing personal stories (including a hilarious gas station mishap) and practical wisdom. The good news? Even when we fall short, Jesus gives us His goodness. Through faith in Him, we can reflect that goodness to a world that desperately needs it.

Featuring the powerful story of Dietrich Bonhoeffer, the German Lutheran pastor who fled to safety in America in 1939 but immediately returned to Nazi Germany to serve persecuted Christians, this message challenges comfortable Christianity and calls believers to show kindness to those who have nothing to offer in return, not because it benefits us, but simply because of who we are and whose we are in Christ Jesus.

We can't wait 20 seconds for an elevator without getting impatient, so how are we supposed to understand God's patience that spans lifetimes and generations?

This message explores God's patience; not surface-level niceness, but the transformative patience that leads to repentance and redeems broken people.

The sermon covers the difference between mercy and grace, explains why God works through flawed people like Abraham and Jonah, addresses forgiveness without reconciliation, and unpacks why Christ hasn't returned yet. It includes practical teaching on identity in Christ and living faithfully while waiting for His return.

In a world filled with GPS navigation and instant directions, we've forgotten what it means to plan our journey. But when it comes to finding peace, do we really know where we're headed?

This message addresses real-life struggles like busyness, comparison culture, relational pain, and the search for meaning. Whether you're dealing with anxiety, grief, or simply the chaos of modern life, you'll find biblical wisdom and hope for your journey toward true peace.

Explore Jesus's incredible promise that His followers will be known for their full, overflowing joy - a promise no other religious leader or spiritual guru has ever made.

But this isn't the fleeting happiness our culture chases. Biblical joy is defined as a deep, resilient confidence in the goodness of God - a spiritual buoyancy that keeps us afloat no matter what tries to pull us under.

Drawing from John 15 and John 16, this message reveals how Jesus's joy, rooted in His death and resurrection , creates an "unsinkable" people who can face evil, tragedy, and heartbreak while proclaiming they belong to someone stronger.

Whether you're struggling through grief, chasing after things that don't satisfy, or simply wanting to understand what true joy looks like, this message offers hope and practical wisdom for finding the joy that no one can steal.