There is protection, strength, rest and confidence found when you're close to God. That's the testimony and the promise of Psalm 91 and one you need to receive in your life today. Come closer to God. Come to the secret place.Af Michael Baier

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Confession. It's a practice we rarely think about which makes practicing it even rarer... but what if there was freedom on the other side of it? If you're battling guilt, shame and condemnation, this sermon is for you. It's time to get free from the guilt of your sin, one confession at a time.Af Michael Baier

Blessed is what you can be. That's the promise of the first line of whole collection that is Psalms. Blessed if you don't walk, stand or sit in unwise places and if you'll delight in and meditate on God's instruction. It's a paradigm shift that must stick... if you want to be blessed.Af Michael Baier

Love isn't declared, it's demonstrated. It isn't a desire, it's a decision. In this sermon, we discover our calling as we embark into I LOVE SUMMER... to love through action. So lean in, participate and make this summer the summer you live out your love for Summer like never before.Af Michael Baier

Power is a promise for everyone who receives the Holy Ghost, but the power has a purpose. Jesus made it too clear to miss, but yet many have missed it. Lean in to this Pentecost Sunday sermon and allow the person, power and presence of the Holy Ghost to fill you for the purpose God has for you.Af Michael Baier

The church can save you... not in a heaven and hell sense, but in a "protect you from" kinda way... but you gotta keep showing up. In this final installment, we discover what God is doing and can do through us when we keep showing up as the church.Af Michael Baier

We live in a divided world, but it's a world that we're called to make a difference in. In this sermon, we're going to discover how to keep showing up in this divided world and make a needed difference because somebody needs us.Af Michael Baier

Everyone asks God for stuff... even people with very little faith in God. We want God to come through, work out, to provide... but how do we expereince breakthrough in provision? Keep showing up and learn to trust God, not as a provision, but as the provider.Af Michael Baier

Keep praying because God is working. He's working on others and He's working on it and He's working on you... so keep praying, and watch what you need change as you get closer to the one you need most.Af Michael Baier

The key to breakthrough in your relationships is the key to breakthrough in every area of your life... keep showing up. In this sermon, we discover how to build the community that we all need, before we need it.Af Michael Baier

Success is the stumbling block that struggle is imagined to be. So when things are good and times are happy, success tells you to stop showing up cause you don't need God and can do it your own way, but as people of faith we must KEEP SHOWING UP to see the full breakthrough that God has for us.Af Michael Baier

Jesus is not what you're hoping for. This is the reality some of his followers had the boldness to express on the first Easter Sunday. They'd hoped for something different than what He was and they missed who He was. Maybe that's you. You're missing Jesus because He ain't what you hoped for... but we've got good news, He's better.…

Easter Week begins with Jesus' entrance into Jerusalem that is catapulted by a silent yes from some people who had what the Lord needed. It's their "yes" that ushered in the Savior of the world and it's our "yes" that ushers Him to those near to us and far from God. Open your heart today and let your heart be open to what the Lord may need from you…

Most of us live thinking we're our boss, but that's not what the Scripture teaches. Romans 6 shows us that our boss is either Jesus or sin. That's it. Lean in to this teaching as Isaac Johnson helps us figure out who our boss really is.Af Isaac Johnson

In this sermon, Amanda McCollum helps us get a new perspective on prayer by confronting the myths that many of us believe, but keep us from praying. Listen in, take notes and become someone who prays about it... whatever it is.Af Amanda McCollum

Our calling to the place God has us to work and watch over comes with responsibilities... to our words, to our work and to our witness. The people around us that need God need us to take their present and their eternity personally. In this installment, we catch the heart of God to leave the 99 and pursue the 1... cause "it's personal".…

We have a responsibility... to pray like everything depends on God and to work like everything depends on us. Let's be challenged through the truth of the writer of Hebrews to do good and share with others, and discover how BELIEVING is making more room to make a bigger difference in our communities... TIL MEMPHIS LOOKS LIKE HEAVEN.…

If we're going to bring blessing to our city, it starts with how we talk about our city because the power of life and death reside in our tongue. We build and we tear down with our words. Lean in to the latest installment and let God deal with the source of your words.Af Michael Baier

As a believer, you have a calling. That calling isn't to make it to heaven when you die, that's your reward. You have a calling to work and watch over wherever God places you. To be here for good wherever your "here" is. Lean in as we discover that caring for our city is more than a civic responsibility but a Christian calling "til Memphis looks li…

If you are going to live PLANTED NOT BURIED, you better get ready for the opposition. See, too often people face opposition and believe it's God saying stop... don't... quit... but what if it's not? What if the opposition is an indication that you're doing God's work? Lean in, be encouraged and live PLANTED NOT BURIED... even when the haters show u…

It's not enough to say we will wait on God, we've got to wait well... cause when we wait well, God moves. Lean into this teaching and discover how to wait on the Lord, well.Af Michael Baier

Are you afraid of the dark? Oh course not. At least not the lack of illumination, but many of us live afraid of the dark and want God to free us from it. What if that's not His plan? What if the dark is where He wants to develop you? Let's live planted, not buried and become those who develop in the dark.…

If you'll get the right character, you can handle any conditions. Be inspired and instructed on how to build a faith that lets you live planted not buried, no matter what.Af Michael Baier

Let's lay a foundation so that we see ourselves the way God sees us so that we can see everything the way God has said.Af Michael Baier

The good news that creates great joy for all people is this... God got you something. At Christmas we celebrate and remember the reality that is always true, salvation is a gift. Always has been. Always will be. So today, be encouraged and inspired and receive the gift that's available for you.Af Michael Baier

The third verse of this classic Christmas carol tells us something true for all of faith and life... there's something for you, but it ain't about you. Lean in one more time asa we set our focus on Jesus who is peace, Jesus who brings healing... and do what we've always been told to do, "hail" Him.Af Michael Baier

The second verse of HARK! is a bit surprising... at least to those looking for holly and jolly... it's all a theological explanation of the incarnation. On the surface, that doesn't seem very Christmas... but what if it is? What if getting this is the first step to believing that God gets you. Cause He does. Lean in and let this encouragement bring…

Christmas is a time and a season to celebrate, and the reason we celebrate is this... God and sinners reconciled. Lean into the wonder of this season and discover the power of the promise that is more than forgiveness... it's reconciliation for you.Af Michael Baier

In the conclusion of this series, we take a pause from looking at the challenge and take a peak on the other side of what happens when you "thread the needle". With story after story, example after example, we take a moment and give thanks for all God has done and is doing through those who live... threading the needle.…

Jesus extended an invitation to a devoted young man who was too consumed with his stuff... join us. Today, He extends that same invitation to us. To be a part of the "us" that lives generously as a blessing to others in His name. It's a habit... a habit of trusting God completely... and in this installment, we're going to be challenged to be a part…

Everything we do with everything God entrusts to us is a spiritual decision... cause it's all connected. In this installment, we take a deep dive into the reality of our call to "thread the needle" and recognize that how we use all we have is absolutely and forever, spiritual.Af Michael Baier

In one of Jesus’ most significant interactions, He challenges a devoted young man to sell everything and follow Him. As devoted as he thought he was, he wasn’t devoted there… and so he went nowhere with Jesus. In this installment, we are challenged to identify our “there” so that we follow wherever, wherever and however Jesus leads.…

Yes, God defines Himself and we are instructed to call Him our Heavenly Father... but that's a role. What about the verb that is to "father". In this final installment of GOD CAN, we dive into the heart of God and His willingness to be misunderstood on the chance we would choose relationship with Him... cause that's what it means to father.…

God does all things well, but if there was something He specializes in above the rest, it might be this. He restores. Restoration is what He does so well, and in this installment of GOD CAN we see how GOD CAN restore your value of your value... not because your value changed in His eyes, but because it did in yours. Lean in and let God restore you.…

God has provided. God does provide. By faith we believe God will provide. In fact, the Bible gives great clarity to how and who GOD CAN provide for. Lean in and take the step to become a seeker, steward and a sower and watch God provide for you.Af Michael Baier

To the old folks, they might call this "sanctify", but for our purposes, we'll call it "purify", but whatever you call it, you best trust and believe it's for you and for I. Lean in as we discover how to keep AND do what God has said is the key to Him purifying like only GOD CAN.Af Michael Baier

Yes, God can heal. He did heal. He can heal. By faith we believe He will heal. In this sermon, Michael will build our faith from the Scriptures on this reality and embrace the tension that many expereince when they see God not healing... and enable us to see the healing that just hasn't happened, yet.…

GOD CAN and God will fight for you... if when, where and while you stand in your assignment. See, God doesn't fight for your promotion but for His purposes. Stand where God assigned you and watch Him fight for you.Af Michael Baier

God doesn't just want to give you guidance, He promises to be your guide... and that's way better. Lean in to what GOD CAN do in this installment and trust Him when He tells you... "proceed to the route".Af Michael Baier

GOD CAN do anything... but most of us don't live like we believe that. In this installment, Michael helps us experience the most basic thing we expect God to do, but don't believe it's for all of us... save. Lean in and allow God to save all of you, like only He can.Af Michael Baier

God built us to give. Now, that's probably a cue most take to skip this installment, but why...? What are you afraid of? In this installment we'll discover that we are built to give collectively as the church and we'll see how when we give individually it enables us to give more collectively. Let's be what we were built for... givers.…

You have to build community before you need community; otherwise, you're gonna want community and not have community because you didn't build community when you could. Discover the community God built you to need and how you can find it personally as we continue to be BUILT FOR IT.Af Michael Baier

We are built to serve. To use our gifts and talents for God to benefit others... and to save us. See, serving will save you. Not in a "go to heaven" kind of way, but as a way of protecting, guiding, leading and directing us. Lean in today and let's do what we're built to do, serve.Af Michael Baier

God built us for a purpose, but often we misunderstand, incorrectly define and choose not to do what we're built for. In this installment, Michael shares how we're built to worship God when we gather and when we scatter. Check in and let's become BUILT FOR IT.Af Michael Baier

The call to all MISFITS ends with a command. You heard that right. Not a suggestion or an encouragement, a command. Be humble. In this final installment, Michael helps us see the humility we're called to as MISFITS and challenges us to be what we're supposed to be, humble.Af Michael Baier

Lean in as we move towards the completion of 1 Peter 5 by looking at the flow, roles, needs and calling of leadership in the MISFITS, of the MISFITS and for the MISFITS.Af Isaac Johnson

The logos we display mean a lot less than the quality of the material that the label talks about. As MISFITS, we're not concerned about what the looks say, near as much as we're committed to becoming everything God wants us to be. In this challenging installment of MISFITS, we discover the marks of a MISFIT from 1 Peter 4 and learn how to become a …

Being able to defend the faith you say you have is vital for the MISFIT, but the truth is, most people who say they follow Jesus can't explain it. That's about to change tho... and not through quips and talking points, but by building a foundation for your faith so you're always ready to give an answer to anyone who asks you about your hope.…