Mount Helena Community Church

Pastor and counselor Mark Spencer hosts a workshop on the interactions between rest, relationships with each other, and our relationships with God.

We must learn to compromise—not on God’s standard of right and wrong, which never changes, but on yielding to others in love. God is perfect, and would’ve been perfectly justified in wiping us out for our sin; yet instead he “compromised” by taking all of it upon himself in love. And since God loved us, we also ought to love one another (1 John 4:9-11).

Scripture calls us to remain in relationship with other believers - but what do we do when conflicts arise?

Jason Harris teaches out of Proverbs 31 on the value of the Bride of Christ.

There are infinite reasons to worship God. In this week's message, Jeff Wald teaches on four of those reasons and invites us to take seriously the power of the words we sing.

Evil will increase until Jesus returns. Yet we are to rejoice and never worry—because God is good and just, and in the end he will make all things right.

Jesus explains the problem of evil using the Parable of the Weeds in Matthew 13:24-30.  Jesus explains that the Kingdom of Heaven is like a man who sowed good seeds, but whose crop was corrupted by an enemy planting weeds among the wheat. The weeds will always be with us here on earth, and will never be eradicated until the “fullness of the Gentiles has come in” (Romans 11:25)—that’s us! At that time, the “weeds” will be burned and all of the good seeds, Jews and Gentiles together, will be harvested. Evil is growing—but so is God’s kingdom! When Christ left earth, it held about 250 million inhabitants and only a tiny percentage were Christians yet, while now it holds nearly 8 billion, and about 2.3 billion practice some form of Christianity! God is building a kingdom containing billions of believers, and one day he will burn the weeds and harvest the grain. But until then, we live in a weedy garden!

In our Christian walk, we may occasionally find ourselves taking steps away from Jesus just as Peter did when he denied Christ (Luke 22:54-62). Despite this, Christ welcomes each step we take back towards Him, not condemning us for our lack of faithfulness.

In the U.S., studying the Bible is declining more and more. Study it! God’s living word changes us! It is sharp and// powerful; it divides soul from spirit, and it judges our hearts (Hebrews 4:12).

The story of Jesus and the withering fig tree emphasizes the value of bearing spiritual fruit. With that in mind, how do we believers bear more fruit? Through connectedness with God in faith.