Midtown Church Austin

Jake takes us through Matthew and Acts showing us how to live out the way of Jesus.

Jake takes us through Matthew 6:9-10 and Mark 1:15 showing us why we should pray for the kingdom of God to come to Austin and how to participate in it.

Danny Box (Jake's dad) takes us through Psalm 61 and speaks about surviving stress by relying on God's power, remaining in his presence, and resting on his promises.

Justing takes us through Psalm 130 showing us three aspects of the passage, a cry for mercy, a declaration of hope, and a call to action.

Matt takes us through Psalm 110 showing how Jesus brings unity to some paradoxes. Jesus is both human and divine, different than God and equal to God, and he is both king and priest.

This past week Jake took us through Romans 8:18-30 showing the hope we have in Jesus through suffering.

Psalms of Summer. Josh takes us through Psalm 86.

Psalms of Summer. Alice takes us through Psalm 84.

Psalms of Summer. This week Justin takes us through Psalm 141.

Jake takes us through John 17:20-26 showing that the Bible tells the story of God restoring our communion with him, with one another, and with all of creation.

Today Justin took us through John 17:6-19 where we see that God sets us apart and sends us for the honor and glory of God himself.

Matt continues our Upper Room series picking up where we left off, John 17.

Each aspect of the Sabbath day: stopping, resting, and delighting is meant to help draw our hearts and attention toward Him in worship.

The Sabbath is a day to Delight. We delight in God's world, our lives, and God himself.

The Sabbath is not just a day when we stop and rest. It's also a day meant to remind us why we can stop and rest.

The Bible encourages us to "Keep the Sabbath holy" yet we struggle to stop in our success-driven culture. This week we remember that keeping the Sabbath reminds us we have limits, our value is not based on what we do and God is good.

Jesus told us to expect trouble and crisis of faith while we are in the world, but he invites us to take heart and see our faith grow in such times by remembering that he has overcome the world.

When facing grief we must know that one way to joy is through grief. Jesus is the source of ultimate joy and in Jesus, joy is certain.

John 16:1-15. Jesus tells the disciples to expect opposition as they bear witness to him, but he promises to give them a Helper, the Holy Spirit, to speak to and through them and convict people of their sins and their need for a Savior.

Luke 7:36-40. How we relate to Jesus is determined by what we believe about who he is and how he relates to us.

Luke 24:13-24. Jesus's followers lost hope after his death, and we, too, suffer from a lack of hope. But Jesus reveals his resurrected self to his followers to give them hope, just as he does to us. His resurrection is our ultimate source of hope.

Mark 14:22-25. The Lord's Supper meal communicated the meaning and purpose of Jesus's death when he made the Passover meal about himself, the sacrificial lamb.

Luke 5:27-32. Jesus came to seek and save the lost, and he did so by eating and drinking with people. He was happy to share a meal with anyone, and his followers should do the same.

Psalm 103. It's too easy to remember the negatives in life and forget the benefits of God, which is why this Psalm calls us not to forget the God who has loved us without condition.

Psalm 66. God turns our troubles into testimonies. Those with troubles should cling to the promises of God and cry out to him in prayer. Those with testimonies should praise God and tell others what he has done for them.

I Thessalonians 5:16-18. Praying unceasingly with a constant awareness of God's loving presence leads to our joy, which we can learn to do by having fixed times of prayer each day.

II Corinthians 3:18. We can enjoy being with God in prayer by recognizing God's presence, reflecting on God's beauty, and resting in God's love for us. When we do, we'll want to be with God more and become more like God.

I Samuel 3:1-10. God still speaks, and we can learn to hear his voice more and more, making prayer a two-way conversation.

Luke:11:1-13. When we pray to God, we come to him as our loving Father who delights to hear our gratitude, laments, and petitions and answer our prayers.

II Chronicles 7:11-16. God accomplishes his providential purpose in prayer, changing the world, by accomplishing his secret purpose in prayer, changing us.

John 15:26-27. Jesus said we would become his witnesses, telling others what we have seen and experienced in Jesus. To become his witnesses, we need to seek him so that we will have firsthand experiences to tell.

John 15:18-25. The world tries to get us to conform to its ways of living without God and redefine good and evil. When we don't conform, the world will hate us as it hated Jesus. Even so, we can be a light to the world when we are transformed by Jesus rather than conformed to the world.

John 15:9-17. Joy is gratitude in all circumstances in response to God's love and grace. Jesus says we can experience such joy as we abide in him through obedience, love, pruning, and fruit-bearing.

John 15:1-8. Jesus is the only source of spiritual life. When we remain in him, we bear fruit and bring glory to God.

John 14:27-31. Jesus gives us his peace as a gift. We receive and access his peace through worship, prayer, thanksgiving, meditation, and obedience.

John 14:15-26. Jesus said if we love him, we will obey his commands. He knew we'd need help to obey his commands, so he promised the Holy Spirit to testify to who he is and remind us what he said.

John 14:6-22. How do we find peace in a troubled world? By trusting God, which would be easier if we could see him.What we see in Jesus is enough to cause us the trust in God.

John 14:1-6. Jesus's disciples were troubled after hearing that Jesus would be with them no longer be with them. Jesus comforts them, saying don't be troubled, I have prepared a place for you, and I am the way for you.

John 13:31-38. Peter promised to be faithful to Jesus unto death, but he broke the promise by disowning Jesus three times. Even so, Jesus was eager to restore Peter and remind him that he was not through with him yet.

John 13:34,35. How will people know that we're disciples of Jesus? When we follow Jesus's new command to love one another as he has loved us.

John 13. In a cultural moment when it's hard to follow Jesus, what can keep us following Jesus? By remembering the good news about how Jesus loved and served us.

John 13:1-5. In light of God’s unconditional acceptance and friendship toward us, how do we extend that kind of unconditional friendship to those around us? John 13:1-5 gives us keen insight into what it takes to have deep, meaningful friendships. When we know we are fully loved and accepted, we are free to extend that to those around us.

John 17:20-26. Jesus prays that we would be one so that the world may believe that the Father sent the Son. We need loving Christian communities, and the world needs to see loving Christian communities.

Ephesians 4:1-16. We practice the community of Christ by becoming a community of practice, and practice means embodied participation.

Mark 3:31-35. Jesus started a new spiritual family and said it takes priority over our biological family. As brothers and sisters, we are obligated to one another.

Genesis 1:26,27 and 2:18. We were made in the image of our triune God which means we were made for relationships.

Matthew 10:1-4. Following Jesus has from the beginning been in community (messy community) because it's only in the context of community that we learn how to love.

Matthew 14:13-33. One of the ways we change is by doing what we can to follow Jesus's missional practices while depending on Jesus to do what only he can do when we do.

I Corinthians 9:24-27. What we do spiritually forms us to Jesus or the world, so we need to ask, "What are the things we're doing, doing to us?"

Luke 6:39,40. Jesus’ goal is to make us like him. But why does it often feel like it’s not happening? In this sermon, we consider two main reasons why and what we need to overcome them.