Fellowship Church Middlebrook

Crossing Over

May 10, 2026 • RD McClenagan • Luke 8:22–39

RD McClenagan teaches from Luke 8:22-39, centering on the truth that God meets people where they are but never leaves them there, continually leading them deeper into faith and dependence on Him. In Luke 8, Jesus leads his disciples into a literal storm on the Sea of Galilee, revealing his authority by calming the wind and waves, and challenging them to locate their faith in Him rather than in what they can see. Jesus then encounters a demon-possessed man and shows that His power reaches even the most hopeless, unclean, and is...

The Sower and the Seed

May 3, 2026 • Greg Pinkner • Luke 8:1–21

Greg Pinkner teaches from Luke 8:1–21, focusing on the Parable of the Sower which shows how people respond differently to God’s word. The story emphasizes that the issue is not simply hearing the message, but whether it truly takes root and leads to lasting change. Many hear but fail to act because of distraction, hardship, or comfort, while genuine faith is revealed through perseverance and transformation. Jesus also highlights that understanding the “secrets of the kingdom” is given to some, while others remain unaware despite hearing the same truth...

The Math of Mercy

April 26, 2026 • Devon Accardi • Luke 7:36–50

Devon Accardi, teaching from Luke 7:36–50, describes the scene in which a sinful woman interrupts a Pharisee’s dinner to worship Jesus with humility and repentance, contrasting her response with the Pharisee’s judgment and pride. Through Jesus’ parable of the forgiven debts, he shows that those who recognize the depth of their sin respond with greater love and gratitude. Forgiveness is not about minimizing sin, but about grasping the full weight of grace given through Christ.

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Are You the One?

April 19, 2026 • Greg Pinkner • Luke 7:18–33

Greg Pinkner, teaching from Luke 7:18–33, examines the life and role of John the Baptist, a miraculously born prophet who prepared the way for Jesus but later wrestles with doubt while imprisoned. After hearing of Jesus’ merciful works instead of the expected judgment, John questions whether Jesus is truly the Messiah, revealing a deeper human tension between personal expectations and God’s plan. Rather than answering directly, Jesus responds through His actions, demonstrating that His mission centers on mercy, restoration, and the defeat of sin rather than political revolution...

The Lord is Among Us

April 12, 2026 • Greg Pinkner • Luke 7:1–16

Greg Pinkner, teaching from Luke 7:1–16, explains how Luke follows Jesus’ teaching on mercy from the Sermon on the Mount with real-life examples of that mercy in action. In the story of the Roman centurion, an unlikely outsider demonstrates humility and remarkable faith in Jesus’ authority, believing He can heal his servant without being physically present. This contrasts with the expectations of the Jewish leaders, who emphasize worthiness and deeds, while the centurion trusts solely in Jesus’ power. The following story of the widow at Nain highlights Jesus’ compass...

Peace Be With You

April 5, 2026 • RD McClenagan • John 20:19–23

This Easter, RD McClenagan teaches from John 20:19–23, centering on Jesus’ resurrection as the source of true peace and reminding us that, despite the burdens and anxieties we carry, Christ meets us in our darkness and speaks, “Peace be with you.” Through the story of Mary Magdalene and the disciples, he shows how Jesus brings light, calls us by name, and offers restoration even when we are fearful, broken, or hiding. This peace is not merely the absence of trouble but the presence of wholeness...

A Heart that Bears Fruit

March 29, 2026 • RD McClenagan • Luke 6:43–49

Concluding the Sermon on the Mount, Luke 6:43–49 teaches that the heart is the center of a person’s life, shaping thoughts, actions, and behavior, and that everything that flows outward reveals what is truly within. Scripture consistently teaches that God values the condition of the heart over outward appearance, and that genuine transformation begins internally rather than through external effort. Through Jesus, believers are given new hearts and the Holy Spirit, enabling them to grow and produce spiritual fruit. Ultimately, a person’s life reveals its foundation—w...

Hope for Hypocrites

March 22, 2026 • RD McClenagan • Luke 6:39–49

Continuing in the Sermon on the Mount, Luke 6:39–49 teaches that following Christ is not mainly about outward rule-keeping, but about deep inner transformation of the heart through the Holy Spirit. Jesus’ images of the blind leading the blind and the log and speck in the eye show that disciples must first confront their own blindness, hypocrisy, and need for repentance before they can truly help others. Self-righteousness, outrage, and hollow religion arise when people focus on others’ faults while neglecting their own souls, which is why truth must always be ca...

The Law of Mercy

March 15, 2026 • Greg Pinkner • Luke 6:27–42

In Luke 6:27-42, the “Sermon on the Plain,” Jesus challenges both Roman and Jewish ideas of morality by teaching something radically different: love your enemies. His commands to bless those who curse you, give to those who take from you, and do good even to those who hate you would have sounded shocking and even immoral to people shaped by cultures built on power, justice, and religious self-righteousness. Jesus goes further than simply telling people not to do evil; he calls them to actively show kindness and generosity...

Something New

March 1, 2026 • Devon Accardi • Luke 5:27–39, Luke 6:1–11

In Luke 5:27–6:11, Jesus introduces something radically new: God’s kingdom breaking in. Jesus calls Levi, a tax collector, out of his old life and then sits at a table with the tax collectors and sinners, insisting he came like a doctor for the sick—inviting the needy, not congratulating the self-righteous. When the Pharisees push back with their religious expectations, Jesus answers that his presence is like new wine that requires new wineskins, meaning grace can’t be contained inside an old framework of rule-keeping and performance. He then confronts S...

The Healing of a Sinner

February 22, 2026 • RD McClenagan • Luke 5:17–31

Luke wrote his Gospel to Theophilus so he could move from partial knowledge about Jesus to deeper certainty, and in that sense Luke was written not to us but for us. Reading the Gospels is an invitation to encounter Jesus personally and be led from doubt into confident relationship with him. Discipleship is pictured as Jesus meeting us where we are and then steadily drawing us from the shallow end into deeper waters, often addressing deeper needs than we recognize. In Luke 5, friends lower a paralyzed man th...

Into the Deep

February 15, 2026 • RD McClenagan • Luke 5:1–16

In Luke 4, Jesus withdraws to pray, but when the crowds find him and urge him to stay, he explains that he must continue preaching the good news of the kingdom of God because that is the purpose for which he was sent. Then moving into Luke 5, Jesus teaches from Simon Peter’s boat and tells him to cast his nets into deep water despite a long, fruitless night of fishing. When Simon obeys, they catch such an overwhelming number of fish that their nets begin to break, revealing Jesus’ a...

Power and Authority

February 8, 2026 • Devon Accardi • Luke 4:31–44

In Luke 4:31–44, after Jesus is rejected in Nazareth, he goes to Capernaum—not as a retreat, but to fulfill Scripture and begin his mission as the light dawning in darkness. The people are amazed as Jesus teaches and acts with exousia—the power of his authority and the authority of his power. These verses remind us that spiritual opposition is real; believers cannot be possessed, but they can be tempted, deceived, and drawn off course as the enemy twists the truth. Ultimately, Jesus declares that he must preach the good new...

This Sunday, we have a snow day devotional. This message comes from Exodus 3 and Moses’ encounter with God in the burning bush. We are reminded that God often speaks when we “turn aside” from distraction and draw near to listen. In this passage, the Lord reveals Himself as the Great I AM—holy, eternal, and fully present with His people. God not only sees our suffering, but He comes down to deliver and lead us into something better, pointing us forward to the gospel through Jesus Christ. Just as Moses was called to trust God’s presence, we are invited to...

The Gospel of Jubilee

January 18, 2026 • RD McClenagan • Luke 4:14–30

In Luke 4:14-30, Jesus reads from Isaiah 61 to the congregation in Nazareth. His message is “good news to the poor,” both the materially poor and the “poor in spirit” who come like beggars—humble and desperate enough to receive grace. He also announces freedom for captives (pardon from sin’s enslaving power), sight for the blind (spiritual awakening), and release for the crushed and oppressed. He shocks everyone with the statement: “Today this scripture is fulfilled in your hearing,” claiming the promises are being fulfilled in him right now. This moment...

The Faithful One

January 11, 2026 • Devon Accardi • Luke 4:1–13

In Luke 4, Jesus faces three temptations in the wilderness by Satan: provision (bread), authority (kingdoms), and acclaim (prove yourself). Devon frames temptation as “hunger,” the pull to satisfy God-given desires in our own time and our own way. Jesus resists by standing firm in his identity as God’s Son, walking with the Spirit, and answering with Scripture. Devon looks back at Jesus' genealogy listed in chapter 3 and Luke's deeper purpose: by placing Jesus’ genealogy back to Adam, Luke presents Jesus as the true Adam/Noah/Israel—God’s faithful represe...

Prepare the Way

January 4, 2026 • RD McClenagan • Luke 3:1–22

John the Baptist’s message in Luke 3 is to “prepare the way” through repentance: turning from the patterns of this world, uncluttering our crowded hearts, and making room for Jesus. True repentance is directional and practical: we audit our lives, receive the Spirit’s conviction, confess both general and specific sins, and then actually change course, bearing fruit that looks like generosity, integrity, and Christlike character. RD stresses the urgency of this work, reminding us that one day we will stand before Jesus and do not want to realize too la...

Eyes on the Lord | A Sunday Devotional
2 Chronicles 20:1–22

In 2 Chronicles 20, King Jehoshaphat faces a moment where fear closes in and the future feels uncertain. His response is simple and faithful. He seeks the Lord. He trusts who God is. He admits his weakness. He fixes his eyes on the Lord and not on the size of the threat.

At the heart of this passage is a prayer that many of us know well: “We do not know what to do, but our eyes are on You.” This is not a prayer of defeat. It is a p...

December 24, 2025 • Devon Accardi • Luke 2:8-14

This Christmas Eve message turns our attention to Luke 2 and the surprising way God chose to announce the birth of Jesus. Instead of kings, politicians, or cultural elites, the first people to hear the news were ordinary shepherds working the night shift. The angel declares that a Savior has been born, and this good news is for all people, reminding us that no one is beyond God’s invitation. The birth of Jesus shows us a God who comes near to the overlooked and the unsure, offering Himself not only as Savior, but as...

The Word Becomes Flesh

December 21, 2025 • Devon Accardi • Luke 2:1-21

This Sunday, Devon reflects on the birth of Jesus as the long-awaited fulfillment of God’s promises. This passage invites us to zoom out and see Christmas not as an isolated moment, but as the culmination of a story God has been unfolding since the very beginning of creation. After centuries of waiting and even four hundred years of silence, God enters the world quietly, not with spectacle, but as a newborn child laid in a manger. The incarnation reveals a God who does not merely visit...

God's Grace, Mary's Faith

December 14, 2025 • RD McClenagan • Luke 1:26–38

This Sunday, RD teaches from Luke 1:26-38. This passage focuses on Mary as a surprising model of faith, showing how God meets an ordinary teenage girl with a word that changes everything. God’s grace comes near, speaks personally, and invites real trust rather than a casual, “of course” kind of Christianity. Mary responds with a posture of pondering and worship, treasuring what God is doing even when she cannot yet see how it will unfold. God’s kingdom often flips the world’s instincts about strength, status, and secu...

Zechariah's Song

December 7, 2025 • RD McClenagan • Luke 1:67–80, Luke 1:5–25

This Sunday, RD teaches from Luke 1:5-25, 67-80. In this passage, Zechariah and Elizabeth, an older, righteous couple, have long carried the pain and shame of barrenness. God promised Zechariah a son, John, who would prepare the way for the Messiah, but his doubt led to nine months of silence that God used to deepen his faith. When John is born and Zechariah obediently writes, “His name is John,” his tongue is loosed and he bursts into a Spirit-filled song, praising God for remembering His covenant and bringing salvation. G...

The Gospel According to Luke

November 30, 2025 • RD McClenagan • Luke 24:45–48

This Sunday, RD launched our new series in the Gospel of Luke by highlighting Jesus’ words in Luke 24, where He calls His followers “witnesses” to His suffering, resurrection, and the forgiveness of sins for all nations. Luke wrote his orderly account so that we could have confidence in the truth of Jesus and the historical reality of His life, death, and resurrection. Christianity is not a myth or moral story—it is good news rooted in real events, passed down by those who saw Jesus and were changed b...

Conformed to His Image

November 23, 2025 • RD McClenagan • Philippians 1:6, Romans 8:28–30

This Sunday, R.D. wrapped up our fall series, More Like Him. We are all shaped by what we behold, but God’s vision is that we would be conformed to the image of Christ as we fix our eyes on Him. Through the gospel, we are made new and invited into a life where the Spirit grows us in Christlikeness in the ordinary places of our week. God meets us in our fears and patterns, freeing us from the need for approval or control and helping...

Formed in Creation & Nature

November 16, 2025 • Devon Accardi • Psalm 19:1–6

This Sunday, Devon Accardi continued our fall series, More Like Him, focusing on how God uses creation to spiritually form us—dazzling us with His glory, drawing us into wonder, and reminding us of His power and presence. Nature reveals God’s care and invites us to trust Him just as the birds and plants do. Creation also teaches dependence, helping us see our “little faith” as something God patiently grows, just as He orchestrates every detail of the natural world. And while creation declares God’s glory, we are th...

Formed in Cultural Engagement

November 9, 2025 • Brad Raby • Romans 12:1–2, Daniel 1

This Sunday, Brad Raby, Lead Pastor at Fellowship West, continued our fall series, More Like Him. Teaching on being formed in cultural engagement, Brad looks at Daniel’s story to illustrate how God forms His people both in and for their cultural moment. Like Daniel and his friends in Babylon, believers today face a culture that subtly seeks to reshape identity, values, and loyalties—but spiritual formation in Christ enables resistance without fear or contempt. True resistance is rooted not in outrage but in devotion to God—living...

Formed in Friendship

November 2, 2025 • Devon Accardi • Proverbs 27:9, Mark 2

This Sunday, Devon continued our fall series, More Like Him. Spiritual formation isn’t about religious behavior but about transformation into Christ’s likeness in every part of life. Humans were created out of relationship by a relational God and therefore for relationship with one another. Sin, however, has fractured this design, leaving both beauty and brokenness in our friendships—deep joy and deep hurt. Using the story of the paralytic and his friends in Mark 2, Devon outlined three marks of formative friendship: intentionality, persistence, and faithfulness—friends who...

Formed in Marriage & Family

October 26, 2025 • RD McClenagan • Ephesians 5:20–21

This Sunday, RD continued our fall series, More Like Him. He looks at Ephesians 5 and Paul's focus on marriage. While not everyone is married, everyone is shaped by the marriages around them. Marriage is a living picture of the gospel, meant to reflect Christ’s love for the church through Spirit-filled living, mutual submission, and sacrificial love. Husbands are called to love their wives as Christ loved the church—selflessly, for their sanctification and growth in holiness. Healthy marriages are sustained through presence, encouragement, repentance, and forgiveness rather tha...

Formed in Grief & Sorrow

October 19, 2025 • RD McClenagan • John 11:33–36

This Sunday, RD continued our fall series, More Like Him. Grief is the natural response to losing something or someone we love, and it shapes us in profound ways, often revealing the depth of our love. Jesus Himself was “a man of sorrows, acquainted with grief,” modeling honesty before God, compassion for others, and faithfulness in suffering. He wept with those who mourned, showing that our tears matter to Him and that grief can draw us nearer to His heart. Through loss, whether of dreams, relationships, health, or loved o...

Formed in Suffering

October 12, 2025 • RD McClenagan • Romans 5:1–5

This Sunday, RD continued our fall series, More Like Him. Suffering is one of the most formative realities of the Christian life—something God uses to reveal where our trust truly lies and to shape us into Christlikeness. Throughout the Bible, those whom God used most deeply were also those who suffered most profoundly. While we cannot always know why suffering comes, we can anchor ourselves in what is true: that God is sovereign, good, and present with us even in the valley. Suffering, then, becomes the place where Go...

The Practices: Prayer

October 5, 2025 • Zach Hume • Romans 8:26–27, Luke 11

This Sunday, Zach Hume continued our fall series, More Like Him. This week’s focus was on the spiritual practice of prayer. The way that we think about prayer—whether as requests, warfare, intimacy, or disappointment—shapes how we engage God. In Luke 11, the disciples asked Jesus to teach them to pray because they saw Him approach God with unique intimacy. Jesus revealed that prayer is not performance or ritual but relationship—the language of children speaking with their Father. When we see prayer as relational, it becomes someth...

The Practices: Generosity

September 28, 2025 • Devon Accardi • 2 Corinthians 9:10–15

This Sunday, Devon continued our fall series, More Like Him. This week’s focus was on generosity, which is not a means to earn God’s favor, but a reflection of God’s own generous heart toward us. Generosity extends beyond money—it includes our words, dignity toward others, grace, and how we steward our resources. Ultimately, a life of generosity is a life lived for the sake of others, imitating the generous love of God shown in Christ.

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The Practices: Scripture

September 21, 2025 • RD McClenagan • 2 Timothy 3:16

This Sunday, RD continued our fall series, More Like Him. Jesus reminds His disciples that the Holy Spirit will come to teach, guide, and bring peace that the world cannot give. In a world marked by fear, chaos, and distraction, God’s Word stands as the unshakable foundation for His people. Scripture is the living voice of God, breathed out by the Spirit, meant to comfort, correct, and transform us. From Genesis to Revelation, the Bible reveals one story pointing to Jesus Christ, calling us to pay attention to wha...

Power to Abide

September 14, 2025 • RD McClenagan • John 17

This Sunday, RD continued our fall series, More Like Him. From the beginning in Genesis, the Spirit hovered over the void, shaping and filling creation step by step—just as He still works in our lives today to bring light, order, and life. Through Christ, the Spirit convicts us of sin, gives us new hearts, and empowers us to live with purpose as witnesses of Jesus. Though we still battle the desires of the flesh, the Spirit strengthens us to walk in His ways, producing fruit like love, joy, p...

Mortification & Vivification

September 7, 2025 • Devon Accardi • Colossians 3:1–17

This Sunday, Devon continued our fall series, More Like Him. Colossians 3 shows that when we confess faith in Christ, we become new creations, reconciled to God, and invited into the lifelong process of sanctification. Though Jesus has accomplished all the saving work, God calls us to actively participate by putting sin to death (mortification) and living into our new life in Christ (vivification). This work goes beyond behavior modification—it addresses the deeper roots of sin in our hearts. God desires to shape us into lives of holiness and righteou...

Confession & Repentance

Aug 31, 2025 • RD McClenagan • 1 John 1:9, James 5:16

This Sunday, RD continued our fall series, More Like Him. 1 John 1, shows us that God is light, and to walk with Him means practicing truth by confessing sin rather than hiding it. Confession and repentance are central practices in the Christian life. Unconfessed sin leaves a heaviness in us compared with the freedom and blessing that comes when God covers and forgives. Confession and repentance are courageous, joyful gifts from God that draw us back into His light, restore fellowship, and shape us more into the likeness of Chri...

Adoption & Restoration

August 24, 2025 • Devon Accardi • Romans 3:24

This Sunday, Devon continued our fall series, More Like Him. Looking at Romans 3:24 he looked at how through faith in Jesus, we are made new—regenerated with spiritual life and empowered by the Holy Spirit. The penalty of our sin is removed as God declares us justified, crediting us with the perfect righteousness of Christ. Our position changes as we are adopted into God’s family, moving from children of wrath to beloved sons and daughters who can call Him Father. These realities are not temporary but permanent—God’s love, pres...