Fellowship Church Middlebrook

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Week Five - Prayer & Pursuit 

This episode features Spencer Garland, Mindy Allen, and Emmaline Bartlett sharing from their own journeys of prayer and pursuing God. Prayer is more than asking God for an outcome; it is an invitation to know Him, depend on Him, and continually reorient our lives around His presence. A life of prayer requires both boldness and surrender, choosing to ask, seek, and knock even when desire is weak or answers do not come quickly. As we keep returning to God, prayer becomes less t...

Vision Series: Prayer & Pursuit

September 6, 2026 • RD McClenagan • Psalm 63:1–3

In the fifth week of the vision series God Has More, RD McClenagan introduces Fellowship’s value of being a people of prayer and pursuit, emphasizing that prayer is central to growing as mature disciples of Jesus. Prayer allows believers to encounter God, call on Him to fulfill the promises of His Word, and approach Him confidently as a loving Father who welcomes His children to come honestly in weariness, fear, grief, and need. RD encourages believers to develop a practical rhythm of prayer through adoration, confession, thanksgi...

Week Four - Theological Integration

This episode features Greg Pinkner and Sarah Scott exploring what it means for theology to shape the whole of our lives. Theology is not reserved for classrooms or scholars. What we believe about God shapes how we understand ourselves, walk through suffering, make decisions, and live every part of our lives. Theological integration brings together right thinking and right living, allowing the truth of who God is to move from our minds into our hearts and ultimately into our actions. As we know God more deeply through His Word, theology becomes more...

Vision Series: Theological Integration

August 30, 2026 • RD McClenagan • Romans 12:2

In the fourth week of our vision series God Has More, RD McClenagan introduces Fellowship’s value of theological integration—the conviction that what we believe about God should shape how we think, feel, and live. Because everyone has beliefs about God that influence their lives, mature discipleship requires holding together sound doctrine, transformed affections, and faithful action rather than separating what we know from how we live. Drawing from Paul’s instruction to Timothy to watch both his life and doctrine closely, RD encourages believers to spend time...

Week Three - The Truth & Story of the Bible

This episode features Devon Accardi, Zach Hume, and Greg Pinkner exploring why the Bible is central to the life and formation of every follower of Jesus. The Bible is more than a collection of verses or helpful principles. It is God’s true Word and the unfolding story of creation, rebellion, redemption, and restoration. As we learn to see Scripture as one unified story and return to it faithfully, the Holy Spirit uses it to reveal who God is, anchor us in truth, and form us more deeply in...

Vision Series: The Truth & Story of the Bible

August 23, 2026 • RD McClenagan • John 17:17

On the third Sunday of the vision series God Has More, RD McClenagan introduces Fellowship’s first value: to be a people devoted to and shaped by the truth and story of the Bible. Scripture is not simply a source of information or instruction, but God’s living and active Word that reveals who He is, transforms us, and sanctifies us as we grow in Christlikeness. The Bible is one cohesive story of God’s pursuit of His people, ultimately centered on Jesus, and readin...

Week Two - Making & Maturing Disciples

This episode features Erik Chandler and Stacey Tafao reflecting on Fellowship Church’s mission to make and mature disciples of Jesus. They explore how spiritual formation is not about more activity, information, or trying harder, but becoming more like Christ through the work of the Holy Spirit, in community with others. The conversation emphasizes that following Jesus is a lifelong process of transformation, learning to recognize His voice, respond in obedience, and live as His people wherever He sends us.

Today's episode ties with the sermon from August 16 called “Maki...

Vision Series: Making & Maturing Disciples

August 16, 2026 • RD McClenagan • Colossians 1:27–29

This Sunday, RD McClenagan continues the vision series God Has More, focusing on Fellowship’s mission: “To be a church that makes and matures disciples of Jesus.” Through the story of Judah, RD shows how God can take someone marked by sin and brokenness and reshape him into a person of sacrificial love, demonstrating the depth of God’s transforming grace. Salvation is only the beginning of discipleship, because believers are called to continually grow into maturity as Christ is formed in them through the work of the Holy Sp...

Week One - God Has More

This episode features Emily McCoy and Danny Wilson reflecting on the conviction that “God has more” and what that means for Fellowship Church and everyday life. They explore how true renewal comes through deeper intimacy with Jesus, surrender, repentance, and dependence on the Holy Spirit—not simply doing more or trying harder. The conversation emphasizes spiritual formation, abiding in Christ, and trusting God to bring restoration in us so that His renewal can flow through us to the people and places around us.

Today's episode ties with the sermon from A...

God Has More

August 9, 2026 • RD McClenagan • Ephesians 3:14–21

This Sunday, RD McClenagan begins an eight-week series "God Has More," exploring Fellowship’s new vision, mission, and values. Drawing from Ephesians 3:14–21, the message explores Paul’s prayer that believers would be strengthened by the Holy Spirit, deeply rooted in Christ’s love, and increasingly filled with the fullness of God. As believers grasp the immeasurable love and power of Christ, that reality should transform their lives rather than remain simply intellectual knowledge or a temporary spiritual experience. Fellowship’s vision is to see a movement of the gospel bring ren...

Grace Upon Grace

August 2, 2026 • Greg Pinkner • Ephesians 1:3–18

This Gospel Sunday, Greg Pinkner teaches from Ephesians 1, explaining that grace is the foundation of the Christian life—extending from before creation, meeting us at salvation, and carrying us into eternity. Salvation cannot be earned through good works because it is entirely God’s gift, given for the praise of His glory. While Christians often focus on the grace that saved them in the past, the gospel also promises future grace through the Holy Spirit, spiritual growth, resurrection, and an eternal inheritance with God. Discipleship is the ongoing process of...

The Leaven of the Pharisees

July 26, 2026 • Luke 11:37–54, Luke 12:1–7

This Sunday, Greg teaches from Luke 11:37–12:7. Jesus confronts the Pharisees and religious experts for focusing on outward appearances while neglecting the condition of their hearts. He warns that religious rules and visible acts of obedience are meaningless when they replace justice, love for God, humility, and genuine holiness. Jesus identifies hypocrisy—not obedience itself—as the central danger, because pretending to be righteous cannot hide the truth from God, who sees and will reveal everything. Unlike the religious leaders, who placed impossible burdens on p...

Ask, Seek, Knock

July 19, 2026 • Devon Accardi • Luke 11:1–13

This Sunday, Devon teaches from Luke 11:1-13. Jesus invites His disciples not merely to learn how to pray, but to become people whose lives are deeply formed by prayer. The Lord’s Prayer gives believers a starting point rooted in intimacy with the Father, dependence on His provision, confession, forgiveness, and a desire for His kingdom. Jesus calls His followers to pray with shameless persistence—continually asking, seeking, and knocking while trusting that their Heavenly Father hears them. Even when God’s answers do not look...

One Thing Necessary

July 12, 2026 • RD McClenagan • Luke 10:38–42

This Sunday, RD teaches from Luke 10:38–42, where Mary and Martha illustrate two different ways of relating to Jesus. Mary sits at His feet as a disciple, while Martha becomes distracted and overwhelmed by serving. Although Martha’s work is good, her anxious striving leaves her fragmented, reactive, and focused on controlling her circumstances rather than receiving from Christ. Jesus compassionately reminds her that only one thing is truly necessary, and Mary has chosen the better portion by prioritizing time with Him. The passage does not call believers to abandon re...

The Gospel Preached to Abraham

July 5, 2026 • Caleb Raby • Genesis 15

This Gospel Sunday, Caleb Raby teaches from Genesis 15, showing how Abraham's questions reveal the deeper human longing to know, “Will everything be okay?” God first assures Abraham by pointing him to the stars, reminding him of His power and leading him to believe by faith. Yet Abram still asks how he can know for certain, and God responds by showing that He alone will secure the promise. This points forward to Jesus, who took the curse on Himself at the cross so that God’s people can be for...

The Great Commands

June 28, 2026 • Greg Pinkner • Luke 10:25–37

This Sunday, Greg teaches from Luke 10:25–37. Jesus uses the parable of the Good Samaritan to show that the command to love God and love our neighbor is not merely a moral lesson, but a deeper picture of salvation, mercy, and true faith. When the lawyer asks what he must do to inherit eternal life, Jesus points him back to Scripture, revealing that no one can perfectly love God with all their heart, soul, mind, and strength, which shows our desperate need for a Savior. The priest and Levite represen...

In and Out

June 21, 2026 • RD McClenagan • Luke 10:1–24

This Sunday, RD teaches from Luke 10:1-24, focusing on God saving people not merely for themselves, but to send them out as laborers in His harvest. Jesus commissioned the 72 disciples to go ahead of Him, showing that discipleship involves mission, partnership, dependence on God, and willingness to face resistance. The harvest is plentiful both globally and locally, so believers are called to pray earnestly for more workers, see every part of life as a mission field, and live for the sake of others as God uses our lives to pre...

Count the Cost

June 14, 2026 • Zach Hume • Luke 9:51–62

This Sunday, Zach Hume teaches from Luke 9:51-62, emphasizing that while salvation is a free gift of grace, following Jesus is costly and requires full surrender. Jesus’ journey toward Jerusalem shows His unwavering obedience to the Father, and His encounters with the Samaritans, James and John, and three would-be disciples reveal that He will not conform to our expectations, timelines, comforts, or cultural obligations. As believers, we need to ask when our discipleship last cost us something and warns against treating Jesus only as Savior while resisting Him as Lord...

Follow Me

May 31, 2026 • Greg Pinkner • Luke 9:18–28

Greg Pinkner teaches from Luke 9:18-27 where Jesus asks His disciples the central question of faith—“Who do you say that I am?”—and Peter correctly confesses that Jesus is the Christ. While faith is lived in community, each person must personally answer that question and surrender to the real Jesus, not the version they want Him to be. Jesus reveals that His mission is not political conquest but suffering, rejection, death, and resurrection. To follow Him means denying ourselves daily, taking up our cross, and trusting that giving up what we can...

A Table in the Wilderness

May 24, 2026 • RD McClenagan • Luke 9:1–17

RD McClenagan teaches from Luke 9:1-17. Jesus leads the disciples into the wilderness to teach them about God’s power, provision, presence, and purpose. Through the miracle of multiplying five loaves and two fish, Jesus shows that human weakness becomes the place where God’s power is displayed. The leftover baskets reveal God’s abundant provision, while the breaking of bread points forward to communion and the deeper promise of God’s presence through Christ and the Holy Spirit. Even in the wilderness seasons of our lives, we can...

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...