What if the greatest threat to your faith isn't suffering—but success?

In Mark 10:17–27, Jesus encounters a wealthy, moral, deeply religious young man who seems to have everything. Yet beneath his respectable life is an idol he cannot see. This passage isn't simply about money; it's about the subtle ways good things become ultimate things.

In this sermon, we'll explore why self-deception is so dangerous, how wealth and comfort can quietly replace our dependence on God, and why only Jesus can free us from the false gods that promise life but leave us empty. We'll also consider what the shifting center of global Christianity reveals about the danger of comfortable religion and the power of a cross-shaped faith.

The question isn't whether you have money. The question is: What has your heart?

In this sermon, Pastor Logan Merrick unpacks Matthew 6, the Lord's Prayer. In it Pastor Logan shows us that Jesus wasn't giving us a prayer to recite but a model of prayer on how to approach the Father.

In this mailbag episode, Pastor Logan Merrick answers two questions that came in asking if Job was sinless, and why Israel was the nation God chose over other nations.

Here's a previous episode where Pastor Logan spoke a little bit more on the Divine Council

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We've all had moments when we thought we understood something perfectly, only to discover we'd completely missed the point. Maybe it was assembling furniture without instructions, confident the picture on the box was enough—only to end up with a lopsided disaster held together with makeshift reinforcements. Or perhaps it was a relationship where we misread every signal, certain we understood what was happening until reality came crashing down.

The worst mistakes aren't always made by people who know nothing. Sometimes they're made by people who know just enough to be dangerous.

This is precisely where we find Peter in Mark chapter 8. He gets the answer right when everyone else is confused. He correctly identifies Jesus as the Messiah. But while Peter understands Jesus's identity, he completely misunderstands Jesus's mission. He sees enough to know who Jesus is, but not enough to grasp what kind of Messiah He came to be.

In this sermon, Pastor Logan Merrick unpacks Mark 7:24-31 and looks at a somewhat controversial passage where some believe this passage reveals the "sinfulness" of Jesus and his prejudice, but is that what's happening? Let's dive in to find out what is really going on and how outsiders are welcomed into the Kingdom of God.

What happens when we focus more on behavior modification than gospel change? We become a Pharisee who doesn't truly know the gospel of Jesus Christ. In this sermon pastor Logan unpacks Mark 7:1-23 and Zechariah 3 to show us the great exchange and how it's not the outside of the cup we need to worry about, but the inside.

In this message Pastor Logan Merrick looks at what the miracle of the feeding of the 5,000 tells us about who Christ is, how it ties into multiple Old Testament passages, and how Christ provides rest, truth, and food for us.

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In this sermon Pastor Logan Merrick continues our series through the Gospel of Mark and unpacks the passage of John the Baptist's death. Reading like a mid-90's soap opera Pastor Logan looks at our three main characters in the passage and what each one shows us about the human heart. He also answers the question, why is this story even here in the book of Mark.