What would you do if the door was closed and someone's eternity was on the line?

In Mark 2:1-12, four friends refuse to take "no room" for an answer. They climb a roof, tear it open, and lower their paralyzed friend directly in front of Jesus and Jesus responds to their faith with forgiveness and healing.

Because someone went to extraordinary lengths to get you to Jesus, now it's your turn. Tear the roof off. Someone's forever is waiting on the other side of your desperate faith.

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What's really choking your faith? Not the big stuff...the et cetera. The thorns that were already in your heart before your phone became the best fertilizer they've ever had.

Day One of 21 Days of Prayer and Fasting, Pastor Léonce opens Mark 4:1–20 and the parable of the soils, landing hard on the thorny ground. This soil never said no to Jesus. It just never said no to anything else, either. He names three false promises your devices make and shows exactly how they map onto the three thorns Jesus warned about.

But it's not a shame sermon. Jesus was forsaken so you'd never have to earn His attention again. And He's never once been distracted from you. Your attention is your soil. Cleared ground is cleared ground. He's ready to plant something in it.

Open today's Prayer Guide in the United Church app and choose your entry point into the fast. Download the app at https://united.online/nextsteps

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What if the ache you're carrying isn't proof something's wrong with you, but proof you were made for more?

Pastor Léonce takes us to ancient Athens, where Paul found an altar "to an unknown god" in the most impressive city on earth. Atlanta, we're that city, chasing achievement that promises to fill the ache but only makes it echo louder.

The gospel isn't "try harder to find God." It's that He's been pursuing you all along and took the name Jesus to climb down to the one altar you could never scale.

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What if you don't know how to bring up Jesus in an everyday conversation?

In Acts 17:22-34, Pastor Léonce shows us how Paul built a bridge to the Gospel by meeting people where they were. Instead of leading with condemnation, Paul started with their questions, their longings, and their search for meaning and pointed them to Jesus.

We may live in a different time, but people are still searching. The question is: will we build the bridge?

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What if the most sacred ground in your life isn't the sanctuary, but your office, your job site, or the classroom you're dreading on Monday morning?

In this message, Pastor Léonce opens Acts 18 and dismantles the sacred/secular lie with surgical precision: God's first act in Scripture was work, and He made us in that same image. Your job isn't a detour from your calling. It's the mission field where most of your witness actually happens.

If you're bone-tired of splitting yourself in two — handing God a Sunday slice while Monday runs on empty — this is your moment. Your workplace isn't filler. It's holy ground, and you're the witness already planted there.

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You might know a lot about Jesus. But have you actually met Him?

Pastor Léonce opens Acts 17 with a question that cuts through inherited faith, cultural Christianity, and secondhand belief, and gets to the King who actually exists. The one who didn't demand your blood. He gave His own.

If your faith has felt more like a hand-me-down than a living thing, this is where the roots start going deeper.

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What do you do when doing the right thing leads to the worst outcome?

Paul and Silas freed a girl from spiritual bondage and it landed them stripped, beaten, and thrown into the deepest cell of a Roman prison. But at midnight, bleeding and chained, they did something unexpected: they started singing.

In this message, Pastor Léonce unpacks Acts 16 and exposes a quiet exhaustion many Christians carry: performing truth instead of living free in it. This is a message about what sustains you when no one's watching—and who might be watching anyway.

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Some of the hardest fractures in life aren't between enemies — they're between friends. People who loved the same things, held the same line, and built something together.

In Acts 15, Paul and Barnabas — two men who would have died for each other — had a disagreement so sharp they had to part ways. Luke doesn't soften it or tell us who was right. He just records it, and shows us what God did with the pieces.

Pastor Léonce Crump Jr. shares something he hasn't said from any stage yet — a fracture he's still living in, with no resolution yet. If you're carrying a broken friendship or a relationship you've quietly written off, this one is for you.

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