We live in a culture reluctant to make commitmenets. One of the areas people are unwilling to commit is to church membership. Though many Christians are committed to their churches, they refuse to commit to the church the way the leadership desires, which is formal membership. At Metro East we ...

If you missed the Men's Night earlier this month you can get the audio HERE. Video coming soon.  Love ya, Pastor ...

Small groups are not a new concept for most of us. We know where they originated and what they are intended to accomplish and we like what happens in them. At Metro East, we are approaching small groups from a different angle philosophically. When I arrived just over 4 months ago, I knew that if ...

What would things look like if Satan really took control of a city? Over a half century ago, Presbyterian minister Donald Grey Barnhouse offered his own scenario in his weekly sermon that was also broadcast nationwide on CBS radio. Barnhouse speculated that if Satan took over Philadephia, all of ...

  Here is one of my favorite excerpts from Milton Vincent's The Gospel Primer For Christians.  "Compared to greater endeavors, self-love is mundane and tiresome. Consequently, the more thoroughly I can be done with such tedium, the freer my soul will be to soar at its God-intended ...

Next Sunday we're going to learn a hymn that was written around 1908 by Rev. John Wilbur Chapman and originally titled "One Day". In 2008, Michael Bleecker took the lyrics from that hymn and put them to new music, as he was preparing for Easter services, and called it "Glorious Day" (the lyrics ...

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I try to warn our people over and over to be cautious of any magic bullets that might be offered to them. You know what those are right? They are teachings of certain books and articles and sermons that promise a once-for-all rememdy for our marriage, how we raise our children, how we handle money ...

Next Sunday we're going to learn a new Gospel-centered song called "Only The Blood" from The Village Church album GOD OF VICTORY. This song is adapted from the hymn "Nothing But The Blood" (Robert Lowry - 1876), with the new words and music written by Jeff Capps, Michael Bleecker, Taylor Johnson, ...