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The Devil’s Disguised Plan
May 5, 2024 • Bishop Spencer McCool
In this message Bishop, as the watchman on the wall in scripture, comes to warn us about “The Devil’s Disguised Plan.” The enemy knows what won’t trip us up, and what will. The weapon of discouragement has been attempted against every child of God at one point or another. The causes of discouragement include fatigue, frustration, doubt, and fear. Each one can cause us to go through the valley of discouragement, but we must go through it, and not build a house there! The devil is a bully, we can get angry at him, take a stand in Jesus’ name, and send him packing.
The Red Letter Series It Is Written Part 3
April 28, 2024 • Pastor Jason Potter
In the message of “It Is Written Part 3” Pastor Jason completes a look at Jesus’ time being tempted in the wilderness. The wilderness is a place of testing, the wilderness is what the Israelites had to go through to get them out of Egypt. God said He wanted to get Israel out of Egypt to be free to worship Him. The problem though was Israel left Egypt, but Egypt was still in them. They had the freedom to do what God wanted them to do, but were still thinking and acting like they were slaves. The wilderness is not just a transition, it’s a transformation. Jesus showed how we should respond to the wilderness, and how we should leave it. The wilderness is a place to prepare us to enter into our promise in Christ Jesus to worship Him in liberty.
Authentic Conversations: It Is Written Part 2 (The Red Letter Series)
April 24, 2024 • Pastor Jason Potter, Bro. Lance Gr
This week Pastor Jason is joined by Bro. Lance Gray for an Authentic Conversation about Sunday’s message “It Is Written Part 2”. They look at the what Jesus was teaching us while the enemy was trying to tempt Him. God allows us to be tested to reveal what’s in us to bless us, while the enemy tempts us to expose what should not be there. Though He was God, as a man, Jesus showed us we can make the right choice. Jesus heard the lie of the enemy, held His ground, then tackled the lie by not only quoting content, but content within context. He pointed back to Israel in the wilderness. Jesus was saying we can either be an Israelite who doubts and falls in the wilderness, or we can be a Caleb. We can stand on The Word, trust in God, pursue what we should really hunger for, and allow Him to complete in us what He desires to give us.
The Red Letter Series: It Is Written Part 2
April 21, 2024 • Pastor Jason Potter
In “It Is Written Part 2” of the Red Letter Series, Pastor Jason continues our look at Jesus in the wilderness. The enemy attempted with Jesus what he tries with us. To insert doubt so we will give into our lusts and to sin, that’s Genesis 3, the same lie as at the beginning. Jesus heard the lie, held His ground, and gave a lesson to all of us. Jesus’ response took us back to Deuteronomy 6. It was there He was trying to show Israel He allowed them to be hungry so they could hunger after what God would give them. The manna pointed ahead to Christ, The Word Of God. Only what The Lord gives us can satisfy, His Word will cause us to never hunger and thirst again.
The Red Letter Series: It Is Written Part 1
April 14, 2024 • Pastor Jason Potter
In this message in the Red Letter Series Pastor Jason looks at Jesus’ words to the enemy in the wilderness, “It Is Written Part 1”. We see that Jesus was led by The Spirit to the wilderness, it’s a place of testing. The enemy was waiting to tempt Jesus, testing and tempting are not the same . God does not tempt, but He does test. Here’s the difference, the enemy tempts to get us to fall. God tests us, it’s in order for you to receive the gifts and the promises that He has for us. Jesus went to the wilderness to prove Who He is, what was in His heart, and that He will do what He said He would do. Because of Him, we too can resist temptation.
Authentic Conversations: Caught In The Act (The Red Letter Series)
April 10, 2024 • Pastor Jason Potter, Pastor Brittany Potter
Pastor Jason and Pastor Brittany in this week’s Authentic Conversations look at Pastor Brittany’s message, “Caught In The Act”. They discuss this first message in “The Red Letter Series”, and how Jesus approached people. He did not address the woman caught in adultery or the Pharisees right away. Jesus did not condemn her or condone her actions, nor did He excuse the Pharisees. Jesus would deal with her sin, not by stoning her, but by taking her place. We should all remember that we’re not too distant from the woman caught in adultery. The difference between a sinner and saint is confession and the saint is being sanctified. We’re not there yet, we are striving for it, but we must never look down on someone else because we all have made mistakes.
The Red Letter Series: Caught In The Act
April 7, 2024 • Pastor Brittany Potter
In the first message of “The Red Letter Series: Caught In The Act” Pastor Brittany views Jesus and the woman caught in the act of adultery through the eyes of a loving parent. Jesus doesn’t address the woman right away, He allows her to sit in her shame and consider what she had done. He didn’t address the Pharisees right away either, instead He wrote on the ground. The Pharisees wanted Him to condemn her so they could accuse her, she was afraid for her life. Jesus refused to condemn her, and did not allow the Pharisees to do so either. As only Jesus could, He foreshadowed that He would deal with her sin, and for the sins of all who choose to believe in Him, not as our executioner but as our Savior.
Authentic Conversations: An Easter Response
April 3, 2024 • Pastor Jason Potter, Pastor Brittany Potter
Pastor Jason and Pastor Brittany in this week’s Authentic Conversations both look back at an amazing Easter and look forward to the weeks ahead. Both at where God has brought us too, and where He is taking us as a Church. They discuss both “An Easter Response”, Pentecost Sunday, and the upcoming “Red Letter” Series. God has brought us through healing with “The Gospel According To Joshua” and to a new season reaching out beginning with “An Easter Response”. It’s evident of what God did, is doing, and what He said. This leads us to Sunday, the “Red Letter” series, and how God is guiding us to a new chapter this year.
An Easter Response
March 31, 2024 • Pastor Jason Potter
The disciples came to the tomb with the wrong expectation, they came to the tomb thinking He was dead. They had forgotten Jesus had previously told them time and time again that He would rise on the third day. The disciples were human like we are, but it had caused them to act in a way that was inconsistent with who that God had made them to be. If we’re not careful we will do exactly the same thing. It is so vital that we learn to live with the expectations set before us in this book. The disciples looked at their circumstances and expected Him to be dead when He is alive. Like them our eyes can tell us lies, that things are a certain way when the reality is, God is bringing us to the moment in our life to do for us what only He can do. We’re not here because we’re great, but He is, and it’s time for us to give our Resurrected Savior, “An Easter Response.”
The Gospel According To Joshua Part 4
March 27, 2024 • Pastor Jason Potter
In this final message of the series “The Gospel According To Joshua” we see Israel at the close of one chapter, but the beginning of a new one. They put back in practice some things they had stopped. This begins with circumcision , which was a physical type and shadow of a the spiritual act of the heart. The intention of circumcision was to be a sign of an inward reality. We also see Israel keeping the Passover, it wasn’t just a holiday, it meant something to them. Passover is a type and shadow of what Christ did for us on the cross. Now we celebrate Communion to honor and commemorate our new reality, because of His grace we are alive again. Like Israel, we must ask ourselves, as we examine our lives, what does this mean to you and I?
The Gospel According To Joshua Part 3
March 24, 2024 • Pastor Jason Potter
God wanted to bring Israel out to where His people could serve Him in freedom. It’s important to look at exactly where God is taking them. It’s important because, as a Church, we’ve been wanting to know the same thing. God has brought healing and unity, and is positioning us for something great. We must not act like we’re in Egypt, we are in the land of promise. It means that we are going to have to take some things, to take the authority God has given us, and to go forward to our greatest moments. In this third message in this series, we must know that He is calling us to walk in the freedom that He has given us. This is what God is doing for Point Of Mercy, and what He did for Israel in “The Gospel According to Joshua”.
Authentic Conversations: The Gospel According To Joshua Part 2
March 20, 2024 • Pastor Jason Potter, Pastor Brittany Potter
Pastor Jason and Pastor Brittany explore the second part of “The Gospel According To Joshua” in this week’s “Authentic Conversations.” Especially in this series the Gospel becomes the lens we see the Bible through. What Joshua did, involved far more than Israel at that moment. Sometimes what we do is for the generation coming in behind us and not us. Never forget our purpose is to glorify God. Serve where you’re at, and make sure you’re connected to the body in such a way that you feel what it needs. Some things we do will only be for a time, they are an assignment, but we are called to serve with excellence. We all must be a part of sharing the Gospel with Madison, and Hermitage, Mt. Juliet, and the Middle Tennessee area.
The Gospel According To Joshua Part 2
March 17, 2024 • Pastor Jason Potter
In the second part of this series, “The Gospel According To Joshua”, Pastor Jason looks at the two pairs of twelve stones, one group moved out of, and the other into the Jordan. Twelve men, one appointed from each tribe, carried out a smooth stone on their shoulder out of the river. Joshua commanded for them to be set in the camp for a testimony to future generations. Twelve men carried stones, but the Word explain Joshua, a type and shadow of Jesus, carried twelve stones himself into the Jordan. A visible memorial and an invisible memorial, which is a type and shadow of baptism. You see the believer going into the water in baptism, but what you don’t see is, all of our sins being cast away, it’s far more than a physical act.
Authentic Conversations: The Gospel According To Joshua Part 1
March 13, 2024 • Pastor Jason Potter, Pastor Brittany Potter, Bro. Brad Wilson
Pastor Jason, Pastor Brittany, and Bro. Brad this week in our “Authentic Conversations” discuss the first sermon in the series “The Gospel According To Joshua”. Too often as individuals we have a defense mechanism where you put yourself in a predicament where you filter out the potential of pain, but you also prevent the possibility of something good. When you do this, you can’t move forward. We are moving forward, but we must move forward together. There’s healing in the hurting, and there’s victory in the forward motion. God is calling us to consecration, not to a list of dos and don’t’s, but through a relationship with His Spirit and His Word for where we are going together.
The Gospel According To Joshua Part 1
March 10, 2024 • Pastor Jason Potter
In this first message in the new sermon series which will lead into Easter, Pastor Jason explores “The Gospel According To Joshua”. Israel was about to go somewhere they had never been before. Things were different, but good, we have experienced this at Point Of Mercy. We are healing and moving forward together. God instructed Israel to watch the Ark as the priests carried it into the Jordan. The ministry felt the shift first as the waters stopped from the city of Adam to the Salt or Dead Sea. This was a type and shadow of our salvation because what happened at Adam is now cut off, death has no more power on us because of The Death, Burial, and Resurrection of Christ Jesus!!!