The MCC Podcast

The first sign that a drought is breaking is smaller than you want it to be — and it's not the finish line, it's the starting gun.

God didn't take Elijah out of the drought. He fed him through it. Provision that arrives before anything changes, in a shape nobody would have chosen.

Athens had thirty thousand gods and still built one more altar, blank, "to an unknown god." We are no different. We just don't put statues on ours. And where we're reaching is never going to turn up what we're reaching...

Nobody learns a song at midnight. What comes out of you when life squeezes you is whatever you've been practicing all along, and the earthquake in Philippi didn't set anybody free. It just opened the doors on people who...

What happens to the gospel when we disagree? It multiplies. Paul and Barnabas split over John Mark, and two teams do the work of one. God shuts two doors in Asia and Bithynia, and the closed doors turn out to be...

We should not make it difficult for people who are turning to God (Acts 15:19). The gospel is Jesus + nothing = everything — anything we add to grace becomes an asterisk on salvation, a burden nobody has ever been able...

The crowd that crowns you is the crowd that stones you. But when Jesus's verdict replaces the crowd's, you're free to bow to neither... free enough to walk back down hard roads for the people still standing on them.

Every name you carry (and every "name" you've made for yourself) is either a mirror, reflecting attention back to you, or a sign, pointing past you to Jesus. Acts 13 shows us both, and the gospel doesn't just clean up...

Opposition couldn't stop the gospel—God used it to spread it. In Acts 11–12, we see the early church grow through persecution, experience both loss and miraculous rescue, and remain faithful because God's mission is...

Peter's encounter with Cornelius reveals a powerful truth: God shows no favoritism. In Acts 10–11, we see barriers of prejudice, tradition, and personal agendas fall as the Gospel reaches the Gentiles. Through Peter's...

The wall between "us" and "them" already came down at the cross. God isn't asking us to be generally open to people; He's asking us to stop calling impure what He has made clean, and to go discover where He's already...

God reaches the people nobody would reach — and then sends ordinary people to go get them. The story of Saul's conversion isn't just about what Jesus can do; it's about whether we'll be the Ananias who shows up.

When pressure came against the early Church, the gospel didn’t disappear — it spread. In Acts 8, Philip shows us a simple but powerful model for sharing Jesus: follow God’s lead, be with people, listen well, ask...

<p>Acts 8 reveals that God often advances the gospel through disruption, not comfort—and that the greatest danger is not open rebellion against God, but a heart that stays near Jesus while remaining fundamentally...

<p>The resurrection didn’t just secure life after death—it awakens us to life right now. The empty tomb is an invitation to step out of numb, sleepwalking existence and into a fully alive, wonder-filled life in...