Mountain View Baptist Church

Mountain View Baptist Church Love God, grow in His Word, and share the love of Christ to the world around us

Sundays:
Bible Study - 9:15 AM
Worship Service - 10:30 AM

Wednesdays:
Prayer Tent - 3:45 - 4:45 PM

06/21/2026

Last Week's Applications:
Matthew 9:35-10:8

As Jesus taught the multitudes, He had compassion on them and He tells His disciples that "The harvest is plentiful but the laborers are few; therefore ask the Lord of the harvest to send out laborers into his harvest."

1) Do you see the harvest that Jesus sees? When Jesus saw the crowds, He didn't see a potential harvest, but He saw a ready harvest. What Jesus saw were people who were helpless and needed a Savior. The harvest is anyone who recognizes their need for a Savior and not the self-righteous.

2) Are you working on the wrong harvest? The religious leaders commanded that people should be obedient to the Law of Moses in order to be right before God. If we focus on what we can do religiously to be right before God, we are working on the wrong harvest. Apart from Jesus, we cannot attend to the harvest.

3) Jesus is the laborer and He is the harvest. Only Jesus is the true laborer and we are fellow laborers when we embody His mission and His ways. He is the harvest because every helpless person He saves, He turns them into His own image and Body.

4) Jesus is growing faith and mercy. The harvest is a process of growth. A plant grows through proper planting soil and fertilizer. What dirt and manure in our lives has God used to create His characteristics: faith and mercy?

5) The harvest is everywhere! It is not just present in a church building; but it is everywhere we go; every day!

06/14/2026

Last Week's Applications:
Matthew 9:9-26

The Gospel story shares a special day where Jesus had many interruptions. First, He sees Matthew sitting at a tax booth and He calls him to "Follow Me." Then Matthew invites Jesus, His disciples, and many other tax collectors for a meal at his home. The Pharisees are critical of Jesus eating with the tax collectors. But Jesus says He came for the sinners and not the righteous. Then a leader of the synagogue comes in and says that his daughter has just died but that Jesus can raise her up. As they travel to his house, a woman touches Jesus to be healed. Then Jesus arrives at the house, excuses the mourners, and proceeds to raise the girl from the dead.

Each person had a unique experience with Jesus even though He was busy. Matthew, as a tax collector, would have been considered a traitor to his people. Instead, Jesus sees him and calls him. There is a powerful experience in healing to be seen and called.

When Jesus defends His time with the tax collectors, He quotes Scripture. Likewise we should practice mercy instead of sacrificing others and ourselves.

The leader of the Synagogue had a crisis that interrupted the meal. What are the hands on needs in our community that may call us away from our norm?

The woman who touched Jesus thought she could touch Him without anyone noticing. But Jesus turned and saw her. Who is asking you to turn and see them today?

The girl who had died was taken by Jesus' hand and raised up. Who is needed to be taken by the hand helped up out of despair, darkness, or death?

06/07/2026

Last Week's Applications:
Genesis 1:1-2:4

In the Genesis poem that starts the Bible, several themes come up. In the creative order, only one created being is both spiritual and physical: humanity. We are the bridge between the Divine and the physical space since humanity has God's breath and image. Consequently EVERYTHING IS SPIRITUAL. We should not compartmentalize our spirituality and treat everything else as secular. Instead, we should see the spiritual in all of our activities.

The poem also shows God as creating for 6 days and then takes 1 day off of creating for "rest". In all His creation, God finds it as "good". Genesis portrays God as enjoying creating the world and tells creation to multiply and create as well. Likewise, the Divine imprint on us is that we are to "create" for 6 days and then take a day for rest, play, and enjoyment.

We should see the grand story that God created a good world. Sin entered the world. God through Jesus embodied the remedy for sin and death. One day He will restore the world and combine Heaven and earth into one space. Thus we anticipate His return to restore this world as it was intended to be. The grand narrative of God's redemption of this world affects every aspect of our lives.

05/31/2026

Last Week's Applications:
Acts 2:1-21

The message of Pentecost centers around the disciples encountering the presence of God's Spirit to communicate the Good News of Jesus' Resurrection. When the crowds heard the message in their own languages, they were amazed. The message of the Gospel was united in scope, but diverse in how it was proclaimed. The Church magnifies unity but celebrates diversity. We can be united in our beliefs about Jesus while also welcoming to people of different cultures, backgrounds, and expressions of faith.

Peter preaches from the prophet of Joel saying that God will pour out His Spirit upon all flesh. This means that in the new Kingdom, everyone has a part to play. No one is left out and no one lacks importance.

The miracle of Pentacost was not a permanent change of people's languages. However, the understanding of each other was a foretaste of the future union of Heaven and Earth and how citizens of God's Kingdom will be able to understand each other even though they may be speaking in different languages.

05/24/2026

Last Week's Applications:
1 Peter 4:12-19

In this letter, Peter focuses on how to respond to suffering as a Christian. He says it is an opportunity to share in Christ's sufferings. Peter was originally given an opportunity to be present with Christ during His physical sufferings. In Gethsemane, Jesus asked Peter (and two other disciples) to watch and pray while He was in anguish over the upcoming events. Peter kept falling asleep. Later in the courtyard, while Jesus is being beaten, Peter denies Christ three times. In this letter, Peter relives those moments and tells the young church that when they suffer for their faith, they are sharing Christ's sufferings. Peter is telling them to hold on in the exact same issue that he struggled with in his early faith.

To suffer with Christ means we surrender our pains to Him. Since we are His body, Christ will bear your pain for you and with you.

Ultimately, Christ understands all of our pain. Some of the pain He physically suffered on this plane of existence. Other pains, He feels through the collective pains of the church. So our question should not be where is God when you hurt but rather where are you when God hurts?

We know well will experience ultimate healing in a Resurrection. So when we are healed, we will be glad and shout for joy for He will be glorified through us. Yet, while we do suffer now, we can see this as an invitation for communion with Christ; to know Him...to even understand His heart and love.

05/17/2026

Last Week's Applications:
John 14:15-21

Jesus says He has sent the Spirit of truth to us to be our Advocate. He will abide with us and in us. We were designed to need an Advocate. We cannot keep His commandments without help nor can we truly love Him without experiencing His presence. The Spirit leads us to love Him and consequently we will keep His commandments.

Jesus promises to not leave us orphaned. We are not meant to be on our own. Instead, His presence in us will guide us every day. We are compelled by His love for us and others will see Him because of our love for Him and everyone else.

05/10/2026

Last Week's Applications:
John 14:1-14

Jesus shares some parting words with His disciples before He undergoes His trial and death. He shares that in His Father's house there are many dwelling places and that He will go and prepare a place for us. Ultimately, Jesus is not focusing on a destination but a relationship with Him that we will have.

Jesus says He is "the Way, the Truth, and the Life." Jesus is not talking about the "plan of salvation" or a series of "spiritual laws" or a "Roman's Road". Instead the Way is the presence of the Father and His grace in our lives. The Way is not just a journey but the Destination. Jesus showed us how we are to be like Him so that we can be with Him. Jesus is the Truth means we cannot have deception nor lies in our hearts. Jesus is the Life means He breaths life into us.

If we don't like to follow Jesus' way of life, we will not be happy with the final destination He takes us to. If we are not willing to be open with our hidden secrets, the Father's house will not be our home. Since our destination is not about a location, it is about a relationship with the loving Father and we are given glimpses of that relationship in this plane of existence. Our true home is found only in Him.

05/03/2026

Last Week's Applications:
John 10:1-10

Jesus metaphorically shares how He is a gatekeeper for sheep and even the gate. He says the sheep know the voice of the gatekeeper. Whom do we listen to? Do we listen to our own desires, whims, and wants? Or do we listen to the voice of Jesus directing us to love others, not seek vengenance, forgive and be kind?

Jesus says the bandit and thief come to steal. What have we allowed to be stolen from us; not physically from us, but rather from our lives? Do we let worry control our thoughts? Do we stress about broken relationships we have no control over fixing? Do we pay more attention to the news media than to God's Word?

Jesus says He comes to give us life more abundant. True abundant life is radically different from what our culture values. Our culture thinks that life is in our possessions. Jesus brings a life that is greater than what we own. He shows us how to get the most out of our circumstances and how to trust in His guidance on a daily basis.

04/26/2026

Last Week's Applications:
Luke 24:13-35

On Resurrection Sunday, two of Jesus' disciples decided to head to the village of Emmaus. As they discussed the events of the weekend, Jesus approached them but they did not recognize Him. He used Scripture to show how the Messiah would suffer and then enter into His glory. After a while, the disciples invited Jesus to dine with them. They recognized Jesus when He blessed the bread and then He disappeared.

When the disciples did not recognize Jesus at first, the wording of Scripture implies that they were intentionally, but metaphorically "blinded" from seeing Jesus. Sometimes we are intentionally kept from the reality of our situations. We might be gracefully given short sightness of an issue in our lives and later on we might receive understanding in God's timing.

The encounter with Jesus was in a common situation: a walk to a village. They were disappointed about Jesus' death and were in grief and experiencing confusion. They did not have to be in the temple to see Jesus in their lives. Encounters with Jesus come in a wide sort of arrangements: on the road, out of disappointment, from confusion, etc.

When they arrived in Emmaus, they did the hospitable thing to do and invited Jesus into their home. We, too, should invite Jesus in to our home and He will abide with us.

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