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

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.

04/19/2026

Last Week's Applications:
John 20:19-31

It is Easter evening. The disciples are behind locked doors out of fear. Suddenly, Jesus appears and says, "Peace be with you." He proceeds to show them His hands and side. He then commissions them to go out empowered in the Holy Spirit.

There are seasons in our lives that we, too, hide behind locked doors. Maybe not out of fear for our lives, but locks are still powerful: an addiction, unconfessed sin, bitterness, anger, unforgiveness. All of these rob us of the joy of the Resurrection life that Jesus promises His followers. But Jesus has the power to enter into any locked doors.

As Jesus comforted His disciples with peace, He likewise shares His peace with us. What peace is needed to be brought in your life? In the same locked doors, Jesus gives us His peace to handle the situation. We just need to trust Him.

Thomas missed out on the first meeting with Jesus. Thomas says that he needs to see the scars of Jesus and even touch His side. A week later, Jesus shows up again and this time Thomas is there and proclaims faith and trust in Him. Jesus did not condemn Thomas but willingly showed him what he needed to believe. In our lives, Jesus shows up to settle our doubts. He does not condemn us and He patiently gives us what we need to believe.

04/12/2026

Last Week's Applications:
Colossians 3:1-4

Paul says that since we have been raised with Christ, we are to seek the things that are above. In order to have a resurrection, we must also have experienced a death. Our fleshly desires have been, are currently going through, and will in the future be crucified with Christ. The timelessness of that death leads to a tri-fold resurrection with Christ: in the past, present, and future. That is why we experience victory in 3 dimensions while at the same time still have evidence of the fleshly desires as well in the present.

Consequently, our minds should be focused on God's ways and thoughts. When we see others, we should see them as God sees them. They are His children and are in the process of being redeemed. By doing so, then no one is truly our enemy since one day all will be made new in Christ. That does not mean we are to be naive to the spiritual blindness of others and how they might be adversarial at times. But we can treat them with love and kindness.

Paul also says our lives are hidden with Christ in God. It's not about our kingdoms but His kingdom! We serve Him and should not serve our own desires and whims.

Paul concludes that Christ will be revealed and we, too, will be revealed with Him in glory. Ultimately, God will share His glory with His creation and His bride, the church. As we walk in His ways, we give glory to Him and He radiates His love through us.

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