Mountain View Chapel - Madison, VA: Recent Episodes
Mountain View Chapel
Mountain View Chapel is located in Madison, VA. Each Sunday, a group of Christ Seekers and Followers come together to worship our Lord and Savior. Our Podcasts usually consist of public scripture readings and a message from our lead pastor Tim Duggins.
What in the world is possible when we simply obey God and do what He has asked us to do?
Learning from Jonah should be about each and every single one of us looking at our own lives to evaluate our response to what God says about our lives.
May we look within ourselves as we study Jonah so that we can see God’s desire to share His love with others through us.
True Christianity expands to being able to see the needs of others and attempt to meet those needs through connection with God.
Learning to press into prayer and prayerfully deny yourself through fasting creates a battleground.
A desire to increase faith, grace, and love in your personal prayer relationship with God is at the heart of Biblical fasting.
Fasting is an extension of a growing, passionate desire for closer relationship with Father, Son, and Holy Spirit.
We have been talking that we believe prayer is a personal relationship with Jesus. If we believe this to be true then our earthly relationships affect our spiritual relationship with Father God.
Prayer is unleashing the presence of God in my life so that His power becomes a byproduct of relationship.
When we slow down and realize the importance of the simple things in the context of God’s loving plan for our lives, the table becomes a powerful place for meaningful time and deep conversations.
Three aspects of learning to wait on the Lord: He is preparing you, He is purifying you, He wants you to embrace His plan by knowing and walking with Him on the most personal level.
When we hear “No”, “Don’t”, or “Stop” from God then we need to be looking for and aware of His leading for “Yes”, “Do”, or “Go”.
God's "no" is not a rejection or failure, but rather a step of faith toward His provision for a greater plan for our lives.
Describe your personality in general terms, then explain how you believe you are led by the Holy Spirit. How does the Holy Spirit get your attention?
God works His mighty plan despite our expectation misunderstandings to reveal His power and His love on our behalf.
We need to be a group of people that proclaim the love of God by living with an expanding perspective of other people and other cultures.
There are some common threads that are evident in the recorded words of Scripture from the beginning to the end.
Philip was a man who made his life simple and straightforward... it was all about Jesus.
This concept of a “devoted follower” in the New Testament was based on a devotion to the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit because of the forgiveness of sins, the freedom of soul, and the soundness of mind that was experienced by people from all different backgrounds.
To walk in the Spirit, we must have a balance of mind and emotion regarding our pursuit of Christ.
We don’t need to be “Super Saints” but rather “Simple Witnesses” of what He has done for us.
Tim is asking us, for our study of Acts, to consider using the phrase “the acts of the apprentices”.
Our prayer this Easter is that you would believe that Jesus is the Christ, and that you would have life in His name.
Purity of our Savior... His heart, His words, His desires are so absolutely pure. Pure love. Pure desire. Pure truth.
Think of following Jesus as an apprenticeship. We want to learn the system of the heavenly kingdom as practitioners with on the job training accompanied by some classroom work and reading.
Are you acknowledging, to yourself, the reality of constant connection to Jesus through the presence of the Holy Spirit?
Have you believed in Jesus as your way, and then committed to follow His teachings and lifestyle?
If we are preparing for our Lord’s return then it should have a very purifying effect on the way we live our lives right now.
Father God is long-suffering on our behalf waiting and longing for us to turn to Him in faith.
None of us have the righteousness capacity to earn our own equal standing faith before God.
Be sober, be vigilant; because your adversary the devil walks about like a roaring lion, seeking whom he may devour.
Honor Christ in your heart and mind as the most special because He is holy as your Savior and Lord.
Don't do wrong or bad hoping to accomplish good things in society. Do good and do right to accomplish good things in society.
When you begin to change your intake regarding nutrition of all types, it eventually has an effect on your appetite.
Peter, an ordinary man, encountered an extraordinary Savior who transformed him from the inside out.
We must remind ourselves of the process of falling forward because we are making progress!
Learn to love Jesus and be loyal to Him and His kingdom. Your growing love and loyalty will help you understand just how much He longs to take care of your needs.
It is important to highlight the maze of customs and technicalities that you may not notice as you navigate this seemingly love story.
We are still desperate in our depravity unless we make The Lord God our Savior and King.
We must guard against us making ourselves god and rejecting The One True God as revealed through the Holy Scriptures.
What is it... why is it... that you keep trying to earn what has already been provided by God through the life, death, and resurrection of His Son, Jesus of Nazareth?
Good intentions are worthless unless the good intentions have a place in your intentional daily decision making.
Pastor Chris provides an overview of the cycle of darkness to hope that shaped the book of Judges and our lives today as well.
We are in a battle to live faithful, separated, committed lives that show a lost world the grace, mercy, and forgiveness of a loving God who will ultimately judge our lives in His presence.
Our struggle with sin and selfishness is in direct proportion to our lack of or focus on the power of the resurrection.
The Resurrection is not one of many things we believe but the very basis of why we believe what we believe.
The power of the resurrection should become part of the very fiber of our identity: our identity in Christ, our identity within ourselves, and our identity in life.