The Way Church OK: Recent Episodes
Pastor Johnny Merrell
Welcome to the The Way Church podcast led by Pastor Johnny Merrell. To learn more, visit our website at http://thewaychurch.church or download The Way Church OK App.
God had a call on Samson's life. Samson took some wrong turns in life but couldn't get away from the grace of God.
Peter had struggles like any one of us but don't give up because when you're a follower of Jesus, God is constantly making you into something!
Saul had a dramatic encounter with Jesus on the road to Damascus. After Jesus, he was radically changed into a full blown follower of Jesus!
Pastor Cody is on the mound for week 3 of FAN OR FOLLOWER and he challenges us to quit being a selfish playmaker!
God has created us for a purpose. We must keep our eyes focused on Jesus, quit making excuses, and continuing following Jesus!
Pastor Johnny started a new series today! Think about it...are we following Jesus for what He can do—or for who He is?
We got the opportunity to talk with Tulsa University football player Zion Steptoe about football, faith, and how God is working in his life!
We have VICTORY because of JESUS CHRIST! Listen for some practical ways to take into your spiritual battle.
Sometimes the devil will hit you with small things that seem like they might not effect us. The devil wants to destroy you. Period.
As believers of the family of Christ, how does God use our faith community to grow and learn more about who He is?
Pastor Vernon is in the House today teaching about hope for hurting parents. Don't miss this special message showing us ways to handle our children.
Pastor Johnny kicked off a brand new series today titles FAMILY THERAPY and challenged us to have a Christ centered family!
Today, The Way Church celebrated their 10 year anniversary 🙌🏻🙌🏻🙌🏻 Pastor Johnny dives into and explains why The Way Church is so special ❤️
We all have gifts we’ve been given by God that can be used to serve His Church. What are you doing with what you’ve been given?
What is fasting? Pastor Johnny covers it all in depth to encourage you on your journey!
We looked at the type of church that God never desired, and the seven warnings or woes that we need to watch out for. Then, we explored the life of Jesus and how He trained and taught the disciples on how to BE THE CHURCH.
Pastor Johnny takes us through the tabernacle and helped us to understand what it all means to us as christians.
Pastor Johnny shares with us the word God gave him for 2025 and you don't want to miss it!
The Trinity = ONE God but three persons. You want a better spiritual foundation...? Listen to this message and share with THREE people!
Week 3 of SOCIAL MEDIA THEOLOGY talks about the importantance of God's word and how we got it.
Are you ready to be a lion chasing, watchman? Don't scroll past this message...the world needs you!
Do YOU have a biblical worldview? Learn what that is and why we must get involved in politics!
Pastor Vernon teaches on the sovereignty of God and how much He truly has for us if we surrender to Him!
He wraps up Master Level Marriage challenges us to put the Bible first and follow God's plan for a biblical, healthy marriage.
Join Dr. Ronnie Gaines from Extreme Church in Pryor as he teaches is Master Level Marriage series!
Pastor Vernon is back with a message about understanding grace. How will you respond to God's saving grace?
Join our Youth Pastor, Cody Cannon, as he challenges us to catch and release The Gospel!
How do we become the healthiest version of ourself when we’re having a cloudy day? SHARE JESUS!!
Do you want to feel better? Listen to this message from Pastor Johnny's new series "HEALTHIEST YOU"
Pastor Johnny talks with former OU Sooner football player, Caleb King-Kelly, about his life, football, and his faith in Jesus!
We have to decide to carry Jesus to a lost and dying world! Let's believe God for the impossible 🙌🏻🙌🏻🙌🏻
The enemy of God, Satan, doesn’t just want to attack us...he wants to devour us and take us out completely!
Why are we following Jesus? Truly…heavenly reasons or earthly reasons? Then ask yourself who YOU think Jesus is?
Week 2 of ON CLOUD 9 is about stress! So much of our stress is brought on by ourselves. Here's 6 things that we can do in the midst of it that will help!
When we disobey the Word, we quench the Spirit in our lives. Pastor Vernon challenges us to BE DOERS OF THE WORD!
We celebrated NINE years of The Way Church 🙌🏻🙌🏻🙌🏻 and God wants to do MORE! Pray, obey, and rejoice!
Pastor Johnny started a brand new series today and the topic was anxiety.
Anxiety is a signal God is sending you...
Pastor Johnny wraps up MORE IN '24 with a challenege to all of us who calls themselves Christians... The fire in us was never meant to stay inside of us or our church walls... the fire is meant to spread and change lives!!!
There’s purpose for our pain. You never come out of the fire the same way you went in...🔥🔥🔥
Righteousness is hungering and thirsting for a right standing with God, hungering and thirsting for right living on earth, and hungering and thirsting to stand boldly for God!
Without Jesus, the pain and suffering of this life will last. We have a choice to obey God or choose sin.
Pastor Johnny is back in Luke with a challenge to all of us. Give God your best! Will you trust Jesus with EVERYTHING in your life?
Temptation is an opportunity to chose to walk in the nature of Christ or to walk in the sinful nature of man.
Pastor Johnny started a brand new series today from the book of Luke. Some people have little faith but won’t do the work to discover who Jesus truly is .
Pastor Johnny wraps his his series today with a challenge for us! We were created to produce for someone else. We’ve been given our gifts to be used for someone else…to serve the church!
We don’t just want you to GO to church. We want you to devote yourself to what’s going on!
Acts 2:42 They devoted themselves to the apostles’ teaching and to fellowship, to the breaking of bread and to prayer.
Find out who are we as a church and what we believe! What do we stand on? How do we view the word of God?
Salvation is needed because you have sinned against God and that salvation only comes from Jesus Christ!
A SEEKER is a person who doesn’t have a relationship with Jesus but is curious and is searching. HEAVEN is waiting to rejoice over your salvation!
Part of our morning routine should be putting on the full armor of God! and the last piece of armor is the SWORD! We finally get to be on the OFFENSE!
There’s a spiritual battle happening! That’s why we’re told to put in the warriors armor!
The Apostle Paul tells us to put on the shoes of the gospel because it’s easy to forget them! No matter the circumstances...carry the gospel !
Jesus Christ knows you BY NAME. He loves you. He desires to have a real, daily relationship with you. Find hope in Jesus today!
Pastor Johnny end the JUST DO IT series with a challenge of being a good friend and bringing our friends to Jesus!
Pastor Paul Cooper from Encounter Church in Broken Arrow gave a great word on living out the Christian life without turning back to what is comfortable!
We have to start having conversations with people about Jesus! Jesus is the Hope of the world!
JUST DO IT!
Love & Forgiveness You can’t have one without the other. We don’t get to dictate how we love people…or the terms of love. The example of love comes from Jesus!
Repentance is turning away from sin and towards God . We repent because we don’t know when life is coming to an end and if we turn to God, HE WILL FORGIVE US. Period.
The direction of the world is on the weight of the church. The church is called to fast and pray. Scripture doesn’t command fasting but it shows us the benefit of fasting.
God has placed us here for such a time and moment as this. And we have to keep our EYES ON JESUS!
Pastor Johnny is back with a brand new series! 2023 is going to be a year where a lot of people’s eyes are going to be opened.
Happy New Year! Join Pastor Johnny for an amazing message looking at all God did at The Way Church in 2022!
Pastor Johnny end his series, The Characters Of Christmas, with the the 3 wise men. Wise people follow the STAR and wise people reflect the STAR! We must follow and reflect Jesus to the world!
It's week 3 of The Characters of Christmas and Pastor Johnny hones in on worship. Worship is giving our gifts and talents back to God, to see His kingdom grow .
Week 2 of Christmas Characters is Joesph. Joseph responds right even when he thought he was wronged . You can’t control how someone else acts or what they say…you can only control your response. Our response is what we’re accountable for !
It's Christmas at The Way Church and Pastor Johnny is back with a challenge for all Christians. We have to carry Jesus to the world -we’re called to carry Jesus to a lost and dying world . Think of the difference we could make if we would just follow Jesus and carry him the way we’re supposed to !
Pastor Tj wraps up TABLETALK with our mission as a church. We will touch hearts, change families, transform a city, impact a nation, and change the world with and FOR JESUS!
The church is a hospital for the hurting. We don’t come through the doors of the church to be perfect. We come to the church to be honest and cry out to Jesus. Jesus is the answer!
THIS IS OUR WATCH. THIS IS OUR TIME. PEOPLE WILL LOOK BACK ON US, ON THIS TIME.
The mission of the church: Make Jesus famous!!
Pastor Vernon preached today with a powerful message titled Jesus The Divider! Wherever Jesus went, he provoked a reaction. Some thought He was the devil, some thought He was divine. It's your choice if you're forgiven or unforgiven.
Join us for the final week of How To Hug A Vampire! When you die, THERE IS NO GOING BACK! You have everything you need in order to make a decision for Jesus.
In today's message, Pastor Johnny focuses on the brother that stayed home in the parable of The Prodigal Son. He was a "good person" but good doesn’t make you good enough to get to God. You NEED Jesus! We all need Jesus!
What a message!
This world isn’t repenting. They’re not looking to Jesus. IT IS THE RESPONSIBILITY OF THE CHURCH AND GOD’S PEOPLE!
We have to do our job! We’re not falling on our knees and we’re choosing sin!
Week 2 of How To Hug A Vampire is so good! It doesn’t matter how far you’ve gone or what you’ve done! God is waiting for you!!!
Pastor Johnny started a brand new series today! This series is for any and everyone! Your choices may be sucking the life out of people! 🤗 🧛
Pastor Vernon wraps up our August series with a message about evil in the world. Free will provides freedom to choose our own destiny!
Pastor Vernon is preaching today about when wrong seems right! Our Christian mandate - It’s about salvation, not cultural morality.
Today, Pastor Tj is preaching on the importance of community! Join us as we look at how important being connected is!
Pastor Paul Cooper is in the house today bringing the word! We are all MADE FOR THIS! It’s easy to have faith when we know the ending already…but about when we don’t?
Pastor Johnny wraps up Planted Not Buried with an amazing message that ended with 🌻Growth is purpose revealed! God’s desire is for everything to grow. Go back and watch the entire series for some great ways to become more like Jesus!
Join Pastor Johnny and The Way Church for week 5 of Planted Not Buried
WE ARE🌻Planted to Teach! The way you speak matters! The way you act matters! The way you love matters! Your faith matters!
Pastor Johnny continues Planted Not Buried for the fourth week with 🌻planted but overcome, 🌻planted to help and 🌻planted not to compare to name a few! Watch and find out more about being planted from the book of Galatians!
It's the third week of Planted Not Buried and Pastor Johnny teaches on where we're planted. There’s a pruning process. It’s never fun, it doesn’t feel good but the end result is what God wants us to be! What 🍑🍓🍌 are you producing in your life?
🌺 not ⚰️
Don’t. Give. Up.
Don’t stop just because you feel like it’s dark and the weight is heavy. God is working under the dirt, in those moments, to create who you’re meant to be.
⚰️Buried=there’s no hope for a future 🌺Planted=feels dark and lonely, there’s a future than the present that you’re in right now! Planted and buried can look a lot alike. You’re in the ground covered in dirt. But under does not mean over! DO THE WORK UNDER THE DIRT!!!
Happy Father's Day from The Way Church! Join our guest speaker, Purple Heart Recipient, Shane Vincent for a powerful message on perseverance! Thank you Shane for your sacrifice and your testimony!
We learn that sin needs to bother us as christians. Sin should break our heart as it does with God.
🏋🏼♀️Consistency is Key If you want to make a change, you have to have consistency. It takes 10,000 hours to be an expert in something and we put our entire hope in something that we don’t even spend enough time in...The Bible!
Week 2 of No Pain No gain hit different. AS A CHRISTIAN: We have to do anything and everything we can to keep people from getting deceived by the enemy of God! We don’t live in a godly world and we’re losing the spiritual battle that’s taking place. ON OUR WATCH...evil is winning!
🗯NEW SERIES ALERT 🗯 If we made a change for 30 days…what could happen? If we stayed focused and made real changes, what would it be…? Join The Way Church and Pastor Johnny for No Pain No Gain!
Pastor Johnny wraps up Hooked today with some heavy hitters! The first thing Jesus says is “let’s go fishing”. The last thing He says is “go fishing”. The challenge is go fishing for people today!
We have to start reminding the devil of the mounts on our walls that have been given to us by God! Join us for week 3 of Hooked with Pastor Johnny!🎣
Don't take the bait!!! It's week 2 of Hooked with Pastor Johnny and The Way Church. Someone has created a bait and is trying to catch us. The enemy desires to catch us. He’s created a specific bait just for us and he’s patient!
Everyone has a fishing story to tell. We have to learn how to tell our story because it matters! Join Pastor Johnny as he starts a new series titled Hooked!🐟🎣
One more night with the frogs…
Pharaoh made frogs a house pet when they weren’t meant to be pets! There are things let in our lives that were never meant to be there! Things that don’t represent the nature of God.
When we carry the unforgiveness, we live a joyless life. We’re weighed down by it. Reconciling doesn’t mean you have to have a relationship where you sit down for dinner together! It just allows us to be cleansed.
Pastor Vernon started his 2 week series on forgiveness and what a message it was! To forgive means to dismiss the offense, discharge the guilt, to disregard what happened, depart from it and discuss it no further!! #Jesuslovesyou #Godlovesyou #bettertogether #thisishome #lifechangehappenshere #noperfectpeopleallowed
Pastor Johnny wraps up The Prescription For Marriage today. Want a better marriage? It’s about Jesus. Focus on Jesus.
Today, we're looking at four thoughts in The Prescription For Marriage. Scripture, prayer, understanding, and desire. We must focus on our relationship with The Lord first and He will teach is how to love!
Cut out the noise of the world and just walk with Jesus! Week 2 of The Prescription For Marriage was 🤯
Pastor Johhny and Heather started a brand new series today titled The Prescription For Marriage. If you're married, single, or engaged this is for you! Find out God's plan, purpose, and vision for a Godly marriage.
It's the final week of Pastor Johnny's series on The Holy Spirit Is_____. He wrapped it up with The Holy Spirit Is the ultimate gift giver and fruit producer!
🤯🤯🤯 There’s something inside of us that’s greater than anything we will face…the Spirit of The Living God! Week 2 of The Holy Spirit Is_____. was 🔥
It's week 1 of The Holy Spirit Is____. Pastor Johhny tells us when we look at scripture, we need to pray: “God, teach us who you are. Jesus, teach us who you are. Holy Spirit, teach us who you are.” We have to take what God is saying to us and APPLY IT to our lives!!!
The same God that we read about in The Bible is the SAME GOD we serve today! Join Pastor Johnny for week 2 of Jesus Is_____.
There is something amazing about the name of Jesus! It saves, it heals, it restores, and so much more!
It's out first Sunday in our new building and Pastor Johnny has got a challenging word for you today! God is _____ is a series on who God is in and around our lives!