Mercy Culture

How to Parent Your Kids God's way

On Holy Disruption, host Heather Shott interviews Pastor Josh McPherson (Gray City Church; Stronger Man Nation) about the spiritual and cultural fight for family, manhood, marriage, and parenting. McPherson explains his political involvement as a response to policies he says are harming families in Washington state, including taxation pressures and school laws that restrict parental notification and allow gender-related counseling and care without parents. The conversation emphasizes jurisdictional theology, arguing government must remain limited and submitted to God’s moral law. McPherson calls fathers to take responsibility for the home’s “temperature,” pursue their wives, model repentance, and reject patterns of disrespect and bitterness. He stresses unity in marriage, warns against tolerating children’s rebellion, and teaches discipline as love, aiming for children’s obedience “happily, quickly, and completely,” while making home a place that loves Jesus, serves together, and has fun.

Connect with God: Reformation | Will Ford | MC East Fort Worth

God never designed your walk with Him to survive on yesterday’s encounter.In this message, Pastor Will Ford reveals that spiritual maturity isn’t built in moments—it’s built in daily dependence. Just like Israel in the wilderness, many believers are still trying to live today off of yesterday’s bread… but God is inviting us into something deeper. Daily encounters with God—through His Word, prayer, and worship—are what form intimacy, obedience, and true transformation

Connecting with God through Creation | Pastor Sean Gleason | MC Waco

In this powerful message, Pastor Sean Gleason explores what it truly means to connect with God through creation, drawing from Hosea 2 and Romans 1. He unpacks how everything in creation points back to the Creator, revealing that slowing down to behold the beauty of God in what He has made is not just a hobby for outdoorsmen, it is a powerful and intentional way to encounter the living God. Pastor Sean challenges believers to stop admiring creation while missing the Creator behind it.

Pastor Sean warns that when believers lose their awe and wonder of God, they will inevitably place it somewhere else, whether in witchcraft, idolatry, celebrity worship, or religious performance. He calls the church to be delivered from boredom and apathy, because the spirit of religion closes your spiritual eyes and leads you to find awe and wonder in all the wrong places.

This message challenges believers, and especially men, to spiritually lead by pursuing deep intimacy with God, because a passive man creates an open door for darkness to enter his home, his family, and his city. Creation is the art gallery of the Lord, and it is time to slow down and behold the beauty of the One who made it all.

The vision of Mercy Culture is to take people from corporate encounters with God to daily personal encounters with God.

At Mercy Culture, one of our unique characteristics is that we are a presence driven church. We are not built around any person or ministry. We are built around the presence of God. Each week, you will hear a teaching from our Lead Pastors, Les and Nikki Cody or another leader in our community.

To learn more about Mercy Culture, visit https://mercyculturewaco.com

Connect with God: Compassion | Chris Donald | MC Fort Worth

In this impactful sermon, Chris Donald teaches that connecting with God through compassion goes beyond empathy—it requires action. Drawing from scriptures like Matthew 14:13-14 and the story of the Good Samaritan, he challenges believers to move from feeling for others to actively serving them.

Connect With God through Meditation | Kaily Morrow | MC Austin

In this message, we continue the Connect With God series by diving into what it truly means to encounter God through biblical meditation. This message challenges the modern misunderstanding of meditation and reveals that Scripture isn’t meant to empty your mind—but to fill it with truth that transforms you.

Walking through passages like Psalm 1, Joshua 1, and Romans 12, we unpack how meditating on God’s Word daily is not just a discipline, but a lifestyle that leads to renewal, spiritual growth, and real transformation. When the Word becomes your focus—spoken, repeated, and lived—you begin to think differently, respond differently, and ultimately become more like Jesus.

If you’ve struggled with consistency, distraction, or feeling disconnected from God, this message is a practical and powerful invitation: slow down, return to the Word, and build a daily encounter that leads to lasting change.

A Reformed Pastor Goes Charismatic | Spiritual Leadership with Landon Schott

From Reformed to Revival: How One Pastor Went All In on the Holy Spirit Pastor Josh McPherson went from a word-heavy, spirit-light Reformed church to 3-hour spontaneous worship nights, a 40-day fast, prophetic words written in a teardrop, and an invitation to the Oval Office — all in 60 days. This is one of the wildest Holy Spirit stories you'll hear.

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Connect with God: Learning | Clay Ingram | MC Dallas

Pastor Clay unpacks what it truly means to connect with God through learning—not by gaining information, but by becoming a disciple of Jesus. He challenges us to examine what we are yoked to and calls us to repentance, reminding us that real transformation happens when we walk with Jesus, not just learn about Him.

Connect with God: Expression | Chris Cheema | MC East Fort Worth

Pastor Chris Cheema delivers a powerful message revealing that we are created in the image of a Creator, designed to connect with God through expression—whether through building, writing, designing, or creating in any form. He challenges us to examine the source of our creativity, showing that when it is surrendered to the Holy Spirit it invites God’s presence, but when disconnected from Him it can lead us toward idolatry instead of intimacy. 

Connecting with God: Learning | PS Will Ford | MC Waco

In this compelling message, Pastor Will Ford explores what it truly means to connect with God through learning, drawing from Matthew 11 and 1 Samuel 22. He unpacks the biblical depth of knowledge and learning, revealing that true learning is not mere intellectualism, it is experiential, relational intimacy with God. Pastor Will challenges believers to move beyond accumulating information and to pursue the kind of knowing that transforms the heart and connects us deeply to our Rabbi, Jesus.

Pastor Will warns that every person is yoked to something, whether to Christ, to religion, or to the ways of the world, and that yoke will disciple and shape every area of life. He calls the church to get so close to Jesus that they are covered in His dust, absorbing His teachings, His way of life, and His truth in every sphere of influence.

This message challenges believers to embrace their cave seasons, because like David and his mighty men in the cave of Adullam, it is in the hidden place of learning and encounter with God that broken, distressed, and bitter people are transformed into mighty warriors. Your cave is not a place of defeat, it is a cocoon where God is preparing you for everything He has called you to do.

The vision of Mercy Culture is to take people from corporate encounters with God to daily personal encounters with God.

At Mercy Culture, one of our unique characteristics is that we are a presence driven church. We are not built around any person or ministry. We are built around the presence of God. Each week, you will hear a teaching from our Lead Pastors, Les and Nikki Cody or another leader in our community.

To learn more about Mercy Culture, visit https://mercyculturewaco.com

The King is Coming | John Bevere | MC Fort Worth

Are you ready for the return of Jesus? John Bevere's teaching, The King is Coming, focuses on the Second Coming of Jesus and how to live ready. Using key Scriptures and insights from his book, The King Is Coming, it contrasts those who recognized Jesus’ first coming with those who didn’t—and what that means for us now. Learn how to stay watchful, avoid deception, and live with real expectation.