Mercy Culture

Pastor Sean Gleason preaches a direct call for the church in Waco to wake up from spiritual slumber, opening in Acts 9 with Saul’s encounter on the road to Damascus. He teaches on the spirit of stupor, a demonic numbness and apathy that blinds people to the truth of God, drawing from Romans 11, Isaiah 29, and 2 Corinthians 4 to explain how this spirit keeps believers comfortable, distracted, and disengaged from the things of God.

Pastor Sean shares personal stories, including a season of unexplainable exhaustion that the Lord revealed was tied to a spirit of slumber over the city, and challenges Mercy Culture to recover the hunger and grit he says has been replaced by comfort and domestication. He names four signs of being under a spirit of stupor, treating God’s presence as optional, knowing what is right without doing it, spiritual numbness, and apathy, and connects these patterns to the church at Sardis in Revelation 3 and the disciples falling asleep in the garden of Gethsemane in Luke 22.

He pushes the congregation to engage culture rather than retreat from it, pointing to examples like Baylor University and broader cultural compromise as evidence of a sleeping church, and calls for zeal, described through Jesus clearing the temple in John 2, as the only true antidote to apathy and tolerance. Pastor Sean closes by inviting the church into a 40 day Freedom Fast at the start of the new year and leads the congregation in prayer, asking God for a holy visitation that awakens hunger, repentance, and a renewed pursuit of His presence.

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, Sean and Natalie Gleason or another leader in our community. To learn more about Mercy Culture, visit https://mercyculturewaco.com

The Spirit of Python seeks to steal your passion for God, His house, and His purpose for your life. Through Acts 16, Senior Lead Pastor Landon Schott exposes the enemy’s strategies and teaches us how to recognize spiritual oppression, overcome deception, and reclaim our zeal for God through prayer, worship, and the power of Jesus Christ.

Worship is more than a song. It’s an act of war. Worship Pastor Brendan walks through 2 Chronicles 20 to show how Judah’s surrender and praise turned a battleground into a Valley of Blessing. Learn the four types of worship, what worship does in spiritual warfare, and why surrender is the starting point of victory. Part of our Spiritual Warfare series.

Vision Sunday is a look at where God is leading Mercy Culture and what He is calling us to build in the season ahead. As we look toward 2027, we are choosing to strengthen our foundation, prioritize health, deepen discipleship, and continue advancing the Kingdom through the visions God has entrusted to us.

You can bench press 300 pounds, but you can't fast three days. Something's off in your spiritual leadership.

 

In this episode, Pastor Landon Schott sits down with Mike Signorelli, founding pastor of V1 Church in New York City and director of The Domino Revival, for a conversation about the phrase both of them hate most in Christianity: "I'm Spirit-filled, with a seatbelt."

 

In Give Me Truth, or Give Me Death, Pastor Nate Schatzline challenges believers to stand boldly on the truth of God's Word, even when culture rejects it. Through Scripture, he reminds us that our allegiance belongs to the Kingdom of Heaven, not political parties or popular opinion.

We are called to be courageous truth tellers, allowing God's Word to transform our own hearts before confronting the darkness around us. Truth is worth standing for, no matter the cost!

In “Offense: The Trap Between You + Your Inheritance” Pastor Jasmine Weiler teaches that offense is a spiritual trap (skandalon) the enemy uses to keep believers stuck, deceived, and ultimately offended at God. Using Psalm 16:6 and the parable of the two sons in Luke 15, she shows that offense causes people to either walk away from the Father or settle for less than the inheritance He’s given. She closes with two strategies: let God challenge your flesh now so you don’t fall away later, and forgive often and quickly.

Have you ever woken up terrified from a dream and written it off as demonic? In Part 2 of our Dreams series, part of our Spiritual Warfare series, we go deeper into spiritual dreams and learn to tell the difference between demonic dreams and warning dreams.

Many Christians are having real encounters with God, or with the enemy, in their sleep and missing it. Many of the dreams we call “demonic” are actually warning dreams, given by a merciful God to keep His people in right standing with Him. Looking at Nebuchadnezzar’s dream in Daniel 4, Abimelech in Genesis 20, and Pilate’s wife in Matthew 27, we see why warning dreams are terrifying and why they are a gift.

We also look at what opens the door to demonic dreams and encounters: pride, unrepented sin, rebellion, and empathy toward evil. Saul and the medium of Endor in 1 Samuel 28 show what happens when we chase our own will and run to the wrong voices instead of God’s. The good news is that humility and repentance close those doors.

In Arise and Build in Wartime, Pastor Dehavilland Ford teaches us how to stand firm in spiritual warfare while continuing to build what God has called us to. Through the stories of Nehemiah, Deborah, and Jael, we learn the importance of prayer, obedience, spiritual authority, and refusing to be distracted by opposition. We are not called to be spectators in spiritual warfare. We are called to arise, stand in our God-given authority, and build from a position of victory in Christ!