Mercy Culture

Hear our Lead Pastor Jaco Booyens teach us how to win in spiritual warfare by putting Jesus in His rightful place as Lord of our lives!

In this episode of Holy Disruption, Pastor Heather sits down with her own spiritual sons — Sean Gleason, Ray Valdez, Paul Tremble, and Isaac Hector — for one of the most raw and real conversations yet. These are the men she has walked through suicidal ideation, panic attacks, pornography addiction, shame, deliverance, and the long road to freedom. This is what it looks like when a pastor actually builds people, not just a platform.

Pastor Will Ford declared with clarity that the war is already over — and the Church's assignment is not to fight for victory but to enforce it. Deliverance is never just FROM something; it is always TO Someone — from the penalty of sin, from the power of sin, and from the person of the evil one, every rescue ends in the arms of the Deliverer Himself. We hold delegated authority — exousia — over all the enemy's power, and We unseat principalities not by screaming at them, but by lifting Jesus highest until the lesser spirit has nowhere left to sit. We are planted on the east side of this city where competition has held a seat — and Our answer is unity, lifted up until rivalry has no room left to reign.

In this compelling message, Pastor Nikki Cody explores what it means to be a war horse for God in this hour, drawing from Jeremiah 1 and Revelation 19. She unpacks the truth that truth is not a concept, it is a person, and his name is Jesus Christ. Pastor Nikki challenges believers to stop fighting from a place of defeat and to recognize that the battle has already been won, that the church's assignment is simply to go onto the battlefield and do what God says.

Pastor Nikki warns that the enemy's greatest weapon is not the giants in the land but the distraction and fear that keep believers from fixing their gaze on the Rider. She calls the church to stop being moved by emotions, culture, politics, and popular opinion, and to return to an it is written theology rooted in the living word of God.

This message challenges believers to understand that war horses are not raised in comfort, they are forged in the fire of hidden seasons, trained in obscurity, and proven through resistance. Just as Jesus rides in on a white horse representing a victory already won, the church must awaken from apathy and become faithful carriers of His truth into every classroom, workplace, and family, bold enough to speak what they know even when culture pushes back.

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.

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In this message we learn that, some battles aren't against people — they're against a spirit that manipulates, isolates, and controls until you abandon what God called you to do. In this teaching, we expose the Jezebel spirit: who she was biblically, how she operates today through fear, manipulation, intimidation, and domination, and why Jesus doesn't just confront her — He confronts the church that tolerates her.

You'll learn the 10 characteristics of a Jezebel spirit, the two pitfalls that keep believers stuck (failing to discern it, failing to deal with it), and a real, personal testimony of walking out from under Jezebelic control into freedom. We'll unpack the story of Elijah and Jezebel, God's tender restoration of an exhausted prophet, and eight practical strategies for winning this fight — from staying in God's presence to closing the open doors in your own will.

This message closes with a prophetic word over Austin: a city caught in a spiritual tug-of-war between chaos and order, control and freedom — and a declaration that Austin belongs to Jesus.

In Wellness Check: The Demons of Addiction, Senior Pastor Heather Schott confronts the spiritual and practical realities of addiction and the control substances can have over a person’s life. Through Scripture and her own testimony of overcoming drug and alcohol addiction, she shares how to recognize addiction, fight for freedom, and help loved ones who are struggling. Jesus is the Great Physician, and there is freedom for those who come to Him.

Bad leaders avoid confrontation. Healthy ones lean into it.

Landon Schott breaks down why unhealthy cultures — and stalled church growth — almost always trace back to leaders who won't have the hard conversation. He unpacks Mercy Culture's core value of "leaning into awkward," what a real 100% conversation looks like versus an 80% one that just delays the inevitable, and how to tell the difference between confrontation you can handle on the fly and one that needs prayer and preparation first. He also answers questions on gender and confrontation, processing with your spouse without it becoming gossip, and how to rebuild trust after a conversation that didn't go well.

If you lead people — in your home, your team, or your church — this episode will show you why the wake behind your leadership matters, and how to make sure it's trust, not damage.

Mercy Culture Church exists to take people from corporate encounters with God to daily personal encounters with God.

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Rebellion is saying "no" to God — and Scripture is clear: rebellion is as the sin of witchcraft (1 Samuel 15:23). In this message, Pastor Landon unpacks the story of Israel's twelve spies in Numbers 13-14, showing how a nation focused on giants instead of God missed the Promised Land entirely. He breaks down what rebellion really is, where it started, how it shows up in our homes and culture today, and why submission — not fear, not striving — is the strategy that breaks its back. Rebellion will not enter the promises of God. Submission breaks the back of rebellion.

Hear Mercy Culture Washington, DC's first ever Family Anointing Service!

In this episode of Holy Disruption, Pastor Jasmine Weiler and Pastor Heather sit down with worship leader Bailey Redmond for Reformation in Worship Part 2 — an honest, unfiltered conversation about celebrity culture in the church, the machine behind the modern "worship industry," and what it actually costs to stay pure in a platform-driven generation. Bailey opens up about her journey from missionary in LAUSD high schools to worship leader, the spiritual parents who told her "if you never sing another song again, we'd still love you," and why covering, submission, and the fear of the Lord are the only things that keep a gift from destroying the person carrying it.