Mercy Culture

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Pastor Clay teaches that strongholds aren’t meant to be managed, but demolished. Through the renewing of our minds, daily encounters with God, and replacing lies with the truth of His Word, we can stop agreeing with what Jesus has already defeated and walk in the freedom He has given us.

Landon made a vow to God that he would never pastor. It almost cost him Mercy Culture.

In this episode of Spiritual Leadership, Pastor Landon Schott exposes inner vows — the self-made promises that decide what you'll do before God ever speaks. He opens with the vow that nearly kept him out of his calling ("I will never pastor"), the drive through Fort Worth where God answered, "You said that, I didn't," and the 40-day fast that finally broke it.

This episode includes a guided prayer of repentance, five practical steps to break inner vows, and listener Q&A on vows, forgiveness, leading a spouse, and the difference between learning from mistakes and telling God never.

Pastor Will Ford teaches that joy is a spiritual weapon that keeps us standing after deliverance and helps us hold the territory God has given us. Through Scripture and powerful examples, he shows that joy is a choice—not a feeling—and that praise is not just the celebration after victory, but the strategy that leads us through the battle. Pastor Will challenges believers to guard their joy, practice gratitude, and discover lasting joy by choosing what pleases the Lord.

In this compelling message, Pastor Sean Gleason explores what it truly means to fight mental warfare as spiritual warfare, drawing from Mark 9 and 2 Corinthians 10. He unpacks the truth that much of spiritual warfare begins in the mind, and that what culture calls mental illness, the Bible often calls demonic. Pastor Sean challenges believers to stop waging war in the flesh through medication, diagnosis, new age practices, or other substitutes, and to pick up the spiritual weapons that God has given them.

Pastor Sean shares his own powerful testimony of years of depression, suicidal thoughts, and torment from childhood, culminating in a miraculous deliverance while simply encountering God in a daily moment of worship and prayer. He challenges the church to stop seeking one-time deliverance experiences and instead build a life of daily encounters, because one encounter with God can set you free but daily encounters with God will keep you free.

This message challenges believers to renew their minds practically by writing down their lies and asking God what He says about them, memorizing the word of God, exposing their thoughts to others in authentic community, and doing the opposite of what the enemy tells them to do. The goal is not just to be free from the yoke, but to outgrow it so it can never return.

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

Fear Based Warfare — In this message, we open Matthew 14 to the moment Peter starts sinking, and ask why. Discover why the enemy's real target in fear-based warfare is your obedience, not your comfort, and why shrinking back in fear is never the wise, protective move the world makes it out to be. Learn the difference between fighting fear with more fear and doing what Jesus modeled with Peter: keeping your eyes fixed on Him and answering the spirit of fear with something stronger, the fear of the Lord.

Fear is a weapon the enemy uses to intimidate, control, and keep us from obeying God. In “Fear-Based Warfare,” we look at David and Goliath and discover how faith, worship, and the fear of the Lord empower us to confront what once terrified us.

You can’t fight spiritual warfare with fear—only faith. You overcome the spirit of fear by fearing God more.

Hear Senior Pastor Heather Schott expose the demons of addiction and teach us how to find our identity in Christ!

In this special episode of Holy Disruption, Pastor Heather Schott is joined by Pastor Jasmine Wheiler and Pastor Vanessa to confront the Lindsay Clancy case and the movement rising around it. They walk the actual court record — the planning, the searches, the doctor's appointment that morning — and then go where almost no one is going: the spiritual reality underneath it. Toxic empathy. The "postpartum depression" label and what it has stolen from women. A justice system being asked to call evil good. And a window of death that opened over our nation long before January 24, 2023.

This is a clarion call to Christian women. It is not a comfortable one.

This episode was filmed on the morning of September 3, 2026, before the announcement of the mistrial.

America’s failures, sin, and strongholds are not greater than the Everlasting God. In this message, Dutch Sheets reveals how spiritual strongholds are dismantled through persistent prayer, repentance, and obedience—and why we must believe God is powerful enough to cleanse, restore, and turn a nation around.

In this compelling message, Pastor Sean Gleason explores what it truly means to engage in spiritual warfare, drawing from Matthew 28 and Ephesians 6. He unpacks the truth that principalities are high-ranking demonic spirits that reign over regions, cities, and nations with the primary goal of blinding the minds of unbelievers from seeing the light of the gospel. Pastor Sean challenges believers to be aware of the spiritual realm without becoming obsessed with it, keeping their focus fixed on Jesus who holds the highest authority.

Pastor Sean walks through the history of Waco, revealing how the city has partnered with principalities of dishonor, covetousness, the orphan spirit, and false religion, and calls the church to unseat each one by lifting up the highest authority. He warns that every act of disobedience surrenders spiritual authority to the enemy, while every act of obedience partners with Jesus and reclaims ground.

This message challenges believers to understand that you unseat principalities not by binding and rebuking in your own name, but by lifting up Jesus, repenting of any partnership with the enemy, speaking His name, and boldly preaching the gospel everywhere you go, because the great commission was never meant only for the pulpit.

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