Mercy Culture

Can God use WOMEN in Church? | Holy Disruption with Heather Schott

What does the Bible actually say about women in ministry — and what does it look like when a church builds a culture around it? Heather Schott sits down with four women who pastor, preach, lead campuses, and raise families inside Mercy Culture — Pastors Jasmine Weiler, Dehavilland Ford, Maggie Wakefield, and Nikki Cody — for an honest, unfiltered conversation about biblical empowerment of women in the church. They cover:

Ordaining by calling — not gender or marital status
Breaking free from "stay in your lane" limitations
Being equipped to lead, not just placed as a trophy
Raising kids in the calling — not around it
How women lead men through spiritual authority, not competition
Navigating ministry with an unsaved or unsupportive husband
Real stories of breakthrough, prophetic dreams, miracles, and healing
Closing prayers to break the spirit of religion — and for the Deborahs, Esthers, and Marys to rise

This isn't a debate. It's a living display of what healthy, biblical empowerment of women looks like in practice.

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He is Worthy | Lauren Caldwell | MC Waco

In this message, Lauren Caldwell explores the biblical meaning of dedication and what it truly means to give everything to God. Drawing from Romans 12:1, she unpacks how dedication is not just an emotion, it is an intentional direction, a daily decision to say "God, this belongs to you." She emphasizes that dedication leads to faithfulness, costs us something, and is always worth it because He is worthy.

Lauren Caldwell reminds believers that God is not inviting us to dedicate just our songs or prayers, but our whole lives, our bodies, hearts, habits, choices, and time. She also breaks off shame for anyone who feels they have never fully dedicated an area of their life to the Lord, reminding us that today is always the day to rededicate.

This message encourages believers to recognize that we are now the temple and that God desires to dwell in these earthen vessels everywhere we go.

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

Dedication Sunday | Landon Schott | MC Fort Worth

In this special Mercy Culture service, we steward one of the prophetic words of 2026 of dedicating things to the Lord. We rededicate families, babies, marriages, and lives back to God, as well as ordain new Mercy Culture pastors and install Les and Nikki Cody as elders and celebrate what God is doing across all campuses.

100+ Worship Songs. Not ONE Written in a Studio. | Spiritual Leadership with Landon Schott

Mercy Culture has released over 102 worship songs — none of them written in a recording studio. Landon Schott sits down with worship pastors Jasmine Weiler and Treigh Martinez to unpack how every song in their catalog was born out of actual encounters with God: visions at 4am, spontaneous moments in the room, prayers that became melodies. They share the origin stories behind songs like "Names of God," "Fear Go," and "Encounter Song" — and why they believe you can't lead people into something you've never been in yourself.

Heart For Mercy | The Threshing Floor | Landon Schott | MC Fort Worth

This week’s message, The Threshing Floor, centers on 2 Samuel 24 and the powerful truth that sacrifice unlocks mercy. Through the story of David purchasing Araunah’s threshing floor, we’re reminded that true worship costs something — and obedience moves Heaven. As we step into our annual Heart for Mercy offering, this sermon calls us to cheerful, sacrificial giving that reflects our love for God and fuels the vision of Mercy Culture’s ministries. The threshing floor is where costly sacrifice meets holy visitation — and where mercy triumphs over judgment.

Connecting with God through Remembrance | Heather Schott | Fort Worth

Connecting With God Through Remembrance

We are in a Year of Encounters & Visitations — an Exodus 3:5 year, a year of Holy Ground. You choose your daily encounter. God chooses your holy visitation.

In this message, we talk about how to connect with God through remembrance. Jesus said, “Do this in remembrance of Me.” When you remember who God is, what He has said, and what He has done, gratitude rises and faith grows.

Remembrance keeps you anchored in truth. It helps you hold onto prophetic words, endure hardship like Joseph, and stay faithful through chaos like Mary. But the enemy also tries to use remembrance against you — pulling you into offense, fear, bitterness, and false narratives.

The question is simple:
What are you choosing to remember?

If you’re struggling with joy, peace, or faith, reconnect with God through remembrance.

Connect With God Expression | Treigh Martinez | MC Dallas

God is creative—and you were made in His image. In this message, we learn how to connect with God through expression by stewarding the gifts He’s placed in our hands. What you dedicate to Him becomes holy ground.

Connect With God Through Compassion | Chris Donald | MC Austin

In this message, Ps. Chris Donald challenges us with a powerful truth: what we encounter with God in private must overflow into public action.

Compassion is not just a feeling. Empathy feels with someone—but compassion moves for someone. Compassion serves. Compassion heals. Compassion saves.

If we encounter God in the secret place but never allow it to shape how we live, love, and serve in public, we’ve only received half the meal. We sat at the table. We were filled. But we did nothing with what we were given.

Private encounters are meant to produce public compassion!

What the Church is TOO afraid to say about RACE | Holy Disruption with Heather Schott

"The moment you begin to consider the pros and cons of speaking truth, you've already stepped into disobedience."

A viral clip. A firestorm. And a church that rushed to post before it even knew the full story. Heather Schott and Jasmine Weiler paused everything to have the conversation most leaders were too afraid to touch — not just about the clip, but about what was actually happening that same week that nobody talked about. But this episode goes deeper than the viral moment. After breaking down the post, Heather and Jasmine go unfiltered on what the church keeps getting wrong about race, unity, and truth-telling under pressure:

→ Why pastors rushed to post — and why that's the problem

→ The same week: Baby Samuel, late-term abortion legalized in 9 states, Epstein files — and the church's silence

→ The cage around leaders' mouths — white and Black

→ "Wink if you're okay" — and what it actually reveals about race

→ Secondhand offense, generational wounds, and the path to real healing

→ Why your post fixes nothing — and what real action looks like This isn't a polished, safe conversation.

It's two women — one white, one Black — refusing to bow to the sound being played to divide the body of Christ. If you're tired of performative unity and want to know what truth-telling actually costs, watch this.

Connecting With God Through Fasting | Dehavilland Ford | MC East Fort Worth

Pastor Dehavilland teaches that fasting isn’t just giving up food — it’s a spiritual practice of humbling ourselves before God and aligning our hearts with His. True fasting is about seeking God’s presence more than earthly provision, willingly denying the flesh to deepen our intimacy with Christ. It’s a lifestyle of dependence on God, not performance for others, and a way to make space for His voice, break soul attachments to comforts, and grow in spiritual sensitivity. Fasting reveals what truly controls our hearts and draws us into deeper communion with the Source of life.