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Overcoming Depression and Anxiety: Resources

Overcoming Depression and Anxiety: Resources

Brad Hambrick serves as the Pastor of Counseling at The Summit Church in Durham, NC. He also serves as Instructor of Biblical Counseling at Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary, a council member of the Biblical Counseling Coalition, and has authored several books including Do Ask, Do Tell, Let’s Talk: Why and How Christians Should Have Gay Friends and God’s Attributes: Rest for Life’s Struggles.

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Why We Want to Give Away $50k this Christmas

Why We Want to Give Away $50k this Christmas

This Sunday, December 17th, Mercy Church will begin giving our yearly Christmas Missions Offering. Each year, in this season of gift giving, the people of Mercy commit to give our best gift to God’s mission.

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How to Share the Gospel

How to Share the Gospel

Well, it’s now been about two weeks since our first Equip Forum and I’ve been so encouraged to hear from many of you as to how God has already been using our time together to grow you as a faithful and bold disciple, an evangelist.

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Upcoming Equip Forum: Evangelism

Upcoming Equip Forum: Evangelism

Is there a scarier word in Christian language than evangelism? The thought of having to go up to a stranger, or talk with hostile family members is enough to make most Christians squirm.

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Mourning Vegas With Gospel Hope

Mourning Vegas With Gospel Hope

Words like horrifying and tragic just don’t seem sufficient as labels for the deep sadness we feel over the news of the mass shooting in Las Vegas this past Sunday […]

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New Sermon Series This Weekend: Esther

New Sermon Series This Weekend: Esther

This weekend we are launching into a new series here at Mercy Church where we are going to be walking through the incredible story found in the book of Esther. While only 10 chapters long, this is one of the most dynamic, Oscar-worthy stories in all of scripture.

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Exciting Addition to the Staff Team

Exciting Addition to the Staff Team

Mercy Family,

The past year God has blessed our church with more people and many new believers, all of whom we thank God for. A short while ago we realized we would need to expand our pastoral team in order to help shepherd the people God is bringing to us.

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Cuba’s Great Awakening

Cuba’s Great Awakening

Kurt Urbanek, father to Mercy’s very own Scott Urbanek, wrote a book a few years back called Cuba’s Great Awakening. Kurt has been a missionary to Cuba for over 20 years now and in his book he chronicled the movement of God that has flourished for the past 25+ years unbeknownst to most of the evangelical world.

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Take it from Me, Don’t Waste Your Summer

Take it from Me, Don’t Waste Your Summer

When I was in college, one of my favorite parts of my year was summer break. No class, no deadlines, no school of any kind! I looked forward to sleeping in, seeing old friends, and going to the beach. I had also just worked like crazy during finals, and I wanted to turn my brain off. I’m now a number of years out of college and when I look back at most of my summers, I completely wasted them.

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Life Through A Gospel Lens (The Living Gospel, So Far)

Life Through A Gospel Lens (The Living Gospel, So Far)

Over the last 3 months, we have been working our way through 1 Corinthians in our series The Living Gospel. When we opened this series of messages we said Paul is going to treat the gospel like a pair of lenses that Christians are to put on and see the world through.

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