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How Kids Week Helped Me Fall In Love With Christ When I Was 35

How Kids Week Helped Me Fall In Love With Christ When I Was 35

I was not raised in a home that worshipped a powerful God. I grew up in Northern California with divorced, wanna-be hippie parents, who only used the Lord’s name out of disappointment or rage. As a child, I went to church maybe five times. My mom had migrated to America from Amsterdam with her Jewish father and Christian mother, who, at the time, were fleeing the Holocaust.

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What Do You Weep for?

What Do You Weep for?

Stephen Davey, a pastor in Wake Forest, a small town outside Raleigh, once preached at Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary. During his sermon he asked the folks there, “What do you weep for?”

Mercy Church, I want to ask you that same question … What do you weep for? What do you weep for? What breaks your heart? Or, to be more direct and specific, when is the last time you were moved to tears over someone’s lostness and where they are going to spend eternity if they don’t surrender to Christ and trust Him as Lord and Savior?

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Mercy’s Next Chapter in a Gospel Awakening in Charlotte

Mercy’s Next Chapter in a Gospel Awakening in Charlotte

“A gospel awakening here in Charlotte that gets carried to the ends of the earth.” That has been our vision since we planted Mercy Church in the fall of 2015. Charlotte is a city filled with church buildings, yet those buildings and the gospel they once heralded, are fading into the cultural background.

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A Conversation on Racial Reconciliation & Grieving Together

A Conversation on Racial Reconciliation & Grieving Together

Our country is in deep pain. After a week filled with violence, we are shaken. We see a spotlight on the very real problems of division, hate, and injustice in our country. We see the depths of sin in our own hearts and in the fallen world we live in. As a church, how do we respond? 

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