Memorial Baptist Church Jefferson City

Do not steal. Simple enough, right?

But the biblical definition of stealing goes further than most of us want to admit — taking without consent, yes, but also defrauding, deceiving, and withholding what is rightfully owed. And underneath all of it is the same mentality: there isn't enough, so I better take what I can get.

In this message, Eric walks through the eighth commandment and mak...

Two Hebrew words. "You shall not commit adultery."

But God isn't merely guarding sexual behavior. He is guarding a covenant union He designed to tell the truth about Himself.

In this message, Pastor David traces four movements through the seventh commandment — the boundary God protects, the blessing He reveals, the covenant He keeps, and the love He sends. From Genesis 1's picture of one...

Last week: contempt, two paths, a better word.

This week: Jesus goes deeper. He's not after the spark of anger. He's after the fire we keep.

In Matthew 5, Jesus connects lingering anger to murder - and then uses a word nobody expected: Gehenna. Not a metaphor. A real valley south of Jerusalem where the kings of Judah once burned their children alive. A valley so defiled that by Jesus' day it h...

You shall not murder. Easy enough, right?

But Jesus doesn't stop at the act. He goes upstream - to the anger, the insult, the quiet contempt. And He stacks them, not because they're three levels of a grading system, but because they all come from the same root.

There's an English word for that root: contempt. Taking the judge's seat over another image bearer and declaring them worthless - with...

We hear "honor" and think respect. But the Hebrew word is kavod — something that is weighted, heaped upon, heavy with significance.

That changes the whole commandment.

The fifth word is the hinge of the entire ten. The first four go up- how you relate to God. The last five go out -how you treat people. And right in the middle, bridging both directions, is this: honor your father and moth...

We are the most productive, connected, efficient, and exhausted people in history. We wear our busyness like a badge. We brag about how little we sleep. We're proud to break the one commandment we need most.

God built a rhythm into creation itself - work and rest, pointing to Him....

We've simplified it to: don't use God's name as a curse word.

But the Hebrew word isn't "take" - it's carry. And that changes everything.

When Moses built an altar in Exodus 17 and called it "The Lord is ...

Everybody came from a family. Some good. Some hard. Some you're still healing from.

Here's what the whole Bible keeps saying: family was God's idea first. And He has never stopped building one.

This Sunday, Pastor David brought the ch...

An idol doesn't have to be carved from wood or melted from gold. The most dangerous idol is a God made small enough to understand, control, and never be afraid of.

Israel stood trembling at Mount Sinai — fire, smoke, a trumpet blast shaking the whole camp. Then 40 days later, they made a calf. ...

Fire. Smoke. Thunder. A trumpet blast shaking the whole camp. And the first thing this mountain-shaking God says is not a command — it's a relationship.

I am the LORD your God, who brought you out of Egypt.

Rescue before require...

In the first 52 chapters of the Bible, God never gives a name. Then Moses asks — and everything changes.

I AM WHO I AM. Not a title. Not a proper noun. A verb. The only being in existence with the power and authority to completely self-identify.

Read more