Dear Mount Pleasant Family & Friends,Greetings in the name of Christ, I wanted to take a minute to write and share some important information with you. At Mount Pleasant Christian Church we operate on a fiscal year that runs from July 1 to June 30. That means we’re just a little more than 2 months into the 2014/2015 fiscal year. Because the fiscal year starts in the middle of the summer we always ...  Read More

Back in September 2007, one of the most incredible stories in the world of sports unfolded and yet very few people knew about it. It happened on a Saturday afternoon when 59-year-old Mike Flynt took the field for the Sul Ross State Lobos. Not as a coach or a trainer, but as a player. He was their starting linebacker. Flynt had played for this Division III team back in 1970, but was forced to quit ...  Read More

One of the most moving passages of Scripture in the Bible is found in Acts 20 where the apostle Paul shares an emotional “goodbye” with the Ephesian Elders. This takes place during Paul’s third missionary journey after he has spent three years with these men pouring his life into theirs and equipping them to lead their local church. He’s about to leave and travel to the city of Jerusalem where, by...  Read More

Recently I was helping lead a Pastor’s Conference in Nashville, Tennessee where oneof my fellow presenters asked those attending a simple question: “What is your life verse?” Basically he was asking, “What’s that one verse of Scripture that is always with you? What’s that one verse that guides you and encourages you, that keeps you focused, that sets the agenda for your life?” Some of those in the...  Read More

One of the things that never ceases to amaze me is how many genuinely pessimistic people there are in the world (and in the church). But when it comes to pessimism verses optimism, the Bible is pretty clear. If we believe in God, and if we believe the Bible, we have to be optimistic about the future because, regardless of what might happen today or tomorrow, ultimately, we have the promise that ev...  Read More

Dear MPCC Family & Friends,I hope this email finds you doing well and enjoying the fall weather. I wanted to take a minute to write about a new sermon series that begins this weekend. The series is called "Simply - Generously - Joyfully" from I Timothy 6:17-19. In this series we'll be talking, once again, about what the Bible says with regard to money. Talking about financial stewardship (money ma...  Read More

Hey MPCC family,I want to remind you of a very special event coming up this Saturday, September 14, at 7:30pm in the Student Ministries Center.  We will be having a "Meet the New Youth Pastor" reception as Matt Pineda, our new Senior High Youth Pastor, and his wife Shelby will be joining us for an informal meet and greet.  This reception is open to anyone who would like to attend but I'm especiall...  Read More

I wanted to take a minute here in the midst of a very busy summer and just give you an update on some things that are happening around the church. First, it's been a very busy summer. We've already had Family V.B.S., two mission trips (one to Mexico and one to Poland), several sports and youth camps run through the CLC, Summer Fun Days through our Pre-School and just this morning our 7th & 8th gra...  Read More

Sitting in my office this Monday morning listening to the sounds of the God@Work Expansion going on right outside my office fills me with a great sense of gratitude and satisfaction for the many good things that are happening in the ministry of Mount Pleasant Christian Church. As I write this “blog” we have just received a special offering that is nearing the one million dollar mark, our weekend a...  Read More

Hey MPCC family, this weekend we’ll be receiving our special God@Work offering to help underwrite the cost of our current God@Work expansion plan. I’m excited to see the results of what happens when God’s people have the opportunity to pray and plan for generosity. I say pray and plan because I asked you to do those two very things all the way back in September 2012 as we wrapped up a sermon serie...  Read More

In I Thessalonians 4, Paul urges the church to live holy lives. In fact, verses 3-8 contains at least in my opinion, the best teaching in the New Testament about sexual purity. Then I Thessalonians 4:9-10 says, Now about brotherly love we do not need to write to you, for you yourselves have been taught by God to love each other. And in fact, you do love all the brothers throughout Macedonia. Yet w...  Read More

This past weekend at MPCC we began our much anticipated new series, “The Story” which will take us from Genesis 1 to Revelation 22 over the course of 31 weeks (the actual series is 32 weeks counting this past week's introduction). To say that I was pleased with the way we began would be a huge understatement. This past weekend we introduced “The Story” to 3,412 people…that’s infants all the way up...  Read More