Mercy Culture

In this message, we look at Jesus in the Garden of Gethsemane and His defining moment of surrender: “Nevertheless, not my will, but Yours be done.” Apostolic Elder Zane Anderson reminds us that we can connect with God in our hardest moments, and that one surrendered decision can change everything.

In this powerful message, Pastor Les Cody explores what it truly means to connect with God through compassion, drawing from Matthew 14. He unpacks the critical difference between empathy and compassion, revealing that empathy is simply a feeling, while compassion is love moved into action. Pastor Les challenges believers to move beyond merely feeling someone's pain and to actively partner with the heart of the Father to meet needs, speak truth, and bring freedom.

Pastor Les warns that empathy-driven Christianity will always compromise the gospel, while compassion-driven Christianity produces holiness. He calls the church to stop insulating itself and to position where the needs exist, willing to be interrupted, inconvenienced, and sent into the harvest.

This message challenges believers to develop a daily personal encounter with God, because you cannot give away what you do not have. True compassion is not draining, it is the very thing that fills us up when we walk in obedience to the Lord.
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.

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In this message, Ps. Seth Morrow explains that connecting with God through learning is when God teaches you new revelation you didn’t know before. All revelation must be supported by the Word of God, or else it becomes manipulation. We must be ones who know the Word of God so we don’t fall into the false doctrines all around us—and so we don’t become spiritually gullible.

In this message, Ps. Kaily Morrow explains how to establish God’s reign in the earth and to anticipate His rain. We need the Spirit of Elijah to do so, just as Elijah did when he called down the fire of God from heaven to consume the altar before the false prophets of Baal. In order to be a part of the Elijah company—to establish God’s reign and anticipate His rain—we must be ones who are marked by God, wage war, pray with faith, and prepare the way of the coming of the Lord.

This message from Pastor Dehavilland Ford centers on connecting with God through remembrance—intentionally recalling what He has done to draw closer to Him. Throughout Scripture, God calls His people to remember His faithfulness by creating memorials, sharing testimonies, and revisiting moments where He moved. Remembrance strengthens our faith, especially in difficult seasons, by reminding us that God has been faithful before and will be again. Through personal testimonies, global events, and biblical examples like the story of Esther, the message calls believers to respond with surrender, courage, and a renewed “yes” to God—trusting that He uses ordinary people to accomplish extraordinary purposes.