Emmanuel Baptist Church Emmanuel Baptist Church - Mora, MN

If you want to build an amazing sports franchise, you will try to sign the biggest, best, and most talented athletes. If you run a company, you'll want to hire the brightest and most competent candidates. If you want to build a government, you would want the wisest and. the most strategic people around you.

But God builds his kingdom in a much different way than the world. In this message, we find out how David built his kingdom. And it is a foreshadowing of how Christ would build his kingdom.

Speaker: Pastor Mike Rue
Date: May 19, 2024

We all have different fears; most are harmless, and you just learn how to deal with them. But how are we supposed to respond to those big, legitimate fears that happen in life? How do we respond when waiting for the test results to come back from the doctor? What do we do when we know that our children are spiraling into ruin? How do we compose ourselves when the storms of life threaten to change everything? Where do we go when our physical safety is in jeopardy, when our livelihood is on the brink of collapse when we are lonely and desperately afraid of our thoughts? It is those types of fears that we encounter in 1 Samuel 21.

Speaker: Pastor Mike Rue
Date: May 12, 2024

Where do we turn when the life goes off of the rails? Who do we run to when things are uncontrollably difficult? In 1 Samuel 20, we find a picture of what we are to do and who we are to run to – the covenant faithfulness of God.

Speaker: Pastor Mike Rue
Date: May 5, 2024

How do you respond when things don’t go as planned? What do you do when unexpected suffering shows up? When the doctor calls you in after a normal physical and hits you with the news you never thought you’d hear. When your teenager has been out with friends and the sheriff shows up at your door and asks you to sit down. When your spouse, seemingly out of the blue, tells you they are no longer in love with you and that they are leaving you for someone else that they’ve been with for some time now. How do you handle life when your smoke alarm goes off at 2AM and you are forced out of your home? What do you do when your reputation is unjustifiably tarnished because of a toxic conflict with a neighbor, co-worker, or parent? What do you do when suffering shows up? Who do you call? Where do you run to and take refuge? Where is God? How do we view this in terms of being a follower of Jesus Christ?

Every one of us is living in one of two kingdoms: either we are living in the kingdom of self, where we set the rules and expect everyone else to follow them, or we are living in the Kingdom of Christ, where there is grace, mercy, and forgiveness.

Speaker: Pastor Mike Rue
Date: April 21, 2024

It is possible to love both chocolate chip ice cream and cookie dough ice cream. It's okay like classical and pop music. It isn't okay, or possible, to love Jesus and anything else at the same time. In this message, Pastor Mike walks us through our tendencies to love ourselves above all, and how to get out of that rut and love Jesus fully and finally.

Speaker: Pastor Mike Rue
Date: April 14, 2024