Emmanuel Baptist Church Emmanuel Baptist Church - Mora, MN

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

Is the resurrection of Jesus true? And if so, what does it mean for us? In this Easter message, Pastor Mike gives us reasons why we can not only trust the resurrection but find new life in it.

Speaker: Pastor Mike Rue
Date: March 31, 2014

Some of Jesus' last words were quotes from Psalm 22. But how does this cry and this Psalm fit into our lives? That's what we look at in this message on Good Friday.

Speaker: Mike Rue
Date: Friday, March 29, 2024