Memorial Baptist Church Jefferson City

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In short, Memorial is a Gospel-Centered Church that believes Jesus is everything and through faith/belief/trust in Jesus we pursue following Him together as one family. We believe that God places His people together in the context of a local body of believers (His church), not by accident, but for the Spirit-empowered purpose of glorifying Him through repenting and believing the Gospel of His son, Jesus Christ. Through His church we see His kingdom come and His will being done as He makes all creation right and new. In all we do we seek to worship the Lord passionately, connect with each other authentically, grow to know the Lord deeply, and go and share the gospel boldly as One Body in Christ.

  1. 3d ago

    Household Wisdom: Obey, Honor, and the Weight of a Life Well-Lived | Ephesians 6:1–9

    Paul doesn't give us a code. He gives us wisdom. In Ephesians 6:1–9, he addresses children, parents, slaves, and masters - not with an equation, but with a posture. A direction. A heart. And two words that sound similar but mean something very different: obey and honor. One is for a season. One is for a lifetime. In this message, Pastor Jimmy unpacks what it means to listen under your parents as a child - and what it means to give weight and value to them as you grow. He tells the story of his son Roman and the van. He tells the story of sneaking out to church in an Iowa winter in the back of a pickup truck. And he asks the question every person with complicated parents eventually has to answer: what do you do when honoring your parents and obeying God pull in different directions? In this message: The Greek distinction between obey (listen under) and honor (give weight and value) Why Paul says obedience is just "common sense" - and why that matters Why Jesus, Lord of Lords, was submissive to Mary and Joseph What Proverbs says about the long-term fruit of honoring vs. scorning Where the line is when parents ask you to go against God's word Key Scriptures: Ephesians 6:1–9 • Proverbs 1:8–9; 13:1; 30:17 • Luke 2:51 • Galatians 3:28 • Colossians 3:23 🙌 Join us Sundays @ 9:15 AM 1120 Madison St., Jefferson City, MO 🌐 https://memorialchurch.net 📩 getconnected@memorialchurch.net 💬 https://www.facebook.com/memorialchurchjc   🎧 Listen on the go: Podbean: https://memorialchurchjc.podbean.com/ Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/memorial-baptist-church-jefferson-city/id1478157245 Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/5CuIDzWry5Y2oz8TBHOKoH YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@memorialbaptist9681

    42 min

  2. May 31

    It Was Never Just About Marriage | Ephesians 5:21–33

    We used to ask marriage to help us survive. Then to make us happy. Now we're asking it to complete us - without the time, investment, or foundation to carry that weight. Paul wrote Ephesians 5:21–33 into a first-century Roman world where wives were property and household codes told everyone their place. What he said instead was a bomb detonating in that culture - and it still is. In this message, Pastor David walks through three movements: Paul responds to the tension of his world and ours. Paul gives us a picture- the marriage dance. And then Paul pulls back the curtain on something most people miss entirely. This passage was never just about marriage. It was always about the Bridegroom. In this message: Why Paul's word to husbands - love - had never appeared in a household code before What submission and headship actually mean when you define them the way Paul does The pastoral word on abuse - what this text does and does not say Four pieces of marriage advice from Pastor David and Nikki Why Genesis 2, not Genesis 3, is the foundation - and what the fall actually distorted Key Scriptures: Ephesians 5:21–33 • Genesis 2–3 • Galatians 3:28 • Philippians 2:5–8 • 1 Corinthians 7:4 • Revelation 19 • Romans 3:23; 6:23; 10:9–10 🙌 Join us Sundays @ 9:15 AM 1120 Madison St., Jefferson City, MO 🌐 https://memorialchurch.net 📩 getconnected@memorialchurch.net 💬 https://www.facebook.com/memorialchurchjc 🎧 Listen on the go: Podbean: https://memorialchurchjc.podbean.com/ Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/memorial-baptist-church-jefferson-city/id1478157245 Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/5CuIDzWry5Y2oz8TBHOKoH YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@memorialbaptist9681

    50 min

  3. May 27

    Rehearsing the Future: The Sound of a Spirit-Filled Church | Ephesians 5:19–21

    Music is fascinating. Singing lowers cortisol, raises oxytocin, releases endorphins, and bonds strangers faster than any other group activity. God didn't invent singing for humans - He built it into the human body and wired it into every culture on earth. And Paul says: when you are filled with the Spirit, you sing. In Ephesians 5:19–21, Pastor David walks through what a Spirit-filled church actually sounds and looks like - four movements that are anything but random. A sound. An absolute. A name. An order. And at the end of it all is this: when the church sings, gives thanks, and arranges itself in humility - we are not doing something small. We are rehearsing the future. Every Sunday. Every song. Every act of gratitude. Every moment of submission. We are practicing now what all creation will one day confess. In this message: Why God built singing into the human body before He ever commanded it The horizontal and vertical directions of worship - and why Paul gives us both at once Why Christian thanksgiving is not denial. It is defiance. What hupotassō (submission) actually means - and why Jesus is its clearest definition Key Scriptures: Ephesians 5:19–21 • Psalm 19; 96; 148 • Job 38 • Exodus 15 • Matthew 26:30 • Acts 16; 4:12 • Revelation 5 • 1 Thessalonians 5:18 • Romans 10:13 • Philippians 2 🙌 Join us Sundays @ 9:15 AM 1120 Madison St., Jefferson City, MO 🌐 https://memorialchurch.net 📩 getconnected@memorialchurch.net 💬 https://www.facebook.com/memorialchurchjc   🎧 Listen on the go: Podbean: https://memorialchurchjc.podbean.com/ Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/memorial-baptist-church-jefferson-city/id1478157245 Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/5CuIDzWry5Y2oz8TBHOKoH YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@memorialbaptist9681

    37 min

  4. May 17

    What Fills You: The Trajectory, the Waste, and the Foundation | Ephesians 5:15–21

    We live in the most entertained, most medicated, most connected moment in human history. And we are emptier than ever. We reach for things to fill us. And they don't. Paul saw this same pattern in Ephesus two thousand years ago - a city drunk on wine and the worship of Dionysus, chasing fullness in all the wrong places. And into that world he wrote: don't be drunk with wine. Be filled with the Spirit. In this message, Pastor David walks through Ephesians 5:15–21 in three movements - the trajectory, the waste, and the foundation - and shows that the question was never about a line. It was always about who is in control of you. In this message: The ancient two-path wisdom tradition and why everyone is trajecting toward something What kairos means — and why the wise person seizes moments instead of drifting through them The Dionysus cult in Ephesus and why Paul's audience felt the word asōtia in their bones Why the things we reach for to fill us — screens, substances, approval, work — hollow us out instead What "be filled with the Spirit" actually means — and why it's reception, not self-effort Key Scriptures: Ephesians 5:15–21 • Psalm 1 • John 6:40; 14:6 • Matthew 7:24–27 • 1 Corinthians 6:12 • 1 Peter 5:8 • Acts 4:12 • Romans 10:9–10 🙌 Join us Sundays @ 9:15 AM 1120 Madison St., Jefferson City, MO 🌐 https://memorialchurch.net 📩 getconnected@memorialchurch.net 💬 https://www.facebook.com/memorialchurchjc 🎧 Listen on the go: Podbean: https://memorialchurchjc.podbean.com/ Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/memorial-baptist-church-jefferson-city/id1478157245 Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/5CuIDzWry5Y2oz8TBHOKoH YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@memorialbaptist9681

    39 min

  5. May 10

    Not a Line — A Heart: Sexual Wisdom in a Sexualized World | Ephesians 5:1–16

    We live in a culture that worships sex. And honestly? So did Ephesus. Temple prostitutes. Sensual parades. Fertility rituals. The city Paul was writing to wasn't so different from the billboards lining the highway today. And into that world, he writes: be imitators of God. That's an impossible standard. And that's exactly the point. In this message, Pastor Jimmy walks through Ephesians 5:1–16 and does something most sermons on this topic don't do - he refuses to give you a line. Because this isn't about how close you can get to the edge. It's a heart issue. A worship issue. What does it look like to imitate God in the way we treat our bodies, the words we speak, and the jokes we laugh at? And what does wisdom actually look like when the days are evil? In this message: Why the church of Ephesus and our culture are not as different as we think Two caveats that frame everything: no line-drawing, and this is about us - not them What porneia actually means - and why it's bigger than most people think Why crude joking degrades image-bearers of God (and why that matters) What "no inheritance in the kingdom" means - and what it doesn't How sanctification, struggle, and the gospel all fit together Key Scriptures: Ephesians 5:1–16 • Genesis 1–2 • Matthew 5:27–28 • 1 Corinthians 5:9–13 • John Stott on vulgarity and thanksgiving 🙌 Join us Sundays @ 9:15 AM 1120 Madison St., Jefferson City, MO 🌐 https://memorialchurch.net 📩 getconnected@memorialchurch.net 💬 https://www.facebook.com/memorialchurchjc 🎧 Listen on the go: Podbean: https://memorialchurchjc.podbean.com/ Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/memorial-baptist-church-jefferson-city/id1478157245 Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/5CuIDzWry5Y2oz8TBHOKoH YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@memorialbaptist9681

    35 min

  6. May 3

    The New Self Has a Face | Ephesians 4:25–5:2

    Last week: put off the old self. Be renewed. Put on the new. This week Paul gets specific. The new self has to show up somewhere - in your words, your anger, your hands, your forgiveness. It has to have a face. In Ephesians 4:25–5:2, Paul gives a list. But this is not random moral advice. Every command is anchored to one controlling truth: we are members of one another. What you do in the body either builds it up or tears it down. And Paul drops two spiritual reality statements as bookends around the whole thing - give no foothold to the devil, and do not grieve the Holy Spirit. There is no neutral act in community. Everything carries spiritual weight. In this message, Pastor David walks through seven movements - from truth and lies, to anger and the foothold, to corrupt speech, to forgiveness - and shows what happens when the life of Jesus actually gets formed in a community of people. In this message: Why lying destroys the one thing a body runs on - trust How unresolved anger becomes a beachhead for the enemy Why Cain is the case study for Ephesians 4:27 The three tests for every word you speak What forgiveness actually costs - and why the cross is the only place to find it Key Scriptures: Ephesians 4:25–5:2 • Genesis 4:6–7 • Mark 3:5 • John 8:44; 11:33 • Matthew 5:21–26; 20:28 • James 1:20; 3 • John 13:35 🙌 Join us Sundays @ 9:15 AM 1120 Madison St., Jefferson City, MO 🌐 https://memorialchurch.net 📩 getconnected@memorialchurch.net 💬 https://www.facebook.com/memorialchurchjc 🎧 Listen on the go: Podbean: https://memorialchurchjc.podbean.com/ Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/memorial-baptist-church-jefferson-city/id1478157245 Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/5CuIDzWry5Y2oz8TBHOKoH YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@memorialbaptist9681

    52 min

  7. Apr 26

    Socks Over Boots: How Disordered Desire Destroys Us | Ephesians 4:17–24

    Everything is technically there. Nothing is missing. But the order is completely wrong - and it changes everything. That's the image Pastor David opens with. Socks over boots. And it's the perfect picture of what disordered desire actually does to a human soul. Johnny Cash wrote "I Walk the Line" as a pledge to himself - play it straight, be faithful, hold the line. Then came the pills. The drinking. The unraveling. Turns out watching your own heart isn't enough. You cannot walk the line on your own. In Ephesians 4:17–24, Paul traces what happens to a soul when desire gets inverted - from futility, to darkened understanding, to callousness, to insatiable craving for more. And then he shows the only way out: not reform, not self-improvement, not trying harder. Put off the old self. Be renewed. Put on the new through Christ alone! You cannot fix what is corrupting at the core. You need transformation from outside yourself. In this message: Why desire itself is not the problem - the order is The serpent's strategy in Genesis 3 and why nothing has changed Paul's word for the Gentile mind: mataiotes - futility, vapor, breath The insatiable craving that disordered desire always produces Why "put on the new self" is not self-improvement - it's restoration to original design Key Scriptures: Ephesians 4:17–24 • Genesis 2–3 • 1 John 2:16 • James 1:14–15 • John 14:6 • Romans 1 • Acts 2:38 🙌 Join us Sundays @ 9:15 AM 1120 Madison St., Jefferson City, MO 🌐 https://memorialchurch.net 📩 getconnected@memorialchurch.net 💬 https://www.facebook.com/memorialchurchjc   🎧 Listen on the go: Podbean: https://memorialchurch.podbean.com/ Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/memorial-baptist-church-jefferson-city/id1478157245 Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/5CuIDzWry5Y2oz8TBHOKoH

    40 min

  8. Apr 26

    Diverse by Design: How Our Differences Drive the Mission | Ephesians 4:7–16

    We throw the word diversity around a lot. But what if we've been thinking about it all wrong? In Ephesians 4:7–16, Paul picks up right where unity left off — and then pivots. He says: yes, we are one body. But grace was given to each one of us according to the measure of Christ's gift. We're not just united. We're uniquely, individually equipped. In this message, Pastor Jimmy traces the language of victory and spoils all the way from Psalm 68 through the Exodus to the cross — and shows how Jesus, having conquered sin and death, distributes the spoils of that victory as gifts of grace to His people. Not for our comfort. For the work of ministry. Your gifts aren't an accident. They're a grace. And they're not just for you. In this message: Why biblical diversity looks nothing like corporate diversity What "ministerial grace" means — and why it applies to everyone, not just pastors How Christ's ascent and descent connect to the gifts He gives the church Why fulfilling physical needs is the conduit to reaching the spiritual How diversity of gifts is actually what produces unity in the body   Key Scriptures: Ephesians 4:7–16 • Psalm 68 • Exodus 3 • Philippians 2:5–11 • Matthew 25   🙌 Join us Sundays @ 9:15 AM 1120 Madison St., Jefferson City, MO   🌐 https://memorialchurch.net   📩 getconnected@memorialchurch.net   💬 https://www.facebook.com/memorialchurchjc   🎧 Listen on the go: Podbean: https://memorialchurch.podbean.com/ Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/memorial-baptist-church-jefferson-city/id1478157245 Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/5CuIDzWry5Y2oz8TBHOKoH

    36 min
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In short, Memorial is a Gospel-Centered Church that believes Jesus is everything and through faith/belief/trust in Jesus we pursue following Him together as one family. We believe that God places His people together in the context of a local body of believers (His church), not by accident, but for the Spirit-empowered purpose of glorifying Him through repenting and believing the Gospel of His son, Jesus Christ. Through His church we see His kingdom come and His will being done as He makes all creation right and new. In all we do we seek to worship the Lord passionately, connect with each other authentically, grow to know the Lord deeply, and go and share the gospel boldly as One Body in Christ.

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