During his earthly ministry, Jesus guided, guarded and taught His disciples how to love and follow God. As His days of ministry in the flesh came to an end, He announced that He would soon be leaving His disciples. Their mood shifted during their last week together. Trouble and sorrow filled their hearts. And yet, He promised that he would not leave them as orphans; He would come to them, abide with them and actually live in them. As part of the Father’s great plan, Christ's exit from Earth meant the entrance of Holy Spirit, another Helper just like Jesus who would guide their way. What Holy Spirit did then, He continues to do today in every heart that embraces Christ as their Savior.

John Chapters 14-16

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One of the marks of a healthy church is its desire to pass on the faith to younger generations following them. To make sure that our experiences with Christ and understanding of His gospel does not end with us. We are like runners in a relay race who are passing the baton to those coming behind us. Josiah Oldham is one of several runners at Mountain View getting ready to receive the baton of leadership. As a young man feeling called to international missions in East Asia, we are blessed to have the privilege of helping train and release him into the greater stream of God’s purposes. In today's message from Psalm 34, Josiah reminds us of three important elements of genuine worship.

Psalm 34:1-10

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   “Acres of diamonds are near you. Every child in our land has access to these age old words that are rich gems available at any moment. Men and women who face frustration and confusion and despair can reach into this treasure chest and come out with the answer that is so desperately needed." So begins Kyle Yates commentary on the book of Psalms, a book filled with precious truths just as relevant today as they were thousands of years ago.

   In today’s message, our guest speaker, Andrew Rogers, Assistant Professor of Biblical Counseling at Boyce College, unearths the precious treasure of repentance found in Psalm 32. Whoever said the God of the Old Testament is not a kind, compassionate and forgiving God has never read Psalms. For in Psalm 32, we find the gracious nature of God on full display.

Psalm 32

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Psalm 107:1-2  reads, “Oh give thanks to the Lord, for He is good, For His lovingkindness is everlasting. Let the redeemed of the Lord say so…” (NASB)

 Notice that the Psalmist doesn’t say-"Let the redeemed of the Lord think so" or "pray so" but rather, "say so." In other words, let it out! Confess publicly what the LORD has done for you personally. Today we get the wonderful privilege of hearing how the Lord Jesus did a mighty work of grace in the lives of 3 individuals among the Mountain View family. Their confessions of faith help remind us that church is first and foremost about Jesus.

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Nearly 26 years ago, a dedication service was held in our auditorium for the buildings that then made up the gathering place for a new congregation in Layton known as Mountain View Baptist Church - a congregation previously known as First Southern Baptist of Clearfield. The pastor of the church during the transition was Bill Lacey, and during the dedication service he spoke of Mountain View becoming a regional church called to develop new missions and strengthen existing churches along the Wasatch Front. The call to be a church planting church is rooted in Scripture and provides the backdrop for today's service where we commission several Mountain View members to help Jeff and Tonya Winters plant a new church in West Haven, Utah called Sojourn.

Acts 13, Luke 10

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On the surface, putting the words blessed and mourning together doesn’t make sense. We don’t naturally associate mourning with blessing, unless maybe you work for a mortuary. Typically, those experiencing great grief are not considered blessed, especially when the word for blessed carries the idea of fulfillment or a life worth envying. Here again we see how the Gospel of Jesus is counter intuitive to our natural reasoning. Happy are the sad? This doesn't make sense and yet, it is what Jesus clearly taught. The question we must ask then is this: In what way is it true that people who mourn are people who are blessed?

Matthew 5:4

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The Beatitudes begin one of the most well-known teachings of Jesus in all of the New Testament, a teaching known as the Sermon on the Mount. The Sermon on the Mount is also one of the most misunderstood teachings of Jesus. Some believe the Beatitudes are the New Testament version of the 10 Commandments; that one must obey these words in order to become Christian. But neither the 10 Commandments nor the Beatitudes were given as a set of rules to keep in order to go to heaven. The best way to see the Beatitudes is by recognizing the number of times one phrase is used repeatedly in Matthew’s Gospel- “kingdom of heaven.” Jesus will refer to the kingdom of heaven no less than 31 times in Matthew, 8 times in the Sermon on the Mount and twice in the Beatitudes. The Beatitudes begin and end with the kingdom of heaven. So the Sermon on the Mount and the Beatitudes in particular help answer the question: What kind of person does God use to bring His kingdom to earth?

Matthew 5:1-10

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What if your value system was skewed and you were pursuing things that were taking you further away from God’s blessing and purposes? If that was true, would you want to know it?  We begin a new series today looking at a teaching of Jesus recorded in Matthew’s gospel that is, in many ways, the foundation of the Christian life. If we don’t understand this message and know how to apply it to our individual and corporate life as a church, we are going to miss God’s best for us. This teaching is known as the The Beatitudes.

Matthew 4:23-5:10

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As we have done for the past few months, whenever we have Lord's Super, we allow three of our members to give a testimony of how God has been working in each of their lives. Today we will hear from Michaya Snell, George Henney, and Terry Graham.

Much has been said in the Bible about the connection between the condition of our hearts and the quality of our lives and one of the best examples of this in the New Testament is the story of Mary, the mother of Jesus. In Luke 2, we read of Mary’s reflection upon the extraordinary events surrounding the conception and birth of Jesus. We also read how she deposited these events into her heart for safekeeping. Mary's pondering reminds us that the heart can hold what the hand cannot. All the more reason to make sure what we are depositing into our hearts is actually giving us life.

Luke 2:15-20

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December has arrived and with it all of the hustle and bustle, chaos and commotion associated with this time of the year. Without disciplined focus, the weeks associated with the celebration of Christ's birth can be easily consumed with parties, presents and Perry Como. We who know Christ as Savior can take a different approach however and one of the best places to experience the real reason for the season is through God's Word. In Philippians 2, Paul reminds us how uniquely special Christ's entrance into the world was 2000 years ago. The Apostle reminds us of a humble Savior who made a humble entrance into a world in desperate need for rescue. In today's message, Pastor Jeff explains how the Incarnation of Christ reminds us that the heart of Christmas is found in one word-humility.

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More often than not, God calls His people to assignments they cannot do in their own strength.  Time and time again, God has asked His people to trust Him with the invisible and believe Him for the impossible. When those assignments come, we can expect to experience  what many of God's saints in Scripture experienced- a crisis of belief. As we resume our study of Exodus, we read how the burning bush encounter with God created an internal struggle for Moses he had never experienced-it became for him a crisis of belief.

Exodus 4:1-17

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People who hear voices in their head are usually considered mentally imbalanced. People who claim to hear God’s voice are considered even more imbalanced; that’s how cults get started! Jim Jones, David Koresh, Marshall Applewhite, Sun Myung Moon, Warren Jeffs, L. Ron Hubbard; the list goes on and on of men who claimed to hear the voice of God and eventually wound up in jail or dead. One of the challenges facing Christians is acknowledging that God does speak to His children today but also acknowledging that not every voice is His. The challenge is to know when the voice we hear is God's voice and not another's. Our series in Exodus provides more insight on how to recognize the voice of God in a wacko world.

Exodus 3

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In the fullness of time, God led His people in Egypt to cry out to Him from their bondage. Because He had already planned a homeland for them in Canaan, He now set into place a series of events that would lead them back to the land of Promise, a land "flowing with milk and honey". Rather than appointing an angel for the task, God chose a man to lead His people. The man He chose was Moses and in Exodus 3, we read about a 3rd reality inspiring and informing our relationship with  God. God invites us to join Him in His work.

Exodus 3:1-10

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One of the ministries of Holy Spirit is helping us identify patterns of God’s activity so that we might discern between the eternal and temporal, between spiritual trash and spiritual treasure.  Nearly 25 years ago, Holy Spirit helped a pastor from a small Baptist Church in Canada identify patterns of God’s work among His people throughout the centuries. As he studied Scripture, primarily the life of Moses in Exodus, he identified 7 patterns that inform and inspire the believer's walk with Jesus. As we conclude Exodus 2 today, we can identify the second of those 7 patterns: God pursues a love relationship with us that is both real and personal.

Exodus 2:23-3:6

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