James MacDonald Audio Podcast

Forgive Those Who... Oct 07, 2024

What is the primary pain point in your life? Can you put your finger on it?

Know this: suffering with unresolved hurt doesn’t have to become a way of living. In fact, God offers a way through our suffering that is total, immediate, and unilateral…

But the message of the Bible is only life changing if you believe it!

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Rejecting Shame (part 3) Sep 30, 2024

What is the major hurt and shame that plagues you? The one that won’t go away, but keeps hovering and overshadowing over your life. Can you put your finger on it?

Now the good news: True freedom – living in the truth of how God sees you – is closer than you may think!

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Rejecting Shame (part 2) Sep 23, 2024

What is the major hurt and shame that plagues you? The one that won’t go away, but keeps hovering and overshadowing over your life. Can you put your finger on it?

Now the good news: True freedom – living in the truth of how God sees you – is closer than you may think!

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Rejecting Shame Sep 16, 2024

What is the opposite of love?

While love fills our souls, uplifts our minds and brings us joy, there is one particular emotion that stands in stark contrast – and this message from Rock Bottom has the answer. If you’re struggling in your spirit with the fallout of your choices, don’t miss it…

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The Greatest Sermon Ever Preached Sep 09, 2024

Who gave the greatest sermon ever preached? It wasn’t Billy Graham, Charles Spurgeon, or even the Apostle Paul. The greatest sermon ever preached was from the greatest preacher who ever lived: Jesus Christ.

Imagine Jesus Himself walking toward you, holding out His hands and asking if you’d like to hear Him expound the Scriptures… Would you pay attention?

That is what we’re getting after this week – the foundational truths of Christianity, where faith is formed and lives are changed for all eternity. Join us for this important teaching from Rock Bottom, The Greatest Sermon Ever Preached.

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Rejecting the voice of Rejection Aug 26, 2024

If you’re stuck where best thinking has got you, it’s time to change your thinking.

God won’t force Himself into your heart, but He does want to change you and heal the hurt behind your destructive behaviors.

How does change happen? Often, change begins with a crisis; the journey of changing is a process. The process of change is hard work.

And if you fail in the process? Return to the crisis. Remember why you began this journey and get help that will help you continue.

Let’s Reject the Voice of Rejection. Refuse to accept what our failures say – and lean into how the God who made us sees us.

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Rejecting Rejection – First This Aug 19, 2024

WE ALL EXPERIENCE REJECTION – and its scars can remain a heavy burden. But if, in dealing with it, your solution does not leave you closer to God, it was not God’s solution for you.

You must continue on in faith! If you believe that God’s blessings are for other people and not for you, if you believe that God is secretly somehow angry with you over the things that you regret, then you need to know a lot more about the Lord!

Join us in faith as we continue learning to handle this difficult subject. Open your Bible to Matthew 5:25 and get ready for Rejecting Rejection – First This!

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Accept Rejection Now (Part 2) Aug 12, 2024

Spiritual warfare. It is a hard and heavy journey. Before you know it, you’ll be in a box – ego, pride and circumstance are very temporary.

We must focus on the eternal battle in front of us. By the power of God, we can – and must – destroy the strongholds that keep us stuck in distraction from what matters most. If you are battling with a past rejection, look to Jesus – who came to save the enslaved captives!

Open your Bible to Matthew 11, for part two of Accept Rejection Now

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Accept Rejection Now Aug 05, 2024

What is the biggest hurt impacting your life today?

Too often, we’re looking for freedom but stuck in our hurt. Some injuries are recent, others decades old yet still wreaking havoc our lives.

Emotional healing is one of the most visible needs of our day – and it was a primary focus of Jesus’ ministry. So bring the Lord those wounded places in your heart, mind and life that most need His touch.

Open to Matthew 11:28, and let’s find help, hope and healing…

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Why Rock Bottom? Jul 29, 2024

If you’re curious about what’s happening here with Act Like Men, don’t miss this Bible-based teaching from Rock Bottom.

Authentic means be your true self and love others for being their true selves. Men in recovery who seek to live authentically are thriving in our sober living homes.

We want all who benefit from these messages, and specifically those men to feel loved, accepted, and supported as never before on their road to sobriety and restoration. Wherever you are on your journey, we can walk together toward Christ for victory over sin and addiction!

Open your Bible and your heart as Pastor James leads us in Why Rock Bottom?

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What I Think When Things Go Bad Jul 22, 2024

Ever have so many bad days it seems everything’s going wrong? When your life is finally going in the right direction, when you’re focused on following Jesus, struggles and roadblocks still appear.

When you feel hard pressed and trapped, it’s time to stop and turn to the Lord.

Even Jesus had bad days and faced rejection and betrayal.“…Always carrying in the body the death of Jesus, so that the life of Jesus may also be manifested in our bodies.” 2 Corinthians‬ ‭4‬:‭10‬ ‭When you’re backed into a corner, He is there. When you don’t understand, He is there. When you’re under attack, He is there. As John Wesley declared in his final breath, “Best of all. God is with us.“

Join us for this powerful new teaching – What I Think When Things Go Bad.

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New Power For The DIscouraged Jul 15, 2024

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Destroying the Strongholds in My Disposition Jul 08, 2024

True brotherhood is ready to join you in warfare. A brother is with you in the trenches, even at your worst. And our war is not physical or fleshly, it’s spiritual.

God has given us the weapons and the ability to win the fight – and to destroy destructive patterns of thinking.

Brotherhood fights together, but we all have individual battles. We need to detect and destroy the strongholds in our disposition and with the Lord’s help and the strength of brothers (and sisters) bring them in conformity to Christ.

Lean in with us and learn the truth about ourselves and our spiritual battle…

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4 Reasons Strongholds Are Hard To Break Jul 01, 2024

Strongholds are fortified patterns of thinking that are stubbornly resistant to God’s Word and God’s will.

Wherever you’re stuck, whether a destructive sin or hidden addiction – to find freedom, you must get honest and take care of your heart. And nothing will be different until you think differently.

Defeating a stronghold requires confronting sin and failures with humility. But don’t be discouraged, by God’s grace you CAN destroy those patterns and walls of sin, addiction and shame.

Join us for this new message from Rock Bottom, 4 Reasons Strongholds Are Hard To Break.

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Let's Get Way Behind Jun 24, 2024

Addiction is a heart sickness and a broken crutch. We encounter addiction every day in our ministry. In this new series, we begin grappling with its source.

Addiction is a way of thinking that must change if sobriety is going to last. If you are working to get victory in your behavior, don’t miss this: The critical battle is to change your thoughts.

You have to get behind an addiction to fight it properly – and it cannot be won with earthly weapons. When your first action in the battle is to reach for flesh weapons, the war will soon be lost.

Let’s bring the truth of God’s Word to the chains of addiction, and hope for those in its shackles

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God is in Control Jun 17, 2024

In the most challenging and unexpected seasons of life, someone may have told you “God is in control.”

This weekend, first-century believers will remind us why we can trust God and His will.

Growing throughout the book of Acts, the early church was marked by chaos, persecution, life threatening opposition. Yet even then, they actively trusted that the Lord is in control.

Let’s learn from them. Because even when you suffer, even when it’s midnight, even when your faith is weak – and even when the wicked seem to prosper – God is always in control.

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Why I Love The Lord Jun 10, 2024

This weekend Pastor James brings an all-new message, just preached at Rock Bottom: Why I Love the Lord!

When you hit rock bottom and face a season of grief and loss, remember – God is with you and working in you. While He doesn’t answer prayer that’s passively tossed over the shoulder like a piece of trash, the Lord does incredible things with focused, fervent, earnest, faith-filled prayer.

On even the hardest days, God can give hope and take you the distance you couldn’t go yourself. The darkest days of your life can be in your rearview mirror forever!

Join us in Psalm 103 for these truths about God’s goodness – and you too can declare, “This is why I love the Lord!”

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Final Hope Essentials Jun 03, 2024

Our final message in 1 Thessalonians is theological, yet very practical and on point. This precious book gives us hope – hope for each other and hope for the future, as we place our confidence in almighty God.

Enduring, unshakeable hope requires active dependence on Jesus Christ, through prayer. In fact, a life of continual prayer reflects your awareness of God’s nearness.

So lay down those burdens you’re carrying, and draw close to Him now, for this final teaching in Hope Springs Eternal.

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The Day of the Lord: Hope or No Hope? May 27, 2024

First Thessalonians is sobering yet hopeful, warning us of judgement to come for unbelievers – but great hope for those who put their faith in Jesus Christ.

Those far from the Lord will instantly awake to the totality of their reality error. But those who are alive in Christ will be rescued by the rapture to watch in safety from the balconies of Heaven.

Take time to learn (or be reminded of) these incredibly important truths in God’s Word about what is to come…

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The Greatest Hope We Have May 20, 2024

‘Jesus Christ is coming again!’ This is the resounding message of the book of Thessalonians – and the reason why ‘hope springs eternal’.

This is not a wistful wishing for an unlikely or improbable future. Hope is heart reality anchored to the rock of God’s Word.

Think about it… we have a living hope! Jesus Christ is alive and gives life! And His second coming is the great hope of every Christian.

Encourage one another with these words and turn to 1 Thessalonians 4 for more about The Greatest Hope We Have.

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What Every Mother Wants May 13, 2024

The older I get, the more I realize how little I knew when I knew it all.

Even in my pride, my mother’s example and wisdom continually guided me to make better choices and brought me closer to God. Kids will be blessed by their parents’ wise choices – and bent toward their parents’ bad choices.

Some facets of God’s design for women can apply for us all. Even the apostle Paul said, “I was like a nursing mother, taking care of her own children,” as he focused on the needs of the churches in a very personal way.

Take time this Mother’s Day weekend to open your Bible and your heart to God’s Word for you in 1 Thessalonians 4.

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Hope Springs From Clarity About Purity May 06, 2024

While the world abandons morality, questions truth, and redefines goodness, God has an unchanging path of truth and righteousness for us to follow.

God’s will is not a secret blueprint for minute decisions He is hiding, but rather a revealed blueprint for wise decisions – and it’s called the Bible.

God calls us to walk a path of righteousness, to reject our lustful desires, and to avoid the dark alleys of this world. If you are increasingly the person God wants you to be, right choices will follow.

Spend some time in worship before the Lord and get ready to jump into 1 Thessalonians for this clear teaching…

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How Love Keeps Hope Alive (Part 2) Apr 29, 2024

In relational uncertainty, love protects hope by focusing on what matters most.

But Satan’s strategy is to strangle hope as he seeks to disguise, divide and destroy.

Where hope is kept alive, know this: someone is always sacrificing. And most often, it’s Jesus Christ through one of His followers.

Remember, hope is the confident expectation of better days ahead.

Open your Bibles and hearts as Pastor James preaches part two of How Love Keeps Hope Alive.

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