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You can look completely fine on the outside and be drowning underneath. Most of us have gotten really good at it. This week, Ty opens up about being the “good church kid” — worship team, FCA Bible studies, verses memorized — while hiding sin the entire time from 6th grade through graduation. Not because the sin was unusual, but because hiding is what we all do. And underneath the hiding is a lie most church kids believe without ever saying it out loud: that God is waiting to see how you turn out before He decides how He feels about you. We look at Zechariah 3, where a guilty man stands before God in filthy clothes with Satan pointing at him — and God shuts the accuser down. We talk about the difference between shame and conviction, why “God already knows” only sounds like a threat if you think His love depends on your performance, and what it means that every sin you’d ever commit was already in front of Jesus when He chose the cross anyway. The whole night lands on one sentence: you don’t get clean and then come to God. You come to God, and He does the cleaning. 📍 Follow along: @fusemsm on Instagram 🌐 More info: greenwood.church/fuse ✉️ Questions? Reach us at [email protected]

Jesus Loves Me — Week 1: JESUS Fuse MSM Wednesday Night Series You’ve sung it since before you could talk. But have you actually heard it? We’re kicking off a five-week series digging into the childhood song “Jesus Loves Me” — a song that started as comfort sung to a dying boy in an 1860s novel, and somehow became so familiar it stopped meaning anything to most of us. This week, we go back to where the song’s most famous line comes from: John 3:16. We look at Nicodemus, a religious leader who knew Scripture inside and out and still completely missed who was standing in front of him. We ask a hard question: who do you actually believe God loves — and how would you expect a God like that to show it? And we land on the most backwards, upside-down truth in the whole Bible: God didn’t show up the way anyone would guess. He showed up as Jesus — poor, unimpressive, and willing to die for people who wanted nothing to do with Him. If “Jesus loves me” has gone numb for you, this episode is for you. 📍 Follow along: @fusemsm on Instagram 🌐 More info: greenwood.church/fuse ✉️ Questions? Reach us at [email protected]

Ever had a friend who seemed cool one day… and then totally disappeared when things got hard? 😬 In a world where it’s sometimes hard to tell what’s real and what’s fake, friendships can feel the same way. In this first message from the Real Ones series, we look at the story of Jonathan and King Saul from the Bible; two people both thought they were David’s friend—but only one of them actually acted like it. One gave. The other took. So how do you know who the real ones are in your life? And even more important… how do you become one? In this message we talk about: Why real friends give instead of just taking What trust in God has to do with how we treat people And why Jesus is the realest friend there is If you’re in middle school and trying to figure out what real friendship actually looks like, this message is for you. Follow us on Instagram: @fusemsmQuestions? Email us: [email protected]

How can we know that we are saved? Like, for real know?

The gospel has been God's plan from day 1. It's all been because of His love for us. If we miss this, we miss the gospel itself. This week, MSM Pastor Ty Hirsch continues our Good News series with an explanation of where the gospel comes from.

What even is the gospel? As we kick off our first official series of Season 7 in Fuse MSM, Middle School Pastor Ty Hirsch walks us through what the gospel is and what it isn’t.

We're kicking off Season 7 of Fuse MSM with a BANG! In this message from the Fuse Season Kick-Off, MSM Pastor Ty shows us how thinking about Jesus leads us to care about Him, and caring about Him leads us to being like Him.

Some of the worst things ever done in middle school - bullying, gossip, sarcasm that hurts - all come out of a deep feeling to be liked by others. In this sermon, Ty Hirsch kicks off the UP series with a message on how we can find security in Jesus when we look UP at Him. He already loves us infinitely more than could imagine!

If we're not careful, we'll lose the high view of sex that God has from His created intent for it. This week's message closes out the Base Camp series talking about the reality that we MUST view sex the way God does and take Him at His Word for it or we will get hurt and hurt badly.

God cares about marriage. Big time. That's because it tells us a lot about Him, for good or for bad. So we'd better see how He designed it and think about dating in this way or we're going to end up in places and with people that will hurt us.

There is a lot of confusion about what dating is and how to do it right in our modern world. This week, Jake Valdez preaches about how to know what God thinks about dating, and how to do dating in a way that honors him.

To kick off our Season 6 series on Relationships & Dating, we dive into the reason why romance exists in the first place: to reflect how much God loves us. For the full sermon manuscript, click here.

Have you ever heard the phrase "Thou shalt not take the name of the Lord thy God in vain?" Do you know what it means? Maybe you think it just means that God doesn't want us to say "Oh my God". And that might be it. But what if we told you that there was so much more to this command than we think? In this message, Fuse MSM tackles the question, "What does it men to take the Lord's name in vain?"

Why do we gossip? Honestly, some of us don't even realize that we ARE gossiping when we do - so how do we know what it is an why we do it? In this message, we break down what gossip is, why we participate in it, and why Jesus is a MUCH better option for us than gossip is.