Welcome to Metro Praise International! We are an independent Pentecostal church with a local vision and a global calling. As a Spirit-filled non-denominational multi-cultural body of believers, our vision is to love God with all of our hearts and to love our neighbors as ourselves.

Sermons

Lollapalooza Sunday 2025

August 4, 2025

Powerful joint Sunday service with Pastor Lauren Scienski and Brother TJ “Good News” Hughes, along with Pastor Joe give practical steps based in the Bible on how to be a living evangelist and witness for Jesus!

Mark 1:16-20 (Part 1)

July 28, 2025

MARK 1:16-20 16 As Jesus walked beside the Sea of Galilee, he saw Simon and his brother Andrew casting a net into the lake, for they were fishermen. 17 “Come, follow me,” Jesus said, “and I will send you out to fish for people.” 18 At once they left their nets and followed him. 19…

Acts 2:1-4 (Part 9)

July 28, 2025

ACTS 2:1-4 1 When the day of Pentecost came, they were all together in one place. 2 Suddenly a sound like the blowing of a violent wind came from heaven and filled the whole house where they were sitting. 3 They saw what seemed to be tongues of fire that separated and came to rest…

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Blogs

August 7 | Why Does God Allow Evil?

August 7, 2025

Genesis 2:17, “But you must not eat from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, for when you eat from it you will certainly die.” God allows evil in the world because humanity freely chose to disobey Him in the Garden of Eden. When Adam sinned he brought spiritual death to all mankind, was…

August 6 | What Happens After I Die?

August 6, 2025

Hebrews 9:27, “Just as people are destined to die once, and after that to face judgment.” After your body dies your spiritual soul will be sent to hell or brought to heaven. Then after Jesus comes to earth and judges the world, hell will be thrown into the lake of fire for eternity and heaven’s citizens…

August 5 | Why Am I Here?

August 5, 2025

Acts 17:26-27, “26 From one man he made all the nations, that they should inhabit the whole earth; and he marked out their appointed times in history and the boundaries of their lands. 27 God did this so that they would seek him and perhaps reach out for him and find him, though he is not…