New City Fellowship Sermons

Focus 2022: Healing to Wholeness

The effects of sin have left us traumatized, broken people living in a broken world. But God is a God of healing and restoration. As we grow in our relationship with him, he meets us in our brokenness and heals us with his love. Today Pastor John opens up Paul's prayer in Ephesians 3 to explore "Healing to Wholeness".

#healing #gospel #trauma

Focus 2022: Blending to Belong

Did you know that nearly 50% of adults in the United States experience loneliness weekly? That means you're not alone in feeling alone. But it also means we need some answers to this challenge many of us are facing.

In this message, Pastor John explores different Scriptures for our second Focus 2022 Theme: Blending to Belong.

#lonely #loneliness #belong

Focus 2022: Praying the Word

Do our prayers do anything? If we're honest, we wonder that. As the Spirit of God lives in us, we are drawn to pray. But we struggle with it, right?

 

Today we look at our first area of focus for this year: "praying the Word". Rather than mustering up the strength to pray, we're going to look to Jesus. He invites us into prayer, inspires our prayers, and even prays for us.

 

#prayer #focus #2022

Looking Back on 2021

This year we'll be focusing on three areas for our church. But before we dig deep in those areas, we'll remember God's faithfulness for what He did in 2021.

Pastor John opens Ephesians 1 to talk about God's power working in us and our focus areas for 2021: Bible reading and outreach.

#2022goals #godisgood #biblereading

He Is Coming Again

Pastor Cody ends the year by looking ahead with hope to the new city. 

#revelation21 #newcity #newyear

Jesus Came for Peace

Peace on earth? Really? In the midst of long COVID testing lines? Violence in our cities? And a loneliness epidemic during the holidays?

 

On Christmas Eve, Pastor John explores the angel's proclamation about peace on earth from Luke 2. We'll see that the Christian faith offers us incredible resources for peace, even when our world is falling apart.

 

#ChristmasEve #Luke2 #peaceonearth

He Came For Relationship | 1 John 1:1-4

Have you ever been put in a box? Not a literal box. But had someone know part of you, but not all of you?

As the Apostle John writes to Christians fifty years after Jesus' life and ministry, he encourages them not to put Jesus in the box of prevailing spiritual ideas. John wants believers to have a relationship with Jesus, but with Jesus as He is, not Jesus in a box. Jesus came relationally so he could be known as he is. And he came to be known as he is so you could be in relationship.

#1John1 #relationship #advent

He Came to Save Sinners

Have you ever seen the list of invitees to a party and thought, "I'm not gonna go. No one going to the party is like me"?

When Jesus came into the world, no one was like him. Everybody was a sinner, a rebel against God. Yet, Christ Jesus came to save sinners.
As we explore this theme in 1 Timothy 1, we'll see that understanding this completely changes the way we view ourselves.

#sinners #Advent #1Timothy1

He Came As An Offering | Hebrews 10:1-1

When something bad happens, do you ever ask, “God, what did I do to deserve this?”

 

If so, then we usually ask, “What can I offer you to get out of this?” But that type of thinking produces guilt-ridden, timid living.

In our second Advent sermon, Pastor John opens up Hebrews 10 to explore how Jesus offering himself as a sacrifice enables us to live boldly before God.

 

#offering #f260 #guilt #sacrificialsystem

Jesus Humbled Himself to Come

If you could gain any super power, what would it be?

It isn’t hard to think about gaining a special skill or ability. But what if you had to give one up? What if you didn’t gain a special strength, but had to give up one you already possessed? Why even bring that up? Who wants to lay aside the best thing about them?

Pastor John opens up Philippians 2 to explore how Jesus humbled himself to come.

#humility #humbleness