New City Fellowship Sermons

Easter Sunday - Hope in the Hopelessness

"Elmo is just checking in! How is everybody doing?"

In January of this year, the X/Twitter account for Elmo checked in with his followers. Elmo wasn't ready for the hopeless responses. It turns out, no one was doing well.

Is there hope in the hopelessness? Resurrection Sunday says "yes", there is incredible hope. It is a hope that has evidence, a hope that shows God isn't distant from the hopeless, and a hope that you can personalize.

The Sinless Sacrifice

On Good Friday at TY Park, we reflect on Jesus, the Sinless Sacrifice. You'll hear about "which one was not like the others" and how someone gave their life for John's dad.

Palm Sunday - Suffering: Make It Make Sense!

Hosanna! Today is Palm Sunday. What a complicated moment the first palm sunday was. Jesus was celebrated with Hosanna's as he entered the city of Jerusalem sitting low on a donkey. By Friday the crowds would be yelling "crucify him" as he was cast out of the city and lifted high on a cross.

We all suffer. Is it arbitrary or can we find purpose and hope in suffering? Jesus knew He would face suffering and death when he rode into Jerusalem. Through the lens of Jesus’ suffering, we will explore that our suffering is not without meaning in God's grand design and that Jesus understands our pain.

Living Water

In John 4, Jesus meets a woman who’s life is a mess. She is a spiritual outsider who does everything she can to avoid dealing with her shame. But Jesus takes her to the bottom and meets her there with the kind of grace that transforms her life.

Grace For You. Grace Beyond You.

What's your agenda for Jesus? Like what do you want him to do for you? We all have things we pray about asking Him to work for us.

But do you know that Jesus already has an agenda for Himself? He has a mission he is trying to accomplish. And his agenda is to involve you!

Join us as we look at Jesus' agenda: Grace for you. Grace beyond you.  We will be in Luke 4:14-30.

Big Sin, Big Forgiveness

What do a Pharisee and a prostitute have in common?

Debt. Unpayable debt.

 

Robert Kent Hughes says:

“If you are unable to pay, it does not matter how great the debt is…This doesn’t mean that men and women cannot improve themselves or their character to some extent, but rather that they cannot wipe their status as debtors - sinners.”

 

Pastor John starts our new series "Transformed: Encounters with Jesus in the Gospel" by opening Luke 7 and a very awkward social situation. You'll understand how seeing your sin, rather than minimizing it or maximizing other's sin, is a key to enjoying Jesus.

Choose Formation

As we look back on our sermon series and the choices we want to make as a church, we can easily feel overwhelmed and “at capacity.” But stepping into choices of formation is more about being something than merely doing something. And when we examine our capacity to be full or energy and love, we realize that we don’t have the resources in ourselves. But God…

 

This will be a special interactive sermon designed to help us reflect, pray and receive fresh encouragement on what we are called to this year as a church. 

 

 

Choose to Belong

We often achieve an identity in order to belong. But Christianity is completely different. 

Choose to Blend: We are the People of God

We all want a church where we belong to people we bond with deeply. But is the church ONLY that? Or is the church called to not only bond and belong to one another, but blend across lines we wouldn't normally cross. Jesus is in the business of bringing people from all tribes, tongues and nations into one people in the church. In our polarized moment, are we living our lives on board with his vision? Or do we just want church to be with "our" people?

Choose Your Church Family, Love Each Other

Love is...

a feeling? our duty? something we fall in?

A quote from the movie "Dan In Real Life" says, "..Love is an ability."

That quote isn't far from how the Bible talks about love. Love is a SUPERNATURAL ability...

In this fourth sermon in the series "Formed to Flourish", Pastor John talks about "love" the mark of the Christian.