New City Fellowship Sermons

I Believe in the Resurrection | Easter Sunday

Many ask, "Is the resurrection believable?" But today we reframe the question, "Is the resurrection worthy of your belief?"

 

The resurrection story of Jesus of Nazareth is unbelievable, and yet worthy of our belief. Explore the story with us.

 

#Easter #resurrection #Sunday #easterSunday #resurrectionSunday #emptytomb #Jesus

What’s Most Important - Good Friday

It is hard to think that a payment for sin to God could be the most important thing to know about God, but that's exactly what the Apostle Paul says about Jesus' death on the cross. In this Good Friday sermon, we revel in what Jesus has done for us and God the Father's love for us. #goodfriday #Jesus #love

The Donkey Ride to the Cross

Jesus rode into Jerusalem on a donkey on Palm Sunday. Jesus' choice to ride on a donkey conveyed a message of humility and peace. We can learn from His example and consider what we are communicating to the world today.  What are we communicating in our world today?

Form Your Heart

In an age of "follow your heart", we forget to ask, "what forms my heart?".

 

Today we'll open Mark 4 and explore Jesus' parable of the sower to help us better understand heart formation. You'll hear about the musical "The Greatest Showman", a heart-aware atheist, and some choking hazards.

Suffering...Why?

Everyone of us is walking through something. A trial, difficulty, or challenge. Why would a good and just God allow us to suffer?

 

Suffering...why? Is it karma, survival of the fittest? Should we just toughen up? Or figure out how to escape?

 

In today's message, Pastor John opens up John 9 where Jesus disorients how we think about suffering. 

 

#suffering #John9 #pain

Identity Achieved vs Received

Who are you? That's not a simple question to answer. But most of us answer that question under the premise of an achieved identity. That is, things we do. Titles we have earned. The way we try to control people's perceptions. But Christianity offers something fundamentally different to people: an identity that is not achieved, but received.

Pastor John opens up John chapter 1 to explore the ministry of John the Baptist and the calling of Jesus' first disciples. You'll hear about the actor who played every historical figure but just wanted to be himself, why ordinariness is freeing, and what it looks like to walk in a received identity.

Shadows and Shade

Most of us think greed is a bad thing. Yet, most of us wouldn't say we ourselves were greedy. Jesus tells us to be hyper-vigilant against greed. So is it that we are doing a good job of not being greedy, or that we just don't know what to look for?

 

Pastor John opens up Luke 12 to explore greed, anxiety and shadows.

 

#greed #treasure #wealth

Divine Disorientation

God is disorienting you, He is disorienting you to reorient you into His Plan, Purpose and Will concerning your life. Embrace God’s Plan to reorient your life.

Good Guys/Bad Guys

We all agree there is real and terrible evil out there. Yet there is so little moral consensus on what that evil is. There are so many cries for justice, yet no one can seem to agree on what it looks like and who needs it. We look at politics, and agree it is poisoned, but can't find common ground on who poisoned it.

 

As we look out into the world, we see good guys and bad guys. And maybe that's part of the problem.

 

As we continue our series REORIENTING/RENOVATING, we'll explore a story that Jesus tells meant to disorient us on our view of the good guys/bad guys.

 

#goodguysbadguys #mercy #justice

Spiritual Thirst

We all have longings, desires and dreams. But have you ever asked what is underneath those things?

 

Pastor John opens up John 4, the story of the Samaritan woman at the well, to explore our spiritual thirst.

 

#spiritualthirst #john4 #womanatthewell