New City Fellowship Sermons

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

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

Christianity 101 - God Basics

Is Christianity first a spiritual search? Getting a little religion? Or even committing to change?

As we start a new series "Reorienting/Renovating", we'll look at the story of Nicodemus in John 3. When he comes into contact with Jesus, he is completely disoriented about what spirituality really is.

 

#John316 #Nicodemus #spirituality

A Greater Worship through Relocation

Worship, pray and hear how we believe God is leading us to seek a greater worship of Jesus in 2023.

 

#relocation #newcity #greaterworship

Conversion of More Worshipers - A Greater Worship Series #2

“Do you want me to become a Christian?”

 

What would you do if someone asked you that question? Pastor John opens up acts 26 to see how Paul responds when put under pressure about his faith. 

 

#conversion #worship #sundayworship 

A Greater Worship: Re-Orientation

Is worship a genre of music? Or something more?

Reflecting on the response to Damar Hamlin, Pastor John opens up Romans 12 to explore how worship re-orients.