http://newcitykc.org/videos daily 0.75 2022-01-26 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/551b4f61e4b071275ffc57f3/1643220597555-DP5SPI6832YTJKTUGLV9/image-asset.png Videos - January 23, 2022 – John 2:1-12 John 2:1-12 “Life Comes to a Wedding.” When the Light of Life, Jesus, shows up to a wedding in Cana nothing will be the same. But don’t miss the point John is making about Jesus and the coming Kingdom. This is not a party trick for Jesus to show off his divine power. Jesus is up to something deeper and more life giving. What if we understood God and his Kingdom as a never ending Wedding Feast? A Cosmic Party?This first “sign” of Jesus is loaded with meaning and the implications of his Kingdom breaking into ordinary life. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/551b4f61e4b071275ffc57f3/1643220597555-DP5SPI6832YTJKTUGLV9/image-asset.png Videos - January 23, 2022 – John 2:1-12 John 2:1-12 “Life Comes to a Wedding.” When the Light of Life, Jesus, shows up to a wedding in Cana nothing will be the same. But don’t miss the point John is making about Jesus and the coming Kingdom. This is not a party trick for Jesus to show off his divine power. Jesus is up to something deeper and more life giving. What if we understood God and his Kingdom as a never ending Wedding Feast? A Cosmic Party?This first “sign” of Jesus is loaded with meaning and the implications of his Kingdom breaking into ordinary life. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/551b4f61e4b071275ffc57f3/1642784811873-BH4S4TFXA2OF22O3HEJ7/image-asset.png Videos - Sunday Morning Service -January 16, 2022 John 1:1-18 “Life Comes to the Neighborhood.” The incarnate Word moves into the neighborhood and dwells among us. In Jesus is life, all life. What does this mean for our daily lives, our church, and world? https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/551b4f61e4b071275ffc57f3/1642180779351-HBG4LSIG55E86CPC68B3/image-asset.png Videos - Sunday Morning Service -January 9, 2022 “DNA Sunday” Acts 3:1-10. A get back to basics sermon for our mission and vision as a church. A call to Jesus, prayer and asking God to awaken us, and our church, and the Big C church, and our world to the realties of the Kingdom and gospel of Jesus Christ. What a challenging and important session of Scripture to consider in the New Year from Acts 3. We don’t have gold or silver, but we have Jesus! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/551b4f61e4b071275ffc57f3/1640279527533-DTP4VZWQG3BLX5CAU9YP/image-asset.jpeg Videos - Sunday Morning Service - December 19, 2021 Matthew 1:1-18, “The Gift of a Name.” Christmas can get lost in Egg Nog, gifts, shopping, and the sentiment of the season. Nothing necessarily evil about these things. But a close look at the Christmas story and we get a glimpse of another gift found in the names of Jesus. He is the Lord who saves, and he is God with Us (Emmanuel). These two names for Jesus invite us to consider what the Christmas story is about at its core: a God who saves, a God who is present with us. In this gift of Christmas I pray we can grapple with the expansive nature of salvation, and the gift of God’s presence. What does that mean for my life, our community, and world whether things are working out, or things are falling apart. The names of Jesus are a gift that won’t stop giving now and into eternity. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/551b4f61e4b071275ffc57f3/1639759773142-VZ8EU3ZS6FMF9397LB5J/image-asset.jpeg Videos - Sunday Morning Service - December 12, 2021 Isaiah 9:1-7, “Four Gifts from the Child.” Imagine a people sitting on pins and needles wondering if the Messiah will ever come to rescue them. God makes these promises through Abraham and Moses and David and yet here we are. In gloom, in darkness, wondering if things will ever change. Then in another birth announcement of a Son to come and carry the world on his shoulders, this birth announcement is a sight to behold. Why? Not only is a birth announced (9:6), but the baby to come is already giving us hints of how he will rule, how he will minister to the nations in darkness. These breathtaking glimpses of the Son to be born in Bethlehem from Isaiah 9, are four more gifts, four more unexpected gifts, of the Son, and revealing more of what God is like. Our images of God and our perception of how the Living God acts, moves, and works in the world are often warped. But the four gifts of Isaiah show us an accurate depiction of how the Father reveals himself through the Son though the names of: Wonderful Counselor, Mighty God, Everlasting Father, and Prince of Peace (Isa. 9:7). Have we ever paused to consider the unexpected gifts of the child to be born because of the names revealed here in Isaiah? These names show us the heart, character, nature, and the ways God ministers to his people and the world. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/551b4f61e4b071275ffc57f3/1638813437517-HU3KTR339WOWAVV99EXS/image-asset.jpeg Videos - Sunday Morning Service - December 5, 2021 Genesis 1-3, 3:15, “Gifts of Christmas in Eden.” If the birth, life, death, and resurrection of Jesus are the most important events in the Scriptures, and human history, we’d expect them to show up in the Old and New Testament. We have the last birth narrative in Revelation 12, why wouldn’t we find the first Christmas story in the Old Testament; but we do. In the third chapter of Genesis we have our first gift, our Christmas in Eden. We aren’t surprised by the birth announcement here in Genesis 3. What we are surprised by, and the unexpected gift is this announcement comes in the context of sin and rebellion between God, Adam, Eve, and the serpent. It’s not a happy situation, but the promises God makes in the first chapters of Scripture will cause us to catch our breath. The serpent comes to tempt Eve in the Garden by doubting his benevolence (2-3), by doubting his word (4), and giving Adam and Eve an opportunity to be gods, or equal to God (5). Eve took the bait, and rebelled and ignored God’s benevolence, God’s wisdom, and God’s word. God curses the serpent and enacts judgment and the results are sin, death, and enmity, pain and suffering. And yet, despite the flat out rebellion of our first parents and the temptations of Satan, God gives a promise. God gives a promise of a son who will crush the head of Satan, who will redeem what is lost. What some have called the “proto-gospel/evangellion” and first gospel promise. Pointing to the Son of God who will one day come to die for the rebellion of the world. Who will make good on these promises. And not that we have to go to far to see this amazing grace on display. God in the midst of banishing Adam and Eve from the Garden, cursing and judging the Serpent, he moves toward our first parents with grace and clothes them with garments of skin (3:21). God moves toward them in their sin, much like the Son does in his incarnation. Grace is a most surprising and unexpected gift. God never treating us as we deserve. The gifts of Eden are immense. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/551b4f61e4b071275ffc57f3/1638311426244-8HKQJD7WDXG09QZKPADY/image-asset.jpeg Videos - Sunday Morning Service - November 28, 2021 Revelation 22:5-21 “The Last Words” :: Preacher: Ryan John’s final words are filled with urgency and comfort. Jesus is coming soon. How soon? Nobody knows. But he’s inviting in the thirsty, lost, and the broken to be at his table. These final words are urgent in the sense Jesus’ return and making of all things are imminent. They are also comforting words for us and all who have ears to hear. The world is a mess, our lives are a mess, but Jesus is on the throne and making all things new. The grace of Jesus which works in such backwards ways compared to our current culture and system is now available. The Revelation is not about some distant future and a call to white knuckle life here and now. Revelation is to work on us to comfort and awaken us to the here and liveness of today. The God with us, Immanuel, is here and now. We don’t have to wait to participate in what God’s doing in the world. We don’t have to lean into the faulty mantras of positive thinking or think technology is our only hope. Jesus is our hope. Jesus is coming again. Jesus has already come and fulfilled his mission of salvation. It is done, finished, and completed. All that’s required is faith and this grace is yours now and forever. May we live with urgency… but may we rest in the grace that is already ours because Jesus is the Alpha and the Omega. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/551b4f61e4b071275ffc57f3/1638311617521-VR4ULRBHYEPK38JF9CQ5/image-asset.jpeg Videos - Sunday Morning Service - November 21, 2021 Revelation 21-22:5 “The Last Words on Heaven” Much talk of heaven is wrong. We imagine being whisked away to the sky above the skies into God’s presence. Heaven is real, but the ways we conceive of heaven are often based on Romantic literature of the 17th and 18th century and movies. The vision John gives in Revelation 21-22 is much richer. ! John sees heaven coming down to earth. The place where God reigns, his realm, now crashes into the newly transformed earth. Our prayers of “your will be done on earth as in heaven” have been answered. God has come to dwell with his people in the new heavens and new earth. Where there are no more threats of sin, death, Satan, hell, or judgment. We could even say what John is doing here is not an ending, but a beginning. What was lost in Genesis because of sin, is now regained in Revelation with an entire new earth. Not an idyllic Garden, but a Garden-City where God and his people will dwell, worship, and reign together. It is important to keep the heaven and earth ideas in tension. If we take away “earth” we have an ethereal and spiritualized place with angels and souls with no bodies. If we bring in earth only, we have much of the same existence of now. But when you bring these two ideas of a new heavens and earth together as in 21-22, we have physicality, cities, work, play, and new resurrected bodies like Jesus’ own resurrected body. The good creation of Genesis is reformed and transformed into a new state. We will not be whisked off to another realm, we will experience God and his new world here on a renewed earth. This vision says a lot to how we treat the world now. The resurrection says matter matters, physical things matter, people matter, bodies matter, injustice matters, God’s earth matters because it’s being renewed. John’s vision of the heavenly city should work on our own visions of heaven in all the best ways. Only with this proper vision of heaven can the church continue on in the work and the struggle she’s been called into. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/551b4f61e4b071275ffc57f3/1637102569145-NFEPSUKYPF8K276IES0T/image-asset.jpeg Videos - Sunday Morning Service - November 14, 2021 Revelation 19-20 “The Last Words on Salvation” Jesus, the name with with which John begins and ends Revelation is “the Lord saves” (1:1, 22:21). Joshua in the OT is the first to use the Hebrew name for the Lord saves. Much like Jesus, he was to lead his people to the promised land. John celebrates Jesus with these salvation songs in 7:10, and 12:10. He now will offer a final salvation song in 19:1-3. Celebrating God’s redemption and salvation through Jesus, and celebrating that the catastrophes of the earth, and Babylon are not the last say. Salvation is about rescue from things we can’t fix ourselves. From our own sin and rebellious hearts, to the evil of racism, wars, abuse of the earth, cancer, natural disasters, and broken homes and broken lives. Nobody is innocent, and everyone is guilty and adds to the problem (Romans 1). And until we come awake to the realties that apart from God’s cosmic salvation, nothing will ever be right. No amount of science, political action, or education can heal our broken and sinful lives and world. We need salvation. In Revelation 19-20 we are invited to worship the King. Every tribe and tongue is invited to sit at the Marriage Supper of the Lamb. It is only here where Satan and the fruits of evil can and will be defeated. Deliverance is what we need. One of the most common themes in all of Scripture. Every page is shouting to us… run to the King, find your salvation and refuge in him, the creation is good, but much trouble abounds, we need salvation. Satan is still running amok. Salvation is God’s plan to rescue creation. It is personal and impersonal. It deals with souls and cities, sin and sickness. There is no discrimination in salvation. It touches all of life. Much of our world is built on optimism and technology. The world isn’t so bad, we just need be positive and work harder. A few corrupt people and institutions will not ruin everything. Or, we lean into technology. We can cure cancer and dodge death. We can use the best minds in the world to cure what ails us. But Revelation is about keeping our eyes fixed on God. Fixed on the Lamb who was slain who is healing and saving and restoring all things. No amount of positivity to technology will suffice. In Revelation 19-20 we see the dichotomy between war and a meal. Between Satan and the marriage of God and his bride at a feast. Jesus invites us into salvation predicated on his life and death and resurrection. The forgiveness of sins and adoption into the family of God. But salvation here is also pictured as a feast with drink and food. Much like Jesus doing his first miracle at the wedding of Cana, the kingdom of God and salvation is like a great feast. But what John does here is to remind God’s people our worship is always lived out in tension. Much like we’ve seen in Revelation (4-8). The tension of the Devil. Evil is still real, Satan loves to devour and destroy. Yet, the hope of Revelation 19-20 is we are already invited to the table of Jesus, we are already seated in the heavenly places. Let us rejoice and exult that the marriage of the Lamb has come, and the Bride has made herself ready. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/551b4f61e4b071275ffc57f3/1636389898048-SYMHMVOI8QETXZVRRKMF/image-asset.jpeg Videos - Sunday Morning Service - November 7, 2021 Revelation 17:1-18:24 We dealt with judgment in general last week, but this week John has a specific judgment for Babylon. More than any section of Scripture these scenes and images have been used to call everything under the sun Babylon. But like all the scenes, windows, and imagery Babylon is representative. We can’t point to any one Babylon, but we must consider the Babylon’s among us that war against the Kingdom of God. What is the deal with Babylon? Interestingly, Babylon is set in the context of worship. The imagery of Babylon is described as a prostitute/whore. Often the same language used in the Old Testament to describe God’s people and others who worshipped false gods and didn’t find their ultimate salvation and joy in God. In chapter 17, Babylon is told how she will fall. But then in chapter 18, a song of worship breaks out at Babyblons destruction. This pattern of story and song is similar to Exodus. In Exodus 14 God instructs Moses on how he’ll rescue his people. He warns them about the evil of Pharaoh and his schemes. Then we see in Exodus 15, the song of Moses. A celebration of salvation and the faithfulness of God. You see, Babylon is a picture of war between true and false worship. Babylon is representative of Egypt or any city, people, person, or culture that seduces us into her powers. Babylon is described as a whore/prostitute, but the focus is not about sexual sin. John doesn’t get into the practices of sexual impropriety of the first century, which of course like any generation there was plenty. Babylon in Revelation is about a war for our worship. Will we be seduced into the wide and easy road of worshipping all the wrong things? Will we bow down to the alter of popularity, fame, money, power, and easy worship? A life that is turned inward on ourselves and away from the joy of knowing God? The judgment on Babylon is a warning to us about our own worship as individuals and churches. Are we running after the Babylon’s of our day, or Jesus? https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/551b4f61e4b071275ffc57f3/1635278627337-47KTCP34WLSVSNK2X28Y/image-asset.jpeg Videos - Sunday Morning Service - October 24, 2021 Revelation 15:5-16:21 “The Last Words on Judgement (Part 1) :: Preacher: Andy VandenAkker Window/Scene 5- The next two weeks will require some work. We will break down the judgment of God seen in these scenes generally, and then look at the emphasis on Babylon specifically in chapters 17-18. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/551b4f61e4b071275ffc57f3/1634567376459-V6LFUDFAZFCNAHDSY8ZF/image-asset.jpeg Videos - Sunday Morning Service - October 17, 2021 The next two weeks will require some work. We will break down the judgment of God seen in these scenes generally, and then look at the emphasis on Babylon specifically in chapters 17-18. So judgment… John thus far has been working on our imagination. Using the God given ability to imagine while using these scenes, visions, and windows. The point always the same: getting the Kingdom of Jesus in us, with us, around us, and deeper into our souls. Nothing is different when it comes to judgment. We can go about our days and be oblivious to the noise around us. All we hear is the clatter of cars, voices, machinery, and devices constantly buzzing. But we sense this nagging feeling that things aren’t good. Things are off. Judgment is coming, and someone must pay. We just don’t ever think it involves us. The theme of judgment is all over Revelation. The good world God made is corrupt and flawed and broken by sin and evil. When the fifth seal was opened the question is raised: how long before the judgment? (Rev. 6:10). How long will we struggle? How long will pain, death, injustice, and sorrow last? (Ps. 13:1-2). Judgment isn’t just a Bible theme, its a human desire. We want the bullies stopped, the hungry fed, and all people groups treated with respect and love made in the image of God. Children with any conscience know deep down things aren’t fair when a friend is pushed down in the sand on the playground. When a punishment from a teacher appears unfair. We all want and believe in judgment (Rom. 1:32). ! John doesn’t give comforting words here. He uses a fairly direct approach using more images. Go and pour out the anger and wrath of God on the earth as depicted by seven bowls. Each bowl being poured out as warnings on the earth. The plagues of the OT were an obvious warning sign of the coming judgment of God. John builds on each bowl with images from creation: sea, sky, and rivers. He adds torment, destruction, and destroying the earth. The end of earth, time, and history suggesting the in breaking of God’s kingdom, eternity, and a new heavens and earth. These bowls of God’s wrath are pictures and images of the realities of a world not the way its supposed to be. Our only hope is to cling to God and trust his loving justice. The church in John’s day is severely persecuted and the people need hope that not all is lost. God is on the move and sin and evil will not have the last say. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/551b4f61e4b071275ffc57f3/1634072673833-4KRWPHTOVMY9GOACUYDE/image-asset.jpeg Videos - Sunday Morning Service - October 10, 2021 Revelation 8:2-11:18 “The Last Words on Our Prayerful Witness” :: Preacher: Ryan The apocalypse is a fusion of visions and prayer. When the seventh seal is opened the heavens go silent and the saints o"er up their prayers. Despite the evil and chaos the saints of the first century were committed to prayer. Bands of first century Christians prayed against the evil and persecution of their day. We continue this same work as Jesus taught us, “Your kingdom come, your will be done on earth as it is in heaven.” These early Christians had no money, power, or clout in the Roman Empire. They had no weapons or votes. Why didn’t they run, hide, or have mental breakdowns? They prayed. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/551b4f61e4b071275ffc57f3/1633365590938-WPFONKUDOXAUERYW0OI6/image-asset.jpeg Videos - Sunday Morning Service - October 3, 2021 October 3rd :: Revelation 4:1-8:1 “The Last Words on Worship.” Jesus has addressed the seven churches in the first couple of chapters. He’s shown them a glimpse of his beauty and glory. Jesus has reminded them of the remedy for their problems as churches is ultimately found in the Alpha and Omega. In the last verses of chapter three Jesus addresses the church in Laodicea and invites them to his table, in other words, he invites them to worship (3:20-21). In our second window/scene it makes sense that worship would be included. It also makes sense evil is always right around the corner. I’d also like to make a point again that we can’t read Revelation as a chronological history. These chapters make little sense if all we see is the future. Jesus is inviting the church to eat with him and worship him in the here and now, in the midst of trial and suffering. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/551b4f61e4b071275ffc57f3/1632758195506-22YA3AUA6IIBDV0OAJFP/image-asset.jpeg Videos - Sunday Morning Service - Sept 26, 2021 September 26th :: 1:9-3:22 “The Last Words to the Church.” :: Preacher: Ryan Window/Scene/Vision 1- the opening scene in Revelation is addressed to seven churches in Asia for whom the entire letter is addressed. Now, what we find interesting right out of the gate is John showing off his poetry skills. John is not only an apostle and pastor, he is a poet. The seven churches are addressed with similar style and structure. Every letter is addressed to the sender, and the recipients. Each letter follows a similar seven beat rhythm and structure. We see this structure in Ephesus (2:1-7). 1.To the Ephesians. 2. Addresses the holder of the seven stars. 3. I know certain good things about you. 4. But a bad thing too. 5. So repent. 6. Hear what the Spirit says. 7. the victor shall eat of the tree of life. The point of John is not for artistry sake. The point of these common structures and way of teaching is like much of the Bible. We see these same ways of phrasing, repetition, and emphasis in the Psalms, prophets, and the New Testament letters. God uses these repetitive and artistic measures through human authors to awaken us to the seriousness of what is being said. Most of the time the message is the same: come back to me, come back to the God you love, come back and renew the joy of your salvation. But like a good parent, you often have to say the same things multiple times and in creative ways. We will see this same strategy throughout the entirety of Revelation. God using his imagination through John, and then back to his readers to awaken new life and faith in Jesus. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/551b4f61e4b071275ffc57f3/1632164012035-S3KUXG6NREZ1C49FEGBB/image-asset.jpeg Videos - Sunday Morning Service - Sept 19, 2021 :: Week #1: September 19th, 2021 :: 1:1-8 “The Prologue.” The letter of Revelation can feel strange and bizarre and for another time and place. Yes, all true. But the letter written to the seven churches in the first century were written for another purpose. Revelation is a letter to comfort and warn God’s people of what’s to come, and to invite all churches in all times and places to: “Come up here, and I will show you what must take place after this” (Rev. 4:1). ! In the opening prologue of John we see the relevance of the letter for all times and places. We see relevance in three ways: 1. Relevance in the Title (1-3). 2. Relevance in the Greeting (4-8). Why speak in terms of relevance? One obvious reason is for the people this letter was addressed. If the book of Revelation is all about future events how does it help a people in crisis in their generation? How does it encourage and warn a people who are not listening to Jesus if everything is in some distant time? https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/551b4f61e4b071275ffc57f3/1632163731362-RC2MT1HXQPS3U25TBOPF/image-asset.jpeg Videos - Sunday Morning Service - Sept 12, 2021 “…for the joy of all people, the glory of God, and the good of the city…” Ps. 67:4, 37:4, Phil. 4:4, John 17:24-26, Matt. 22:37-40, Matt. 13:44, Ps. 43:4, 42, 63, 37, John 15:11, 16:24, 17:13. The universal desire and need to be happy is found in one place. Jesus came to make us happy in Him. He came to give life, life to the full, a life of abundance. What brings God glory? When we find our ultimate joy in Him. How does Jesus glorify Himself? By allowing sinners to share in the joy He has with the Father and Spirit. Our command is to go and make all peoples happy-disciples in Jesus. Joy in God and glorifying Him are not at odds. We want to spend our lives becoming happier in God and helping others do the same. We chose this wording to make clear that our mission is not only “multiplying disciples of Jesus and churches.” We desire to see these disciples progressively becoming more and more satisfied and happy/joyful in God. The mark of the church should be a joyful church full of hope in Christ. We want to see more joy and good, the joy and goodness of Jesus spread more and more in Kansas City. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/551b4f61e4b071275ffc57f3/1630946057251-KVGPDX7UN7Z1P23QQXYL/image-asset.jpeg Videos - Sunday Morning Service - Sept 5, 2021 “…that multiplies disciples of Jesus and churches…” Matt. 28:18-20, 1 Cor. 5:16-21, 1 Peter 2:9-12, Col. 1:28-29. The mission of the church is to “go” and to “make” disciples of Jesus through evangelism, baptizing, and teaching them to “observe” all that Jesus commands. We are going to spend our lives helping people know, love, serve, delight, and find eternal joy in Jesus. Second, the result of disciple-making and baptism are new churches. Disciples of Jesus are to be nurtured in gospel-centered church families for the glory of God and the good of all people. You can’t talk about discipleship without the local church. What is a Disciple of Jesus? For further clarity, here is a fuller expression of a disciple of Jesus…The reason we emphasize the “multiplying of disciples” is because God desires to reconcile people to himself through the gospel which brings him glory (Eph. 1-2). A disciple of Jesus is one who has been born again by the Spirit of God (John 3), is being renewed by the Spirit of God as a new creation (2 Cor. 5:16-21), and is growing in love for God and love of neighbor (Matt. 22:34-40). A disciple is one who walks in ultimate trust, adoration, worship, service, and joy in Christ Jesus. A disciple is one who is participating in a local covenant community (church) through the initiation of baptism and is learning to be obedient to Jesus through corporate worship and the teaching of the church (discipleship) (Matt. 28:19-20). A disciple is also someone who is helping others become disciples through teaching and evangelism. We want to make it clear that a disciple of Jesus is not a good church member, moral person, or spiritually minded individual. A disciple of Jesus walks with Jesus and demonstrates spiritual fruit in their life through joyful obedience. A disciple of Jesus desires to glorify God in all things, loves the church and God’s people, loves the gospel, and loves the mission of God to see humanity reconciled to God and creation healed. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/551b4f61e4b071275ffc57f3/1630945817777-2TVP09B1XVP60KGCDL1I/image-asset.jpeg Videos - Sunday Morning Service - August 29, 2021 “… a gospel-centered church family…”1 Cor. 15:1-9, Galatians 1:6-10, Ephesians 1-6, Romans 1:16-17. If a church is not gospel-centered; it’s not a church. If the person and work of Jesus described in the Bible, and the Faith handed down from the Apostles, is not preached, taught, lived, and becoming the central driving motivation of the church and her people- it’s not a church. God gets the most glory and is proven to be infinitely beautiful and treasured when the gospel is displayed in everything we do: corporate worship, teaching, discipleship, evangelism, prayer, mercy ministry, counseling, fellowship, family life, and church planting. The gospel must be infused and central to all we do as God’s people. Some say: “The gospel is not the ABC’s of faith; rather the A-Z. We never move beyond it, only go deeper into it.” Second, the gospel creates a new family; the church. A family because Jesus has adopted us into an alternative community where He is our brother and God is our Father. In turn, we are to care about the spiritual and physical well-being of our church family locally and universally. We have a responsibility to God and one another in this family. And, the church of Jesus Christ is God’s Plan A for reconciling all things to himself (Eph. 2:11-22). The church is where God’s wisdom is put on display (Eph. 3:8). God loves his church (Eph. 5:25). Which means, we must be passionately committed to the building up, establishing, and the planting of new gospel-centered churches in our city and world. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/551b4f61e4b071275ffc57f3/1629926869590-55GRFC1YPZVYVX0G417B/image-asset.jpeg Videos - Sunday Morning Service - August 22, 2021 “Cultivate” Eph. 1:15-23, 3:14-19, Galatians 2:11-14, Hebrews 2:1-3, 12:1-2, Matt. 6:9-13. A faulty assumption is gospel-centrality, disciple making, church planting, and joy in Jesus, happens automatically with little effort. We chose the word “cultivate” to make this clear. We know faith is supernatural. We know Jesus is “building his church” and advancing His Kingdom, and these are gifts of God. But, we know God uses means (ordinary means of grace) through God’s people such as: prayer, repentance, worship, service, preaching, teaching, evangelism, Bible intake, fasting, and pleading with God to do miracles of salvation and growth in the gospel. A Christ-exalting, mission-driven, Bible-loving, prayer-dependent, biblical community, and sacrificially-loving gospel culture takes cultivation. Prayerful, humble, and dependent faith in Christ, is the only chance of creating a gospel-culture at New City. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/551b4f61e4b071275ffc57f3/1629926641187-ZRCUXDIMNOL29I770TG9/image-asset.png Videos - Sunday Morning Service - August 15, 2021 Luke 19:11-27 “The Minimalist.” The last story of Jesus in Luke is similar to the one in Matthew’s gospel (25:14-30). Jesus is winding down his journey through Samaria and now will fix his eyes on Jerusalem. The place of suffering but also the place of resurrection and redemption. Luke in a brilliant way is preparing the reader for the end times. The time when Jesus will die, rise, and ascend back to heaven. What do we do now? Well, in Luke’s parable it’s clear how we use God’s resources matters. It’s also clear the master in the story is not welcomed. They don’t want him to rule over them (14). Coincidence? Jesus is moving toward Jerusalem and will be inaugurated King of Kings, and yet nobody wants him. But he King still gets what he wants and still accomplishes his mission regardless of the response. The main point of the parable is non participation in God’s Kingdom is not an option. Jesus has been showing us through all of these parables how life in the Kingdom works. Now it is our opportunity to respond. Minimalism is not an option either. Minimalism becomes just another form of self serving non participation. Jesus wants us to participate in his life and ways in the world. Participate to the full. The reality of sin blurs our eyes for seeing Jesus as a Master worthy of reigning over us. We want to be our own gods. But the conflict in the story is that the servants assume the master is harsh and judgmental. But that’s exactly what people thought of God and Jesus and why they didn’t want him to rule over them. Their persecutive of God was warped. Again Luke is going to surprise us of what God is really like and when see him for who he is revealed to us in Scripture, we will gladly submit to his rule and reign in our lives. We see God not as a harsh master, rather, a compassionate Father who invites all to his table. How do you see God? The answer will determine the ways we live and interact with God. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/551b4f61e4b071275ffc57f3/1629926494778-MV7T3690LSGUIAHFOT8Q/image-asset.png Videos - Sunday Morning Service - August 8, 2021 (Audio Only) Luke 18:9-14 “The Sinners.” Two guys walk into a synagogue/church as the joke goes. Okay, actually Jesus is telling another parable about prayer. A man walks into a church and prays about how great he is, a Pharisee. The other man comes into the church and prays and acknowledges his amazing sins and pleads for mercy. Now before we jump into judgment and who is right or wrong notice a detail. Both men apparently are part of the same church/synagogue. They both walk into the same church and have differing views of God and themselves. It’s important to know that every church is full of sinners/tax collectors and Pharisees. And every soul is filled with the same two people. This does not mean God wasn’t upset about the Pharisee who thought they were righteouss because of their external deeds. Pharisees were often formulaic and hypocritical cold toward God. That isn’t to say they didn’t want to honor or obey God. They were still part of God’s people. But we all know self righteousness can be hidden behind religion and spiritual talk and niceties. I don’t think Jesus is saying God only sides with the tax collector and not the other. They both have issues. But Jesus tells this story with hopes the honest faith of the tax collector will rub off on the Pharisee. And maybe something of the desire for godly living will rub off on the tax collector. The work of prayer is to attack the Pharisees and tax collectors among us. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/551b4f61e4b071275ffc57f3/1629926341107-GCRE8SZ1Z7VE8JPGAJ6W/image-asset.png Videos - Sunday Morning Service - August 1, 2021 Luke 18:1-8 “The Widow.” The Bible is full of examples of God’s people praying and Jesus teaching us how to pray (Matt. 6:9-13). But nowhere do we find direct, explicit, or a seminar on how to pray. The teaching on prayer is basic at best. While our first parable on prayer in Luke 11 is very personal, the parable of the Widow is the opposite. There is a widow petitioning a judge. A nameless widow and a nameless judge. But a common thread is one of persistence. We keep asking the friend for bread (11:1-13), and we keep asking the judge for justice. Prayer is not an option. Prayer is not a pious interlude, it is to permeate all of life and times and places. The widow who is a forgotten commodity in the ancient world is attacking the indifferent judge. Don’t lose heart, don’t stop praying, and never quit. Jesus reminds us that life in the Kingdom is hard and we all want to lose heart. But our posture is not fear and to give up. Our practice is to pray and ask God for what only he can give. What do we learn about prayer from this Jesus Story? Prayer and life is messy, and requires perseverance. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/551b4f61e4b071275ffc57f3/1627678994396-GHW0RVZKR6D2IDCS1K3Y/image-asset.png Videos - Sunday Morning Service - July 25, 2021 Luke 16:19-31 “The Invisible Man.” Jesus inserts a phrase in the previous, and now this parable alerting the reader to something important. “There was a man…” Luke 15:11, and “There was a rich man…” Luke 16:1, and now in our current parable, “There was a rich man…” Luke 16:19. Each phrase implies the other parable is building on the other. These characters are lost in some way and must find their way back. One is alienated from a parent, one has lost the trust of a master, and now a beggar pushed to outer darkness of sickness and poverty must find healing. Yet in all these stories we see grace at work. The younger son repents and comes home, older brother is welcomed to the party, and the manager changes his ways. IN this parable, Lazarus lives in squalor and dies. A rich man lives in riches and dies. Lazarus is shown mercy, and the rich man is held accountable for his selfish living. Yet, he still desires his family to repent and not find themselves tormented in hell. The answer seems to be: too late. They will have their chances too. But let’s be careful in how we read this parable. It’s not a story about the afterlife and ensuring you don’t burn in hell. The story is about the here and now. How Jesus welcomes the poor and the outcast. The rich man is oblivious to the needs of Lazarus as food falls off his table. In the end they are no different and need the same things. But Jesus is always painting a picture of the Kingdom with his parables. Jesus is showing that the real return from exile has happened and a new age is dawning and “resurrection” is coming into being. Those who want to be part must repent. So what does this strange story offer us? 1. A caution. It’s easy to focus on the rich man in the story. Easy fodder for the ills of the world. But we also know not all rich people are stingy and lack compassion. And, the story is mostly focused on Lazarus. Lazarus is the invisible man in the story. The rich man in the village is loud and dressed well and his table is full of food. Lazarus is poor and sick and ignored by the community. We all struggle with paying attention to the poor of our society because they are often invisible, may act or say strange things, and in the case of Lazarus, they are sick. We often feel helpless. But Jesus preached good news to the poor and nobody was to be forgotten in the God’s world (Luke 4). This powerful story is about repentance and resurrection and hope. We all must realign our eyes and hearts to the people who need God’s grace the most. The people who are often forgotten because of their lot. But in God’s economy where resurrection reigns nobody is ever forgotten. How can the story of Lazarus reshape our hearts into compassionate people in the here and now? Of course, we care about heaven and the coming Kingdom, and want people to be in the family of God. But how can we point people to God’s Kingdom as we consider the poor among us? https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/551b4f61e4b071275ffc57f3/1626812180878-5S9YSCXYAETIU2JRMP1G/image-asset.png Videos - Sunday Morning Service - July 18, 2021 Luke 16:1-13 “The Manager.” Luke 15 shows the compassionate God and Father reaching out to the lost brothers and sisters in the world. Luke 16 is not as clear. One of the more confusing and strange parables of the Bible. It seems to go against what we just read about the God who goes to great lengths to rescue people from themselves. What do we do with this parable? Is God okay with sin? In this parable, like Luke 15, the son throws himself on the mercies of the Father, and here the manager throws himself on the mercies of the Boss. Both are in a mess and need help. Both have wasted or squandered their resources. Both of these stories are about failure. But they are also stories of amazing grace. The son gets a party, and the manager gets a strange and surprising commendation from his boss for going behind his back. And both stories leave us with no resolution. What are we to do with this Jesus-Story? Nothing. That’s how the world of grace works. Grace is received not earned. We don’t expect our boss, parent, or friend to forgive our sins, but that’s how grace works. Yet, there is more going on here in this story. The manager is a rental agent in the ancient world. The farmers pay him their share with crops, oil, etc. When the manager embezzles money he doesn’t say anything, an act of showing his guilt. He knows he’s done wrong. His silence speaks volumes. Here is where the magic of the parable comes into view. The Boss expects the manager to do right and has every right to judge him for not doing his job. But what we see from the Boss is two sides of his nature. The two sided nature of judgment and mercy and compassion from his boss. What is the mangers response? He has experienced grace and goes all in. If his plan fails, he’ll be punished or jailed. If it succeeds he will be the hero of the community. He is now experiencing the world of grace. His life has been about shrewd calculations and using his wit to make things happen. Now he sees a better and more life giving way of living under the banner of grace. We can try and find a moral lesson here or succumb to a Jesus that praises a shrewd crook. But isn’t that how grace works? Our lives are a mess before salvation and continue to be so after. Jesus is not done with us. Jesus knows we’ll make a mess of a lot of things and yet still entrusts us to his Kingdom resources. The parable of the manager shows once again the minute we think we understand grace, Jesus shows up in surprising ways. He is even using our weakness and shrewdness to show us more of his nature and character and of course his grace. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/551b4f61e4b071275ffc57f3/1626107632298-8LND8ERD0X4PTURIMW3L/image-asset.png Videos - Sunday Morning Service - July 11, 2021 Luke 15 “The Lost Brothers.” One of the more famous of Jesus’ parables and yet one of the most misunderstood. We love the obvious focus on the younger brother who goes off into the far country to squander the Father’s inheritance and his life. But the context of this parable suggests the younger brother/son are not the only focus of the parable. Jesus is teaching this parable in the company of grumbling scribes and Pharisees. The people that hated Jesus the most. They saw Jesus as an illegitimate teacher and one that didn’t measure up to their high moral standing before God. But that is what the parable is all about. Attacking what many call self righteousness and something we don’t address enough in our day. A way of creating a barrier and facade of spirituality with rules and regulations and practices and yet lacking any power or joy or love or grace. Self righteousness creates an “us and them” mentality because nobody can meet our standing. It also creates a spirituality where we believe God owes us because of our righteousness. The story of the Lost Brothers is a story about how to fight self righteousness. We see the obvious lostness of the younger son/brother, but the older son/brother is unaware of his self righteousness. He is mad at the father for throwing a party for the brother who wandered off. He is also mad that his party hasn’t happened because of his perceived goodness. And yet the father reminds him everything is already his. But the older bother can’t see it. He doesn’t want the blessing of the father and doesn’t care about the brother who was lost and now is found. Jesus ends the story with no resolution. Who are we in the story? Does the older brother come to his senses and celebrate the good gifts of the father and the coming home of the younger brother? We don’t know. But these parables are supposed to work on us this way. We are all a little younger brothers and older brothers. We all struggle with blatant sin and rebellion and self righteous sins clothed in righteousness and religiosity. Where do I see self righteousness creeping into my soul? Where have I missed how far I’ve fallen, and yet how great God’s mercy and grace and love is toward me a sinner? Where do I think I’m owed something because of some perceived righteousness or goodness in me? The Parable of the Lost Brothers will not leave us the same. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/551b4f61e4b071275ffc57f3/1625838823164-4UVNP9LX1PDAJ13E4YPB/image-asset.png Videos - Sunday Morning Service - July 4, 2021 Luke 14:1-14 “The Table.” Some have said in Jesus’ ministry he was either going to a party, leaving a party, or keeping a party going. Most likely why he was accused of being a drunkard and a glutton. But in the ancient world Jesus was only doing what was common and expected. He was showing hospitality. But when we see Jesus at these parties there is a clue that something else is going on by the company he kept. Jesus wasn’t sitting with royalty and the upright religious and social elite of the day. He was eating with sinners and swindlers and the unsavory you’d not want to bring home on Spring Break to meet the family. Well, here in this parable we find Jesus dining at the house of a Pharisee. They were giving Jesus a close eye as he ate with a man with dropsy. A disease that swells the joints. This parable takes place on the Sabbath which assumes Jesus just left the synagogue for worship and now would eat a Sabbath meal with the Pharisees. A time to rest and celebrate the good things of God and creation. A time to engage with good food and good drink and remember the God who holds everything together. But Jesus notices the Pharisees have a problem with the man with dropsy. He asks their perspective on healing on the Sabbath… silence. Jesus then heals the man and asks if what he did is okay? Silence. Jesus then proceeds to tell a parable about a Wedding Feast. The closer you sat to the host in ancient culture was a place of honor. But Jesus flips the script. Everyone is welcomed to the table of the Lord. No one is better than any other. Jesus says his disciples should take the lowest place. Have other people go before you, showing genuine humility. The Kingdom of God is for all. Remember the setting is a sabbath meal where we are to be reminded of the God who receives us by grace and all are equal in his company. How should we treat people who don’t fit the norms of culture? How do we shove our ways into places of honor believing that’s where life is found? How do we treat people even in the church differently because they aren’t perceived as worthy? https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/551b4f61e4b071275ffc57f3/1624904306477-ND47QHMK0I9BNS17SA27/image-asset.png Videos - Sunday Morning Service - June 27, 2021 Luke 13:6-9 “The Manure.” The Neighbor reminds us everyone is our neighbor. The Friend gives fresh energy and insight into the personal nature of God and our privilege to relate with him through prayer. The Barn Builder is a reminder of the subtleties of sin and the way we can cover it up with perceived noble intentions. But here we have a parable with little context about a barren fig tree. We aren’t totally sure the audience and it’s been debated on its purpose and meaning. One thing is for certain in the context of the Traveling Narrative of Luke’s gospel is following Jesus is not for the faint of heart. The command to “Cut it down,” is a clue of what Jesus is up to here. Any expert farmer knows a tree that doesn’t bear fruit is worthless and not much help. Following Jesus is about bearing fruit. Jesus is not interested in leaving us the same. Jesus is also personal and doesn’t deal in abstractions and generalities. He always makes the first move. The strange parable about a tree not bearing fruit is insightful in how we treat other people. Yes, Jesus wants us to bear fruit, but on his timetable. Our human response is to cut the tree down because it’s obviously a waste of time and soil. But Jesus works on a different level. He says, give it some more time, and then we can cut it down. We live in a culture where action and problem solving and impatience is the name of the game. But God works on a different level extended grace, mercy, and patience for what might come. The act of placing manure on the tree is not a random detail. Manure is the life source of all living things. Jesus in a sense is the life giving manure that brings dead things back to life. But we have to give the manure time to work. How can we cultivate a life where we give people room to bear fruit for Jesus? How can we live in patience for the fruit he wants to bear in our own lives? https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/551b4f61e4b071275ffc57f3/1624396535975-CBLS185J5WD8LWSUO5FL/image-asset.png Videos - Sunday Morning Service - June 20, 2021 Luke 12:13-21 “The Barn Builder.” It is easy to avoid God by our theological inquiry. The first two parables of Luke remind us of the personal nature of humanity and God. We can easily use theological inquiry to not have to deal with God personally. It’s probably why Jesus wants to wean us off the God-talk and uses ordinary language and stories to deal with our souls. The story of the Barn Builder is no different. A man presents Jesus with a justice issue. A brother is trying to steal another brother’s inheritance. From all appearances the man has a genuine concern. But what might appear obvious is not because of the story Jesus tells. The man wants Jesus to act as an arbiter in his money affairs, but something is rumbling under the surface. Jesus is showing how we can take a good thing like wealth and make it an idol. We can cloak our desire for justice as a facade for greed and covetousness. Jesus is not downplaying the money desired from the brother. But be careful because covetousness and greed can grow in the heart. All money conversations are conversations about the soul and heart and contentment. Instead of seeing God as abundantly gracious and the one who will provide all we need. We want bigger barns. And building bigger barns leaves little room to love our neighbors and for prayer. It is no accident the first and last commands are ones about loving God most, and not coveting. One chokes the other out. Jesus fleshes out the ramifications of the parable with teaching on anxiety and fear (12:22-34). Coincidence, I think not. Bigger Barns were never meant to be a replacement for bigger souls and room for God’s joy to fill our lives. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/551b4f61e4b071275ffc57f3/1624026446539-EXHAD877J9NVJW3P3VCJ/image-asset.png Videos - Sunday Morning Service - June 13, 2021 Luke 11:1-13 “The Friend.” Jesus is praying and one of the disciples asks for some pointers for his own prayer life. Isn’t it interesting that the disciples ask Jesus how to pray? They have seen Jesus teach daily on a variety of subjects and yet they ask him how to pray? Also notice Jesus is not praying in a religious setting he’s praying in ordinary life. This also suggests why Jesus gives a portion of the Lord’s Prayer followed up by a parable about a friend. If we could say the parable of the Good Samaritan is about dehumanizing and depersonalizing people, the parable of the friend is how we depersonalize God. God is often seen as a force, idea, dogma, doctrine, but not a person we relate to, or commune with. But notice the context of this parable. It’s in the context of prayer. Jesus is going to teach us how to pray to a personal God, why? The greatest temptation in prayer is to make God into an inaccessible and faraway depersonalized being. Jesus teaching the disciples, and us, about prayer using the intimacy of a friend is a warning. If we are not careful we can personalize people and forget they are our neighbors. And we can depersonalize God and never come to him for everything we need in prayer. Prayer reveals our ultimate dependence on God and makes us more human than we might think. Jesus even ends the parable with an invitation to ask for the Holy Spirit, the personal presence and power of Christ to come into our lives. The point is clear, God is not an idea, but a person, a friend we can call on and relate to in ordinary life. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/551b4f61e4b071275ffc57f3/1623074084180-QDHVLN5UAQF5FUDD2XDH/image-asset.png Videos - Sunday Morning Service - June 6, 2021, 10AM Luke 9:57-62, 10:25-37 “The Neighbor.” The first story Jesus tells will include a Samaritan. But before Luke tells the story he supplies two incidents that link Galilee to Jerusalem. Jesus encounters three different people. Each desiring to follow Jesus. But before the journey begins from Galilee to Jerusalem Jesus has three followers already drop out. The point is clear: we follow Jesus on his terms, not ours. Which brings us to a strategically placed first story: The Good Samaritan. Jesus is accosted by an unnamed religious lawyer. He would be the equivalent of a religious studies professor. A Bible scholar of the day. The role of the religious law expert would be to defend and interpret the Law of God. This particular lawyer is taking the work seriously as he tests Jesus with a question: “Teacher, what shall I do to inherit eternal life?” An expert of the Law wants to ensure the Messiah is legit. Make sure he knows the Scriptures. Jesus has drawn a crowd of curious disciples after a mission of healing and announcing the Kingdom. This expert of the Bible wants to make sure Jesus is not fooling anyone. But as the interactions with Jesus and the religious lawyer progress it appears the man is outmatched. His questions turn back into questions from Jesus. The setting of the story is Jesus interacting with a Jewish man, a man most Jewish people would see as good. The story is also about a Samaritan who does good, despite being seen as evil to the Jews. When the religious professor asks the questions about his neighbor everything changes. The story Jesus tells exposes the man for who he is. Anyone can do theological reflection and hide behind canned answers of Bible trivia. But how will you respond when your neighbor is in trouble? What if your neighbor happens to be your enemy? Jesus leaves the story not only in the court of a Jewish Law expert, he says it’s not enough to have ideas about God. “Go and do likewise…” The gospel of the Kingdom is for living… How will we as Jesus disciples respond when our neighbor is in need? Even when our neighbor is nothing like us? https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/551b4f61e4b071275ffc57f3/1622560897720-10R3P9K04RZ29CF9X103/image-asset.jpeg Videos - Sunday Morning Service - May 30, 2021 The Gifting Spirit – 1 Corinthians 12:1-31 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/551b4f61e4b071275ffc57f3/1622221263169-PUP2120IH302B60FOBJK/image-asset.jpeg Videos - Sunday Morning Service - May 23, 2021 “The Promised Spirit.” Luke 24, Acts 1-2. We will celebrate the coming and promised Spirit with a message on Pentecost Sunday. How does all we’ve learned and studied these many works tie into the spectacular pouring out of the Spirit in Acts 1-2? What does this mean for the church and God’s people in 2021? https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/551b4f61e4b071275ffc57f3/1621434815129-8VVZLKZ02VUSLTHYFCJZ/image-asset.jpeg Videos - Sunday Morning Service - May 16, 2021 “The Spirit of Christ.” John 14, 16. We’ve considered this survey of OT texts and the work and role of the Spirit. Now we’ll consider the teaching of Jesus and how he understood the work of the Spirit in our lives and the church and the world. Before Pentecost we must consider what is the role of the Counselor in our lives? How does the Holy Spirit point to Christ now? Why is Jesus so adamant about leaving so the Spirit can come into the world on a grander scale? What does this suggest about the mission and ministry of the church today? How does this work itself out in our lives? https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/551b4f61e4b071275ffc57f3/1620925161679-BRQNWO546N5L4KAGYB3E/image-asset.jpeg Videos - Sunday Morning Service - May 9, 2021 “The Coming Spirit.” Isaiah 32, Ezekiel 36-37, Joel 2.The Spirit creates and sustains the universe, and life on earth. The Spirit empowers leaders like Moses to serve in humble ways, the Spirit gives words to the prophets to speak for truth and justice, and the Spirit anoints Israel’s kings and points to the coming King Jesus. But Israel also desired for the day when God’s Kingdom would break in and Yahweh would reign supreme once and for all. We see glimpses of these promises in the OT. The day when the Spirit would be available to all at Pentecost. But what we learn from these passages are not only the promise of Yahweh reigning supreme, but we learn about a kingdom marked by genuine repentance and forgiveness. What is the role of forgiveness and repentance in our lives, the church, world, and Kingdom today? https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/551b4f61e4b071275ffc57f3/1620073575527-8GDHEP1Q2U1EEBXYU9I5/image-asset.jpeg Videos - Sunday Morning Service - May 2, 2021 “The Anointing Spirit.” Deuteronomy 17:18-20, Psalm 72:1-2, 4, 12-13, Jeremiah 22:2-3, 1 Kings 3, 10, Isaiah 44:28-45:1, Isaiah 61:1-3, Isaiah 42, Acts 1:8. The Spirit works in creation to bring order and life out of chaos. The Spirit empowers leaders and prophets with power to do the work and purposes of God and reveal God’s will. But the Spirit also anoints the Kings in the OT for serving the Law, give wise judgment to cases brought before them, and provide justice for the weak and poor, especially those that lacked families like widows and orphans. We see this call of anointed leaders in the Law, prophets, narratives, and Psalms. The Anointing Spirit is a pointer to the Anointed Suffering-Servant that will empower the church for the same Spirit-filled mission in the world. What does this mission entail?How does the church engage with acts of justice and righteousness pointing to our Just and Wise and Righteous King, Jesus? https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/551b4f61e4b071275ffc57f3/1619447397937-DS8BZNSOUUJHP1P5JP0W/image-asset.jpeg Videos - Sunday Morning Service - April 25, 2021 “The Prophetic Spirit.” Micah 3, Ezekiel 13, 2 Peter 1:20-21. The prophets of old didn’t speak on their own accord. They spoke as messengers of God filled with the Spirit. Many examples of OT Scripture give the rubric and requirements for a prophetic word from God. What is the role of prophecy today? How can selfish and sinful humans be trusted with a word from God and not twist God’s revelation to their own pleasures? How do we understand prophecy in its biblical context? How does God speak today? The Spirit works through creation, power, leadership, and now the revelation of God in the ministry of the prophets. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/551b4f61e4b071275ffc57f3/1619447249877-E7JFYPYAQRU1Y1JSP6MY/image-asset.jpeg Videos - Sunday Morning Service - April 18, 2021 “The Empowering Spirt.” Exodus 35:30-36:1, Judges (selected texts), Isaiah 63:11-14, 2 Corinthians 3:4-5, 4:7, 12:9-10. Power gets a bad wrap in culture. Often power is only seen in the negative as something we use to harm, control, and abuse others. But if we use the word in the sense of the ability to do anything. The ability to move, shape, and empower things for their intended purposes, we begin to see what we mean by The Empowering Spirit. God’s Spirit is an empowering Spirit giving us the ability to directly or indirectly accomplish his tasks. The question becomes how does God empower sinful and weak humans to accomplish his tasks without making a mess of things? The Old Testament will give us clues on how God empowers us with gifts, talents, and abilities to accomplish God’s purposes in the world. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/551b4f61e4b071275ffc57f3/1618253478367-KH3KB9CY5KOAPB12NCDN/image-asset.jpeg Videos - Sunday Morning Service - April 11, 2021 “The Creating Spirit.”Genesis 1:1-2. Many people think the Holy Spirit makes his grand entrance at Pentecost. No doubt the coming of the promised Spirit at Pentecost is spectacular. But that isn’t the first time we see the Spirit in Scripture and history. We see the Spirit on the first pages of the Bible in Genesis. The Creating Spirit is giving life and order to all things. We see the Spirt hovering and speaking, sustaining and renewing, and breathing and leaving. What does this mean for our understanding of the Spirit in creation? Our understanding of heaven, earth, and humanity? How does this inform our relationship to God’s good world? https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/551b4f61e4b071275ffc57f3/1618253118985-T6WEOI56V3GQL532R64E/image-asset.jpeg Videos - Easter Morning Service - April 4, 2021 Resurrection Sunday. “Echoes of Exodus: The Second Exodus.” Jesus must go down into the waters of death, Jesus must take the three day journey away from the presence of the Father, to come back into a new world he’s creating. A second creation, and second Exodus inaugurated through his resurrection. The echoes of Exodus are all over the death and resurrection of Christ. The garden imagery, the pointer of new heavens and new earth, where our deliverance will be final. The day when the Exodus is finally done, when we walk with God in the Promised Land of heaven. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/551b4f61e4b071275ffc57f3/1617051645042-1DZ2QBLS1T0GNL95KCGE/image-asset.jpeg Videos - Sunday Worship, March 28, 2021 Mathew 26. “Echoes of Exodus: The Jesus-Centered Passover Meal.” The first Lord’s Supper days before the crucifixion is a celebration of the Passover. The supper memorized and instituted by Jesus is not to forget the first Exodus, the first Passover when God saved his people in Egypt, rather to see how Jesus is moving Israel into a new phase, with a new covenant. Sins will be dealt with once and for all and forgiveness and hearts of stone will be remade like the prophets of old told us (Jeremiah). The great deliverance is coming. The Mosaic covenant is being fulfilled in Jesus, Passover is culminating in Eucharist. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/551b4f61e4b071275ffc57f3/1616427138509-WI30J9J78Q6QFMJ2TW1P/image-asset.jpeg Videos - Sunday Worship, March 21, 2021 1 Kings 6-13. “Echoes of Exodus: The End of the Exodus?” When did the Exodus finish? The death of Moses? The Passover? Death of Joshua? When David becomes King? Never? It actually comes much later in the building of the Temple. Israel didn’t see the Temple as a mere ornate building. They saw the Temple as the central place where heaven and earth met, where worship, and the encounter of the true and living God happened. The tabernacle and Temple had images of Eden woven into their construction to remind the people when God walked with them. The Temple is a pointer to Jesus who will become a human temple and lay his life down but have it raised again. A temple where we can encounter God by faith. We then become these temples where God is to dwell in us. Our lives to be living sacrifices to God no longer bound by a physical structure. A new priest is coming to invite people into the Temple of God. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/551b4f61e4b071275ffc57f3/1616427017237-T4E5V3TPVTXVU6C4L4QL/image-asset.jpeg Videos - Sunday Worship, March 14th, 2021 Ruth. “The Echoes of Exodus: Ruth from Emptiness to Fullness.” The book of Ruth takes place during the time of the Judges. The main message conveyed through a tragic family situation. God uses Ruth and Boaz to fill Naomi’s emptiness by providing food and a son. Naomi has no way of providing for herself and no relief in sight. And yet, God is at work. God is ready to rescue her. Like these Exodus narratives, God will provide an outsider, Ruth, not an Israelite, to provide for Naomi. God will also provide Boaz, a relative and guardian redeemer to provide for the family. Instead of scraps, Namoi will experience the provision and abundance of the Lord. God is always working behind the scenes. God would then provide a grandson, that will grow up to be the grandfather of David, the ancestor of Jesus. Naomi will be the instrument providing the Redeemer that will ultimately adopt many kid’s into his family by faith. Naomi was empty, but God gave her life. Jesus comes in the flesh to give life, and life to the full (John 10:10). https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/551b4f61e4b071275ffc57f3/1615219119541-PVP1K0991L6UOJM7V8RY/image-asset.jpeg Videos - Sunday Worship, March 7th, 2021 Genesis 12-26. “Echoes of Exodus: Abraham and True Blessings.” Abram is living in the backdrop of Babel, people building a tower to their gods and building names for themselves, while God is calling Abram to leave his homeland and to trust the one who will give him a new name. A name that will be a blessing to the nations. Abraham lives an Exodus-shaped life. Leaving the familiar to trust God for the bigger purposes he’s accomplishing. When one day these blessings for the nations will one day be fulfilled in Jesus as we see in Matthew 1 and Galatians 3:7-8, and in Acts 4:12, as Jesus is the only one who can save. Abraham is important for the purposes of God, but everything God did in Genesis was to point to the one that would bring “spiritual blessings” (Eph. 1), to all that believe. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/551b4f61e4b071275ffc57f3/1614631046455-BBR0OMBWEYJKPNSVUGQJ/image-asset.jpeg Videos - Sunday Worship, February 28th, 2021 Genesis 1-9. “Echoes of Exodus: Noah and True Rest.” We started in Exodus to set the stage of the Exodus Echoes seen in all of Scripture through Christ. But not many people see a sort of pre-Exodus narrative happening in Genesis. The world of Genesis 3-6 and Exodus 1-2 are quite similar. The people being fruitful and multiplying, the battle of the wicked and the righteouss (Cain and Abel), the world getting worse, wicked attacking the righteouss (Pharaoh). God hearing the cry of his people in both books (Genesis 4:26, Exodus 2:23ff). We also see God separating out creation by light and darkness, humans and animals, also separating out the lineage of Seth from Adam and Eve’s other children, Noah’s son Shem from the other, and of course the special covenants and ways God will use Noah, Abraham, and Joseph as “separated” for the one who will ultimately come to bless the nations. Jesus will be the separated and anointed King to finally fulfill these promises. But, Noah, is a pointer to the coming “rest” that we find in Jesus. The ark narratives and God’s rescue plan and judgment is a picture of what’s to come in the new heavens and new earth. A pre-Exodus story paving the path for the coming King. In the flood with Noah, we still must deal with one reality, sin is still alive and well, and must be dealt with. Yet, God is “separating” out his chosen servants to fulfill the promises found in Christ (1 Peter 3:18-22). We must go through the waters of death to find resurrection. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/551b4f61e4b071275ffc57f3/1614006232888-TC48CNZ6EAFQQ44XL2J5/image-asset.jpeg Videos - Sunday Worship, February 21, 2021 - Exodus 1-40 Exodus 1-40. “Echoes of Exodus: Slavery to Freedom.” The movement of Exodus is from deliverance of the false gods and slavery of Egypt, to freedom in the presence of God (19-40). While it appears the promises made to Abraham are not coming true at the beginning of Exodus, God is at work showing the gods of Pharaoh have no sway on the power and faithfulness of God. But deliverance isn’t only about being freed from death, sin, hell, and judgment. We are delivered and freed into the presence of God through Christ and the Spirit for a new life, future, and hope in him. Jesus doesn’t die and come back to life only for ending sin and death and suffering, but to deliver us into his presence. We now have full access to his throne of grace (Heb. 4:14-16). Exodus shows what True Freedom looks like. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/551b4f61e4b071275ffc57f3/1613582056160-4PM83Z6NKGD4LPKPDV3S/image-asset.jpeg Videos - Sunday Worship, February 14, 2021 Romans 16:1-27, “Ordinary Saints.” Paul ends the letter of Romans giving a glimpse into the early church. A church made up of ordinary saints doing God’s work. It’s easy to forget in the midst of this massive and dense letter that God is using ordinary saints to do his work of gospel mission in the world. And he still is today… https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/551b4f61e4b071275ffc57f3/1613165715379-IJVYULATH22MTRQKGQIS/image-asset.jpeg Videos - Sunday Worship, February 7, 2021 Romans 15:1-33, “Unity and Mission.” Gospel unity within the church and gospel mission to the world is a big focus for Paul in Romans. That is his focus as he begins to close out Romans. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/551b4f61e4b071275ffc57f3/1612207688403-UYMVK5UMYZ4KPLYSCWKL/image-asset.jpeg Videos - Sunday Worship, January 31, 2021 - Romans 14:1-23 Romans 14:1-23, “Between the Weak and the Strong.” Paul’s teaching from Romans 12 and beyond is summarized and focused on relationships in a variety of contexts. Relationships inside the church, outside the church, and with the state. Now Paul wants to teach us how to love each other when we have different views and points of conscious. The church in Rome is divided over “disputable” issues. Frankly, issues, that shouldn’t divide them. The question Paul addresses is: how do we treat one another when we disagree on issues? When our disagreements aren’t about a license to sin or heresy, and merely cultural differences, what are we to do? Well, in good Pauline fashion, he always brings us back to the gospel, applied to all issues and situations. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/551b4f61e4b071275ffc57f3/1611759043978-YZM4Q2EBRR3PG8WMHUXZ/image-asset.jpeg Videos - Sunday Worship, January 24, 2021 Romans 13:1-14, “As Citizens of the State.” The Christian is part of another Kingdom and are called to be living sacrifices for Jesus. But we do live in the world and Paul spends time teaching about our relationship to the state. How are Christians to live in light of their own country and citizenship in the world? Is the church to control the state, is the state to control us, or is there another way to live as citizens under God’s gracious rule? https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/551b4f61e4b071275ffc57f3/1610982719387-SYE83H8ZG277BIX5ITGL/image-asset.jpeg Videos - Sunday Worship, January 17, 2021 Romans 12:9-21, “Living Sacrifices Expressed in Loving Relationships.” Paul continues his line of teaching on the church being “living sacrifices” with a slew of commands and exhortations. How are we to read these commands? Is this law or grace? In reality, Paul is interested how we love people inside and outside the church. The grouping of commands are really about how we love people… even our own enemies. The gospel is the only way this kind of love is possible. 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