New Life Fellowship Sermons

Guest Speaker Valerie Althouse offers the third sermon in our Fruit of the Spirit series, focused on faithfulness.

Title: Finding your place at the table: The fruit of Peace Scripture: Luke 14:1,7-11 Speaker: Jacqueline Snape, Executive Pastor In the message, we explore our barriers to peace, and the hope that we have when we find our place at the table with Him.

In this message, Pastor Pete takes a look at this passage describing the massive defection of many “disciples” (except for the 12). We learn from this passage about the nature of discipleship – that of Jesus freeing us for a glorious future by stripping us of our limited ideas of him that are filled with our own projections and illusions.

Pastor Sherin shares her journey from atheism to belief, and her undeniable encounter with God's grace. In this sermon she explores the passage in Isaiah, and wrestles with the great mystery that God is still present with us, even in the midst of profound suffering and trauma.

In the book of John we will hear about how the disciples are waiting in the boat and get stuck in a storm. We all have storms in our lives, but in our waiting, Jesus starts doing a new thing. We welcome you to join us as New Lifer and storyteller Aimee Fareth leads us in the final message of our series, Encounters with Jesus.

We are easily overwhelmed by the demands of life and the needs of others, and often feel inadequate to the task. Our lives seem too mundane or messy to matter to God and His Kingdom purposes. Yet, through the story of Jesus taking something as ordinary as bread into His hands and doing the miraculous with it, we learn to reflect on how our lives might become blessed, broken, and given.

Fear can be an obstacle to mission. In Luke 10:1-20 we see how an encounter with Jesus empowers us to conquer fear and live a life of joyful mission.

Grace is greater than we can imagine or comprehend. But grace is a gift that we can experience. Join Dr. Derwin L. Gray, Lead Pastor, Transformation Church, as he explores the beauty of God’s grace in John 4:1-42.

In this message, Pastor Sherin preaches on Jesus' healing at the pool of Bethesda. She explores the pain and impact of loneliness, the necessity of community, and the power God gives us to connect with those around us.

In this sermon, Pastor Rich offers words before he goes off on a 3 1/2 month sabbatical. He preaches on Jesus's ministry of absence and what it means for his sabbatical, our own rhythms and the presence of the Spirit during these times.

Pastor Rich preaches on Jesus' first miracle recorded in the gospels, the turning of water into wine. He addresses what it means to encounter Jesus in times of crisis and how God's grace is abundantly poured out in some of the lowest moments of our lives.

Text: Mark 4:35-41 CSB As you will see from this text, it is about much more than the calming of a storm, in reality it is about Jesus’ real identity, his deity, he is God! The disciples would come to discover this truth over time and by God’s grace so will we.

The book of Matthew tells the story of a Syrophonecian woman who approached Jesus as he withdrew further into the region of Tyre and Sidon. Jesus appears to put her off, but she continues to plead for Jesus to heal her daughter, responding with “Even the dogs eat the crumbs that fall from their master’s table.” Jesus was moved by her faith and healed her daughter. Pastor Matt leads us in a message about how this woman pressed in and hung on to Jesus and what it means for our own faith.

We begin a new series entitled, "Encounters with Jesus." Over the next 2 months we will explore various stories from the gospels that highlight the ways Jesus encountered ordinary people and what it means for our lives. In this sermon, Pastor Rich preaches on the amazing grace of Jesus and the amazing faith of a Roman Centurion.

In this Ten Commandments series finale, Pastor Rich preaches on the 10th command, “You shall not covet.” In a world that is marked by discontentment and an endless fascination with more, God’s final command is a path to true freedom and joy.

On this Easter Sunday, Pastor Rich preaches on the good news of Jesus' resurrection. In this passage, Jesus encounters two men who have experienced profound disappointment. The Risen Jesus finds them and helps them to make sense of his life and history as they knew it. If you or someone you know has experienced disappointment, this Easter sermon is for you.

We continue our sermon series through the 10 Commandments. Pastor Rich explores the 8th and 9th commandments together. He explains how these two commands damage community and the ways God calls his people to be marked by stewardship and honesty.

The ministry of reconciliation requires us to reckon with sociological realities and systemic injustices. But the first multicultural church testifies that true reconciliation begin with the power of the Holy Spirit. What does it look like to depend on the Spirit within this nation’s legacies of white supremacy, genocide, and systemic racism?

In Acts 17, Paul challenges the Athenians to take a look at the ways that God is revealing himself in their history, culture, and story. God’s story is intertwined with the stories of his people. God uses history and culture, in surprising ways to reveal his character and his heart.