How do we live a vibrant Christian life in the Spirit? Step 10 focuses on continued humility. Step 11 focuses on living in a rhythm of spiritual practices. The spiritual…
Steps 10-12 are about how to make sure we continue to grow and maintain our recovery after we are done with Steps 1-9. How do we live a vibrant Christian…
“Life Change from the Heart” is a sermon series on how God changes us from the heart through the gospel. How does it work? After we surrender our life to…
“Life Change from the Heart” is a sermon series on how God changes us from the heart through the gospel. How does change from the heart happen? After we surrender…
“Life Change from the Heart” is a sermon series on how God changes us from the heart through the gospel. How does change from the heart happen? After we surrender…
“Life Change from the Heart” is a sermon series on how God changes us from the heart through the gospel. Step 1 is admitting that we are powerless to fix…
“Life Change from the Heart” is a sermon series on how God changes us from the heart through the gospel. Step 1 is admitting that we are powerless, our lives…
As we start this series, we laid the found of how life change happens. Kevin referenced Galatians 5 to describe how real life change begins when we live by the…
The leadership has been praying and communally discerning a new 5-year vision of New City. After about a year of discernment, we believe that the Holy Spirit has spoken. Here…
New City Church is at a critical moment in its history. God has blessed us. While we still have a long way to go, we have made significant progress in becoming…
So many people are disillusioned by the church. Many of us have been hurt by the church. This sermon digs into God's original design for the church and where we…
Do you know what our ultimate destiny looks like? Many people think that our ultimate destination is heaven, an ethereal place somewhere up there. But, Revelation unveils the reality that…
There has been a lot of debate about end times, especially about Revelation 20. This is probably the most debated passage in Revelation. How do we understand this 1,000 years (millennial)?…
This is the story of the great wedding feast of the lamb. Do you like weddings? Do you like beautiful awesome weddings? Come and hear the story of the most beautiful wedding…
Chapter 14 unveils a vision of how the Lamb and his angels, and therefore, the church, respond to the beasts of coercive political empires and deceptive civil religion. Digging into this passage…
This is an important sermon during this election season. In chapter 12, we saw that the Dragon (called Satan) is waging war against the church. In chapter 13, we see that the…
Chapter 11 is full of difficult imageries, but the embedded message in the passage is something really powerful. It tells us what the church is called to DO before the…
Chapter 10 is an interlude between the terror of judgment and the coming of the Kingdom of Heaven. The mighty angel tells John to eat the scroll. This means to…
In this chapter, the Lamb opens the seven seals of the scroll, God’s plan to bring the Kingdom of Heaven down to earth. The events accompanying the opening of the…
This chapter is arguably the most important chapter in the entire book of Revelation. There was and is so much persecution, idolatry, violence, and injustice going on in the world.…
Today, we are studying the message of Jesus to the churches in Philadelphia and Laodicea. Philadelphia: To a church locked out of communion from both Jews and Gentiles, Jesus said…
Today, we are studying the message of Jesus to the church in Sardis. There was no word of commendation for this church. Jesus gave the harshest word to this church:…
Revelation was written to show us that reality is more than what we see with our eyes. That’s the thesis of the book: things are not as they seem. This…
This sermon gives some of the keys to understanding Revelation. In addition, it digs into the message to the church in Ephesus. This was a church that was "energetic in…
The church was going through a very difficult time; they were persecuted and felt like God was not answering their prayers. In the midst of this, how does Jesus respond?…
Why are some prayers answered and some not? Pastor Kevin discusses biblical variables that affect the outcome of our prayers.
Many of us feel stuck in the miry pit of our guilt and shame, of a general sense of brokenness, failure, and unworthiness. From the depths of our guilt and…
What do we do with all the sorrow, grief, pain, and tears in our lives? Some religious people tell us to repress our emotions; some secular people tell us to…
Many of us go through seasons of spiritual dryness. Kevin examined various potential causes of our spiritual dryness: (1) depression; (2) boredom with a form of prayer; (3) our sins;…
It is a little shocking to say this, but it is true: You don’t have to pray out of obligation if you don’t want to. God loves you even if…
Many of us walk around with emotional hurts and pains. Sometimes they can be debilitating. They can be caused by many things. Sometimes we experience deep depression due to a…
The primary storyline of the Bible is God desiring to be with us. He loves us and wants to be with us. Prayer is conversation with God. Prayer is a…
If God is all-powerful and loving and he is sovereign, what can we do to change anything? God’s got everything planned and everything in control; so, why should we pray?…
The early church was a praying church and I believe God is calling us to be a praying church. He’s calling us to pray together. Prayer is the spring from…
We are looking at the prophets of the Old Testament who looked with Great Expectation to the coming of the Messiah. And today, we are looking at the story of…
What does the gospel say about giving and how to give? There are a lot of verses in the Bible that relates to how we manage money. Some of them…