The apostle Peter grew up with some cultural practices that unintentionally justified prejudice against Gentiles, non-Jews. Peter didn’t even know that he had these prejudices because they were so normal…
We are starting a new series called Inclusive Church: a Gospel-Centered Approach. This week’s sermon is on the inclusivity of us, sinners. God created us in his image. We were created…
*There were some technical difficulties this week. The sermon cuts off in the middle. We apologize for the inconvenience. In Luke 9:37-52, the disciples were saying things and acting in…
We all have to come down from the mountaintop. Right after experiencing the transfiguration of Jesus, the disciples experienced the reality of their weakness. We sometimes experience God's goodness and…
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New City Church of La, Los Angeles, Kevin Haah, Luke - The Gospel for Everyone, Scandalized by Jesus
We looked into three questions from the passage regarding the call of the twelve disciples. First, how he chose them. It was through prayer. He spent the whole night praying…
Hannah was the mother of Samuel who before she was the mother of Samuel was the wife of Elkanah, and before she was the wife of Elkanah, she was someone’s…
Jesus called Matthew, a tax collector (who was considered a social outcast, cheater, and traitor), to follow him and then went to his house for a big party with Matthew’s…
We looked at the stories of Jesus healing the leper and the paralyzed man. In their context, the disease didn’t just affect them physically; it affected them socially, emotionally, and…
This is the story of Simon Peter’s call. When Jesus finished speaking from a boat, he said to Simon to go out to the deep water and let down the…
In verse 43 of this passage, Jesus makes it clear that His mission on earth is to preach about the Kingdom of God. In Psalm 103:19 we can see that…
Why did God roll away the stone? Did God roll away the stone so that Jesus could get out of the tomb? Did he really need it rolled away? Or…
Jesus rides into Jerusalem in order to identify himself as the king prophesied in the scriptures and anticipated by the people of Israel, but he does not meet their exact…
The desert is a place to help us see our needs both physical and spiritual. It helps us to understand what is in our heart. The desert reveals the places…
The devil quoted Psalm 91, God’s promise to protect Jesus. The devil said, if you are the Son of God, then test that promise. The undercurrent of this temptation was…
Last Sunday, we looked at the second temptation of Jesus, the temptation for the power. The devil tempted Jesus with power over all the kingdom of the world if Jesus…
This week we looked at stories of the desert throughout the Old Testament. The wilderness is often a setting in the scriptures for powerful encounters with God. It is also…
The resurrection of Jesus tells us where we are going, our ultimate destiny. From 1 Corinthians 15, Pastor Kevin shared (1) the evidence of the resurrection; and (2) the significance…
Pastor Kevin discussed two ways to approach the issue of meaning in our lives: (1) the modern approach; (2) the gospel approach. The modern approach starts out with the assumption…
Pastor Kevin discussed three ways to approach our identity: (1) discover the true self in the inside (the "self-discovery approach"); (2) be who you want to be (the "build your…
We all believe that some activities and attitudes are objectively right or objectively wrong, but what grounds our belief in objective right and wrong? This week's sermon made the case…
We look into the questions of (1) the origin of the universe and (2) the origin of life. Then, (3) we will look at what this means.
