This message was originally preached at the Worship Concert celebrating 1-year of Engage Newark on March, 31, 2019. Our apologies to those looking for the Easter Sunday message from April 21, 2019, there was a failure in our recording system and we were unable to record the Easter sermon.
Lift Him Up, 1st Anniversary Message 03-31-19
• April 21, 2019
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They Said Whaaat?!!? God Told Me…
We have to stop assuming the authority that God has given each of us a special revelation that goes unfiltered through the community. We believe that God can (and does) speak to people but that are certain parameters for how God does it and how God communicates to people and all of it can be…
They Said Whaaat?!!? “The Bible says it, I believe it, that settles it”
This phrase is damaging because it fails to consider that no-one reads the Bible in the same way, nor do they understand it’s meaning in the same way. Furthermore, the Bible should be the beginning of conversations, not the end.
He Turned His Face Toward Jerusalem: The Parable of the Minas
As Jesus made his way toward Jerusalem, he did kingdom work and taught kingdom values along the way. In his final teaching before entering the city, he teaches that his kingdom is not of this world and that he will be gone for a while and then coming back. While he is gone we are…
He Turned His Face Toward Jerusalem – The Grateful Samaritan
As Jesus headed to his ultimate destination of Jerusalem, he was interrupted by 10 men who had leprosy. Of course Jesus healed them, but only one turned back to give thanks and he was a Samaritan, one of the most hated people groups of their time and place. Join Keynan Williams as he gives a…
He Turned His Face Toward Jerusalem – Mustard Seed
The smallest things can wreck us or protect us. Jesus encourages his followers to have faith, even just the size of a mustard seed to grow and blossom and bloom to be something greater, to be our protection when we face our Jerusalem.
He Turned His Face Toward Jerusalem: The Rich Young Ruler
Most of the time the thing that we hold on to so tightly is actually the thing that holds on to us and keeps us from following Jesus. For the rich young ruler he could not let go of his money and hit kept him from following Jesus. What’s the thing that is keeping you…
He Turned His Face Toward Jerusalem – The Mount of Transfiguration
Even in the most serene of moments, when Jesus was transfigured and joined by Moses and Elijah, and his three apostolic witnesses wanted to build houses and stay on the mount, Jesus was ready to go down the mountain and face his most difficult circumstance yet – arrest, trial and execution in Jerusalem. Mountaintop experiences…
We Believe in the Resurrection of the Body and the Life Everlasting
In our final installment of the We Believe series we are looking at the idea of resurrection of our bodies which turns them from perishable to imperishable which is meant to live forever!
We Believe: In the Forgiveness of Sins
Of all the statements in the Apostles Creed, this is the one we probably like the most…we like the idea of God forgiving our sins, but we may not want to hear is that we are compelled to forgive the sins of those who have harmed us. In this message we are exploring the idea…