Submerge Sermons

The "big picture" of the Bible and our story with God is that it ends where it began--with God restoring everything to back to how it was intended to be at Creation. And that brings us lots of hope, and lots of purpose! Learn with us all about this from the big picture of Revelation, the final book in the Bible...

God loves you exactly as you are--and He loves you far too much to leave you that way. He wants to help you transform into the best version of yourself, the one He designed you to be, the one that looks most like Him. And He wants you to experience the best way to be human (best for you + best for the world)! Join us as we learn from Colossians what this transformation can look like...

Did you know that when you start to follow Jesus, He gives you a new daily purpose for your life? To demonstrate His love, grace, & hope everywhere we go! In this service we learned how to embrace the Great Commission + the Great Commandment from Jesus to become people who show His love in tangible ways to all the places we are sent.

On Sunday we submerged into the climax of The Big Picture story of the Bible--what Jesus did to change everything! But it's so easy to reduce salvation to something too small. Learn with us how to understand the bigger picture of salvation, what Jesus meant by all that talk about "Kingdom of God", and how to make our spiritual lives less like tofu and more like candy...

What if God is not distant from us, but close by, and can relate to everything we're going through? And what if the story of God isn't just "told", but embodied & lived out through our lives? Join us as we submerge into "the incarnation" of God in Jesus--the start of the New Testament and the key chapter in the "The Big Picture"!

A big part of the big picture of the Bible is God loves & values every single person, and is willing to work through each one to do impactful things in the world–if we’ll trust Him and let Him. So on Sunday we submerged into three inspiring stories of women from the Old Testament to see this in action, and were challenged to consider: Will I recognize & accept God's deep love & value o...

Do you ever wish you could hear from God more? And understand what He's saying? The good news is--God is always trying to communicate with us! On Sunday submerged into one of the biggest & most confusing parts of the Bible (the prophets) to learn how to hear God better. (watch through the closing prayer for a guided time of listening to God...)

Doesn't it often feel like we're defined by our worst mistakes / failures / sins? They can be hard to move past--but God has other ideas. In this service, we learned from the raw powerful stories of David & Solomon, to understand how God wants to reclaim & redefine us.

God is calling all of us to experience life in "the Promised Land"--but will we have the faith to step out and follow, even when we can't see how it's gonna work out? Will we have the faith to trust Him for a daily bread? Learn with us the next chapter in "the big picture" from the story of Moses & the Israelites. And see how Communion is beautiful picture of the exodus!

Regardless of what we see in ourselves, God sees someone in us who are created in His image, and who are called to receive His blessing AND bring His blessing to the world! In this service we learn from Abraham's story in Genesis, in the next chapter of the Big Picture of the Bible--God forming & calling His people (us!).

We all see so much brokenness in our lives, our relationships, and our world. Where does that come from? How do we navigate it all? In this service, we reframe temptation/sin and get our first look in the Bible of God's grand plan to put everything back together, and what it means for our lives in the here and now...

What is your real origin story? In this new series we're submerging into the big picture story of the universe & the Bible to see how our stories fit in. And it all starts with Creation! We discover that the creation story is less about "How? / When? / How long did it take?" and more about "Who is the Creator? / Why did He create?". And we learned that God is not done creating--and we get to j...

What will the sequel to your life in 2024 be? How will you follow God in the new year, and how do we make sure we don't miss what all He wants to in us? Learn with us from the sequels to the Christmas stories in the Gospels...

Everything Christmas is about comes down to love--because that's everything Jesus is about. And everything God has always been about. So how do we experience more of Jesus' kind of love in our lives, as more than just a nice sentiment? How do we let His love flow into even our toughest relationships and help us love even the hardest people--and feel more loved in return? Learn with us as we celebr...

In this service we experienced more Advent together as we learned how to experience more JOY in our world even when it doesn't feel very joyful. We learned two big reasons that Mary in the Christmas story gives us to find a lasting joy from God that can carry on long after the holidays are over...

How do we find real peace this Christmas season--the kind that can enter into our chaos & our conflicts and flow deeply through all of it? The kind that isn't so fleeting, but can remain in our hearts & minds through this season and beyond? This is exactly the kind of peace Jesus offers us & Christmas can bring us, so learn with us from the ancient Bible Christmas stories about how to...

To kick off the Christmas season, we submerge into the first week of Advent--which is all about HOPE! Something we all need more of in our lives...Learn with us about how to find hope, why we can hope, and why hope isn't just feeling that comes & goes, but how it can actually become a daily choice for us...

Life always seems to turn out so much messier than we had in mind--how do we make sense of it all? Understand where God is in it all? See how it can possibly be used for good? In this service, we learned more about what God is up to in our lives, how to find purpose in it all, and how to stop settling for being villains/victims...

The most important skill to learn & grow in, for all of our relationships (and for our world)--is forgiveness. Join us as we submerge into forgiveness and learn why unforgiveness is so addictive, why forgiveness is different than trust, how to do better than "forgive and forget", and much more...

"Shalom" is a theme all throughout the Bible, and was a founding principle for Submerge. AND it's meant to become and important & meaningful part of your daily life. Learn with us all about how to experience and live out "shalom"!

Many of us grew up associating God/church with guilt, and we've carried around guilt & shame our whole lives. So what do we do with all this guilt/shame? And how do we learn to still listen when God is trying to show us we're off-track? On Sunday we learned from more of Joseph's powerful story (Genesis 42-44) about how to process all of this, so we can become people who learn how to listen to...

We're all in different season of life, so the question is: will we embrace this season, or waste it? Who are we becoming in this season? What is God trying to do in us/through us in this season? Learn with us from the story of Joseph (Genesis 41) how to make the most of each season & not miss the opportunities in them!

How do we become people who can wait well, endure trials, change from asking "why" to instead asking "what can I learn" and "who can I become" when facing the things we don't understand? Learn from Joseph's inspiring story with us!

"The hard thing to do and the right thing to do are usually the same thing." We can't become who we hope to be (and who God hopes us to be) without integrity--living authentically and whole and as the same person in public as we are behind closed doors. So how do we live with integrity in the face of temptations & in the face of tough trials? Learn with us from Joseph's inspiring story!

Jealousy/envy doesn't seem like a big deal--everyone has felt it at some point. But when we let it creep into our lives, take root, and grow into bitterness--we end up damaging ourselves & our relationships, and doing things we never imagined we'd do. In this message we submerge into the powerful story of Joseph & his brothers (in Genesis), as kick off our new series on his life--and learn...