Mosaic Church of Clayton

Here is our interview, teaching and sermonette for Enneagram 8, the challengers and/or protectors amongst us.

Enneagram Sevens are our enthusiasts. They seek to make the most of life and to enjoy themselves as much as possible. Listen to learn more about this point of personality and about how to use these forces for good. We need more whimsy and holy curiosity in the world, but we also can know that even when life is not fun, when life is hard, God is still with us.

This week we look at the enneagram six point of personality, the loyalists.

Know as the investigator, enneagram fives seek to understand their place in the world through knowledge. This podcast includes an overview of an enneagram five, a spiritual practice and a short sermon on Thomas, who behaves a lot like an enneagram five, and what Jesus says to him.

Today we kick off our summer series all about the enneagram. In this recording we talk about how we got the enneagram, why we are studying and what it actually is. This is an overview to kick off the rest of our summer series.

And it matters because we know that persecution of women, discrimination and mysogony are problems world-wide. Christians should be leading the way in elevating all of God’s people. All of God’s image bearers. And instead in a week when we should have been speaking out on social media about 85 young girls killed because they were seeking an education, some religious leaders chose to take to social...

"God is going out of God’s way here to show the extent of who is invited. God could have sent anyone to the farthest reaches, God could have ignored the farthest reaches. God chooses a dark, black person who is not a man, but also not not a man, a person who had no power on their own, or even personhood, to be the one who has an encounter with Jesus and shares that with the Nubian people.  Go...

Sermon from April 18, 2021 "The miracle though, the proof that all of this is more than just something we do to feel good about ourselves, is that Christianity keeps going. Despite all of the wrong things that have happened, despite the ways that it has been misrepresented, the Christian movement keeps going. We are invited to be part of that very real movement. In order to do that we have to face...

Sermon from April 11, 2021 "The stories we tell matter. The echo chambers we create matter. In a conference I was in recently, we were asked to share something we had had to give up about ourselves, something we had learned about ourselves during the last year. One minister said, “I’ve had to give up seeing myself as the one with all the answers.” In conversation after conversation these past few...

Luke 23:53 to 24:12 "And this is how God makes beautiful things out of us. Out of the ashes of our lives, when we think there is nothing left to give, no hope left, beautiful things happen because God is still a God of resurrection. That is the hope this morning. Whatever you are feeling, whatever is in your soul, know that we still serve a God that is the God of resurrection. We serve a God who l...

Luke 19:1-10 "As we move closer to the cross for Easter, may we know the power of the gospel. May we go all in on the right kingdom and quit chasing the things of the kingdom of this world. May we care more about others, about love, about a world where everyone is seen and treated as a child of God rather than pursuing power, beauty, money, success and all of the things this world says matter." Mo...

Psalm 98 "If the pandemic had a soundtrack what would it be? Maybe it would be horns from drive by celebrations, the oven dinging to tell you that the banana bread is done, the sighs from one more thing cancelled, the sound of our loved ones through a zoom call or the phone, birds at bird feeders we started watching, the voices of our family members all the time because we are all in the house tog...

Luke 15 "Jesus is telling these parables because of the Pharisees and their scribes who were listening to this because they have criticized him for the time he spends with those they would consider sinners, it is up close and personal kind of time. Bumping elbows at a table, sharing food that you would all reach in and eat with fingers, hugs or handshakes of greeting at the door. Jesus is intimate...

Luke 13:1-9, 18-19, 31-35 Sermon for February 28, 2020 "Here is the joy and the beauty of these scriptures, Jesus is not being crazy. Jesus is not being wrath filled or vengeful, Jesus is trying to be a prophet that says, You cannot separate yourself from the suffering but neither will I. Jesus says, “I will not separate myself from your suffering. I will not separate myself from you.” Theologian...

Luke 10:25-37 "Realizing that we are all connected is how we love our neighbor as ourselves. It is as simple as that. When you thrive, I thrive. When you offer me help, I can take it, knowing we are connected. You will need help someday. This is why I don’t think Jesus gives us any details of the man who had been attacked on the road because it allows us all to see ourselves as him."

Luke 9:28-43 "This is how we find mountain top moments when we are just stuck in the valley. We pay attention. We look around at the ordinary for the beauty, for the work of God, for the ways in which God is still speaking to us. Jesus moves in the middle of the health crisis at the bottom of the mountain too."

Luke 7:1-17 In these stories of healing we are reminded that it is really all about Jesus and that we all need him.

This morning was our first sermon in the series of a Month of Miracles. Here we talk about the miracle of calling beyond where we are comfortable. Our scripture this morning was Luke 5:1-11.

This sermon gives an overview of where Mosaic has been in the last year and what lies ahead for us. This would be a great sermon to listen to if you want to learn more about who Mosaic is.

Luke 3:1-20 In the midst of a world that feels like it is on fire, we celebrate epiphany and find a word from John the Baptist on what we are to do, right where we are in the middle of difficult times.

Learning from the story of Jonah, what is our Nineveh in the middle of this political climate.

Exodus 32:1-14 "In our lives, it would be easy to go back to just what we know. To fashion idols. To lift up political leaders that will get us out of this, that have all of the answers. To expect them to lift up policies that will fix everything. To try to go back to our lives before March. To try to numb ourselves, or soothe ourselves and make us feel comfortable by going to things we used to kn...

Sermon for October 4, 2020. This morning's sermon focuses on Exodus 13:3-8 and the celebration of Passover. What does it look like to follow a God who is saving? To set up the sermon, I used a video by Mayim Bialik on youtube as she defines the basics of passover.

September 6, 2020 The first sermon in our "A God Who Is" series looks at Genesis 1:31-2:4 Sabbath in this unique times really looks like finding ways to remind yourself of that truth, “God will never love you any more or less because of anything you manage, or fail, to achieve.” My devotional prayer for this morning was, “May this day bring Sabbath rest to my heart and my home. May God’s image in...

Sermon on August 30. Matthew 5:13-16 "I didn’t know that as the week went on, scripture would be loosely used in other ways to defend certain political decisions and behaviors. We have seen the name of Christ, the name of the Spirit and scripture coopted this week. This is not a political sermon. I am not telling you who to vote for or who not to vote for, but I am speaking specifically of the nam...