Icon Church Sermons

In this sermon, Pastor Josh looks at Psalm 107. Celebrating our 2nd anniversary, Josh shares from this Psalm how the road ahead can be even better than what we’ve experienced so far, if only we will give ourselves to a consuming hunger for God.

Doubt is common, but not all doubt is alike. Sometimes we experience emotional doubt just as much as intellectual doubt. This week, Pastor Josh takes us through emotional doubt and why God’s demonstration on the cross can help us to be released from this type of doubt.

In this sermon, Pastor Josh explores how Christians are able to endure suffering because of the hope they have and the future that’s promised to them.

This week, Josh shares how having God as our Father heals past wounds, strengthens us in present suffering, and gives us a future worth waiting for. 

This week, Josh continues in our Romans series by looking at how we can know whether we’re a Christian or not. Tune in to find out the two identifiers the Apostle Paul gives to answer this question. 

What you think changes how you live. Pop psychology has tapped into this in the past few years, but it’s merely catching up with the Bible. In our sermon this week, Josh looks at Romans 8:5-8, where we’ll see Paul exhort us to have a mindset that is Spirit-led. 

How does the gospel actually work? If it’s such good news, we should probably have some real clarity around it. This week in our Romans series, we’ll look at Romans 8:1-4, which lays out as clear as possible how we are released from earning our salvation. And, as you’ll see, that clarity gives us a security that is untouchable and a hope that is immovable. In other words, it’s a clarity we need fo...

Released from the Back and Forth

Justin's Last Sermon - Romans 7:7-12

Some of us are chronic rule followers. And even those who aren’t type A know that we need to know what’s expected of us in order for a relationship or job to go well. This is the same for our relationship with God. But, as we see in this week’s sermon, our relationship with God is not measured by law but by love. 

What happens when you suddenly tell a group of very religious people that they are no longer bound to the Law for righteousness? They start sinning, that's what. Paul knows people and so he gets ahead of this human impulse with a series of rhetorical questions. Paul expects that the Romans will wonder if they have to keep obeying now that their standing with God is based on grace.

Sin can be very sticky, leaving us confused on how to get out. But when we trust in Jesus, our relationship with sin categorically changes. Jesus has changed our identity, which changes how we live and think about ourselves. That’s why freedom from sin doesn’t come with just trying harder, but seeing Jesus better. 

In a one-off sermon this week, Josh looks at Jesus’s transfiguration in Mark 9:2-8.  We explore how Jesus’s transfiguration verifies for us that he’s the right person to follow, and shows us that he’s worth following. 

This is the final week of our Rest series and we are looking at Isaiah 55:8, a well known verse that tells us that God’s thoughts are not our thoughts and that God’s ways are not our ways. 

This week in our Rest series, we’ll see how Jesus’s heart is always inviting and open, ready for us to come to him despite how poor or how well we’re doing.

Justin and Josh preach on Icons Future

This week in our Rest series, Josh looks at 1 John 2:1-2 and asks the question: how can we be comfortable in our relationship with God when we still screw it up? Listen in and find out how Jesus’s role as advocate provides the answer. 

In week 2 of our Rest series, Josh looks at Exodus 34 where we get a personal, in depth revelation of what God is like. Spoiler alert: it’s far more wonderful than we could have expected.

Justin's Easter Message!

This week we're kicking off our Spring series and this one is all about rest.

This week Josh finished our series in John looking at Jesus being the Son of God. We explore how Jesus relates to God the Father, and why that’s incredibly practical for our real lives.