Mosaic Church Teachings

Excerpted from a wide swath of the Book of Acts (7:51-8:4, 9:1-31) and taking a cue from the Old Testament prophet Isaiah's recognition that the will of the Lord will prosper (Isaiah 53:10), this talk explores how God works His purposes through real people. We consider how the Christian message proclaimed by the martyr Stephen was, ironically, later re-transmitted to new communities by (the fo...

Join us as we continue the series “The Church On Fire,” teaching from the book of Acts.

Father’s Day. Here’s an important question: When your Heavenly Father thinks about you, what do you imagine his thoughts are? Is he pleased or displeased? Is he excited, angry, tenderhearted? Maybe he’s just a little disappointed?  A second question is, what would you say is God’s defining quality? What is the main thing that makes God, God? Mercy, Justice, Wisdom, Wrath, Love?  A third question:...

Most of us have something we keep avoiding because it feels too small, too thankless, or too far beneath what we think we should be doing. We're waiting for the work that finally feels significant. But Acts 6 tells the story of a man appointed to manage food distribution for a group of overlooked widows, and he did it with everything he had. That unglamorous faithfulness led to one of the most...

The early church in Acts wasn't held together by shared politics or similar personalities. They were held together by something far more durable: a common allegiance to a risen King and a willingness to let that allegiance cost them something. They sold land. They shared resources. They carried one another's burdens without keeping score. And the result wasn't just a tight-knit communi...

The disciples had already received the Spirit at Pentecost. So why did they need to be filled again? Because the Spirit isn't a one-time gift you open and set on a shelf. He is a continuously available, repeatedly renewable presence for whatever you're carrying right now. Acts 4 shows us a community that had just been arrested and threatened. When they were released, they didn't scatte...

Peter and John walked into the temple with nothing in their pockets and everything in their hands. When a lame man asked them for money, Peter's response was honest: "Silver or gold I do not have, but what I do have I give you." What he had was a name that wasn't his own. Most of us spend our lives building something; our reputation, our security, our legacy. We ask God to bless...

Acts 2 describes a community so compelling that people were drawn to it every single day. They were sharing meals, carrying each other's burdens, learning together, and living with a generosity that made no sense by the world's standards. The Holy Spirit didn't just show up in their worship services. He shaped the entire texture of their lives together. Most of us are hungry for that k...

Motherhood changes everything. It reshapes how you see yourself, what you're willing to fight for, and what you're finally willing to let go of. It is one of the most profound transitions a person can walk through, and it rarely gets the honest conversation it deserves. In this teaching, we are sitting down with a panel of mothers who are willing to get real about the hard parts, the holy...

Peter denied Jesus three times. He was so shattered by it that he went back to fishing, as if the whole thing had never happened. Then the Holy Spirit came, and that same Peter stood up in front of thousands and preached the sermon that launched the church. Most of us disqualify ourselves based on our worst moments. Peter's worst moment is recorded in all four Gospels. But God used him anyway,...

Wind. Fire. Strangers suddenly speaking languages they'd never learned. Nobody in that room had a category for what was happening on the Day of Pentecost. That's kind of the point. We tend to imagine the Holy Spirit arriving quietly, like a warm feeling or a gentle nudge. But Acts 2 describes something that stopped people in the street. Something that looked, to outside observers, like cha...

Waiting is hard for most of us. We tend to treat it like wasted time, something to push through until the real thing finally starts. But the early church did something completely different with their waiting. Between the Ascension and Pentecost, 120 believers gathered together in an upper room in Jerusalem. They prayed consistently and with purpose. They opened the Scriptures and let them speak in...

What would it look like if you were genuinely excited about God again? That's the question at the heart of our new series, The Church on Fire. We're going back to the very beginning of the Church, right after the resurrection, to watch a small group of confused and hopeful disciples figure out what comes next. Spoiler: Jesus doesn't give them a strategy. He gives them a promise. The Ho...

Easter changes everything. Jesus spent his final moments on the cross forgiving enemies, caring for his mother, asking God the hardest questions, and ultimately trusting his Father with his last breath. These weren't the words of a victim. They were the words of someone who knew exactly what he was doing and why. His death proves his love. His resurrection proves his power. And because he walk...

This teaching is from Palm Sunday as we continued our Last Words series with the most loaded three words ever spoken: "It is finished." Not "I am finished." Not "I give up." Those three words were a declaration, not a defeat. Something was completed on that cross, something so total and final that Jesus announced it like a finished work. But here is the question worth...

Jesus didn't die with a tidy explanation. He died asking a question. "My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?" He took on our confusion, our silence, our moments of feeling completely abandoned, and he still called out to the Father. That changes everything about how we pray and how we sit with people who are hurting. We don't have to rush to explain suffering. We don't hav...

Most of us have been taught that the crucifixion was something that happened to Jesus. Rome won, evil won, and a good man was crushed by forces bigger than himself. But John won't let you read it that way. He tells you that in the middle of the worst moment of his life, Jesus was knowing; aware, present, in full possession of what was happening and why. When he said "I thirst" from t...

There's something about the cross that strips everything down to bare honesty — no pretense, no religious resume, no time left for anything but the truth. This week in our Last Words series, we're sitting with one of the most unexpected conversations in all of Scripture: Jesus, dying, turning to a criminal beside him and offering words of comfort and hope. Not a lecture, not a condition—ju...

When everything was falling apart, he was still building something enduring. While hanging on the cross in unimaginable pain, Jesus looked at his mother and his close friend and formed a new family in that sacred moment. What if the cross was never only about personal forgiveness, but also about creating a new kind of belonging that reshapes how we live together? This week we are reflecting on the...

We are stepping into a new series called Last Words as we journey through Lent toward Easter. We are slowing down to consider what Jesus chose to say in the most painful moments of his life. When betrayal, injustice, and violence surrounded him, he did not curse his enemies or defend his innocence. He prayed for their forgiveness. The cross exposes the worst parts of us, including our fear, our co...

What if grace is not just something you believe in, but something that is actively holding you together right now? So many of us are waiting for circumstances to shift before we can breathe again. We tell ourselves that peace will come when the diagnosis changes, when the relationship heals, when the job stabilizes. But what if grace is already at work in the middle of the unfinished story? Grace...

There are seasons when change has already arrived, but clarity has not yet caught up. You sense that something no longer fits, yet you cannot fully name what comes next. That in-between space can feel disorienting, lonely, and strangely holy all at once. Scripture reminds us that feeling unsettled is not always a sign of disobedience. Sometimes it is evidence that your hope is being stretched beyo...

Some seasons in life do not shatter faith outright, but they slowly thin it over time. The prayers feel quieter than they used to feel before. Certainty feels farther away than it once did. What once felt solid now feels worn down by disappointment, loss, or unanswered questions that linger longer than expected. You may start to quietly wonder if something is wrong with you. Because fragile faith...

Most people do not want to quit at the beginning of a journey, and they rarely want to quit when the finish line is finally visible. The desire to give up usually shows up in the long middle, that quiet stretch where nothing seems to change and prayers feel unanswered. This is the season where energy fades, hope thins out, and faith feels more like endurance than confidence. Scripture reminds us t...

How has gathering with others shaped your faith journey? In this teaching we conclude our series Reset: Sacred Rhythms for a New Year. This message is about anchoring ourselves in community and worship. From the families of Israel gathering for Passover to John pointing to Jesus as the Lamb of God, God calls us into rhythms that connect us—to him and to one another. Worship is more than a moment;...