Mosaic - Erwin McManus

What are you saving for the next life? In this powerful message based on Philippians 3, Pastor Erwin compels us to live a life without regret.  He examines the life of Paul, sharing that he had every reason to hold onto his reputation, possessions, and personal aspirations.  Paul was a man of great power when he decided to follow Jesus. But he came to the conclusion that there was n...

Do you know Jesus wants to meet you right where you are? Pastor Erwin McManus shares from the Gospel of John, where Jesus encounters a man who has been paralyzed for 38 years. The man was waiting to be carried into the pool of Bethesda after the waters were stirred to receive the miracle of healing he desperately wanted.  Jesus sees his desperation and first asks the man a simple question: “D...

Pastor Erwin McManus delivers a compelling new message on God's love for the outsider. In the Gospel of John, Jesus interacted with a Samaritan woman at a well and asked her for a drink of water. This was a noteworthy conversation because Samaritans and Jews did not associate with one another at this time in history. This story is a poignant illustration of how Jesus is willing to subvert the cult...

Pastor Erwin McManus shares a moving message on the importance of questioning everything as we relate to the person of Jesus.   In the gospel of John, a religious Pharisee named Nicodemus interacts with Jesus. Nicodemus met with Jesus at night to protect his reputation as a religious expert. Though he had been studying the Torah for years, Nicodemus didn’t have a personal relationship with Go...

Have you moved past the point of no return? In this compelling message, Pastor Erwin McManus teaches from Joshua chapter 1 and unpacks the journey of Joshua after the death of Moses.  God speaks to Joshua and commands him to get moving and promises him that he will give Joshua every piece of land that his feet touch. In this critical moment, Joshua had to step into leadership and move pa...

In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.  John 1:1 NIV  Mosaic Lead Pastor Erwin McManus leads us into the powerful origin story of Jesus through the book of John.  The beginning of Jesus’ story starts long before his birth in a manger as a human baby sent into the world. John makes clear that Jesus is God and he was here before anything else i...

Are you calling it quits before God says you're finished? In this challenging new message, Pastor Erwin McManus helps us see that often when we experience regret and disappointment, it is simply because we quit and called it a failure instead of choosing to persevere when things got difficult. Based on the story of Caleb in the book of Joshua, we learn that even in his advanced age Caleb was ready...

Have you ever felt like God is hiding from you? In this special Christmas message, Pastor Erwin McManus brings a fresh lens to a familiar Christmas story. Drawing from Matthew 2, Pastor Erwin unpacks the unique narrative of the Magi being the ones to meet Jesus.  Even though the Jews were the people who long held the story of God, it was ultimately the Magi who encountered Jesus upon his birt...

Have you ever asked God for a sign?   Mosaic Lead Pastor Erwin McManus calls us to notice the signs of God all around us.   The book of Isaiah shares how God sent Jesus as a sign to humanity through a virgin birth. It was a miraculous point in history that still ripples through our lives over 2,000 years later.   Pastor Erwin highlights that often when we ask God for a sign, we are...

We are going back into the archives and resurfacing with Pastor Erwin's series on The Last Arrow. Are you limiting the opportunities to live the life that God created you to live if you're not moving forward with expectation and hope?  Are you focusing on how to live a life without regret? It's important to shift our perspective on this. You need to raise your expectations because you're goin...

In this new message, Mosaic Lead Pastor Erwin McManus reveals the audacity of God to do the impossible in our lives. Through the life of Zechariah and Elizabeth in the book of Luke, Pastor Erwin unwraps what it looks like when God begins to go to work in us. Zechariah and Elizabeth were childless and advanced in age, but an angel appeared to Zechariah and told him that Elizabeth would give birth t...

What fuels the economy of God?   Mosaic Lead Pastor Erwin McManus reveals the power of work, responsibility and trust in this impactful message.   Through the Parable of the Talents in Matthew 25, Pastor Erwin unwraps biblical truths that can change how we create and shape our lives.   Many followers of Jesus believe they want to know God‘s will for their lives so they can be faithf...

As we wrap up this series on the Artisan Soul, Pastor Erwin McManus delivers a passionate message on Masterpiece God gave us called life.  Throughout Jesus' life, he told parables, metaphors and images to show his disciples that he was going to die. But they could only interpret death in the terms they knew, which were finite.  Jesus reminds us that our life is supposed to be a work of a...

The church is a movement, not an institution. In this electric message for Mosaic’s Foundation Sunday, Lead Pastor Erwin McManus unpacks how movements are marked by generosity. Former slaves in the book of Exodus were instructed to stop bringing gifts to build a new sanctuary because the workers were overwhelmed with the amount of offerings. They had internalized a priceless insight: we should bri...

Have you ever considered that your life is the canvas on which God wants to create? In this week's episode, Pastor Erwin McManus delivers a passionate message on our God-given ability to become God's work of art. When we allow him to paint our souls with the colors of faith, hope, love, and courage -- the possibilities are endless. As creatives, we often become discouraged by the limitations of ou...

Did you know that generosity changes you from the inside out? Mosaic Lead Pastor Erwin McManus shares how generosity creates good in the world AND in you! This is the power of generosity at work: + Generosity changes your perspective + Generosity grounds your faith + Generosity expands your mind + Generosity deepens your soul We give as an act of obedience and sacrifice, but being generous isn’t s...

Is your soul filled with:   Fear?  Doubt?  Insignificance?  Feeling unworthy of love?   We can label these symptoms as sociological, economical or cultural – but Mosaic Lead Pastor Erwin reveals they are actually indicators that our soul is out of alignment with God.   Many of the stories in the Bible are about people who are out of alignment; their struggles and succ...

Mosaic Lead Pastor Erwin McManus brings a new message on ‘The Power of Being Fully Present,’ recorded live at Mosaic South Pasadena. Do you find yourself caught reminiscing on the past or daydreaming about the future while the moment you are in passes you by? Pastor Erwin challenges us to master the power of being fully present. Drawing from Isaiah 43, Pastor Erwin uses the example of the Israelit...

Pastor Erwin McManus delivers a challenging message on the importance of developing our craft. In Ephesians 4, God commands us to be creators and not to settle for consuming or stealing from others. Because we are created by God, we're meant to create and add value to the world around us through the discipline of work. As Christians, many of us have picked up the belief that if we h...

Mosaic Lead Pastor Erwin McManus closes out our Fresh Start series with an inspiring message on how you can live “Fueled by Faith!” Why does faith feel superhuman? Pastor Erwin reminds us that we were created by God to live with faith and that it is faith that makes us human. We are the only species that is made to hope in things we cannot yet see. In fact, Hebrews chapter 11 makes it clear that l...

In this week’s episode, Pastor Erwin McManus points out the fascinating way that God inhabits our lives — whether we’ve already given our lives to Him or not. In a conversation with a self-identified atheist, Erwin was asked how to hear the voice of God. He answered that it’s the voice in your head that simply won’t leave you alone. And even more, when we’ve given our lives to God, that voice beco...

Do you only encounter God by interruption and not intention? You need a fresh start!   Mosaic Lead Pastor Erwin McManus shares a powerful message on realigning our intention with God to step into the future we were created to live, in week two of our ‘Fresh Start’ series!   Pastor Erwin shares with us the story of Moses from Acts 7. Moses was intended by God to be a champion of the Jewis...

Mosaic Lead Pastor Erwin McManus delivered the first incredible message in Mosaic’s new series ‘Fresh Start’ Drawing from Isaiah 43:15, Pastor Erwin gives you three specific ways that you can step into a new part of your life: Put your past in the past, fight the fight you’re in, and see what you do not see. Although you are meant to learn from the past, you are not created to live in the past. Th...

In a thought-provoking message from Pastor Erwin McManus, we discover that each of us are interpreters of life. Based on our unique experiences and beliefs, we translate the world around us. But are we interpreting life according to God's perception--or just our limited perspective? In John chapter 9, we observe that Jesus' disciples were bewildered by the healing of a blind man. They were stuck o...

Is it possible for us to live a life free from shame? In a powerful new message, Pastor Erwin McManus challenges us to pay attention to the voices that inform our internal worlds. Are we led by voices that only remind us of our shame, or are we building a future informed by the freedom of God's voice? In Genesis 3, we lean into the story of Adam and Eve where they decide to disobey God and hide th...