New Collective Church

1. The church needs to talk about mental illness more. 2. The church needs to destigmatize mental illness and destigmatize the struggle with suicide. 3. The church needs to clearly say it is okay to not be okay. Psalm 118:16-17 The Lord's right hand is lifted high; the Lord's right hand has done mighty things! I will not die but live, and will proclaim what the Lord has done. Romans 8:31 -39 31 Wh...

Romans 12 Therefore, I urge you, brothers and sisters, in view of God's mercy, to offer your bodies as a living sacrifice, holy and pleasing to God—this is your true and proper worship.  2 Do not conform to the pattern of this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind. Then you will be able to test and approve what God's will is—his good, pleasing and perfect will. 3 For by the grace...

Romans 12:2 Do not conform to the pattern of this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind. Then you will be able to test and approve what God's will is—his good, pleasing and perfect will.   We tend to view work either as an idol or an irritation.   Work is a part of the invitation of Jesus to transform people and places.     What would transform our workplaces?    The Who   You   Y...

What would it look like for your home to be transformed into a place that helps you and others experience life with Jesus?     Romans 12:1-2 Therefore, I urge you, brothers and sisters, in view of God's mercy, to offer your bodies as a living sacrifice, holy and pleasing to God—this is your true and proper worship. 2 Do not conform to the pattern of this world, but be transformed by the renewing o...

Romans 12:2 Do not be conformed to this world, but. be transformed by the renewal of your mind, that by testing you may discern what is the will of God, what is good and acceptable and perfect. Lack of Clarity Proverbs 22:7 The borrower is slave to the lender. Lack of Contentment 1 Timothy 6:6-10 But godliness with contentment is great gain, or we brought nothing into the world, and we cannot take...

Romans 12:1-2 Therefore, I urge you, brothers and sisters, in view of God's mercy, to offer your bodies as a living sacrifice, holy and pleasing to God—this is your true and proper worship. Do not conform to the pattern of this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind. Then you will be able to test and approve what God's will is—his good, pleasing and perfect will.   Body as an offer...

1 Samuel 16:7 But the Lord said to Samuel, "Do not consider his appearance or his height, for I have rejected him. The Lord does not look at the things people look at. People look at the outward appearance, but the Lord looks at the heart." Jeremiah 17:9 The heart is deceitful above all things and beyond cure. Who can understand it? Matthew 15:7-20 You hypocrites! Isaiah was right when he prophesi...

Romans 12:2 Do not conform to the pattern of this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind. Then you will be able to test and approve what God's will is—his good, pleasing and perfect will.   Conformity to a way of life comes through information, ideology, and imagery in the mind.     Transformation into a new way of life comes through the renewing of your mind.     To walk in the wi...

Join Mark and Cameron for this special edition of the podcast, as they recap our You and Your ________ Transformed series so far and where we're headed in the coming weeks!

Transformation happens as you experience life with Jesus.     The goal of experiencing life with Jesus is to become like Jesus, and do what Jesus taught us to do.   Matthew 7:24-29 "Therefore everyone who hears these words of mine and puts them into practice is like a wise man who built his house on the rock. 25 The rain came down, the streams rose, and the winds blew and beat against that house;...

Transformation happens as you experience life with Jesus. The goal of experiencing life with Jesus is to become like Jesus, and do what Jesus taught us to do. Luke 6:39-42 He also told them this parable: "Can the blind lead the blind? Will they not both fall into a pit? 40 The student is not above the teacher, but everyone who is fully trained will be like their teacher. 41 "Why do you look at the...

Matthew 4:17-22 From that time on Jesus began to preach, "Repent, for the kingdom of heaven has come near."   Repent:  Total transformation of your way of life as the result of a complete change of thought, attitude, and behavior.     You need to change.  You can be changed.   What could cause me to totally transform my way of life?   The kingdom of heaven has come near.     "Change your life. God...

Ian Allen -- Family Ministries Pastor Habakkuk 2:20 NLT "But the Lord is in his holy Temple. Let all the earth be silent before him." Habakkuk 3:1 A prayer of Habakkuk the prophet. On shigionoth. Shigionoth Habakkuk 3:2 Lord, I have heard of your fame; I stand in awe of your deeds, Lord. Repeat them in our day, in our time make them known; in wrath remember mercy. WHAT TO DO WHEN YOU ARE IN THE VA...

1 Corinthians 15:58 Therefore, my dear brothers and sisters, stand firm. Let nothing move you. Always give yourselves fully to the work of the Lord, because you know that your labor in the Lord is not in vain.    Things to consider when being unsettled:   1. The pace you pursue.   To stand firm you must stand still.     To be immovable you must be moved by the work of God.     2. The company you k...

2 Kings 5:1-14 Now Naaman was commander of the army of the king of Aram. He was a great man in the sight of his master and highly regarded, because through him the Lord had given victory to Aram. He was a valiant soldier, but he had leprosy. 2 Now bands of raiders from Aram had gone out and had taken captive a young girl from Israel, and she served Naaman's wife.  3 She said to her mistress, "If o...

2 Corinthians 4 Therefore, since through God's mercy we have this ministry, we do not lose heart.  2 Rather, we have renounced secret and shameful ways; we do not use deception, nor do we distort the word of God. On the contrary, by setting forth the truth plainly we commend ourselves to everyone's conscience in the sight of God.  3 And even if our gospel is veiled, it is veiled to those who are p...

1 Thessalonians 5:16–18  Rejoice always, 17 pray continually, 18 give thanks in all circumstances; for this is God's will for you in Christ Jesus. Constantly Rejoice 1 Thessalonians 1:6-7 You became imitators of us and of the Lord, for you welcomed the message in the midst of severe suffering with the joy given by the Holy Spirit. 7 And so you became a model to all the believers in Macedonia and A...

Numbers 23:19 God is not human, that he should lie,  not a human being, that he should change his mind.  Does he speak and then not act?  Does he promise and not fulfill?   Hebrews 13:8  Jesus Christ is the same yesterday and today and forever.   Hebrews 6:17–20  Because God wanted to make the unchanging nature of his purpose very clear to the heirs of what was promised, he confirmed it with an oa...

Matthew 22:36-40 "Teacher, which is the greatest commandment in the Law?" Jesus replied: "'Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind.'   This is the first and greatest commandment.    And the second is like it: 'Love your neighbor as yourself.'   All the Law and the Prophets hang on these two commandments."   Where I give Attention   Where I place Val...

Matthew 23:23–24 (NIV):  "Woe to you, teachers of the law and Pharisees, you hypocrites! You give a tenth of your spices—mint, dill and cumin. But you have neglected the more important matters of the law—justice, mercy and faithfulness. You should have practiced the latter, without neglecting the former. 24 You blind guides! You strain out a gnat but swallow a camel.

Philippians 2:3–4 Do nothing out of selfish ambition or vain conceit. Rather, in humility value others above yourselves, 4 not looking to your own interests but each of you to the interests of the others.    Holy Competitiveness is faithfulness and fruitfulness in each phase.     Genesis 39:2-4 The Lord was with Joseph so that he prospered, and he lived in the house of his Egyptian master.  3 When...

Philippians 2:3–11 Do nothing out of selfish ambition or vain conceit. Rather, in humility value others above yourselves, 4 not looking to your own interests but each of you to the interests of the others.  5 In your relationships with one another, have the same mindset as Christ Jesus:  6 Who, being in very nature God, did not consider equality with God something to be used to his own advantage; ...

Philippians 2:3–4  Do nothing out of selfish ambition or vain conceit. Rather, in humility value others above yourselves, 4 not looking to your own interests but each of you to the interests of the others.   Genesis 39:6–20  So Potiphar left everything he had in Joseph's care; with Joseph in charge, he did not concern himself with anything except the food he ate.  Now Joseph was well-built and han...

Philippians 2:3–4 Do nothing out of selfish ambition or vain conceit. Rather, in humility value others above yourselves, 4 not looking to your own interests but each of you to the interests of the others. Genesis 37:28 So when the Midianite merchants came by, his brothers pulled Joseph up out of the cistern and sold him for twenty shekels of silver to the Ishmaelites, who took him to Egypt. Genesi...

2 Corinthians 12:7b-10 Therefore, in order to keep me from becoming conceited, I was given a thorn in my flesh, a messenger of Satan, to torment me.  8 Three times I pleaded with the Lord to take it away from me.  9 But he said to me, "My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness." Therefore I will boast all the more gladly about my weaknesses, so that Christ's power ma...