New Community Church

The story of Jesus' birth is one of genuine hope and true joy. After the shepherds met Jesus, they spread that news of great joy with others. This week, Pastor Brandon uses their story to exemplify how we can do the same, bringing joy to others through generosity.

In life, it can be easy to be offended. What’s difficult is looking past an offense and choosing to love the person on the other side of it. Jesus didn’t call us to be right; He called us to be loving. This week, we take a look at how we can choose to forgive the way God forgives our sins, as Pastor Hannah invites us to learn to live at peace with others instead of living offended.

It's the Christmas season, which is truly a time to celebrate, but that can feel difficult when it feels like so much has been missing this year. And when what’s missing becomes greater than what’s present, weariness sets in. But Jesus came to bring hope to our weariness, freedom from our battles, restoration of our purpose, and fulfillment to our lives. This week, Pastor Brandon reminds of the mo...

God reminds us frequently in His Word of how our lives are be lived a certain way, in order to love and serve one another and honor Him. On the subject of our bodies, His Word is very clear on what our response should be: to FLEE from anything that separates us from Him regarding our bodies. This week, Pastor Brandon talks about the importance of creating margin in the ways we view and treat our b...

Whether you're a saver or a spender, or you have a little or a lot, we all interact and have a personal relationship with money. Sometimes without even realizing it, that relationship can quickly turn into one that controls us, instead of the other way around. This week, Pastor Brandon shows us how Jesus framed money and possessions for us, so that we might put away our desire for "more" and exper...

With so many things pulling at us in our daily lives- careers, commitments, relationships, etc.- there's virtually no way to fit everything in, not to mention having any semblance of time to be filled back up. When the schedule becomes too full, it's time to decipher what things need to be set aside to make way for what should take priority. Scripture teaches us to be wise in light of our time- sa...

Margin is the amount of a resource that is available beyond what is necessary. The best things in life are found in the margins: margins in time, money, relational capacity, etc. As we kick off a new series this week, Pastor Brandon points to a passage in Luke that reminds us to create room for the important at the expense of the urgent.

While not all pain is FOR a purpose, purpose can be found in all our pain. Some of the things we've all been through did not happen on purpose, but God can take those things and use them for a purpose - to draw us closer to Him, for example. This week, Pastor Brandon talks about finding purpose on the other side of painful, disappointing life experiences.

We've all experienced pain in some way during the course of our lives, and comfort can be hard to find on our own. That's why God invites us into His presence even more deeply during our most difficult times. With Him by your side, you can pick up the pieces of disappointment and move forward. This week, Pastor Brandon discusses how God desires for us to move forward from mourning to comfort.

Sometimes the weight of disappointment is so heavy that it shatters our ability to see clearly and stops us in our tracks. When that happens, God gives us permission to feel broken, but God does not want us to feel broken and alone- He wants to be with us in our brokenness. This week, Pastor Hannah and Pastor Brandon share some of their experiences with pain and disappointment, and point us to the...

The day is FINALLY here!! Our second New Community campus is officially open, and we can't wait to see all that God will do in and through this new space. To kick things off, we hear from Pastor Brandon as he teaches on the opportunity before each of us to answer the call that Jesus has given. This week's message is a great reminder of how our posture affects our perspective.

We've been talking a lot through this series about what it looks like to be all in with God and His plans and purposes for our lives. We've ultimately learned that being all in simply means just that: we have to be FULLY in with surrendering every aspect of our lives to the Lord. But there is an invitation that goes along with that surrender; an invitation for living a truly whole and fulfilling l...

We are CELEBRATING New Community Church's ONE YEAR ANNIVERSARY!! God has done amazing things during this first year of our church launching, and we know He's already got so much more in store. This week, Pastor Hannah and Pastor Brandon guide us as we simply take time to celebrate God's goodness in this past season, and they reflect on how this is only the beginning of God's dreams coming to fruit...

During His ministry on earth, Jesus consistently made a point of doing things that were countercultural if it meant showing love, invitation, and acceptance to those around Him. He didn't surround Himself with a righteous bubble, but instead took time to break bread and build relationships with broken people (like you or me). This week, Pastor Brandon discusses how we can follow Jesus' example in...

Jesus gave us the only perfect example of a life built fully around serving those around Him. When He washed His disciples' feet, it was a radical action for Him to take, culturally; yet He still did it to show that He would do anything out of love for those who would carry His message after He was gone. What would it look like for us to serve those around us with that level of passionate counter-...

JESUS. If He is not lord *of* all, then He is not lord *at* all. Not half. Not a portion. Not some. The gospel costs nothing, but it demands EVERYTHING. When it comes to following Jesus, it’s all or nothing. This week, Pastor Brandon kicks off a new series by discussing the need to pick up our cross daily and follow Christ with all that we have.

Scripture gives us many examples of how to truly seek the heart of the Lord in our prayer lives. One such example is that of a man named Jabez in the Old Testament. This week, Pastor Brandon dives into the prayer that Jabez prayed to God, and discusses how we can apply his prayer to our own lives and stories to draw closer to God's heart.

Prayer is certainly a multifaceted element of our spiritual lives. There are many things to pray for, and many ways to pray for them. We have the privilege of inviting prayer into every situation, and this week, Pastor Brandon and Pastor Hannah give some insight on making prayer our first response instead of our last resort.

We all have needs and wants to pray for individually, and it can be easy to make those things the focus of our prayers when we take time to pray to God. But there is so much more than just us coming to God with our requests. Jesus gave us a very specific model of how we should pray that focuses on having a genuine relationship with God, rather than only coming to Him with our needs. This week, Pas...

Throughout this series, we've been taking a look at some specific principles that we can apply to our lives, so that we can experience everything that God designed for us. This week, Pastor Brandon gives some perspective on the importance of the culture and environment we surround ourselves with and how those things shape our reality.

Have you ever thought deeply about what love requires? What does it mean to "walk in the way of love"? This week, Pastor Brandon poses these questions from a scriptural perspective, and challenges us to ask ourselves a question in return: "What does love require of me?"

Being made in His image, God calls us to honor one another, because it is glorifying to Him. But how do we intentionally show honor to those around us in a world that is so consistently dishonoring? This week, Pastor Hannah touches on this exact matter and gives helpful scriptural references we can use as reminders of the importance of honoring even in the face of dishonor.

If someone asked you to name the most brilliant person to ever live, you'd probably come up with someone like Einstein or one of his scientific contemporaries. But what would you think if someone suggested another option to answer that question: Jesus. This week, Mike Godzwa explains why he believes Jesus is the most brilliant and effectively strategic man to ever walk the earth.

Some decisions have extraordinary impact in our life- "which college to choose?", "which job to take?", "which community to live in?", to name just a few. What do you do when scripture and wise counsel still leave things unclear? This week, Brandon breaks down a helpful principle for getting God’s input when making critical decisions.

God's plan always has a purpose. And the blessing He wants us to experience through Jesus is ultimately so that others may be blessed by us. In this teaching, Hannah and Brandon break down 5 simple ways that you and your family can bless those in your life who are disconnected from God.