New Life Church Sermon Podcast

When You’re Out of Control - Acts 4:1-22   Pastor Drew Williams One of the scariest times in my life was when I was inner-tubing down a flooded and swollen river. The current was too fast to be able to fight it, the river was full of debris, and I had lost sight of the friends I had started the day with.   [SLIDE 2] lower third blank Another time that was scary for me was when I...

Acts3:1-10 Pastor Drew Williams   The last few weeks, we’ve been talking about what it LOOKS like to follow Jesus with our actions, not just with our words, and I came across this story that I wanted to share with you.   [SLIDE 2] lower third blank This is from pastor and author, John Ortberg:   “A man is being tailgated by a woman who is in a hurry. He comes to an inter...

Acts 2:37-47 Pastor Drew Williams Mark Twain is quoted as saying, “Action speaks louder than words…but not nearly as often.”   I’ve found that to be true, have you? There are rarely equal amounts of actions to back up the words that people throw around.   [SLIDE 2] lower third blank People will say things all the time like, “I’m taking the whole family on a vacation… once we win...

  Acts 2:1-36 Pastor Erik Anderson   We're continuing our summer series in Acts. Actions speak louder than words. We're going to be in chapter 2. If you're in the seat back Bible, the Pew Bible, that's on page 90. So it's right toward the end there, page 90 in the New Testament. (...) We're going to be looking at verses 1 through 21. This is the great Pentecost moment. And this i...

Acts 1:1-11 Pastor Drew Williams   Have you ever wondered what God wants you to do with your life? I’m sure you have! I sure have!   Anyone that has faith in God has at one time or another asked that question, “What does God want me to do? …With my life? …With this opportunity? …With this decision?”   [SLIDE 2] lower third blank And when I was growing up, I would wonder...

Ex 20:8-11; Deut 5:12-15 Pastor Drew Williams   The first car I owned was a 1999 gray Saturn. My gramma had helped me buy it, and I thought I was the coolest guy around. I had that car all the way through college, and it was good to me. It carted me and my friends all over California, Arizona, Oregon a couple times. It took us to the beach, and to late night fast food meetups.  ...

Mark 2:23 -3:6 Pastor Drew Williams When I was a little kid, I was afraid of swingsets. Not like afraid to see them or be near them, but when I was 5 or so, I didn’t like the feeling you get in your stomach when you go fast on a swing.   You know what I’m talking about? Where your insides tingle and come alive, and your whole body feels the exhilaration of swinging forward before you come...

Deuteronomy 6:4-9 Pastor Erik Anderson Well good morning everyone. My name is Eric, one of the pastors here, if you're new here. Thank you so much for joining us today. As we jump into our sermon, I wanna do a little survey real quick in the room. You guys are familiar with the nature versus nurture debate. Have you guys familiar with this, that our behavior is either dominated by our nature, our...

Matthew 11:25-30 Pastor Erik Anderson I'm going to invite you to grab the Seatback Bible in front of you or get your phone out. We're going to be in Matthew chapter 11 today. I mean, Matthew chapter 11, it's on page 9. If you're using the black hardback Bible in the seat in front of you, it's page 9 in the New Testament. So, kind of toward the end of the Bible. We're going to be in Matthew chapter...

Galatians 3:19-26 Pastor Erik Anderson Well, good morning, everyone. It is good to see you and happy Mother's Day to all of you women here this morning. You know, Mother's Day is a great day to celebrate moms and grandmothers and great grandmothers, but it's also a great day to celebrate all women because sometimes Mother's Day can be painful for women who have lost a child or who are unable to co...

Matthew 27:45-46, Psalm 22 Pastor Drew Williams Last week, I don't know if you were here, but we had the incredible opportunity to baptize four teens and two students into the family of God. It was an incredible, incredible celebration. I loved last week.(...) One of my favorite parts about last week is that these teenagers and these students, their main connection to our church isn't our Sunday m...

All right, well, at this point, I wanna invite Mitch to come up. Mitch has been around for a while. Many of you here in this service are new to new life. So you may recognize Mitch, or you may not recognize Mitch, but we're gonna give him an opportunity to introduce himself here. But I don't know if you are doing our 21 days of Bible reading challenge, but today we are reading John 14. And in John...

Matthew 14:22-32 Pastor Drew Williams I love hearing stories of life change like we just watched.  I love it because it’s amazing to see how Jesus can transform us, and it changes everything. And in a few weeks, it’s going to be really exciting to celebrate baptism for many more people who are experiencing that life change and taking that next step in their apprenticeship to Jesus.   But...

John 20:24-31 Pastor Drew Williams   My name is Drew, and I have a confession to make: I have doubts.   I know, that might be strange to hear from a pastor on Easter Sunday, but it’s true!   [SLIDE 2] lower third blank I have doubts. Sometimes I doubt that my kids will like me when I have to discipline them.   Sometimes I doubt that I’ll be able to come up with...

Danny Moore

Mark chapter 11:1-11 Pastor Erik Anderson (...) and this is what we hear. (...) "And they were out outside in the street. As they were untying it, some bystander said to them, "What are you doing untying the colt?" They told them that Jesus, what Jesus had said, and they allowed them to take it. Then they brought the colt to Jesus and threw their cloaks on it, and he sat on it. Many people spread...

Isaiah 6:1-8 Pastor Erik Anderson

Jeremiah 8:4-12, 18-21 Pastor Erik Anderson

1 Samuel 3 Pastor Drew Williams When I was growing up, I was very talkative. You can just ask my mom, she’ll tell you that I was never guilty of being too quiet or shy. In fact, one of the biggest reasons I got in trouble when I was growing up was when I would be talking too much instead of listening.   And honestly, that’s still what gets me in trouble even now. I’m often uncomfortable w...

Acts 4-5 Pastor Drew Williams   I want to start with a quick show of hands: how many of you believe in the power of prayer? Now, how many of you think you don’t pray as often as you should?   [SLIDE 2] lower third blank Why is that? Why is it that we KNOW that prayer is a good thing that connects us to God and helps us see how he is at work in us and through us, and yet we don’t...

Mark 2:1-12 Pastor Drew Williams (...) Well, when I was younger, I was very self-focused. I was always concerned about what other people thought of me or how they saw me. I always was concerned to make sure my hair was just right depending on the hairstyle of the day. And I was always very concerned to make sure that whatever I was wearing or the trends that I was trying to keep up with fit in wit...

Genesis 2:18 -26 Pastor Erik Anderson We're gonna be right there in Genesis chapter two. (...) It'll be the end of the chapter beginning in verse 18. And this is what we read this morning. Then the Lord God said, "It is not good that man should be alone. I will make him a helper as his partner." So out of the ground, the Lord God formed every animal of the field and every bird of the air and broug...

Acts 2:42-47 Pastor Drew Williams My problem started when I started reading the Bible for myself. It was this exact Bible, actually. The one given to me by my parents when I graduated 8th grade. It had gold edges on the paper, a leather binding, and my name embossed on the front.   [SLIDE 2] lower third blank And you can tell how much I’ve used this, because most of the gold is rubbed off...