New Life Church Sermon Podcast

Remember How Far He's Brought Us Deuteronomy 8:2-19 Pastor Drew Williams Have you ever looked back at an old picture of someone else and been surprised by how much they have changed? Usually, when we see someone often, or when we look at ourselves in the mirror every day, we don’t notice the changes, because they are so gradual.   [SLIDE 2] lower third blank But when you see an older pict...

James 2:1-13 Pastor Erik Anderson   Well, good morning everyone. My name is Eric, I'm one of the pastors here. If you're worshiping with us online, wanna offer you a special welcome as well. We can go ahead and open up our scriptures this morning. If you have a Bible with you, you can open up to James chapter two. If you don't go ahead and grab the Bible that's in the seat in front of you...

Matthew 5:8; Psalm 51 Pastor Drew Williams It’s a new year, and I want to make sure to not bring the wrong burdens into this year. Megan and I were able to have a small get-away with the kids last week, and even though it was only a single overnight, we definitely had to pack a lot of bags to make sure we had everything we needed for our family to be away.   [SLIDE 2] lower third blank An...

When Pagans Preach the Gospel (Epiphany) Matthew 2:1-12 Pastor Erik Anderson - Well, we begin our passage at the beginning of this chapter that this story of the wise men, which by the way, occurred a couple years probably after Jesus was born. (...) So oftentimes our nativity scenes have the wise men right next to the newly born Jesus, and that's a helpful image for us to see all together. But Je...

Luke 15:1-32 Pastor Drew Williams Merry Christmas! I’m so happy to be here with you today, and I’ve got to say, you all look so good! I’ve never seen so many bows and sparkles and neck ties and colorful socks in my entire life!   And I’m sure that if we could see everyone joining us online right now, we’d see some Christmas best, some Christmas pajamas, and maybe even a Santa-hat or two!...

John 4:1-45 Pastor Erik Anderson Good morning, everyone. (...) It's great to see you all here this morning. It is a great sign, and I want to encourage the fact that our time of passing the peace takes longer than the minute that we give you on the countdown.(...) Keep that up. I want to see that hit like 90 seconds and you like you introvert to like, oh, God, please no, no more time of that. But...

Luke 4:16-21, 31-37 Pastor Drew Williams (...) Well, to get started, I don't want to freak you out, but it is only 15 sleeps until Christmas. (...) Only 15 more sleeps, and I don't know what happened because I could have sworn that yesterday was November, and that I blinked twice and were halfway through December already.(...) And even though supposedly we're in this season of peace on earth, good...

John 1:1-14, Mark 4:26-29 Pastor Drew Williams Well, to get started, I want to tell you that earlier this week, I got a message from a friend of mine here at the church, and they simply said, "Pastor Drew, I need some help getting connected with a Bible study or a life group, because I'm starting to feel a little burnt out."(...) And so I was really grateful to be able to connect them with Pastor...

Matthew 5:6; Philippians 1:6-11 Pastor Erik Anderson

Matthew 5:4; 2Corinthians 1:3-4 Pastor Drew Williams   No one likes to hear a baby cry (...) Right, that's not a sound that we enjoy. We don't enjoy hearing a child in distress (...) it's not something that we want usually no matter who you are we try and make funny faces or offer snacks or Pull out a phone to play a game or a silly video to try and distract them We want to soothe a sad c...

Luke 18:9-14 Pastor Erik Anderson

Romans 3:19-28 Pastor Erik Anderson   (...) All right, all right, good morning everyone.(...) You can see all here, I knew the time for me to come out here was when I saw all the introverts done standing at their chairs waiting to be told to sit down. So the rest of you extroverts, you can say hello to each other after the service.(...) Well, we are going to continue our time together by...

Jonah 1-4 Pastor Drew Williams  

Judges 6:11-18 Pastor Erik Anderson

“Stuck with a Control Freak? Here’s How to Set Boundaries with Love!” - 1 Samuel 13-20 Relational Vampires | Message #1 | Fall 2023 New Life Lutheran Church, 10-08-23 Pastor Drew Williams Well, if you don't know me, my name is Drew, and I'm one of the pastors here, and I want to give you a special welcome to all of you for worshiping with us today, and a special welcome to those of you who are joi...

Matthew 6:25-33 Pastor Drew Williams I wonder how many of you are worried right now.(...) Maybe there's a concern that's weighing you down, (...) a friend or relationship that burdens you, someone you love, someone you care about, something that you really want to change but you don't know how to change it. (...) Do you feel worried right now? (...) Do you feel worried often? (...) We've been stud...

Mark 14:32-42 Pastor Erik Anderson My name is Eric, I'm one of the pastors here. You can join us. And yes, in fact, it is true. Drew and I did match this morning. So you may have noticed already, we have a beautiful old lady in our church. She's in a nursing home. And as age comes along, sometimes there's some confusion. You can't keep something straight. And so she'll oftentimes tell her son, who...

2 Chronicles 20:1-30 Pastor Drew Williams I want to start by telling you that I think there are two types of people. (...) One type of person likes to drive. (...) The other type of person thinks driving is stressful. (...) And I don't know which one you are, but there's another truth that I think unites all of us.(...) Driving is stressful for everybody when you're sitting in the passenger seat a...

Mark 5:21 Pastor Erik Anderson I invite you to open up your scriptures this morning to Mark chapter five. We're gonna be in Mark chapter five beginning in verse 21. So in the seat back, a little like cage thing underneath your chairs, you can grab a Bible.(...) If you don't have your own or you can open up your phone, use your Bible there, or if you brought your own, that's great. We're gonna be i...

Mark 5:1-20 Pastor Erik Anderson

Encouraging God’s people to not settle for less than all God has in store for them Exodus 14:10 -14 Pastor Mike Bradley

Mark 4:35-41 Pastor Drew Williams To get started, I wanna tell you a little bit of a story when my daughter had just been born. This is my first child for Megan and I, and so we were brand new parents, I was a brand new dad, and I had no idea how tired I would be all the time. And some of you who have raised kids have an understanding of that experience of just how much everything about you change...

MARK 4:1-20 Pastor Drew Williams I've said before that when it comes to gardening, I don't have a green thumb. I actually have a black thumb. Because whether it's plants that just look pretty, or fruits and veggies, anything that I've tried to take care of in a garden of some sort, I usually end up bringing death to the plants. And that's not really good if you're trying to garden. My wife, Megan,...

Mark 3:20-35 Morgan Folgers

Mark 2:18-22, 3:1-6 Pastor Erik Anderson We're going through Mark this summer and we're gonna look at two different passages that kind of have a similar theme here in the early Mark. We'll get to that in a second. So that's why we're looking at two separate passages and right in between them is the passage that Danny preached on last week. So we're gonna be in Mark chapter two beginning in verse 2...