New Life Coralville Podcast

"Rhythms that Form Us" Pastor Thomas kicks off a new sermon series about how spiritual rhythm protect us from the world's formation, and instead form us into the image of the God we serve. As a church community that desires to "together become more like Christ," we need to examine the rhythms, the rituals and the habits that order our lives in that pursuit. We need spiritual habits, rhythms that f...

"Anchored in the Past, Inspired by the Future: Living Fully in the Present" Guest preacher Katie Smith offers us an inspiration message for the new year. Katie is a member and deacon at New Life with years of ministry experience working with Cru (formerly Campus Crusade for Christ). Currently, she serves as the Leadership Development & HR team for an 8 state region with Cru.

"God Shows Us He's With Us" Isaiah 9:1-17 How does an all-too-familiar text about a virgin conceiving and giving birth--understood in its original context--actually show us the fullest of what it means that God is with us?

"The Joy of Being Seen" Isaiah 35:1-10 We serve a God who sees us in our brokenness, but doesn't leave us there. He promises to restore everything that is broken within us and around us. What response could we have to this but joy and praise!

"Peace in His Presence" (Isaiah 40:1-11) In this second week of Advent, we sit in the discomfort and displeasure of a world without peace. We long for a peace that will last, a peace that will only come in the presence of our Lord Jesus.

"Hope in the Hands of the Potter" (Isaiah 63:7-64:9) During our Advent series this year, New Life is going to be sitting in the Old Testament prophesies from Isaiah, longing right alongside the people of Isaiah as we eagerly await for our coming Messiah.

Revelation 22:6-21 In our final week in our series on Revelation, John offers the Church of then as well as the Church of now practical application on how we can live in light of these fantastic visions of what's to come--how to live in light of our coming Christ.

Revelation 21:1-22:5 Guest preacher, Rev. Dr. Joseph Lear, shows us in how God will bring about the unity of all things into Himself--our ultimate hope of what's the come.

Revelation 20:11-15 Week 12 of our Revelation series takes us to the final judgment, where all of us will stand before the Just Judge of the World and recount the events of our lives--the good, the bad, and the ugly. How will we fare?

Revelation 20:1-10 So much time and energy has been poured out over these few verses as Christians have attempted to know with certainty the manner in which the 1000 year reign of Christ will occur. So much so that we've actually lost focus of the meaning of His reign altogether.

Revelation 18-19 If it's the end of the world as we know it, why is it that followers of Jesus can feel fine?

Revelation 17 Week 9 of our Revelation series takes us a step back to give us a clearer vision to see realities of Revelation in our present culture.

Revelation 15-16 In Week 8 of our Revelation series, we take a hard look at God's wrath. How it is that God's wrath can be a good thing?

Revelation 13-14 It's no surprise to us that the political entities in this world are vying for our allegiance. It happens every year around election season. That seems pretty obvious to us. But John helps us look behind the curtain of reality to see the greater ways that the Enemy tries to divide or divert our allegiance to Christ--at times even using beastly like politics to get us to support th...

Revelation 12 In week 6 of our series, guest preacher, Pastor Kent Landhuis from Cedar Hills Community Church reminds us--especially in our current political season--who our real enemy is.

Revelation 8:2-11:19 In Week 5 of our Revelation series, Pastor Thomas challenges us to read and see the judgments of Revelation the way that John's original readers would have received it: through the lens of the Exodus from Egypt.

Revelation 6:1-8:1 Week 4 of our Revelation series moves us into the major judgments of God--texts that have often been used to "scare people into salvation." But what if John is showing us a different picture of God? Instead of a vengeful and vindictive God, what if this vision is showing us a God who will act justly on behalf of those who have been abused, neglected, or taken advantage...

Revelation 4-5 Week 3 in our "Dissent from Babylon" series. All too often our focus is in the book of Revelation falls on the wrong things. So much so that we miss what this book is all about: the One who sits on the Throne and the Lamb.

Revelation 2-3 In Week 2 of our Revelation series, Pastor Thomas challenges us to evaluate our faithfulness by our fruit? Are we as the church functioning as God made us to? Or do we look a little too much like Babylon?

Revelation 1 Why would we do this to ourselves? Why would we purposely choose to study a book that is so divisive and polarizing as the book of Revelation? Isn't the Church already divided enough? Won't this just exacerbate the problem? We're diving into this new series because this book is a gift from the Living Christ. It's a gift for the Church to help us become more like Him--e...

Ephesians 2:11-3:21 Jesus' vision for His Bride, the Church, is radically different from what so many have experienced. Our hope is that New Life would be a representation of the Church as Jesus would have her--a place that breaks down barriers, welcomes the outsider and makes them feel like insiders by showing them the love of Christ.

John 14:15-27 Is our view of the Holy Spirit more informed by what the Bible says or by popular culture? The answer may surprise you.

Romans 3:21-31 How is Jesus perfectly positioned to deal with our sin problem?

Romans 3:9-20 Unless we diagnose the problem of our human condition rightly, we will only ever treat the symptoms of sin in this world. Pastor Thomas helps us get a better understanding of what sin is and what it does to our relationship with God.

Genesis 1:26-31 Why do you matter? Why is your life valuable? Pastor Thomas takes us back to our origins where God defines and creates us as humans to bear His image.