New Story Church

The news that would forever change the world must first change your world. In John chapter 20, we see how the Easter message is not only a global announcement that Jesus rose from the dead, it is a personal invitation. He is a good shepherd who knows us by name and calls to each of us.

What we've learned about one of Israel's judges may not be entirely accurate. We think of Samson as the super strong man who women adored, but in reality, he was one messed up and broken man. God still used him and God can still use us, even if we're broken and messy.

The story of Jephthah is a cautionary tale. It describes a world in which everything seems broken. Families are broken, leaders are openly immoral, parents are willing to sacrifice their own children to the gods of success, the nation is divided, and the People of God have forgotten who God is. Yet, perhaps, in this broken story we can find the thread of grace that we need to begin healing our own...

This is the second half of Gideon's story. It's a story that invites us to ponder what's really going on in our hearts as we ponder what's really going on in Gideon’s heart.

Gideon is the “Doubting Thomas” of the Old Testament. He’s the patron saint of people who are haunted by doubts, who know what God’s Word says but struggle to believe it. In this message, we dig into the roots of Gideon's doubt and our own.

In this message, we look at a story that challenges what we might think we know about gender roles. It’s a story of heroic women, of men who don’t seem to know what it means to be a man, and of a God who refused to be limited by our limitations.

Judges chapter 3 is a bloody, graphic, darkly humorous story about a left-handed man named, Ehud. It's a story about how sin makes you stupid. It's a story that applies as much today as it did in the early Iron Age.

This message is for those of us who’ve been caught in a self-destructive cycle. It's for those of us who feel stuck in sinful patterns. Judges chapter 2 has the potential to be life changing. 

The Book of Judges, we see an entire generation walk away from the faith. In this brief talk, Pastor Paul addresses parents racked with guilt, adult children still recovering from their "religious" parents, and the pressing need for this present generation to pass on their love for God to the next generation.

Can the People of God survive in a culture that everywhere undermines faith in God & excludes God from the conversation? A major snowstorm forced us to pause the Judges series, so we thought we'd take this opportunity to pull out an old message, circa 2017, that explores this central theme of Judges but from a more positive example: the life of Joseph. While the message may be dated, the...

If we read Judges the way we read might read any history of early Iron Age tribes, this study will be quite a great waste of time. One or two of you might happen to be enthralled with ancient Near Eastern tribal warfare, but the rest of us will be wondering: Why are we talking about this in church? But.. what would it look like to read it the way the Apostle Paul read these stories as examples &am...

The Book of Judges is an ancient collection of stories that sound oddly contemporary. It's about a nation that is divided, leaders who are heroically flawed, and an entire generation who walks away from faith. It's also a story about grace, about a God who refuses to give up. Join us as we discover God's message for us in this ancient text.

The Christian life is counterintuitive. We naturally want to fix ourselves and our world through our own strength, ingenuity, and passion. But, inevitably, this fails. In this two-part series, we talk through what it looks like to position our lives to depend upon God's strength to change us and our world in 2021.

The Christian life is counterintuitive. We naturally want to fix ourselves and our world through our own strength, ingenuity, and passion. But, inevitably, this fails. In this two-part series, we talk through what it looks like to position our lives to depend upon God's strength to change us and our world in 2021.

Mark tells a different Christmas story. He makes no mention of a manger, angels, or shepherds. Rather, Mark invites us to reimagine Christmas, to seriously consider how the coming of this humble King marks the decisive moment in human history and in your life.

We’ve all experienced others misreading our motives. If you’re emotionally mature, you’ve most likely caught yourself misreading others. But, what about your own motives? How good are you at reading your own heart? In John 8, Jesus challenges us to see the truth about why we do what we do and what we most love in life.

We live in a world that says only you can define who you are and what’s good for you. But in Jeremiah 18, God invites us to join Jeremiah on a field trip to a potter's house and reimagine our place in His world.

Immediately after Jesus selected his disciples, he began teaching them about the kingdom of heaven by way of the Beatitudes. This teaching was confronting, upside-down and counter-culture, but was one small step in what would be a three year journey towards reimagining the kingdom of heaven and how to get there.

The Scriptures invite us to see our suffering and hardship in a way that does not comfortably fit with modern American attempts to avoid anything hard. In this message, we'll explore James' (outrageous) suggestion that we should "consider it pure joy whenever we face trials."

In Biblical times, the great danger was that you’d worship Baal or Asherah or Diana of Ephesus. Today, the great threat to your faith is that you’ll worship... nothing. Something cataclysmic is happening in the soul of the Western world: We are losing our ability to even imagine the reality to which the Biblical authors give witness. In this series, we'll explore Jesus’s invitation to reimagi...

“There was a time when farmers on the Great Plains, at the first sign of blizzard, would run a rope from the back door to the barn” (Parker Palmer). The storm was so blinding, so deafening that you could lose your way and freeze to death in your own backyard. The rope gave you something to cling to when you couldn't see the way. That's what this message is.

For good and for bad, our past experiences shape our present reality and future possibility. In this message, we'll explore how a relationship with Jesus challenges and transforms how we think about our past. This message is part one of two. In the second part, we look at a more clinical and practical application of this teaching in an interview with Child & Family Therapist, Kelly Rauden...

For good and for bad, our past experiences shape our present reality and future possibility. In this interview with Child & Family Therapist, Kelly Raudenbush, we discuss how sharing your past with an empathetic listener can powerfully transform you.