Oviedo City Church Sermons

Perhaps the scariest part of our Gather, Grow, Go ministry plan is the Go part. What does it mean to Go? Why should I Go? Can’t I just stay where I am? These are all great questions and important ones to answer. If we don’t answer them with a Gospel focus, then what is the point of Gathering and Growing? Listen in to the conclusion of our 2026 Vision Series!

It’s been said the Christian life is like riding a bike. Unless you keep moving, you fall off. The Apostle Peter knew this firsthand. He didn’t just stumble; he failed publicly and painfully, yet by God’s grace he didn’t quit. He got back up and kept going because Peter knew the only way forward was to “grow in the grace and knowledge of Jesus” (2 Peter 3:18). As we continue our vision series Gath...

Gather. Grow. Go. This is the rhythm of the church, shaping who we are as we scatter into the world and gather again in worship. As we step into the year ahead, we’re committing ourselves to this life-shaping rhythm together. We gather to worship God for who he is and what he has done, finding rest in his presence. We grow together in the grace and knowledge of Jesus, rooted in the gospel and form...

We are a culture obsessed with love. Countless songs, movies, and poems have been produced to define love, describe love, and express the joy and pain of love. The band Foreigner expressed the hearts of many with their hit song titled "I Want to Know What Love Is." If you want to know what love is, there is no more profound place to look than at the birth of Jesus, who came into the world because ...

Have you noticed the rage? Our world feels restless and reactive, and many of us feel it creeping into our own hearts too. But Zechariah’s song in Luke 1 points us to a deeper reality, a song of peace. This is not a lullaby that lulls us to sleep but a light for those who sit in darkness and in the shadow of death, guiding our feet into the way of peace (Luke 1:79). Join us as we celebrate the God...

What would make you celebrate without inhibition, maybe even break out in song? That is exactly what happens to Mary when she hears that God’s long-awaited promise is finally coming. Even at great personal cost, she bursts into joyful praise and prepares Him room. In this sermon, we look at the first Christmas carol, a song of joy that magnifies who God is, remembers what He has done, and proclaim...

What is your soundtrack to Christmas? In a season that promises it’s “the most wonderful time of the year,” it often becomes filled with hurried noise. Yet beneath it all a deeper music is playing, ancient songs that cut through distraction and speak to the ache of the human heart. In Isaiah and in the birth narratives of Luke, we hear songs of hope, joy, peace, love and salvation, songs announcin...

Do you remember your first love? The joy, the devotion, the way your heart came alive? That is how the church in Ephesus began, overflowing with grace, truth, and an incorruptible love for Jesus. But as life went on, that love began to fade. In his final words, Paul reminds them and us how to keep that love alive by breathing the life of the gospel through prayer, courage, and love. This message c...

Imagine being called to build something beautiful and of great value, only to learn you’ll be attacked while you work. That’s the scene Paul paints as he closes Ephesians. After unveiling the brilliance of the gospel, the redeeming work of Christ and the new community it creates, he reminds us that this culture of grace will not go unopposed. We have a real enemy, often subtle but relentless. Yet...

We continue exploring what Paul means by yielding to the Holy Spirit, so that we submit to one another out of reverence for Christ. Two significant areas of life are next on the list: how we do that within our families and within the workplace. We will find out how those in authority in those spheres and those under authority, both submit themselves to the other, for the sake of the mission of the...

Have you ever built something—a bookshelf from IKEA or a LEGO set—and halfway through realized something is terribly wrong? You have to stop, go back, and figure out where things got off. Marriage can feel a lot like that, and sometimes the process of rebuilding is painful. In Ephesians 5:21–33, Paul calls us to return to God’s original blueprint, and when we do, we catch a glimpse of something fa...

The Holy Spirt is sometimes referred to as the Forgotten God. We think we know how to relate to the Father and to Jesus the Savior/Son. But what do you do with the Holy Spirit? Paul tells us to be filled with the Spirit? Great. What does that mean and how does it happen? It all sounds a bit mystical and even weird. Yet it is by being filled with the Spirit that we most closely experience the prese...

I can see the family resemblance. Have you ever heard someone say that? Every family shares a likeness, and the same is true when Jesus takes hold of our lives and makes us children of God. As his children, we are called to reflect our Father’s character in a world that has forgotten what love and light look like. In this passage, Paul reminds us that, in response to the gospel, sexual immorality,...

It’s a simple, everyday act we hardly think about. What is it? Changing your clothes. And why? Because they carry yesterday’s dirt. In this section of Ephesians, Paul uses that picture to describe the Christian life. In Christ, we take off the old self shaped by sin and put on the new self created to be like God in true righteousness and holiness. He makes it practical: put off lies, anger, greed,...

Life’s potholes of stress, hardship, and conflict often jostle loose what’s really inside us. Do we respond like our culture, with pride, impatience, or sharpness? Or do we respond in the way of Jesus? After three chapters of gospel truth in Ephesians, Paul opens the door into gospel living. He calls us to “walk worthy” of our calling by embodying a gospel culture marked by unity, equipped for min...

What is the most daring prayer you could pray? In Ephesians 3:14–21, Paul doesn’t ask for success, safety, or even strength to do more. He dares to ask that we would know the breadth and length and height and depth of the love of Christ. This is no soft sentimentality but a love so vast it surpasses knowledge. An eternal love that renovates hearts and communities and overwhelms the sin, selfishnes...

Do you love a good mystery? Countless people enjoy the adventure of trying to figure out who done it. That doesn't seem to be the case when it comes to questions of religion. Being told, "it's a mystery", often feels like a cop out and it's disappointing at best and often leads to a rejection of religion altogether. The Apostle Paul talks about the mystery of the Gospel in his letter to the Ephesi...

How would you characterize today’s global events? Would words like “peace”, “life”, and “reconciliation” come to mind? Don’t words like “hostility,” and “separation” seem more fitting? Into the ache of a divided world, the gospel brings life not just individually, but together. Because of what Christ has done, we are reconciled both to God and to one another. When we, as God’s people, are Enlivene...

Has anyone ever asked, “Do you want the bad news or the good news first?” Paul gives us the bad news up front: we were not just off track, we were dead in sin, spiritually lifeless and enslaved. But against that dark backdrop shines the brilliance of the gospel: But God, being rich in mercy… made us alive together with Christ. Salvation is not self-improvement but resurrection. By grace, God breat...

What are your prayers like? Most of us have our list: financial needs, health concerns, relational struggles. These matter deeply to God, and he even invites us to pray for daily bread. But in Ephesians 1, Paul’s prayer is richer and fuller, like the feast of blessings he has just described in verses 3–14. He asks that “the eyes of our hearts” would be opened to truly know God, to see the hope of...

Culture eats strategy for breakfast,” business guru Peter Drucker once said. If that’s true in business, how much more in the Church? God’s vision is not merely to save individuals but to form a new people with a new way of life—a gospel culture marked by humility, gentleness, patience, and radical love. This is the heart of Ephesians: the Church is where God’s love becomes visible, where the beau...

What do you think Jesus really thinks of you? What’s his deepest feeling toward you? If we’re honest, many of us assume it’s disappointment—that he merely puts up with us or tolerates us, but doesn’t delight in us. Yet in the story of Zacchaeus, something far better rises to the surface: Jesus wildly welcomes us with an open heart. It’s a welcome that meets us where we are but doesn’t leave us the...

We think that having many people at your beck and call to serve you is a sure sign of greatness. To have others take care of the menial tasks in your life is an indicator that you have reached the top. But what if that’s not really true? What if the real sign of greatness is not how many people serve you, but rather, how many people you serve? The counterintuitive nature of God’s ways are once aga...

Why do we hide the broken parts of our lives? Maybe we’ve grown used to them. Maybe we can’t imagine life without the baggage, the shame—or dare to believe it could really be different. In Luke 13, Jesus sees a woman who’s been bent over for eighteen years. He calls her forward, touches her with compassion, and sets her free. Her healing is more than a miracle. It’s a glimpse of how the good news...